Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-02

chief Of police of Burlington for three
years.
A new tribe Of Improved Order of
Red Men was organized at Burlington
last week, with 40 members.
The Equitable Life, w. II. SWIFT
comb, general agent, Burlington, paid
policy holders in April, SlS, 224.53.
The Methodists of Bristol have
raised 81, $40 for church purposes dur
ing the past year and over $4,000 in
the last three years.
Monday, April %, the steamer
Chateaugay, of the Champlain Trans
Iportation Co.'S line, made its first trip
Of the season from Burlington to
Pittsburgh.
VIM. M. Coles & Co.'s paper mill
at Putney was burned Saturday after
noon. The fire started among rags in
the second story, and for time sever
al buildings in the vicinity of the mill
were threatened. Loss, $35, 900; in
surance, $4,000.
Mrs. Henry Cobb of Pomfret died
last week from conclusion of the
brain, caused by falling on the floor a
few days before. She had been in
feeble health for two years or more,
and on trying to walk found that she
was too weak to do SO.
Rev. E. E. Reynolds of the Swanton
Methodist church was transferred by
Bishop Cyrus d. Foss to the New
Hampshire conference, at the recent
session Of the Vermont conference
and was there stationed at Grace
church, Haverhill, Mass, society of
400 members.
Patrick Quinn stood on the lower
step of the platform on the Boston
train which left Rutland last week
Tuesday and jumped off backward at
the River street bridge. His head
struck across the rail and he was
picked up unconscious, an examine
ton showing cash at the base of the
brain.
Rev. w. G. Davenport of Dalti-
more, Nd, a son of Thomas Daven-
port, the celebrated electrical inventor,
and a brother-in-law of ex-Gov. Orms-
bee, has been temporarily appointed
by Bishop Hall to the rectorship of
the Protestant Episcopal church at
Island Pond. He succeeds Rev. Thos.
Bell, who goes to western Colorado to
engage in mission work.
Ex-senator Edmunds and Edward
j. Phelps were in Washington, Fri
day, to argue the case between the
Central Vermont and Rutland rail-
road companies before the supreme
court. 1t is the case when the Central,
as the lessee of Rutland, deducted
from the rent agreed upon the Rut-
lands proportional part of the COR
poration tax assessed by the state.
The resolution offered by l.. G.
Howard of Bellows Falls to give the
village $4,000, one half in 1900
and the remainder at his death, ito
be known as 'the Sarah Buss Howard
Memorial Fund, the annual interest
of which is to be used in aid of the
poor who are residents of said village
and who are not supported in whole
or in part by the state or any town or
county, was adopted at their special
village meeting.
Rev. George Z. Hooker of Barre is
soon to go to Chicago to engage in
the work of social reform. Mr.. Hook
er is not only university and theo-
logical graduate but also a LII. b.,
with some practice as a lawyer. He
has pursued sociological studies at
Cambridge university and has made
an exhaustive study of the conditions
and relations of the classes and,masses
in the large cities of this country and
England. He is probably the first
Vermonter to dedicate his life to this
field of labor.
Rev. III. S. Rowe of the Fremont
street Methodist church of Glovers-
town, n. ", the new pastor Of the
Methodist church at Burlington,
is graduate of Williams college and |
studied theology in Boston University.
He has had charges in Schuylewille,
Worthwhile and Galloway, N. Y, and |
has been abroad twice during the past
two years for the purpose of study as
we'll as travel. He has Just |
finished his third yearat Gloversville, |
where his church has 900 full men,
bers and 200 probationers. He has a |
wife and two children, son about
ready to enter college and daughter
younger.
There was a riot at No. Pownal,
Friday, April Is, growing out of
liquor case, and as result North
Adams, Mass, policeman was serious
ly, perhaps fatally, injured in the head
BY stones thrown at him by mob.
The affair Was the result of an attempt
% get into Massachusetts, as the officer
claims, by persuasion, but as Pownal
people say by force, a boy wanted as
thief witness in liquor case at Adj
inns. About three weeks ago Theo-
lore Koehler, saloon keeper at Adj
inns, was arrested for selling to minors.
The chief witness was Frank Clark,
lged Is years. The case was contin-