Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-02-02
SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS.


Peter Carney was found in Winooski
Jan. Is with hands and feet frozen,
and was taken to the Mary Fletcher
hospital, Burlington.
While clearing the railing Of ice at
Hotel Barton, Mr.. Mears, the manager,
slipped and the end of the broom
handle nit him IN the eye, putting out
the sight.
Thomas j. Williams Of Castleton
Corners met with a serious accident
while cutting wood on a block at his
home there. Ills foot slipped on the
ice, and the axe came down upon his
hand, cutting it of az the wrist.
A horse OF Angelo Scampini was
found in the barn at Barre Thursday
morning. Jan. %, with knife wound
in the breast six inches deep, the
lungs narrowly escaping being pune
tured. Ii is believed that some one
skunk into the barn during the night
and committed the dastardly deed,
4 bat there is considerable mystery
about il. as Mr.. Scamplni keeps dogs
( In the barn and says that no one could
have entered the structure unless he
was pretty well acquainted with the
/ animals.
i An accident occurred at the Niles
power house in Middlesex when they
were starting the machinery at about
I Z 80 a. m. Jan. %. The power at the
plant is furnished by both water and
steam. The main driving pulley on
/ the water wheel and the driven wheel
on the counter shaft were crushed IN
some unknown way, causing the
wreckage to fly in all directions,
many pieces weighing a hundred
pounds going through the roof TO a
I distance Of several hundred feet. No
one was seriously injured although
three men were in the building. The
probable cause of the trouble is that
/ the water and steam plants were not
regulated to the same speed. Inc
damage is estimated at about $1,000.
/ The electrical machinery was unln-
jured.
Frank Germaine. farmer living on
Fox hin in Fairfield is the owner Of
a remarkable dog of the Scotch collie
breed. One day this winter Mr..
lGermaine, accompanied by his dog,
1 went TO the woods after a load Of
/ logs. 4 while afterwards the dog
returned TO the house alone and
upon being admitted went up to Mrs.
/ Germaine, whining and making signs
of distress and taking her by the
dress. drew her towards the door.
She, knowing that something must be
wrong. followed him to the woods,
where she found Mr.. Germaine pinned
to the ground by a LOG so heavy that
she was unable to move ii, and was
lobHped to 90 back aud call a neighbor
Ito assist her in liberating him. Mr.,
lGermaine, who was badly bruised and
lchilled, feels that he might have
iperished In the woods alone had II
not been for the sagacity OF bis dog
| George TAYLOR OF Stra.ton Hollow
liz. H., employed at the lumber camp
Ion Nav mountain in Manchester, i
lsutferinq from a compound fracture OF
THE lett leg below the knee as the re-
Isult Of being struck by a log while at
work on log chute. The logs are
sent down an incline one mile n
length with a grade OF about POO ieet
taking just about two minutes TO make
1.-THE trip. Taylor took an axe and col
over into the chute to chop out an OBJ
struction that made the logs jump
when one of the logs at the summit
started on its trip to the skidway
The log was unnoticed by everyone
until it was close upon Taylor, vine
saw it in time to jump for an over
hanging limb OF a tree which he
caught. He dangled in the air above
the trough. but the obstruction he wa'
irving 10 remove caused the log C
bound, with the result that he was
/. struck and knocked about 90 feet.