Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-08-15
State of Vermont.
tie News Condolences ana Rs~rl,,s,
Tor Our Rsaaers.

Thomas Davis who was injured in
BAKER Bros. box shop At East Riehford
July ~ by being hit ii the abdomen by a
piece OF board IRON bench saw, died
Aug, 4.
Rev, I, A. Carlson has resigned the pas
torate OF the Congregational church al
shoreham, his resignation 10 take effect
September 10. He has accepted call To
Draout, Mass.
Isle st. Michael, lake Champaign, is
being transformed into a national park In
honor OF the sailors aud marines who fell
In the battle OF Piattshurgh in the war
OF 1912. When the park is cleared a
monument viii be erected.
With 20 motor boats and IS members,
an organization TO be known as the Bel.
lows Falls Boat club has been effected.
II Is stock company and $4,000 club
house will be erected near the new iron
bridge across the Connecticut
Patrick Higgins, whose gait indicated
a cargo Of rum aboard, was hit by a
Central Vermont train coming from Barre
Aug. s, knocked of the iron and down
an embankment. He escaped with a
broken ankle and scalp wound.
The Rutland railroad is about to put in
very heavy steel bridge, having a span
OF forty feet, over the Waloomsac river
in Bennington. The present steel struc-
ture is thought TO be too light for the
heavy locomotives of the road.
Two Central Vermont freight engines
met head-on near Montpelier Aug. ?.
One was badly damaged but the other
was able to proceed under Its own steam.
No one was injured, the train crews hav-
ing jumped after reversing the engines
and applying the air brakes.
Frank Goss OF West Danyille had his
face badly cut and shoulder disloeated
in peculiar manner. He was leading a
colt behind his wagon and dismounted to
open gate. When getting back into
his rig, the colt bolted, throwing his
owner. The wagon passed over him.
Joseph Goochee OF Barnet met a
horrible death in an encounter with a
vicious horse. He went 10 the stable TO
barr ess the animal and later was found
by his son, who was attracted by the dis
turbsnce, under the horses feet, terribly
bruised and mangled. He died in a few
hours.
Central Vermont engine No. 2l0 got in
front OF too many cars on the pulp mill
spur at Milton and the tender found the
short rail at the end OF the track. A tree
kept the train from going into the La
noble river. After the wreck train had
worked several hours, the cars were placed
ON the rails.
Joseph Wagner, Polsnder, %
years OF age, employed by the Vermont
Marble company at Rutland, was fatally
injured Aug. while hosting marble
blocks in the marble yard. A block Of
marble fell, striking him on the head and
fracturing his skull. He died almost
Immediately.
The Green Mountain Syrup company
has Just been incorporated under the Yer
mont law with a capital stock OF $4,000
by Montpelier people who intend to erec'
plant in that city in the not far distant
future in which to manufacture and put
up in salable packages and bottles thu
maple products.
jos ph Roberts of Wey bridge, aged 2.
years, was drowned in eight feet OF waite
Aug. 5 while bathing near Huntington
Falls. Roberts was with several friends
when he was seized with cramps an6
called loudly for help. His companion
arrived too late, however, for the man wa
dead when taken from the water.
Ira Heath OF Groton, aged % years
was fatally injured at the Blue Noun
tain granite quarries at Ryegate Aug 8
Heath was employed on hosting der
rick. In stepping over shaft his cloth
ing was caught in a set screw, and he wa
whirled around the shaft, being crushed
and bruised before the machinery coult
be stopped.
The free public library which Lyman
F. Petite of New York has presented to hi
native town, was dedicated at Whining
ton Aug. Z. Mr.. Petite, who has mad'
a fortune as wholesale importer OF bak-
ers' and confectioners' supplies, was
present and made short speech present
ing the building to the town. Gov. +
ID. Proctor was present and spoke.
Levi p. Norway of Montpelier, wht
was arrested Sunday, Aug. 4, on thu
charge of obtaining goods under fals'
nretenses, was sentenced to not less thar
| two and one-hslf or more than three
months in the house of correction a.
Rutland. Norway is said to have oh
tanned a s14 suit of clothes on approva
at Barre, giving an assumed name.
Harold Smith, aged %, the bookkeepe
| of the st. Johnsbury Gas company, los
his life Aug. by drowning in Joe's pone
| in Danville. He went out in the boa
| with some companions and almost as sooi
as he had jumped into the water for
swim he said he had cramp in his 100
and disappeared from view. 1t wa
nearly two hours before the BODY wa
recovered.
| Town Clerk o. M. Jones OF Warrel
went into his pasture to catch hors
when j. L. Spalding's bull TOOK aite
him He crawled to the summit OF
high rock and out of immediate danger
Henry Stearns went to the rescue with
nitchfork and soon selected another rock
| Finally Fred Leno, familiar with Tn
nlavful WAYS of the beast, escorted MN
r. The harm and the two gentlemen wer
safe.
Mrs. AMY LaFrance of Lincoln, wife o
william LaFrance of that town, ana Tn
mother of five young children, was takei
"a Middlebury Aug. and after passing
night in the county jail was arraigne'
IN charge of keeping Intoxicating
| - - - contrary tn law, MIS-