Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-14

were taken to close the cut. The woman
was otherwise injured about the beck.
Her recovery is considered doubtful AIR.
Wilson also received a bad wound on the
head and was bruised, scratched and
] famed.
In Windham county court at Newfane
last week in the breach of promise suit
/ for 900, brought by Miss Katherine
q. Dunlevy of Brattleboro against Ed
ward j. Fenton of the same place, it was
decided that the case could not be tried
until September. Mr.. Fenton, who
claimed Miss Dunlevy had obtained
wrongfully certain papers of Importance
to him in the case, had an injunction is
sued enjoining her from proceeding with
/ her case. Miss Dunlevy then asked to
have the injunction dissolved. Chancel-
/ Tor George NJ. Powers declined to dis
] solve the injunction. He held that Mr..
/ Fenton had right in equity to the docu-
ments and all copies of them; also that
the admission of Miss Dnnlevy that she
/ had the documents in her possession,
/ even though she denied having obtained
them wrong fully, raised issue for a
court or master to hear and determine.
/ In supreme court at Montpelier last
week, one case of particular interest was
the Washington county case of John W.
| Eagan VS.. the Central Vermont Railway
Co. At the March term, 1907, the plain
I tiff was awarded verdict of S5,SS3. 30.
The motion to set aside the verdict was
I overruled and there was a Judgment on
the verdict. In June, 1905, flood car
ried away The plaintiffs mill property at
/ Middiesex and suit was brought to re-
4 cover damages against the railroad be-
cause of the insufficiency of its culvert to
carry off the water. The opinion handed
down by Judge John Fl. Watson is to the
effect that the flood of June, 1905, was an
act of God for which the defendant rail-
road is not responsible, and that a verdict
4 for the defendant railroad company
should have been rendered on this
ground. The Judgment of the county
court was reversed and there was a judg-
ment for the defendant company to re-
cover its costs.
The board of railroad commissioners in
announcing the result OF recent hearings
regarding accidents, calls attention again
to the danger of using a railroad track as
highway for pedestrians. The board
finds the deaths of Neil Chamberlain and
Emile Liable near Island Pond were due
in part to their own carelessness and in
part tc the speed al which a locomotive
was running. The death of Harry Miles
at Bellows Falls March II was due to the
lads attempt to board moving freight
car. The death of w. A. Coleman at
Brattleboro February IA, who was run
over by shifting engine, is attributed to
failure to ring the engine bell. The fatal
accident to Carl Hazelton, who was run
over by train at Rutland, is said to be
due to his walking on the track while
in an intoxicated condition. No blame
is attributed to any person for the death
of Peter Parent at Center Rutland, Febru-
airy, who was struck on a crossing by an
engine. The head-on collision at Cut
tingsville February IL, in which c. w.
Newell was injured, is said to have been
due to the failure of an engineer to take a
siding. The railroad company is not
blamed for the fatal accident to John Nc
Cormack, who was struck by an engine
February 9 while walking on the track
near West Rutland.
i Rev. Mr.. Cooke, the Methodist minister
from Brandon, who recently filed charges
against Chancellor Day of Syracuse uni
versity and who was appointed to pas
torate in the isolated village of West
Winfield, Herkimer county, New York,
has not appeared to assume his new
charge. Mr.. Cookies charges against
Chancellor Day were quashed and DR..
Days friends, it is said, set about to To-
cate the accusing clergyman in some re-
mote section where his activities would
be restrained. A few weeks ago Mr..
Cooke was shifted from the Troy confer
ence to the Northern New York confer
ence and subsequently assigned to West
Winfield. 1t was reported in that village
that one of the trustees of tie parish had
received letter from, Mr.. Cooke in which
he said he would refuse TO abide by the
designation of the conference. Mrs. G. A.
Cooke, wife of Mr.. Cooke. states that
there must be some misunderstanding in
this statement and that Mr.. Cooke is now
attending general conference at Balti-
more Md. She says that he refused to
accept the West Winfield parish when it
was suggested to him and he was as
signed to Tivoli, N. Y. He preached his
first sermon there May 8. The par
} ish pays 81, 100 per year, which is more
than Brandon gives its Methodist pastor.
An attempt was made at an early hour
Tuesday morning, May 5, to rob the store
of N. S. Parker in Montgomery, in which
the postotfice is located, but the three
burglars were frightened away before Sc
curing any booty. About l O'Clock that
morning William Mossey was held up in
front of the Episcopal church by an I'M
known man with revolver, who ordered
: Mossey to seat himself on the church
steps, The order was obeyed and Mossey
J remained there under guard until taken
across the street to the Parker store,
where two men working with chisels,
were attempting to break open the door.
When the door finally yielded it fell
with crash and the attention of the
J guard being momentarily diverted, Mos
sew made dash for liberty, his guard
pursuing him. One shot was fired at the
, fleeing man, but missed its mark. So
much noise was made that the burglars
dared not return to their work, and they
fed toward Berkshire. A careful search
indicates that nothing was taken from the
store. This may be the same gang that has
robbed other stores and postoffices in
Vermont during the past few months.
, The Stowe postoffice was robbed early in
the morning of March 81 by four men,
: about $500 being secured in money and
, stamps. No clue has been obtained that
, has led to the capture of these robbers.