Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-06-24

celebration. 1t is announced that there
is a strong probability of two companies
OF cadets from the United States Military
academy at West Point participating in
the celebration at Plattsburgh. President
Taft is said to be strongly in favor of the
proposition and the war department now
has it under consideration. A United
States life saving crew, with their boats,
etc, will also be there and give exhibit
tions of their noble work.
The report of the public service CON-
mission on the accident near Roxbury
April Il, by which William Cone and
Ly dia Gene, his daughter. were killed by
being struck by the New England States
Limited was made public last Thursday.
The commission finds that Mr.. Cone and
daughter were trespassing and that this
was the chief proximate cause OF the acct
dent. The commission adds that it feels
that the engineer should have applied the
emergency brake as soon as he saw Mr..
Cone and his daughter on the bridge
even if he could not have stopped his
train before he reached them.
The Alburg Produce Co., formed to
deal in dairy products, has fled papers in
the secretary Of states office with a capt.
tai stock of IS, 200. The Woodstock Tele-
phone Co. has also filed articles to own
and operate lines in Windsor county.
The articles are signed by about 40 men
in and about Woodstock. The capital
stock is 5000. divided into $50 shares.
The Sullivan Machine Co. OF Claremont,
n. H., formed under the laws OF Maine,
has registered to do business in Vermont.
The company will have a-brancb office in
Barre and will handle all mining and
I quarrying tools. Its capital stock is 81
I 600. 900.
June IL, John Roby, an aged resident
of Burlington, was found in a pitiable
condition in the woodshed of his house.
Mr.. Roby has lived alone in his house for
many years and had evidently become III
and had labored under the impression
that someone was making attempts to rob
him of his money. When found, he was
CARRIED in his underwear and his face was
bleeding from many scratches and
wounds. His clothes we're procured and
SIS was found in the trousers pocket,
dispelling all theories OF robbery. He
was taken in the ambulance to the
Mary Fletcher hospital, where he is be-
ing attended.
The long and hard fought divorce case
of Helen Ketcham VS.. Harvey Ketcham
of Vergennes in Addison county court
was concluded last Thursday. Judge
Butler announced the granting of di-
vorce to Mrs. Ketcham on the ground of
intolera5le severity and awarded her s5,-
900 alimony. The verdict is secured by a
lien on the house and store OF Mr.. Ketch-
am in Vergennes and by an attach
ment on an account in the Burlington
Savings bank. E. L. Fish of Vergennes.
90 ar hau fouc 20
the verdict and the amount OF alimony as
excessive and the case will be appealed to
supreme court.
In Addison county court at Middlebury
last week Monday afternoon, Charles
Marston. who had been convicted for the
second time of a simple assault upon Miss
Anna Smith, a Middlebury school teach
er, was sentenced By Judge F. NJ. Butler
to serve not more than FIVE years and moi
less than four and one-half years at hard
labor in the house Of correction at Rut
land and to pay costs of prosecution
The sentence is identical with the ons
passed upon Marston by Judge Zed s
Stanton in January last. He had served
e eight months of the sentence when th'
I supreme court granted a new trial owing
to legal error in the first trial.
]. NJ. Eliottis block in Barton wa
damaged by fire Saturday, June y. Tn
I fire started by the burning of some case
line being drawn by Harry Williamson
] He had q lighted lantern with him which
set fire to the escaping gas and although
the storage tank did not explode or TAX
: fire the receptacle in which he had draw
+ the gasoline took fire and, in his efforts t
I unholt the outside door and throw tn
J. can out. burned his hands quite badl,
e and will be laid up for couple OF weeks
. His face was somewhat burned also. bu
= not seriously. The ell part, to which th
q fire was confined, was used as a storag
i room by hardware dealer, and the tots
e loss was about $500.
g The home OF William Clark in Burling
E ton was broken into early June Il an
i robbed Of goods amounting to a consider
e able sum in value. The stolen goods be
e Ionged to Mr.. Clark and a carpenter, r
s G. Thomas, who is employed there
e Clark's house is undergoing extensive N
i pairs and it was the custom of the work
men to leave their tools and materials i
a an addition at the back of the house
! One of the doors into the place was lei
= unlocked and the thieves made their eT
b trance by that means. Among the stole
, articles are 90 pounds of white lead, fou
d or five gallons Of mixed paint, three saw
IT two squares, hammer, two planes and
o large amount OF nails.
}, Headquarters for all visiting newspaps
d men in Burlington during the week {
I the Champlain tercentenary observanC
II are being fitted up With all convenience
4 in the city court room. The court ROOF
Is is located in the City hall in close PROF
unity to the place where President TAT
b Ambassador Bryce and other public me
" will speak. Full ire facilities, inclu'
70 ing experienced operators accustomed
n handling press matter, with an efficieI
ie stenographic force, will be at the servi'
g Of the correspondents. These faciliti
u will be continued during the entire wee
at from Saturday, July 3, to Saturday, Jul
Ii 10, and all newspaper men will be We
" come at press headquarters at all times.
Three Montpelier youngsters, PA
T. Corse. Wilbur Corse and Frank Tomas
d. were arrested Tuesday of last weel
ID charged with larceny. The alleged the
consisted of taking two steel fishing rod
be reels, a hunting knife, case of soda ar
A. d.