Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-05-02

big fly wheel OF the engine which DAM
aged the plant to the extent OF $4,000. In
some way the governor of the engine got
out OF order and the engines speed in
creased until the wheel burst. A large
piece Of iron weighing over ton went at a
fearful speed clear through the four-inch
planking OF the second floor of the mill,
out through the mill and landed near the
boarding house several hundred feet away.
No one was hut sut the flying rim OF the
wheel came quite close to some OF the
workmen.
Edwin Pettingill OF Newport, who is
under arrest in Hartford, Conn.,, on a
charge of attempting to wreck the Boston
express on the New York, New Haven x
Hartford railroad while the train was en-
route to Boston, admits his guilt and gives
his reason as revenge for being discharged
from the road. Fortunately the train was
saved by the prompt action Of switch
man, who, discovering that switch had
been tampersd with, quickly threw the
lever and saved the load of passengers.
Pettingill's parents 1--we at Smiths Mills,
thirteen miles from Newport. He was en-
ployed year ago on the Boston d Maine
road in Vermont as brakeman.
The commission appointed in pursuance
of the action of the last session OF Con-
ton with the subject of immigration has
organized by electing Senator W. p. Dill
bingham OF Vermont chairman. 1t is eS4
pected preliminary investigation OF the
ports Of New York and Boston will be
made and that afterward either the full
committee or a SUBJ committee will go
abroad for the purpose Of extending the
inquiry to European countries from which
most OF the immigrants come. w. W..
Husband, Senator Dillingham's private
secretary, will act as one OF the assistant
secretaries, for which he will receive
5000.
The little hamlet OF West Berlin has fif-
teen or twenty cases of smallpox and it IS
been exposed. About two weeks ago a
few cases OF what was supposed to be
chicken pox broke out, and several houses
were Quarantined. Becoming suspicious,
the physicians summoned DIR. H. d. Hol-
ton OF Brattleboro, secretary OF the state
board of health, who pronounced the
disease smallpox. All the schools have
been ordered closed and a strict quaran-
tine has been established. Some OF the
cases are rather serious. 1t is not known
where the disease originated or how 1t was
brought. There are other suspicious case
which may be smallpox.
DR.. Gardner N. Cobb OF White River
Junction lost mare in rather curious
manner the other day. He had just led
his high bred Morgan mare out OF her
stall onto the barn floor, the colt, less
than a week old, following. A little
later he took the mare back and tied her
to the stall, and, while endeavoring to get
the playful colt back to its mother, the
latter, for some unaccountable reason,
made a vicious and determined plunge
against the solid stall partition and inn
mediately fell over dead. She was e
years old and had been in the doctor's
family nineteen years. Whether she had
sudden fit OF frenzy, or was afraid her
colt was to be taken from her, no one
Is able to say. Ii the latter, it would look
like case OF horse suicide. The colt il
doing well and gets its nourishment from
bottle the same as any other baby.