Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19

at Bellows Falls, attempted suicide b,
jumping from the rail of the footbride
over the Androscoggin river Tuesday aft
!, ernoon, Dec. 10. He was so severely in
} jured that the physicians do not beliey,
he can live. The water is ordinarily
about thirty feet deep, but for the past
few days it had been very low and the
rocks in the river had been exposed
Girare struck on ledge OF rocks and
rolled into the water. A physician called
to attend him found that his left leg. his
jaw and three ribs were broken, and in
addition he had received q severe scalp
wound and probably internal injuries.
Girare, who has been separated from his
wife for some time, was respondent over
his family troubles, it is said.
In Caledonia county court Dec, 9. the
case of State vs.. j. Negretti was disposed
OF. This was q prosecution for selling
and furnishing liquor without q license.
The respondent is . resident OF Hardwick
and was arrested in Jrne, 1905. The case
has been continued from term to term for
sentence until the present term The re-
spondent was sentenced to be confined at
hard labor in the house of correction at
Rutland for the term of not less than six
months nor more than nine months, but
dent placed in the care of the probation
officer. In imposing this sentence the
court took into account the destitute con-
dition OF the respondents family, and the
TACT that there was no other means of sum-
port for the family except the labor of the
respondent, and also some circumstances
relating to the guilt Of the respondent.
st. Adams Is TO nave new industry,
a oh ~ h,rxe r.
in Automatic Train Pipe Coupler Co.
The coupler is device whereby the air
brake, steam heat and train signal pipes
are automatically connected as the cars
are brought together in the ordinary
course of coupling, and renders unneces-
sary the services of a man underneath the
train to make the connections, thereby
this part of train service
and effecting a saving in life and limb of
railroad employees. The company is cap
ltalized at 100000. 1t is the purpose OF Z
the company to take out European pat
ents at once and equip all trains with the
device, which experts who have seen il
,ay is the best of its kind and thoroughly
practical and reliable in operation. The
greater part of the work will be done in
It. Adams after the special dies and ma
,hines are secured
A fatal shooting accident occurred near
Newport Monday of last week on the
arm of John Blake, when Ernest Blake
vas shot and instantly killed by John s
iildreth, an employee of z. G. Blake & !.
%. Word was received by Blake Il Co. !.
hat there were thirty-six condemned cat
lie at the John Blake farm which would :
ave to be killed that afternoon. Blake >
Co. do this work, taking the hides as :
ayment, and when quick Job is re- I
uired usually shoot the cows. Bert ,
lake, in company with John HiIdreth
nd Ernest Blake, both employees of the =
ompany, left for the farm and had lust =
egun the work when in some way Err
est Blake came in range of the rifle which
ildreth was using at the same instant
lat the gun was discharged. The bullet
assed through the animals head and hit m
lake in the temple, killing him instant T
. All say that the affair was purely ac- A
dental and attach no blame whatever to m
Max Jussula, aged 10, Charles Gui- n,
,rd, aged IA, and Arthur Guibord, aged III