Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-09

4 burned to death last week. He died III
great agony about two hours after the
a cident. He was about two years old
John Avery, a Barre carpenter
took dose of paris green Saturday
night and died early Sunday morn.
ing. He leaves wife and two chill.
i dren. He was a veteran of the Civil
\ War and a member of Crandall q
A. II. post.
n w. II. Sherburne of Rutland, one
of the Central Vermont bridge build
ers who are putting up the new iron
railroad trestle at East Wallingford,
was instantly killed last week by fall
| ing from the structure to the river be-
| low, distance of 6S feet.
i Patrick McElroy was killed on the
Vermont Granite company's quarry al
Barre last week. A big block of gran
lite was being lifted out OF the quarry,
when the chain slipped and the stone
fell upon McElroy, crushing him SO
that he died in about two hours.
i Gov. Altgeld has pardoned Louis A.
billiard, formerly of Rutland, who
was convicted in November, 1898, OF
embezzling large sum of money from
the Chicago Tribune company, for
which he was cashier, and sentenced
to the penitentiary for four years.
Letters patent have been issued to
Vermonters: Charles Il. Smith, Bel
lows Falls, winding shaft for paper
rolls; Henry Fairbanks, st. Johns
bury, apparatus for cutting sheets
from rolls, particularly sheets of pulp
or strawboard from the forming roll
of the wet machine.
One record was broken at the invi-
tation games of tie Yale Track Ath-
letic association at the field Saturday
afternoon. Lewis p. Sheldon, Yale,
Of Rutland, VT, cleared % feet in the
running broad jump, breaking the
former intercollegiate record of Ma
pies of Columbia of % feet, Ii IL
inches.
The fourth annual convention of
the Vevmont conference Epworth
Leaguswill be held in the Methodist
church in st. Adams, June and ).
An elaborate program is in prepara-
ton, which will be published liter.
There will be reduced rates on the
railroads. 1t is expected that the Ep-
worthians of the state will rally and
make this one of the best conventions
held yet.
The full commission in charge of
the erection of monument to the
memory of Gov. Thomas Chittenden
held meeting at the proposed site in
Williston recently. They voted to ac-
cept the offer of Henry Root,who very
graciously donated slightly lot in
Williston cemetery, upon which to
erect the monument. They also sub
stantially agreed on the location of
the monument. No design has yet
been accepted.
A gang Of men III the employ Of the
Central Vermont railroad reached
Winooski at three o'clock Saturday
morning and tore up the rails of the
Winooski and Essex Junction electric
road which had been laid on the high
way bridge over the Central Vermont
tracks in that village. The Central
Vermont people claim that the rails
wereslaid on the bridge, which belongs
to them, without their permission.
The road was to practically parallel
the Central Vermont track to Essex
Junction.
Mrs. John Oney, the aged lady who
dropped dead in the theatre at Rut-
land last week, had been an industri-
GUS seamstress for years and was sup
posed to be possessed of considerable
money. An inquiry at the savings |
and national banks failed to reveal |
any funds on deposit. A thorough |
search Of her room was instituted, and |
in an old unused stove was found a
small salt bag in which were upwards
of So, 900 in gold, silver and bank bills.
The money goes to married daugh-
ter, the wife of Frank Walker, the on
ly heir.
S. M. Folsom, the banker, who is
charged with wrecking the Albuquer-
que National bank and the New Mex
leo Savings Bank and Trust company,
was arrested in Albuquerque last
week on indictments recently found
by United States grand jury. Fol
som was tried and convicted last year
md sentenced to the territorial peni-
tertiary for five years but has never
served his sentence. Folsom went to
New Mexico from Lyndonville, and is
4 brother of Superintendent Folsom
IF the Passumpsic division of the Bos-
ION & Maine railroad.
John Leighton of Newbury met
With heavy loss by fire on Sunday
afternoon of last week. He discover
ID his big barn on fire. The fire
spread SO rapidly there was time to
ave very little. Twelve head of cat
lie, lot of hay, grain and two years
Zip of wool were consumed. This
will be a serious loss to Mr.. and Mrs.
Leighton, and, coming so soon after
he loss of their only son by being
drowned, makes it more severe for
hem to bear. How this fire started is
mystery. There was some ;nsur-