Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-10-08
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

The e3"d annual meeting of tn,
ermont State Medical society will bC
held in the county court house at st
Johnsbury Oct. 10 and l6.
Rev. Father Bastian was ordained
priest at the cathedral in Burlington
last Friday by Bishop Michaud. II
mas not been decided where he will be
located.
The freshman class of the Universe.
ty of Vermont numbered IS at the
opening of college last week. More
are expected. This is the largest elias,
in its history.
The docket for the September term
of the supreme court, which convenes
next Tuesday, has ZIG cases, of which
one is from Orange county and Il
from Windsor.
The total value Of merchandise en-
tered at the custom house in st. Al
bans during the month of September
was S16s,9l7. The total duties as
sessed amounted TO 81, 045.69.
Carrie Hurlbert was last week sem
fenced by Franklin county court
to three years TO hard labor in state
prison, for setting fire to the Sheldon
poor house of which she was an in
mate.
II. NJ. Briggs of burlington went
TO Bennington last week to see his
mother, whom he bad not seen since
he was five years of age. He was
adopted when at that age and has
ever since thought his parents were
dead.
The Gath annual meeting of the
Vermont branch of the Woman's
board of missions was held at Wood
stock last week Wednesday at the
Cong'l church with about 20 delegates
present. The old board Of officers
were reelected.
Ex-United States Senator Philetus
Sawyer of Oshkosh, Wis, who cele-
brated his e0th birthday Sept. %, was
born in Rutland. His father in 1917
moved his family to Crown Point, y,
Y, where he ran both farm and a
blacksmith shop. Young Sawyer went
West in 1910.
Mrs. Frank jenkins of Newport,
who. with her husband, has been stay
ing for the past few weeks with friends
on Berlin side, Montpelier, attempted
To commit suicide by drowning her
self in the river one afternoon last
week, but was prevented from so do
ing by c. II. Fuller. a quarrel with
her husband was the cause.
Two teams were racing in Bellows
Falls few nights since on one of the
principal streets, when one Of them
collided with carriage containing
j. 4. Rich, his wife and l.. n. Pierce,
a well known slater. The two car
riages were entirely smashed and the
occupants injured. Mr.. Pierce was
for long time.
The following Vermonters have
been appointed missionary teachers in
the schools of the American Customary
association among the negroes, In
dams and Chinese in the South and
West: Talladega college, Talladega,
Ala, Mr.. and Mrs. w. ;. Goss of st.
Pleasant Hill academy,
Pleasant Hill, Tenn, Miss Flora M.
Crane, Middlebury.
Hugh Riley, a carpenter, while at
work on the new twin bridges near
Winooski, was seriously injured last
afternoon. A piece of iron
was being lowered when it struck him
and knocked him over. He fell about
60 feet to the rocks below, The doc
tors, on examination, say that there
were severe scalp wounds and three
fractures of the skull.
A reward of $500 has been offered
by the family for tho finding of the
missing +. ID. Blackwell of Montpelier,
lead or alive, who disappeared Sept.
D. No clue of his whereabouts has
been made known as yet. Mount
Zion commandery, No. 3, Knights
remplar of Montpelier, has issued a
circular letter which will be forward
ID to every grand commander in the
describing the missing L. ID.
Blackwell as he was last seen.
Mrs. E. A. Niles of Rutland was
severely burned last week, while at
to light fire with the use
IF wood alcohol. Mrs. Miles thought
he fire was out in the stove and, mis-
aking wood alcohol for Kerosene,
poured little on the wood. The al
.ohol ignited and the flames reached
he can, which exploded. Mrs. Niles
an into the street, her dress about
Ter arms and shoulders being ablaze.
Two persons came to her rescue and
ucceeded in smothering the fire, but
lot before she had been badly burned.
Ezra Clark of Hartford, Conn.,, died
saturday, Sept. 26, in his SD year.
Ir. Clark was born in Brattleboro in
sI3. but had lived in Hartford since
$40. He was for many years in the
ron business there and subsequently
or l6 years was president of the board
# water commissioners, building sew
raj large reservoirs and laying out
he now famous Reservoir park. Mr..
rla,,l- oo,.x,od tyvO forms in Conorpss !