Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-12-09
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Vincent of

uen WeuuinS anniversary iaoo WON.
Herbert ID. Ryder of Bellows Falls
has been appointed u. S. revenue
stamp deputy at Bellows Falls, sue
ceeding a Democrat.
j. ID. Bates, son of III. G. Bates, of
st. Johnsbury has received the APP
pointment as deputy collector in the
custom house at Island Pond.
Hon. Jonathan Ross, chief judge of
the supreme court of Vermont, had
served upon the supreme court bench
twenty-seven years December LIST.
The first electric car came to the
power station at Stowe December l.
The first car of freight came TO Stowe
that night. A grand display OF fire.
works was made in the evening.
Work on the Barre a. Montpelier
electric railroad has been closed for
the winter and the men have gone to
their homes. Ii is predetermined
when an electric railroad between the
two cities will be in active operation.
The American Loan and Trust
company, by 5. 5. Peabody, has filed
petition to the legislature for trans
fer by the Central Vermont Railroad
company of the Loan and Trust COM
pany's interest 10 the New York and
Northern railroad.
Elmer Backus, the l7-year-old son
OF James Backus, was killed by a
freight train at West Swanton Mon
day Of last week. II is supposed he
was attempting to ride on top Of the
cars of the way freight and fell Off
from car loaded with wood.
II is reported that Bradley G. New
ell, the Jacksonville healer, has
bought three large farms, comprising
about 500 acres, in the town Of Rowe,
n. H., and will stock them with a large
number of cattle which he has
bought from the G. |. Hood farm at
Lowell, Mass.
Pincus X. Peck OF Troy, N. Y,
was arraigned in the United States
District court at Montpelier last week
Tuesday and plead guilty 10 the in
dictment for embezzling 50, 700 while
assistant postmaster at Rutland. Sem
tence was deferred until the Febru-
airy term, which is held in Bur
lington.
Superintendent ID. J.. Morgan and
Deputy Superintendent w. Ii. Rich
mond. of the house OF correction,
have been notified by the government
at Washington that they have been
awarded 500 each for furnishing in
I q. ~
conviction OF parties who broke into
the postoffices at Windsor, Glover and
Morrisville in 1894.
Gov. Grout has reappointed Col
! Inns Blakely OF Montpelier member
of the State Board OF Pharmacy for a
term OF 1--WE years, and Fred A. How
/ land member Of the Board Of Lii
| brary Commissioners to succeed him
self, for the same length OF time.
Both men have made valuable MEM
bers Of their respective boards, and
their reappointment was natural.
In recognizing the Vermont Tele-
phone company the New England
Telephone and Telegraph company
| has decided TO retain the name of the
old company rather than eliminate it !
and make a branch Of the New Eng
land company. j. II. Barry of Bur
lington is TO be division superinten
dent of northern New England. A.
G. Brown, acting manager, will re-
main with the company for the pres
ent, and will probably be connected |
with the new company for a long
time.
Judge j. @. A. Fellows died in
New Orleans recently, aged "a. lie |
was born in Topsham, Orange coun-
ty, graduated at the University OF
Vermont and went to New Orleans in
1850. Mr. Fellows was one of the |
leading lawyers at the New Orleans |
bar. and was counsel for Myra Clark |
Gains and in other famous cases. He |
was the most prominent man in the
state i'm Masonic circles. He was |
grand generalissimo OF the Grand En-
campment of knights Tempar at st.
Louis in 1868.
President Mckinley has pardoned
Stephen NJ. Folsom, once president OF |
bank at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
and who was sentenced 10 a five |
years term in the penitentiary for al
legged irregularities in the bank rec
ords. Mr.. Folsom really committed
no crime save possibly a technical one,
as what he did was done TO try and
save the bank from wreck and in
doing SO he lost every dollar he had
i'm the crash. There was strong feel
ing at the time of his conviction by
an ignorant Mexican jury, that it was
a miscarriage of justice and could
never have been accomplished in a
more civilized country. The many
friends OF Mr. Folsom in Vermont,
and particularly at his old home ia
Lyndon, rejoice at his liberation and
hope to see him yet a prosperous