Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-28


on his heels and falling violently against
the wagon. No bones were broken but
the shaking up was severe.
Robert Waterman of Victory has been
taken to the state hospital for the insane
at Waterbury. Waterman, it will be re-
membered, was arrested in October, 1910,
on the charge of causing the sudden death
of his three-year-old daughter. An IN
dictment of murder was found against
him, but after time the case was mol
pressed because of lack of evidence. Re-
Gently while in Jail awaiting sentence for
obtaining goods under false pretepses, he
cut his throat with jackknife and has
since been pronounced insane.
1t is announced that the big mill OF
Holden, Leonard & Co., Bennington, VIII
resume operations in full in about
month. The mill has been running on
light weight Panama dress goods,
which have not been as acceptable to the
trade as fabrics of heavier weight. The
new samples of fine worsteds have sup
piled this demand and number OF size
able orders have been booked. The
spinning department, which had been es-
pecially slack, has shown much more &C
tivity during the past few days.
A big sale has been consummated at
Hyde Park in the transfer by Charles b.
Swift of his entire Green river plant,
which includes his saw and dressing
mills, his water power, farm and several
hundred acres of hard and soft timber to
A. G. Small and Leo Gates of Morrisville
and A. A. Pike of Stowe. This is one
of the best water powers in Lamoille
county and as the timber resources are al
most unlimited there is business in that
line for many years. Its close proximity
to Morrisyille makes it valuable plant.
After an illness lasting thirty-six
hours, Ruth, the three-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. V. A. Doty OF Montpel-
I Ter, died last Thursday of ptomaine poison
ing. Another child, Margaret, eight
4 years old, is violently ill but she is con-
sidered to have fair chance for recovery.
! The children ate canned tomatoes for din
ner the Tuesday before, neither the father
nor the mother partaking of it. In about
/ five hours they were taken very ill. Ruth
appeared better the next day but Thurs
/ day went into commissions and died soon
after.
While playing Nov. 10 around fire
made to boil swiIl, Willie Tibbetts of
Marshfield thought he would throw into
it a cap used in exploding dynamite,
which he had found. The mother heard
the explosion, but thinking her husband
was firing his rife, did not go out until
she heard another boy crying When she
reached the scene of the accident, she
found her boy upon the ground, bleeding
from the eyes and nose and, she thought,
dead. Upon investigation it was found
that particles of the cap were in the face
and each eye, one piece having gone
through the lid and entered the ball o
the left eye.
, The Rutland railroad is to abandon thu
; use of steam power in its car shops
Rutland and use electricity furnished b!
the Rutland City Electric Co. The ex
, pansion of this company, now one OF tn
|. largest in New England, has been re
! markable the past few years. Originally
> its power was utilized only for lightin,
the Marble city, but today it not only at
tends to that but supplies electricity 10
CastIeton, Hydeville, West Rutland AM
? the hotels at Lake Bomoseen, beside furn
ishing power to run the street cars il
Rutland and to Fair Haven, sixteen mile
/. distant. Its plant at Mendon supple
. the equivalent of 1000 horsepower.
! John Boala of Barre fell forty-three fee
: head foremost at the quarry OF Mclver
t Mathieson Friday. He was walking o.
the edge of the quarry when he slippe
: on some ice and plunged to the bottom Q
!. the quarry. He was unconscious whel
!. men went to his rescue but they saw tina
: he was not dead and doctor who was q
: once summoned found the mans wors
!. injury to be badly broken arm. Hi
face and body were bruised. That tn
!. man was not killed is probably due to tn
: fact that there was about three inches O
!. water in the bottom Of the quarry wher
: he struck, there being thin coating
ice over it. He is employed as head del
9 hickman.
The report of the state laboratory upo
q the analysis of the organs of Micha'
). Brouphm, who died suddenly Nov.
: in the boiler room of the Vermont Ho'
iery and Machinery company in Bennins
I ton. was sent last Thursday to the state
. attorney at Bennington. A quart bottle
y the contents of which were also analyZet
y revealed a quantity Of chloride of zinc,
deadly poison This bottle was foun
g near a similar bottle containing whiske.
and it is supposed that Broughm dram
"a from the wrong bottle. The autops
y upon the body revealed nothing susp
4 cious. Broughm, it is said, was in
,e weakened condition from the excessi'
I. use Of alcohol
n Miss Hazel Moran, aged about % year
"a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard
~ Moran. who reside about two mil
south Of East Fairfield, committed suici'
Nov. II by saturating her clothing fro
=, head to foot with kerosene oil and the
setting fire to the clothes and jumpiI
70 into bed. This was between and
u O'Clock. She made no outcry and t
10 family had no alarm until they smell
the burning kerosene and rushed to I
=, girls room on the second floor. i
~ flames were extinguished with but lit
~ difficulty, but Miss Moran was 80 terrib
81 burned that she died that evening.
- sanity is given as the cause OF the dee
as she had had occasional fits OF insanl
70, in the past and had been watched at su
lr- times. She was very estimable you
81 woman.
70. Mrs. Almeda M. Morrow Of Burlingt
VI was granted divorce in Chittend
u county court Nov. 20 from DR.. J.
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