Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-06-11

gas Stove TO keep IL WARM, tne DurHers ut-
ing turned low. Upon opening the oven,
she saw that the fame was extinguished
and thinking that someone who had
been working on the stove had turned
the burners off she started to light them
again. When she put the lighted match
into the oven a cloud of flame enveloped
her, burning her right hand and arm and
singing her hair badly, but otherwise she
was unhurt. Mrs. Carpenter wore a
wooden skirt and to this fact she probably
owes her escape from more serious injury.
1t is thought that a draught of air had
extinguished the flames with the result
that the oven of the range was filled with
gas.
While r. B. Guild was giving his illus.
trated lecture on ssThe Man from Italy"
in Bethany chapel, Montpelier, June 8,
lightning struck the spire of that church.
The lecturer was about half through.
The defamation was fearful and when the
lights went out the audience of about
100 became panic stricken. Men rushed
for the stained glass windows and kicked
them out, women tainted and became
hysterical, children screamed and there
was rush for the door, which is on the
ground floor. The lecturer and Rev. l..
F. Reed, the pastor, kept their heads and
uHdliy SuCC6cueu III CdimluS tuc ITeuZleu
audience SO that no one was injured.
Mr.. Guild finished his lecture after the
excitement was over, but most of his au-
dience had their minds on the startling
event that had just occurred. The church
did not take fire and the damage to the
edifice, outside the broken windows, was
small.
By the will of the late Charles Cooper,
head of the Cooper Manufacturing Co.,
who died at his summer cottage at
Round Lake, N. Y, bequest is made to
the son, Alexander j. Cooper, with the
condition that only certain number of
shares of stock become the property of
the legatee outright. OF the balance,
the legatee has the control but not the
power of sale, and a further condition is
that there shall be no withdrawal of SUR
plus until after the combined stock and
surplus shall exceed S4GC,0 900. The stock
held in trust, together With accrued sur
plus and the residue of the estate upon
the decease of Alexander j. Cooper is be-
queathed to board of fifty trustees, all
residents of Bennington, for the purpose
of founding and endowing an industrial
school in the arts, to be known as the
cooper Industrial School," The pur-
pose of the trust is specified to be the
practical instruction of boys and young
men in some suitable trade and is to be
4 charitable so far circumstances will al
low without depicting the estate.
An unknown boy, between IS and 20
years old, was drowned in Mad river at
Waitsfield last Thursday evening. He
had borrowed a fishing rod of Frank
Maxwell and was walking along the bank
where there was steep ledge, and, los
ing his footing, he fell into the stream,
where the water is twelve feet deep. Two
boys nearby saw the accident and ran for
aid, several men responding, but the
body did not appear. Search was made
and the body recovered about twenty
minutes later, but life was extinct The
| lad came to the village Wednesday night
and applied for work. He registered at
the hotel as Will Leonard of Sheldon.
The authorities in that. town were COM
municated with and no such person was
known there. He had told conflicting
stories giving Barre, BeIvidere and Roch-
ester, n. ", as places of residence. He
also said he had been in the industrial
school, but no such person was known
there. He had worked recently for three
days in sawmill at Warren, and told
conflicting stories about himself while
there. No money was found on his per-
son but letter was found in his pocket
addressed to Warren.
browning al Neeiers Day Heca"eo'
Isaac P. Sharon, administrator of the
estate of George Couture of Burlington,
4 who was drowned at Keeler's bay Ben
nington Battle day last year, has brought
suit against the Champlain Transports
tion Co. and the case is returnable at the
September term of Chittenden county
court. The defendant company's proper
ty is attached for $4,000. The declara-
! ton in the case contains six counts, each
alleging damages of S., 600.
Mr.. Couture met his death by jumping
from the steamer Chateaugay into a
launch which was afterward run into by
the big steamer, so that Mr.. Couture was
thrown into the water and drowned. The
declaration alleges that the steamboat
company failed to provide its boat with
proper, efficient and sufficient machinery,
tackle and equipment and failed to pro-
vide safe means for the plaintiffs intes-
! tate to land on arrival at keeler's bay.
i If was on this same occasion that Mrs.