Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-09-24

Joseph Halt of Wallingford died IN /.
hospital at Rutland last Thursdav :. ~.
result OF an injury received, having besn
run over by . trolley car the n;eht
before. Motorman BENJAMIN Rowan -
hau lying face downward on the tract
out could not stop the car in time -
avoid the accident. The fender failed r.
eaten the man and his body was crushed
under the main part of the car. Doctor,
say Hall had been drinking. He "a.
unmarried.
Joseph Euno, ST., while at work last
Friday night, Sept. IL, in the quarry of
the columbian Marble company at Rut-
land, which is under lease to the Vermont
marDie company, was rather SERIOUSLY in
Jured by the explosion of boiler near
winch ne was standing. He was thrown
with great violence against . channelins
machine and his left arm and side were
painfully bruised, while his face and
ms right arm were scalded by escaping
steam. On account Of his advanced
years, his recovery will be . slow one
and he will probably be unable to work
for the next month.
Wallace Robair, II years old. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Robair OF Burlinc-
ton, was accidentally shot in one arm At
Ethan Allen park recently. Young Rob-
air, with Edward Matthews, aged Is
years, had just come out of Mrs. J. E.
Waite's store when they met Edward Bias.
sett, another lad Of about sixteen. Bas-
sett bad revolver, and, holding it out,
he said, "How's this for q revolver ?''
Young Matthews took the weapon and
was examining it when it was dis
charged. Robair had his right arm
raised in the act of lighting q cigarette
and the bullet struck it at the elbow
joint.
John Pixie Of West Rutland, proprietor
OF general store, Was arrested Sept. ~
as result of an. Indictment found by tho
Rutland county grand jury, charging
arson. The arrest was made as the result
of the confession of Annie Rosen, ar
rested about two months ago charged
with an attempt to burn her fathers
buildings. The girl said that Pixie, q
business rival of her father, offered her
money if she would burn her fathers
buildings. She wanted the money to
enable her to elope with Paul Turket and
accepted it. The Rosen girl is out on
80, 900 bail, furnished by her mother.
Her father is the complainant in the case.
Grief-stricken because the young
woman he secretly loved was to be
married Sept. IA to another man, EN-
mich Lasko, Hungarian, aged 80 years,
formerly of Proctor, committed suicide
the day before at Granville, N. Y, by
hanging himself from the limb of tree
on Q lonely road near the Mettowee
cemetery. Lasko had been employed by
the Vermont Marble Co. at Proctor un-
til q month ago, when he secured q
place in q slate quarry at Granville. He
had been in love with a young Hun
garian girl, who is . member Of the
family with which Lssko boarded here,
but recently she accepted another sutton,
it is said.
Silas, the 7-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Montgomery OF South Shafts
bury, died last week under peculiar cir
cumstances. Last winter he was hit in
the eye with SNOWFALL and the injury
resulted in growth which medical skill
could not overcome and which finally
caused his death. The boy had been
treated in q hospital In Boston and had
been seen by numerous specialists, none
of whom had ever seen q case OF the kind
before. The young man who threw the
snow ball in sport was baseball pitcher
and probably put little more force be-
hind the missile than he thought. The
outcome was extremely sad and is re-
GREETED by no one more sincerely than by
the man who was the innocent cause OF
the boys death.
A shocking accident occurred just
previous to the starting OF ladder con-
test at the fremen's tournament Saturday,
Sept. ~, in Winooski. John Charbo-
neau, one of the spectators, remarked TO
several OF his friends that be could
mount the ladder. Before he could be
prevented, he had forced his way
through the crowd and was part way up
the ladder, going up the under side. de
was called on to come down but con-
tinued. Reaching the top round, ne
swung his leg over and started on tne
way down. He then placed his feet IN
between the rounds and tried 10 come
down hands first, when he lost his pai-
ance and fell the remaining distance,
about 10 or IL feet, to the ground, strik-
ing on his head. He was taken TO the
Fanny Allen hospital.
The Abbott Memorial library at South
Pomfret held meeting in the interest OF
the public library system OF the stale
Sept. Z. The meeting was under the aus
pices of the Vermont Library assoclaticn
and of the board of state library commas
sioners. and there was gathering OF over
eighty people, with very interesting exer-
cises. Hon. Mason s. Stone, superin-
tendeut of education, gave q 1orclpie
address on ssThe Necessity OF Co-opera-
ton between the Libraries ana Common
Schools of the State" Superintenuen.s
Ingalls, of Pomfret and Lewis OF hanoo'pn