Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-07-20

mutilated. Nothing else OF value had
been left in the safe.
Henry Mahon, the 13-year- old son of
Patrick Mahon of West Rutland, was
struck by a Rutland flyer in the yards
July 10 and quite seriously injured. He
was watching a switch engine and did not
hear the train behind him. No bones
were broken but it is feared he may have
conclusion OF the brain.
The eight-year- old son of Louis Petro-
nella, was found July in the woods OF
Mount Tabor, with several buckshot in
his back. The boy died soon after he was
found. 1t is thought that he may have
been mistaken for deer by Italian hunt
ers. There is no clue to the person or per-
sons who did the shooting.
All the union painters and carpenters
employed ON the medical college building
and the Howard opera house building in
Burlington quit work last week because
non union plumbers were engaged. This
action grows out OF the plumbers strike,
which was begun over two months ago
and which is still in progress.
| A peddler giving the name Of Shilipsky,
from Burlington, was arrested in Johnson
July on the charge OF an attempted
assault upon the daughter Of Silas Girls
void. The girl was alone when the
peddler called at the house. She made
such an cutlery as to brighten him away.
He was released under $500 bail.
Charles Hallock of Burlington, charged
with criminal assault, was released on
| q 200 bail until the next session of county
court. Halloek, who is a meat dealer,
was arrested on the charge of committing
criminal assault upon the person of
Matte Neser, the sixteen year-old daugh-
ter Of Adam Neser OF Burlington.
Paul Kaiser. brakeman on the freight
motor on the Mt. Mansfield electric rail-
way, was thrown off the motor Friday by
the breaking of the cone which holds up
\ the trolley wire. " bich flew back and
hit Kaiser and knocked him off the car.
| He struck across rail. Two ribs were
started from the spine and his face and
one leg were badly bruised.
The Barre Plumbers union last week
accepted the master plumbers proposition.
| The agreement is practically Identical
with that which prevailed previous to the
/ strike. but the scale OF wages is to be s2.75
day for eight hours, an advance Of
| twenty-five cents a day, the same to
constitute a minimum and the agreement
I to remain in force for three years.
The conspiracy case against nine mem
bers OF the Hardwiek branch Of the Gran
| lite Cutters National union and two
/ national officers of the organization will
go to the supreme court, the pleas in
/ abatement of the indictment, entered on
the ground that the constitutional rights
OF the respondents in testifying were
violated, having been overruled.
Engineer Leroy S. Howe of Lyndonville
has travelled 100000 miles and has just
completed his fortieth anniversary as an
engineer. He began railroading on the
Passumpsic railroad in 1861 and IS still
employed on that line, which is now a
part OF the Boston a Maine system. No
one has ever been killed on any OF his
trains and forty firemen have served under
him.
Some one who has taken the
trou BILE 10 observe the trend OF summer
guest business declares that there are
more visitors in the small country resorts
and in farm homes this year IN southern
Vermont than ever before. Many farm
homes are open for the first time to sum-
mer patrons, and nearly all OF the smaller
hotels report their accommodations en-
gagged for the summer.
Marshall o. Edison, graduate Of ST..
Johnsbury academy, Randolph State Nor
NAL school and Dartmouth college Hanoi
YER n. H., has been unanimously elected
SUPERINTENDENT of schools for district
which includes the towns OF Sandwich,
Bourne and Mashpee, Mass. Mr.. Edison
was one OF dozen candidates for the CT
fee. He will make his headquarters In
Sandwich.
Swanton has five generations of family
living in own. the fifth being a daughter
born last week to Mr.. and Mrs. Stanislaus
Mercier. All the representatives are te-
males. Montpelier has Spanish Ameri-
can family whose four children were born
in four different countries. Mr.. aud Mrs.
Victor Fountain OF Bellows Falls have
been married nineteen years, and thirteen
ksxs B.asf N n
nine are living.
The inhabitants OF Middlesex were
alarmed Saturday by the ringing OF the
church bell Men left their work and,
| grabbing pals and fire extinguishers .hur-
/ ried upon the street to find the IRE ana
check the supposedly raging flames. In
/ vesttgation revealed the fact that the
church sexton, installing the day OF the
week, had shaved, arrayed himself in his
sunday best and rung the bell, as was ms
custom, for divine worship.
James r. Darling OF Barre, aged 10
years, who was appointed last summer by
/ Senator Proctor as one OF the cadets AT the
United States Academy at West Point, is
now at home in bed, paralyzed from the
right shoulder to the right hip, and has
slight prospects OF recovery. II was current
\ talk that the young mans condition IS
/ due to hazing received at the hands OF
| West Point cadets, but Darling has issued
a statement specifically denying this.
Viola, the three year-old daughter OF q:
/ T., Laird OF Forestdale, narrowly escaped
death BY poisoning July u. Some tartar
emetic mixed with sugar had been lett IN
a saucer on a shelf to destroy ants. The
child took chair, climbed TO the shell
and ate some of the mixture, thinking u
was sugar. She became violently Ill.
| Other members of the family found what
she had done and sent for physician,
/ who worked over her an hour before she
was relieved.
William L. Perkins, the Montpelier and
Barre street railway conductor who was
shot by an Italian recently, has been re-
moved from the Emergency hospital,
/ Barre, TO the home OF his sister, Mrs.
Jenny, in that city. He is now able to
/ sit up and is recovering rapidly. Erico
Naggiani. who shot him, waived exami-
nation and was held for Washington
county court. Bail was fixed at $1,000.
/ No attempt was made to secure n. The
respondent was Iaken to county jail at
/ Montpelier.
| Considerable anxiety is felt among
Nontpelier shareholders and borrowers
| 81 the Connecticut Loan and Reality COM
many. aud a committee has been sent 20
4 Hartford. Ct, to investigate and protect