Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-11-19

land last July. The murder was the out
come Of an attempt to chastise Sanford
ior conduct toward q young girl The
charge OF being an accessory after the
fact was not upheld.
Major Henry ". Hovey, Z. 8. A., re-
tired. died Saturday night at his home IN
Northheid Of heart failure. He had been
an officer n the army for q years, rising
to the rank Of major In the 2sd infantry
In 1908. He was transferred to the oath
infantry in 1905 and was retired Nov. 8,
1907 for physical disability and came to
Northneld to reside. Major Hovey saw
service in the philippines and Alaska and
was Tor several years commandment Of ca
diets at Norwich university. He was
born in Maine in 1852.
Two more bodies were found last week
in the elevator ruins at Richford, one
Wednesday and one Thursday. There
was some fesh and fragments OF clothing
with each body, beside the bones, and q
purse containing four SILVER twenty-five
cent pieces and peaDy, and also pieces
Of pipe, were found by one body. From
this it is believed that this body was that
OF Clarence Shufelt. There is nothing by
which to Identity the other body except
some fragments of khaki overalls, that
may possibly be a means Of indentifica-
tion.
Joshua d. Bates, who keeps small
store ct North Pownal, attempted to COM
NIT suicide Nov. 8 by shooting himself
in the head with Q revolver. He fired
tMo shots just above and in front Of the
right ear, but the bullets did not enter the
brain, being fiattened against the skull.
Physicians extracted the bullets and
found that Bates had loaded q 32-calibel
revolver with smaller sized cartridges,
which accounted for their lack Of pene-
tration. Bates is IS years old and has
been respondent recently over business
matters.
r. w. Adams of Richford received
word Nov. that his property in the
center of the village had been selected BY
the national government as the site fol
the new federal building. The price paid
Mr.. Adams is 1000. Work on the
buiIding for which the last Congress.
appropriated $50, 600, will probably b
begun In the spring. The building viii
include the custom house, postoffice anc
Chinese detention station. An effor
will be made at the coming session o
Congress to secure an additional appro
priation Of sac, 900.
Joseph Mccarthy, who was married
Wednesday afternoon, was sentenced il
Barre city court Friday to not less thar
thirty nor more than forty days at har,
labor in the house OF correction at Rut
land for attempting to defraud a hote
keeper. Mccarthy was married by the Rev
A. J. Hough, and his bride, who is no
strong. suffered hemorrhage Friday IS
result OF the excitement OF the arrest ant
conviction OF her husband. McCarth.
represented himself as belonging to tn
Salvation Army, but he was repudiate'
by the local captain.
Work is progressing well ct Fairfield
pond, where force of men is engaged Il
laying the fourteen-inch pipe to connec
with the pipe already laid for the mes
5wanton water system. About two-third
OF the 1900 feet of pipe required il al
ready laid. The cement dam being bull
at the outlet of the pond by Greno Bros
is also nearing completion. II is though
the pipes viii be connected within q wee
and the new system put in operation
In the meantime the village is bein
supplied from the Missisquoi river. B
the old pumping system.