Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-05-05
STATE OF VERMONT.
is News CONDENSED and Rewritten
for Our 6esders.

/ G0T. George H. kfOuty nhs appointed
Lieut.. Col. Lee 5. Tillolson of st. Alban
sdlutant and inspector general Of the Is
Inf. V. n. g., to succeed the late Gen
w. H. Gilmore.
Frank Fletcher's farm house at South
Richford was burned April 16. The losi
is estimated at 1920; insurance, $500
The fire is said to have been caused By 1
defective chimney.
Alexander Keefe OF Rutland, a maehin
list, aged about As, was caught in q shaft
ing at the Rutland railroad repair shoE
April 20 and so badly injured that be
died an hour later at the hospital
There are three or four cases Of diph
theria In BrattIeboro, which are being
closely watched, lest contagion spread
among the school children. A Putney
woman died Of the disease, after visiting
her daughter in Brattleboro.
At recent book sale in New York
City, one book on Indian Wars, which
was printed in Montpelier in 1912, was
sold for $3.50. The volume was rare
one. In the same collection were sold
several letters OF Christopher Columbus.
Suckers by the ton are being taken
from the stream leading into Chittenden
pond. The fish are about foot long on
the average and are easily caught in nets.
The Rutland Railway Light q Power
company are anxious to clear the dam Of
them.
In an exciting runaway accident Mon
day afternoon, George r. Wiley OF Es-
sex junction was badly bruised, car
rage owned by him was wrecked, and
"Lottie Logan his well known racer,
suffered q severely cut head and other in
juries.
The Bellows Falls druggists are tired Of
being called rumsellers and IL Is probable
that no druggists' liquor licenses will be
issued there this year, ana that no Ii
quors, even for medicinal purposes, will
be obtainable there for the next twelve
months.
Leo, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Lahon,
ST., OF Vergennes, was rescued from
watery grave by Xury Wissell, the man
working over the boy come time before
be could be revived. The lad was playing
on tbs bank OF the river when he fell into
the water.
In hearing at Newport before United
States Commissioner John Young on the
white slave case against Egzear Darcy of
Magog, P. O., the respondent waived ex-
animation and was held in bonds of
$1,000, for appearance at district court
at Windsor In May.
Tom Logoven, one OF the Polanders
working in the veneer mill at Orleans,
met with a severe accident last week
Tuesday. II appears that he followed the
carrier up to the cutter and in some way
got too close aud all the toes of one foot
and three on the other were cut of.
A fire OF peculiar origin occurred at the
laundry OF the Rabidou Lumber company
in Mortified last week. The current was
not turned of the electric fiatirons when
the place was closed for the night and by
nine O'Clock tho irons had become so
heated that the woodwork was ignited.
As the result OF murderous attack by
August Hilliard, Edward Roberts of DaH-
by, 80 years old, lies at the point of
death. The assailant is said to have
knocked the old man down and dubbed
him over the head numerically. Hill
lard has served time at the House OF Cor
rection.
About 700 samples OF liquor have al
ready been analysed at the state labora-
tory Of hygiene, Burlington, as required
BY law before they can be sold in the
state. Last year the rush came later and
a number OF concerns could not sell their
goods for a month after the licenses were
granted.
Becoming alarmed over a woman's pro-
longed absence from the car of the Rut |
land flyer from Montreal, Conductor Ed |
ward d. WEIGH of Rutland made in |
quiries and she was found 10 the |
woman's compartment where she had Civ
en- birth to child. At Burlington moth |
err and child were cared for.
The carpenters of Burlington, who are
members of the Carpenters union, have /
demanded a raise of rs cents day in
their wages. They now work nine hours
a day and have received s2.75 for it.
The raise will give them three dollars
day. The increased cost OF living is Civ
en- as the reason for the demand for more
pay.
Franz Schmidt, the wealthy German
who has been studying
methods in many of the American ma
chine shops, has sailed from New York
for Berne. He said before he.left Spring
field, VT, that the Jones q Lanison ma
chine shop there was the most perfectly
organized one he had seen in this coun-
try.
Severe frosts we're experienced through
out the state last week Tuesday night
In some places the mercury dropped six
degrees below the freezing point. Plum
and small fruit trees are in bloom, but il
is thought no serious damage was done to
the crop. At swanton Center ice nearly
one half inch in thickness formed on still
water.
Theodore N. Vail OF LyndonviIle, presi-
dent of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company, has been elected a mem
Der OF the board of trustees of the Boston
of fine arts. At Mr.. Wallis home
in Lyndonville he has a large collection
Df modern paintings, as well as oriental
objects of art, including porcelains and
pottery.
II is announced thst the Senate COM
mittee on pensions consented to give Sen
stor Page another hearing in the case of
The widow OF Gen. o. o. Howard OF Bur
.ington, and unanimously agreed to
double the amount voted at first. II its
becomes a Law, Mrs.
Howard will, therefore, receive pension
li 500 month.
During q thunder shower April 81,