Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-08-11
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS

town Of Brownlngton) while SUFFERING
rom dependency took quite ouanti.
,, y OF earbolie acid lately with suicidal
intent.
, Martin B. Holsen, of West Derby. s.
years old, died July 29 OF lockjaw,
July p Mr.. Holsen stepped on a rusty
nan and the poison worked in his sys.
TEN very rapidly.
MacZe Zahaski, a Polander employed
by the Rutland-Florence Marble Co.,
iell from a derrick in the quarry at
Nhipple Hollow Aug. 4 and was in
stantly killed. He left wife and two
children In the old country.
Ralph Warren of Stowe lost his life
while bathing in Mirror lake at Lake
Placid, n. T., Aug. 5. He was 2l
years OF age, junior at the University
OF Vermont and was employed Tor the
summer as a waiter at Lake Placid
club.
The condition OF Malcolm Burr of
West Rutland, who burned one hand
July 3 by powder from a pistol and
July Z was taken with lockjaw and has
since been confined 10 the bed under
Dr. G. Z. Perry's care, is improving
daily and he is now able TO sit outdoors
a little while each day.
The body Of Ellery Vance was found
beside the Canadian Pacific crossing
in Newport Aug. 8. 1t was badly
bruised and the man must have been
dead some time. He was probably
killed by train. He was very deaf.
He was about % years old, unmarried,
and son OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. p.
Vance.
L. Z. Lord of Rutland, lost two
horses under peculiar circumstances
recently. Mr.. Lord was haying at
shrewsbury and be left his team.
which was hitched to moving
machine under a shed while he went
into a house for lunch. When be
returned one of the horses was dead
and the other died soon after. It is
not known what killed the animals.
Oren, the youngest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Nelson of Salisbury was
seriously hurt last week. AS he,
with his brother and sister, was play
ing In the yard, a sheep that Mr..
Nelson uses TO run his separator with
attacked the child and # Mr. Nelson
had not seen him in time he would
probably have been killed. As 1t was,
bis father picked him up tor dead, but
be viii recover.
Joseph Kellenger Of East Barre, aged
&C years, partially blind, strayed away
from home July q and has not been
seen since. He said TO his daughter,
Mrs. II. Ronca, with whom be and his
wife were living, that he would 90 out
for a little walk. At first it was sup
posed that he might be with friends
but inquiry proved that he was not.
1t Is now thought that he must have
missed his way and strayed into the
woods or fallen into some quarry or
IRON some embankment.
An unknown man about "a years
old attempted TO board an extra freight
train in the Italy yard of the Central
Vermont railway at st. Adams one
dav last week. was thrown under the
train and his head nearly severed
from his body, his left hand also being
mangled. In his pocket were photo
graphs taken at Montreal and Benton,
y. j.. one bearing the name Of Rose
Arcaris. He also had a pipe and
fifty cents in change in his pocket.
It is thought that he may have been
Eugene Bell. who formerly worked
in St. Adams.
Lewellyn. the ten-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Spaulding OF
Woodstock. had a very narrow escape |
from drowning July 81. His father
was in a boat on the lake at the
Aleccawe club about five rods from
shore and the lad was standing in
the hot sun on the bridge over the
outlet. when he suddenly became
dizzy and fell into the water, which
was about eight feet deep. Mr..
was towing a load OF rub
bish down the lake, and he immed-
lately cut it loose and pulled with all
speed to the rescue of his son. BY
reaching down about a foot under
water he seized the boys hand as
he was sinking for the third time,
ana pulled him into the boat.