Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-08-31

| Dfson bergoir and Hollis Bean. who were
charged with having a part in the row
Nhlcn occurred at the mouth Of the river
al Lakeside, near Burlington. June 2. dur
ing which Jack Powers vas shot in the
leg; was completed Thursday in city court
ana as result the two Bergoirs we're
/ loud guilty while Bean MAS acouitted
Inc Bergoirs were fined go each and Bean
was discharged. The Bergoirs appealed.
The death OF Amos Aldrich at his home
IN Moodford last week recalls the fact
that ne was the Democratic candidate for
presidential elector IN the famous HAYES
| liiuen campaign Of 1876 and in one way
me result OF the election depended upon
him. II was claimed that his Repu bliean
! opponent, being postmaster, was not
elgiole 10 election. Only one vote was
necessary TO make Tildenis election sure.
contest was made and taken before the
electoral commission.
The barns and shed in Barre which
Arthur l.. Martin occupied as storeroofns
for bis wood and hay were burned Aug.
q. The flames reached across the street
ana damaged two tenement houses, one
owned by Daniel Kingston CT Barre, and
the other by NJ. f. Smile OF Montpelier.
me respective damages being estimated at
200 and 200. The barn was owned by w
A. Whitc0mb and was not insured The
whole loss was between II 500 and Il 500.
Mr.. Martin los 40 tons OF hay, uninsured,
and 800 cords Of wood, insured.
An automobile carrying a party Of
tourists from outside he state is wanted
by the Williamstown authorities for caus-
ing serious injury to two men one day re-
Gently. The machine is No. alII. The
state it is from could not be deciphered,
Men who were working on the road were
eating their dinner and their horses were
standing alongside the road The horses
were badly frightened BY the automobile
but the occupants whisked by, making no
effort to assist the men. The men who
were seriously hurt are Bert Young and
Frank Wood.
The Rev. Ariel Bellondi. working under
the auspices Of the American Baptist
Home Missionary society. expects soon to /
have erected in Barre a Protestant Italian /
church edifice. The old Jackson place /
has been purchased for the site, plans /
have been made for building, and 5000 I
has already been secured toward its cree
tion. Mr.. Bellondi, under whose direc- /
ton the missionary work is being prose-
cuted in Barre, is the son OF Vincenzo !
Bellondi, Protestant preacher ia Italy, /
who Is well known in that country in con- /
neetion with his religious teachings and /
writings.
Earl. the 12-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Bourbon Of Rutland was shot
last Thursday by a companion, Daniel
Gleason, aged 10 years, who playfully held
a revolver TO the boys head and pulled the
trigger. The bullet struck young Bour-
don In the back OF the head, glancing
along the skull and cutting a cash in the
scalp five inches in length. The Older boy
was playing highwayman, being armed
with shot gun, S2-calibre revolver and
a toy pistol. He had instructed his COM
panion TO hold up his hands and as the
latter did not comply with the command
young Gleason pulled the trigger OF the
revolver.
From the early records OF the town OF
It is learned that the town
vas chartered in 17Si, and Ethan Allen
vas one OF its proprietors. At its first
census, in 1871, Il had ll6 inhabitants; the
second census, in 1900, showed a popula-
ion OF S39; the third one, in 1910, showed
1853 a gain Of over 200 persons in nine
cen years. Before the town was fifteen
'ears old one OF its citizens, graduate OF
Harvard college, had been Judge in the
tate supreme court four years, and was
lready member Of the Senate OF the
United States. Twenty years after the
ounding OF the town town library wRs
and il has been maintained
yer since.
Two suits for the collection of 5000 each
we're entered in Chittenden county court
friday. The plaintiff In each is Margaret
'arty and one defendant is j. III. Me-
ireevy and the other is John b. Layally.
irs Carly is the mother OF Frederick
'arty, who was smothered TO death while
prisoner for intoxication in cell in the /
Vinooski lookup, Aug. 10, 1903. His death a
ias due to the burning OF the mattress in
is cell. The suits are brought under the
wv which provides that people aggrieved,
amaged or injured in any way owing to
be effects OF liquor sold relatives, or to
eople who are their means OF support.
&C., may recover damages from the liquor
ealer IN a suit at law. A suit is now on
be county court docket against the viii
lge of Winooski TO recover damages for
ais same young mans death.