Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-13

at Pawlet to set an early date for the in
auguration of weekly payments as re-
quired by law and the probability Is that
within four weeks every corporation In
Rutland county will wheel into line
without litigation.
States Attorney Robert A. Lawrence
has issued a notice to merchants. as the
result of reports coming in that act lou
OF the session laws of 1906 Is being vio-
lated, to the effect that the statute which
prohibits the sale OF candy containing
intoxicants or liquor favored with intox-
icants, will be enforced to the letter IN
Rutland county. This will do away with
the sale OF the popular brandy drop ana
chocolates containing cordiaiA
A contract has been made with Brown
& Glossy OF Montpelier to transfer their
plant and business to Burlington. The
business OF this concern is the manufac-
ture OF pneumatic tools and machines Tor
use in the granite industry. II is expect
ed that arrangements will be contaminated
so that the new business will be taken to
Burlington within two months. II Will
be conducted under the control OF the
Vermont Construction company.
Francisco Santistan OF Barre met with
severe burning accident at his home
Feb. @. He had returned from work and
was starting the fire in the kitchen stove,
using kerosene oil. When he set fire TO
the kindlings, the flames flashed up into
his face, setting FIRE 10 his clothing. He
ran cnto the p;azze, calling for assist
ance, AID passersby ran TO his aid and
rolled him in the snow, thus cxtinguish-
I ing the flames. The man was terribly
burned on his face, hands and part Of
his tody.
One OF the worst cases of cruelty to an
inals ever known in that vicinity was
discovered Feb. at the Blunt farm il
Jcnersonvil,e owned by Mark Stevens.
4 80 one lives st the f3rns bu; stock is kept
&. the bsrn and as son.c one was passing
I they went into the barn ard found two
co~s dead in the s.aDchicns, one other
nearly dead, ard several that could not
get up alone. The windows were broken
cut and all the stock was in horrible
condition. Stevens was convicted OF
cruelty to animals and fined $50. He
appealed.
( After evading the Rutland police for is
/ moaths. Thomas Winters has been located
at SANDY Hill, n. Y, where he is held in
I county Jail pending cxtradi.ion. 1t is
charged ths. Winters in September, 1906,
cornered Joseph Begor in a she'd az Rut-
! lane and threatened 10 kin him with a
/ butcher knife. Begor managed TO get
away and ran 10 the railroad yards pur-
sued ~ Winters and bis weapon. " lille
I thus endeagofirg 10 escape, Begor slipped
under a train aud had beth feet cut off at
the ankles, nearly dying from loss OF
/ blood. Winters will be charged with an
assault with attempt to kill.
Hiram Francis, aged 81 years, the
| hermit Of Wells, has al last been COM
I PEELED to abandon the simple life and be-
I come town charge. a year ago he was
7 found with a frozen foot and his live
stock in a starving condition. The old
man has lived in q miserable shack about
six miles from the village CT Wells. IL
was recently discovered that his cattle
and sheep were nearly starved TO death
and when they were 1T cot of the barn.
some of them were so weak that they fell
to the ground. Despite his protests, Mr.
| Francis has been taken in charge
by the town authorities, his livestock
cared for and guardian for himself pro-
vided.
Lucas Nicholas, member Of an old
/ Montpelier family and who claims rela-
1 tionship with Grecian royalty, narrowly
I
81. james hc;el. Rutland, where he is en-
I pioyed as porter, and, incidentally, burn
ing the hotel. George Z. Poole. the pro
prictor, smelled fire during the middle Of
the morning and. investigation showed
that Nicholas bed was in flames and the
man in it asleep. With great difficulty
Poole and two assistants got Nicholas out
of the bed and extinguished the fire be-
fore any damage was done other then the
destruction OF the bed. The man had
gone to bed smoking his pipe. he was
net badly burned.
Mrs. A. c. Prescott of Montpelier Is
very III from inhaling coal gas and that
she ESCAPED death Is considered remark
able. The gas escaped from the kitchen
stove and Mrs. Prescott had been breath-
ing it Tor two days, gradually getting il
into her system and growing worse all
the time. She thought she was coming
down with the grip. Last Thursday she
collapsed completely and the arrival OF a
physician brought out her real ailnent.
Mrs. Prcscott's house mad double win
dows and in addition she had the door
banked with mats, making the place al
most alright. She kept piiing on coal,
and the gas, prevented from escaping
by the chimney, which was clogged with
snow, went into the house. She gradu-
ally bresthed il in.
Fire in Burlington last Thursday in the
early morning destroyed the dwelling
house OF Misses Gertrude and Maria Laid
and caused the death of the latter. When
the fire WAS discovered about midnight
by Miss Gertrude Ladd, the house was q
sheet of flames and when she attempted
to reach her sister on the upper floor. she
was driven back by the smoke and flames
The firemen were unable to enter the
house for twenty minutes after their ar
rival and, when they were able to,
found Miss Maria Ladd in bed, dead from
suffocation. She was about so years OF
age and SO feeble she probably could not
have saved herself had she had time.
Her sister escaped with difficulty, as she
was suffering from a broken arm. 1t is
probable that the fire started from a
stove.
A legacy of 1900 intended for John
Allen, now Of Ludlow, was sent to his
former bone in Brattleboro and delivered
to John Aller. prOprietor of n lunch