Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-04-16
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.

JOun carney Oh vest huLlanu was
killed in slate quarry Monday after
noon, April 6. by premature blast
II. A. Thurber, aged So, a farmer.
was thrown from his team in front of
an electric car OF the Barre and Mont
pelier street railway April 8, and the
fender failing TO pick him up, he was
doubled under the car. but fortunately
not run over. He had one rib broken
w. F. Dole of Danville had a very
singular and quite serious accident
while working in his sugar place. He
had just taken off a quantity of syrup
and while putting the pan back on the
arch he was blinded by the steam and
stepped into the tub of boiling syrup,
burning his right leg from the knee 10
his shoe so seriously that he is likely
to be confined to the house for time.
Mrs. Fred A. Hiland of Rutland. who
was burned Monday morning, April 6.
at IL O'Clock, as result of an explo-
sion of kerosene, died at o'clock in
the afternoon. Mrs. Hiland was start
ing the fire to prepare the midday
meal She was pouring the oil into
the stove, when the fire blaZed up, and.
igniting the oil in the can, caused an
explosion which set Mrs. Hiland's
clothing on fire.
II has become known that Mrs. Bes-
sic p. Farmer. the wife of well known
farmer who lives on the Cold River
road, few miles south of Rutland,
attempted to commit suicide by taking
o tablespoonful OF carbolic acid crys-
tails lately. The physician who was
called from Rutland found the woman
In an unconscious condition and ter
ribly burned about the face and throat.
lie succeeded in bringing her to con-
seriousness after several hours work.
Frank GRIPPE, an 11-year-old boy,
while at play at a neighbours house in
st. Adams the evening of April 8, was
dared by his playmates to Jump from
platform in the shed. The boys climb
ed to the platform and Garipe was the
second TO jump. In jumping his foot
caught in rope and hung him for a
time and when he fell he struck on his
abdomen on a sawhorse. The boy got
up and walked a short distance, but
was too weak to 90 any farther. He
was taken home by his father and ply
sicians summoned, but he died about
midnight.
James Reagan of Fair Haven was
struck by freight train between there
and Whitehall, N ", about s o'clock
the morning of April and injured so
badly that he died without recovering
Regain went to White
hall on the 6: 25 o'clock train the night
before and is supposed to have started
to walk home in the morning. He was
sitting beside the track near the Davis
siding, about 4 mile from Whitehall.
when the train came along. The en-
CINE and several cars passed him all
right but projecting step on a second
engine which was pushing, struck him,
fracturing his skull and breaking his
arm. Reagan was taken to Whitehall.
where he died soon afterward.
Merrill Sloan Of East Calais commit
ted suicide Apr. by cutting his throat
with razor. No cause Is assigned ex-
cept that he has suffered from ill
health with no prospect of any but
relief. Mr.. Sloan was 73
years old and unmarried. He had
been spending the winter with a niece,
Mrs. Oakley Meader. He rose Friday
before the other members of
the family and announced that he was
going to the home of another niece,
Mrs. Simon Parker, who lived about
of a mile away, find
ing no one up there he removed his
coat and vest, put them ON the piazza.
then went out and laid down on the
grass III ffonts0f the house and in
illcted the cut that severed the jugular
vein ana windpipe.
While the surgeons at the Heaton
hospital, Montpelier, were performing
an operation on Napoleon Frazier,
piece of steel an inch long was found
in the skull. II was a part
Of stone cutters chisel, and had
caused a large abscess on the brain.
MIR. Frazier had been unconscious two
days and the operation was necessary,
it was not known that the
steel was in his head at that time.
Mr.. Frazier, who is stonecutter, fell
about two weeks ago in one of the
sheds, striking his head, as was sup
posed. against piece of stone, inflict-
NC wound. II is probable that the
steel entered his skull at that time.
The operation was a delicate one, and
n laying bare the brain TO relieve the
lbscess and take out the steel il was
necessary to remove bits of bone from
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