Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-19

his head the wrath of some of the high
officials of the church. Mr.. Cooke says
there has come to him evidence of deep
laid plot to injure and suppress Kim. 1t
amounts, he says, to q criminal con-
spiracy. The first intimation of such a
thing came to Mr.. Cooke in letter from
Bishop ID. II. Moore, who presides at the
New York conference and who is warm
personal friend of Chancellor Day. The
bishop says he has been requested to re-
move Mr.. Cooke from this district
Some of the presiding elders of the
Troy conference are mixed up in the
affair, according to Mr.. Cooke. Mr..
Cooke is not satisfied with the results of
his charges against DIR. Mcfarland of
the Kansas conference now in session at
Topeka and has written to DR.. Edwin
Locke, presiding elder of the Topeka dis
trict, in regard to the matter.
Papers were served last Thursday in a
suit for $3.50 on Guy r. Varnum as
clerk of the Boutwell,, Milne, Varnum
company of Barre on behalf of Mrs. AL
ice Burns, administrative OF the estate of
Herman Bulls, who was killed Feb. IA,
1907, at the company's quarries. The
suit is brought by Mrs. Burns, who was
Bulls widow (since married). The dec
laration alleges that Bulls was working
as derrickman at the quarries of the de-
PENDANT on the day of his death and that
he had chained stone and given the en-
gineer the signal to hoist the stone to en-
able him to place it in position on a car.
The engineer raised the stone to a posi-
ton and the brake and friction blocks on
the hosting machine failed to work and
the engineer was unable to stop the de-
scent of the stone, so that Bulls was
crushed in such a manner that he died
within few minutes. Like most quarry
companies, the Boutwell,, Milne, Varnum
company is protected by idemnity insur-
ance, and it is expected that the insurance
company will defend the suit.
A meeting was held at the Quincy
House, Enosburg Falls, March 9, when
committee of st. Adams citizens met and
discussed evidence that the st. Adams
fire department, or its helpers, had been
guilty of stealing goods from the stores
in the Perley block when it was de-
stroyed by fire Feb. 1. At the hearing,
w. Z. Mitiguy told of being warned the
night of the fire that men were in his
store STEALING him blind" He went to
the store and found three st. Adams men
in there handling his goods. he told
them to leave and they did so, Mr..
Mitiguy remaining thereafter to protect
his property. He did not know the
men and has not since been able to
ascertain who they were. He lost goods
valued at between $500 and S400 by theft
that night. It was brought out that
while there were only 13 firemen present
from ST. Adams, the chief from there
certified that he had number of helpers
along and that NJ. p Perley paid for sup
r,ers or tho Ot,inov H0usa for also
appeared that eight or ten pairs of rubber
boots were taken by visiting fire-tighters.
Last Thursday evening, the Iifeless
body of A. s. Jones of Johnson was
found in the room over the store of A. j
Saleeby, by whom he was employed as a
clerk. A bullet hole in his forehead and
32-cailber revolver, which lay by his
side with one chamber empty, showed his
death to have been one of suicide. Mr..
Jones was % years old and had come to
johnson from New York some IL months
ago. He was well liked and a faithful
clerk for Mr.. Saleeby, to whom his death
comes as great shock. He left the store
at his usual supper hour, and at 6:15
revolver shot was heard on the street but
it was not known where it was fired.
When Jones did not return, search was
made for him everywhere that could be
thought of and finally the storeroom on
the second floor was broken into and his
body found. He had locked himself in.
The case was pronounced one of suicide
and an inquest unnecessary. 1t hardly
seems possible that self-destruction had
long been contemplated, as a letter. to
his sister in Denver, found in mis- coat
pocket and written the evening before
told OF daily happenings and carried no
note of dependency.
George Touchette, Burlington car
penter, was fatally injured Monday
afternoon, March 9, while holding pair
of army mules. He died in the evening
at the Mary Fletcher hospital. A pair of
mules from Fort Ethan Allen, hauling a
heavy government wagon, drove in front
of the store where Toucbette was stand
ing and the driver asked Touchette to
hold the mules while he repaired the
wagon. The mules became frightened
at an electric car and began to rear and
plunge. Touchette held tightly to the
reins, however, and when the animals
plunged across the street, he became
entangIed in the reins and was unable to
free himself The frightened mules
crossed the street and he was thrown
with great force against an iron post in
front of Bailey's music rooms. The
mules became free then and ran wildly
down the street, where they were cap
tured later by the driver. Touchette
was taken to the Mary Fletcher hospital,
where he died before thorough exami-
nation of his injuries had been made.
The left arm was fractured above the
elbow and it was thought that both
lungs were crushed by the impact re-
ceived in being thrown against the post.
Miss Sarah c. Weed, from 1896 to 1900
a teacher in the Burlington, VT, schools,
in an insane fury some time the night
of March 10, shot and instantly killed
her college chum and partner, Miss Eliza
beth B. Hardee, and then killed herself.
The shooting took place in Miss Hardee's