Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-16

noiseS o'i the turf ana was raised by Mr..
Chase at the Winooski park farm above
| Winooski.
/ Edwin Slack of Plymouth was injured
recently while starting fire, a cartridge.
evidently concealed in the kindIing wood
he used, exploding. the bullet lodging in
the casing nearby and part of the shell
entering Mr.. Slack's right knee. The
shell was found and removed and the vic
tim OF this peculiar accident is convalesc-
ing. just how the cartridge came in the
kIndling wood is not known.
Robert Eastman Long, one of the old
est residents of Warren, died Monday.
April +, after an illness which dated from
last summer. While haying, Mr.. Long
fell from load of hay and suffered an in
jury to his chest that eventually resulted
in death. His heart and lungs were dis
placed and his lungs were so injured that
he had been unable to- converse in an or
binary tone since the accident.
/ William Dale of Hardwick is recovering
/ from the effects of drinking half tum-
bier of paris green and two ounces of Gre
osote, taken Sunday, April 5, with the in
/ tention of ending his life. The dose was
too large and caused nausea. Physicians
worked over the man all day. Dale is a
young man and a granite cutter by trade,
being considered a good workman. 1t is
said that he had been drinking consider
ably before the attempt at suicide.
/ Joseph Toutan of Winsted, Conn.,,
pleaded guilty in Rutland county court
Monday, April 6, to charge of burglary
as the result of an information filed by
States Attorney Robert A. Lawrence and
was sentenced by Judge W. Fl. Taylor to
serve not less than one year or more than
two years in the state prison at Windsor.
Toutan broke into the South Wallingford
depot the evening before and stole some
railroad tickets and few other valuabl
/ He was arrested within an hour walking
north along the railroad track.
! Charles Rowell of MiddIesex, whose
! farmhouse and barns about four miles
/ from Montpelier, were burned to the
/ ground early last week Monday morning,
was the only occupant of the house and
narrowly escaped with his life. The fire
was caused by an overheated stove in the
basement, where Mr.. Rowell was trying
to dry cut the dampness. The house was
an old, half-story building of but little
value, but no insurance was carried and
the burning of the buildings and con-
tents, was, therefore, a total loss to Mr..
| Rowell.
| The attorneys for Mildred Brewster
will ask Judge A. A. Hall, now presiding
over Washington county court, to fix a
| time for taking up her petition that she
/ be released from confinement at the state
| hospital for the insane at Waterbury. 1t
| is not known whether this case will be
reached at this term or go over until the
/ September term. 1t is understood the
state will contest this pstition and that
evidence on both sides will be brought to
the attention of the court. Miss Brew
ster has no means, and the expense of
/ witnesses in her behalf will fall upon the
| state.
| A special gathering of the New Eng
land Hotel Mems association was held at
the Hotel Windham, Bellows Falls, Fri
day afternoon and evening. Some forty
members of the association were present
as guests of Landlord Frank L. Shepherd.
| The party was taken in special electric
car to Saxtons River, where in OK teams
the visitors were conveyed to the sugar
! bush of F. c. Rand, where genuine Yer
mont sugaringoff was in progress. Later
| in the afternoon, the visitors returned to
Bellows Falls, where directors meeting
was held at the Windham and banquet
/ served in the evening.
/
| of Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Dillon of Win.
ooski, sustained injuries Sunday, April 5,
| by falling down the steep embankment
near one of the twin high bridges.
| Young Dillon with party of young
/ men. visited the gorge and W bile on the hill
near the north end of the first bridge, OPP
| posite the power station, lost his balance
| and fell backward down the embanSment
/ which is filled with large pieces of
/ Clipped stone. 1t was found that he
! had sustained a fracture of the right arm
at the wrist, several bad cuts about the
head, right foot slightly injured and bad
| ly shaken up.
/ George Clark of Ira, aged SO years,
was found in dying condition April .
! under the kitchen table in Frank Fish g
house at West Rutland, where he had
| rolled from a couch while under the
! effects of excessive liquor drinking. He
quickly died from exposure in the cold
| room. The house where the death oc-
| CURED is the same one in which Ward
I Corey, also of Ira, committed suicide
last fall by taking strychnine. CLARK s
habits of intemperance had been such
| that his wife had not lived with him for
wears. He owned two valuable farms in
I Ira. left him by his father, but had been
! una Ole 10 dispose VI tHcu oh oSSouhe u
an injunction secured by Mrs. Clark.
! A fire in the Lewis building at st. Al
bans last week Wednesday morning re-
suited in a loss of $4,000. The fire
started in the basement of the drug store
! of E, ]. Alexander, who estimates MS
loss at $4,000. The other losers were w.
T. Donovan, tobacco store, $4,000, and
E. H. Lewis, owner of the building,
$4,000. The origin of the fire is not
known A high wind threatened great
destruction, but by hard work the fire
men got the blaze under control. The
thick smoke made it one of the hardest
/ fires the men have ever had to contend
with, and, almost without exception,
they were all at one time or another over
come by smoke. The damage was largely
! from smoke and water. The losses are
I fully covered by insurance.
I There was a wholesale sentencing OF re-
spondents in Rutland county court one
day last week. Carl Rosa, an Italian who
assaulted r. j. Williams, an aged Far
Haven man last February and beat him