Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-15

week. Loss, 81, 900; no insurance
The house was occupied by Edward
Cooley and family.
Mrs. Mercy &. Brown, who lives
near Bradford Center, recently fell
and broke her hip. She is doing as
well as could be expected, but as she
is considerably past eighty years OF
age il is a very serious matter witt
her.
w. w. Prescott, a former editor
and proprietor Of the Vermont
Watchman, has been appointed by
the general conference of the Seventh
Day Advent church to general minis
terial labor in England. Mr.. Pres
colt has been for several years the ed
ucational secretary of this denomina-
ton in America.
The Vermont delegation in Congress
have unanimously recommended TO
President Mckinley the appointment
of Charles S. Forbes of St. Adams to
be consul-general at Ottawa, Canada,
and Herbert Brainerd of St. Adams
to be superintendent of construction
of the federal building at st. Adams,
to succeed f. w. McGettrick.
Charles Bates was arrested by Off
Ger Gates of Poultney last week Mon
day evening, charged with stealing a
wagon and harness At Pawlet a few
days ago. Word was sent to Officer
Gates Monday morning and the man
was caught between East Poultney
and Middletown. He was taken be-
fore Justice Costello, pleaded guilty
and was taken to Rutland to await
trial
Prof Edward Ellery, d. d., for
merly a teacher at the Vermont acad-
envy and now assistant at the WoIces-
ter academy, has been appointed
principal of the Vermont academy at
Saxton's River to succeed Professor
Bristol, who resigned, and will begin
work June LIST. Prof. Ellery is n
graduate of Colgate university and
has spent two years studying in Ger
many.
Gu. V. Miles Of Hardwick went
out TO shoot crows the other day with
a gun which had been loaded since
last fall. When he fired the gun the
breech pin blew out and the whole
charge took effect in his face and
head. His face and scalp were so
badly torn that q stitches were re-
quired to make him hang together,
and his eyes were so badly injured
that il is feared he may be blind.
Horace Meacham of Windsor, en-
gineer on local freight train, met
with an odd accident few days ago.
His train was about half a mile north
of the depot when the screen over the
smokestack became clcgged, and the
accumulation of smoke and coal gas
forced open the door Of the fire box.
The fire streamed out over the tender
and part of the first car, severely
burning the face, arms and hands of
Engineer Meacham.
The 5lst annual session Of the
Grand Lodge |. O. @. f. of Vermont
will be held at Montpelier on
Wednesday, May 10, 1897. This
is occasioned by the burning of the
lodge room of st. Adams Lodge, No.
81, where it was voted to be held at
the last session. The grand encamp-
ment will meet the day before, and
the Rebekah State assembly the day
following the Grand Lodge. Low
rates have been made with the hotels
and with the railroads, and most
successful occasion is assured.
Rev. A. II. Webb, for the past four
years pastor of Trinity church in
Montpelier, win be removed at the
end of the present conference year,
which closes April 18th. The rela-
tions between Mr. Webb and his peo-
pie have been very cordial, and he
goes elsewhere at his own request. Ii
is expected that Rev. a. j. Hough of
Brattleboro, the poet-laureate of the
Vermont conference, will be returned
to Montpelier. Mr.. IIough was pas
tor at Montpelier four years before
being sent to Brattleboro.
The verdict in the Marsh Buzzell
case recalls the fact that Eme-
line Lucy Meaker of Waterbury was
the last woman sentenced to be hanged
in Vermont. The crime of which she
was convicted was the murder by
poison of little Alice Meaker in 1880.
Lewis Almon Meaker, her son, was
also sentenced to be hanged for the
same crime, but the legislature of
1852 committed his sentence 10 inn
prisonment in the state prison at
Windsor for life, where he died sew
eral years ago. Mrs. Mcaker was
hanged the last Friday in March, 1883.
Mrs. Rachel Potter, an aged widow
living in Middlebury, has been robbed
of SlO2.50, $3.50 of which was in
gold. She Fept the money in one OF
the bureau drawers in her room and
had been in the habit of concealing
the kew to the drawer in a chair cush-
ion. She had not seen the money for
three or four weeks before the day she
found it was gone. 1t is suspected
that some one gained access to the
room i'm the old lady's absence and