Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-29

udl morning al lne nOlile Ol neT sOl
James Tunney, in Swanton. Mrs
! Tnnney was born in Ireland Nov. 3
l9l6. She lived TO see her fifth gener
alton.
II. L. Mower of Sheldon Junction
is in a very critical condition as Lht
result of burn, caused by the falling
of can If gasoline, which was set OIL
fire by the lamp he was carrying.
Martin Callahan, Wilmington
husband who had been away for a
( few days, went home last week Mon
day to find that his wife had drawn
all his money from the savings bank
and had shipped away their house
hold goods, leaving him nothing TO
keep house with and no information
of her whereabouts.
The steeple Of the Newport Baptist
church was struck by lightning Tues.
day afternoon of last week and the
spiintered boards were blown through
the windows of the adjoining houses.
| The wires in the Office of the central
telephone station were burned out,
and several persons were Frustrated
by the heavy electrical disturbance.
The express train from Bellows
Falls for Boston Saturday afternoon,
July 18th, was wrecked near Keene,
n. II. Milo Curtis, engineer, and
Louis Eddy, fireman, both of Bellows
Falls, were killed. 1t is thought that
track bolt was the cause of the en-
CINE jumping from the track, as a
flattened bolt was found the day of
the accident.
Fred Sargent Of Plymouth felt the
roadbed sink under him as the Mon
treal express ran along in Meredith,
N. H., Tuesday night of last week.
He stayed on, side-tracked his engine,
swan across a brook, so swollen by
the rains that il rushed like mad
down the mountains, got across some
how and rushed up the track to the
summit in season to stop two trains
that were close behind him.
Last week boys discovered the body
of man in field near the head of
Commissionary brook, about eight
miles above Bellows Falls. The body
was cast up there by high water. 1t
was naked and badly decomposed and
it was impossible to identify it. The
man is thought to have been in the
vicinity of 40 years Of age and weighed
$50 pounds. Undertaken keene OF
Bellows Falls was summoned and bur-
led the body at Rockingham.
At meeting of the trustees of the
state insane asylum at Waterbury last
week A. b. Franklin OF Boston was
given the contract that calls for a du-
plicate Of the north wing as to heating
and ventilation and for furnishing
one new boiler of 100 horse power.
Thomas A. Rogers OF Brandon was
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of brick wall around the crimi-
nal exercise yard and Of the cold stor-
age that will join the present kitchen
and laboratory and mortuary build
ing that will be about 43 feet square
and two stories high.
Melvin Robinson of Perkinsville
was in the basement of his mill one
day last week when the floor suddenly
gave way, precipitating him some
twenty feet into the wheel pit. Three
OF his ribs were fractured, his ankle
sprained and parts of his body
were bruised. The bottom of the pit
is narrow and was filed at the time
with about two feet of water. Had it
not been for this fact and that he fell
directly downward, he would in all
probability have lost his life. At the
time of the accident, Albert Billings
stood by the window with his hand
the window sill. This sup
port was all that saved him from fall
ing.
The final details of the new Masonic
temple at Burlington, which has been
agitated in the fraternity for many
years, were settled last week at that
city when the building contract was
Belts Brothers of Rutland
are the contractors. The foundation
is now laid and the contract covers
the entire building above that. The
cost Of the structure will be about
$50, 900. 1t will be brick with terra
Gotta trimmings. According to the
contract the first floor of the temple |
will be ready to occupy in April next |
and the entire building will be COM
pleted in June. The temple is to
be owned by the grand lodge of Yer
mont.
Forepaugh's circus train was on its
way to Rutland Sunday, July 18th,
when the engineer saw two forms on
the track. He blew the whistle and
applied the brakes. When the train
stopped, the pilot of the engine was
within few feet of one of the men
who held down the rail for pillow
and the other man had part of his
BODY over the rail. Both men were
asleep as peacefully as babes. Two
circus men hauled them off the tracks.
They remembered nothing as to how
thew came to select such nice spot TO
sleep. The men had been drinking
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