Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-07-19
Ex-Treasurer Randlett of Central Yer.
mont Dead.

David D. Randlett, GO, for 20 years treas
urer of the Central Vermont railroad.
died Wednesday in Fair Haven. Mr.
Randlett was a native OF Charlestown,
Mass. a graduate Of Harvard and of
Harvard law school. He practiced law
in New York and at one time was state
auditor of New Hampshire He was
cashier of the Boston. Hartford & Erie
railroad in Boston three years. and Of
the New Orleans Mobile & Texas rail-
read in New Orleans two years He en-
tered the employ of the Central Vermont
railroad in 1872. and was its treasurer
from 1875 TO 1895 when the reorganiza-
ton took place. He was also a director
in many corporations and one Of the trus-
tees of the immense Langdon estate in
Montpelier. He was one of the directors
Of the new Central Vermont railway.
Leslie Taylor. q, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge OF his gun at Maid
stone Thursday. He went out to shoot
crows and did not return. The family
searched for him Friday morning, and
found the body with bullet hole through
the heart. He was a section hand on
the Maine Central railroad.
Fire which started from an oil stove
destroyed Gustave McClay's farm house
above Lincoln bridge, near Woodstock.
Sunday. Some of the household goods
were saved Mr.. McClay was Frustrated
by the heat and smoke and severely
burned, and his dauhgter also sustained
injuries. The loss is about $500.
Fire caused a loss of $4,000 in Lowell
Friday night. when the dressing mill.
box shop and blacksmith shop owned by
j. H. Silsby & Co. of Hartford, Conn,
and Peter Martins dwelling house were
burned. The fire caught round the boiler
in the mill. The company had no in
surance while Martins loss is covered by
insurance.
II. c. Akeley, a native of Stowe will
erect in that town an opera house COM
plete in all details, at an expense of $50
900, provided that the citizens furnish the
site. Mr.. Akeley has conferred several
times recently with the business men of
Stowe in regard TO the proposed gift.
Mr. Akeley is one of the wealthiest lum-
bermen of the Northwest
Wallace Rathburn, of Randolph. charg-
ed with attempted rape on nine-year-old
Hazel Stockwell last month, pleaded
guilty in the Orange county court and
was sentenced to five years in the state
penitentiary. George Townshend was
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment for
burgalizing F. c. Bachelors store at
West Braintree recently.
Edward Conant, principal of the nor
NAL school in Randolph, was injured Sc
Il
N Y. He jumped from rapidly NOV.
ing Buffalo trolley car, and struck the
pavement with great force. He was I'M
conscious long time, suffering from con-
cussion of the brain. He was taken to
the hospital. His skull was not fractured
and he is now improving, with a pros
pect of being able to come home within
a short time.
John Parker, a teamster employed by
Fl. V Leonard in Barre, disappeared
Sunday night, and a horse owned by
Oscar Thompson and road cart owned
by A. ID. Young We're missed at the same
time. Parker stopped at F. L. Parsons's
farm near Bethel, where he sold the horse
to j. G. Mann for S25. When Mr.. Mann
heard about the stolen horse at Barre
he started in pursuit Sheriff Slayton ac-
companying him. They overlook Parker
near South Royalton, arrested him,
brought him back to Montpelier and lodg-
ed him in Jail. He was taken before
Judge Watson on an information filed by
the states attorney, charging him with
horse stealing. He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced TO not less than three nor
more than four years at hard labor in
state prison at Windsor. A mittimus was
az once issued and Parker was taken to
Windsor on Wednesday.