Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-08-22
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.
George Bishop of Brattleboro drank
glass OF I've which he mistook Tor
water. He will recover.
A two-year-old son of Geo. E. Abbey
of Middlebury pulled a lighted kero-
sene lamp of a table and was badly
burned.
Thursday afternoon, while at work
in the hay field in Derby. George Hin
man, 40 years old, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
While shingling house lately Jul
JUS Lord of Winooski fell to the ground,
a distance OF thirty feet. breaking one
rib and sustaining severe bruises.
Merle Hallock OF Hinesburg was
poisoned while dressing beef which
proved TO be tuberculous and it took
the combined wisdom of three doctors
to heal his hand.
Roy, son OF Clarence +. Bugbee of
Montpelier, was struck in the neck by
a flying axe blade, cutting a cash
three inches long and an inch deep in
the muscles on the left side of the
neck. The boy viii recover.
Harry Lackey's left hand was
caught in a trimming machine while
working in the quarries at South
Poultney lately and was cut off just
below the wrist. He was working at
the machine, when he slipped, and to
save himself put his hand under the
knife, which completely severed it.
Al Old Orchard Beach, Me-, last
week Lawrence Darling, the l0-year-
old son OF J. d. Darling Of Barre was
killed while riding his bicycle by
colliding with a team. Mrs. Darling,
with four children, lived at Old
Orchard, where she was running a
boarding house.
A desperate struggle between Ed
ward Flanagan OF Waliingtord and his
wife last week ended in the success OF
his determined effort to end his own
life. She tried to make him take an
emetic after learning he had swal-
lowed a dose of strychnine, but, de-
termined to die. Flanagan seized 81
ealiber revolver, placed it against his
breast and fired. He died instantly.
The autopsy showed that either the
poison or shot would have been fatal.
Chas. Bean, So years old, was hor-
ribly burned at the Brattleboro Gas
Light Co : plant last week. lie went
into the inner section of the gas house
10 close the naphtha tank after 5000
gallons Of naphtha had been drawn
from a receptacle. On returning the
outer room was ablaze and he had to
run through the flames His clothing
was burned of and his body was bad
" burned. His condition is serious.
The fire was put out with small loss.
The naphtha fumes probably ignlted
spontaneously
Miss Winnie Shore. Is years old,
committed suicide at the home OF }.
W. RYAN in StAlbans last week where
she had been at work for two months.
She returned from the opera house in
the evening apparently in her usual
health and spirits, went to her room,
undressed and then it is thought, de-
liberately turned on gas jet. She
was found in the morning dead IRON
asphyxiation. A letter to her father
found in her room gives no clue TO the
motive of the girl in taking her lie
While William Gotta, wife and
daughter OF Mddlebury were out
driving last week in a complete new
RIG. horse, buggy and harness. the colt
took a notion TO run. Although Mr..
Gotta is an experienced horseman the
beast took the bits in his teeth and got
the better of the driver. The
of the carriage were thrown
out. Mr.. Gotta is not so badly injured
rs are his wife and daughter. who are
invalids, the mother having been so
for p years. The shock to the two
women is so serious that it is feared i
NAV prove fatal. The skulls of both |
are fractured and the young womans
nose is crushed. The rig is complete
wreck.
Ladies' hair work. MRS. n. H. BEAN,