Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-08-20

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The body Of John Meilleur, who met
death Oct. 10, 1907, by drowning in Lake
ChampIain, was Friday discovered on the
beach beyond the Burlington Rendering
plant in the vicinity of Appletree point.
The body was identified by the clothing
which young Meilleur wore. Meilleur,
who was % years old, was employed by
the Elias Lyman Coal company. On
Sunday, Oct. 10 last, he was one OF
party OF four who went out in boa.
The boat was capsized and Meilleur was
drowned, his three companions escaping.
A brother of the dead man came from st.
Johnsbury and a search for the body
amounted to nothing. 1t is supposed
that the body remained in the water all
these months and was only lately washed
ashore.
The supreme court judges at Montpel-
Ter have handed down an important de-
cision in which the judgment OF the
county court in the Orleans county case
of Chauncey Drown VS.. the New England
Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the Con-
solidated Lighting Co. OF Montpelier is
reversed. In the lower court, Drown was
awarded q verdict OF s13,5o0. He was
| injured three years ago by coming in con-
tact with an electric light wire while
working on a telephone pole and will
never be able to do any more work. The
charge CT the court as to the degree OF
care the plaintiff should have exercised to
avoid the accident or injury was one of
/ the points on which the supreme court
reversed the case and sent it back for
new trial.
j The only hotel in Amsden has been re-
served in its entirety for Sept. 20, at
which time number OF well-known men
will be there as the guests of Maxwell
Evarts. chief counsel of the Southern Pa
cific railway. to see a man chop, split and
pile Ave cords OF wood in one day. The
men are not going to see only, but to get
a run for from Il 900 to $4,000 that has
been wagered on the mans ability to per-
form such a feat. The wagering was
done a few days ago in Washington,
when Mr.. Evarts said he knew man in
, Vermont who was capable OF the per-
Torrance. United States Treasurer
Charles II. Treat alone bet $4,000. Ed
ward Moote is the man on whom the
money rests. He says he can do the
chopping trick in one morning and loaf
that afternoon.
The hardest thunder storm of the sea-
SON passed over Chester Friday afternoon
and the lightning which accompanied the
storm struck two sets of farm buildings,
burning them to the ground and causing
loss amounting in the aggregate to
about g, 900, in both cases partially COW
cred by insurance. One Of the fires was
the burning of barn on the edge OF the
: village, owned by Mr.. Skinner, one OF
the largest in town, and containing about
fifty tons of hay. This, together with
. farming tools, was destroyed. Mr.. Skin
, ner had lust drawn in the last load OF
, oats as the storm struck. One large barn
: and two small ones in the north part OF
; the town, owned by Norman X. Thomp-
: son. enc of the selectmen, were also
burned. About forty tons of hay, one
hog and some farming tools we're lost.
! John Keenan,, the patient in the state
5 hospital for the insane at Waterbury,
: who was originally committed to the
8 states prison at Windsor for life on the
. charge OF murder and who recently es-
, capped from the asylum with Elroy Kent,
l the convict who is still at large, was tax
en- to the states prison at Windsor last
1 week Tuesday in charge OF Supersutend
) emit Lowell of that institution. Superin
. tendent Lowell also took an Italiln, Ar
, turo Bernacco, the Barre man who wal
: sentenced to Is years for shooting Officer
q Patrick Brown of that city several year.
= ago. This transfer was made rs the re
! snlt of a recent visit of Governor Proctor
= to Waterbury hospital on the recomrnen
dation of Supt. d. d. Grout that the two
. patients were not, in his opinion, sum
: cientty unbalanced to warrant their de
9 tention in the asylum.
a Walter O'Keefe of Burlington and Ar
r thur Nierendorf and "Cy" Washburn o
> Hartford. Conn, narrowly escaped
i. drowning in Lake Champlain one even
\ ing last week while canoeing. The cano
!, capsized unexpectedly while all hand
= were singing. O'Keefe and Nierendor
= were good swimmers and found littl
= difficulty in reaching and hanging ont
. the overturned craft. Washburn, how
, ever. could not swim stroke and wa
e nearly drowned before his waving arm
4 and clutching fingers touched the slip
% perry canoe bottom. He then fainte'
! from his efforts. OKeefe and Nierendor
Il placed the body of Washburn crosswis
= Of the canoe and tried to make their wa
i towards shore by padding with thei
= free hands. After being in the water a
= bour. they we're rescued by William Con
. ger, who rowed out in dory.
sample prescription has been mad
: ont by states Attorney Benjamin Gate
q of Montpelier and sent to every liquor j
II cense druggist in Washington county
10 Complaint has been made to the state
n attorney that the physicians in Washing
q ton county do not observe the law
J. writing prescriptions. The law provide
n that prescription must be in the hand
,e writing Of practising physician, mus
! bear the date made out, the name OF tn
:, person for whom it is intended, and
70 statement that the order is for meUicins
:. purposes. The returns to the count
. clerks Office for July show that som
at physicians in Barre, Montpelier, Watel
. bury and Plainfield have been very cart
less in giving prescriptions. The state
n attorney notified all the licensed drue
4, gists in the county that after Aug. 10 b
2. intended to prosecute all cases where II
A toxicating liquor was sold under prescriI
he lions improperly made out.
" Because Of his too trustful conhdent
.. in the tale OF three strangers, Patrick
ne Barry. q well-known and longtime thri
Sc ty farmer OF st. Adams, is short jul
r. 800 and has the distinction OF bein
he the victim of bunco game Saturday thu
n is so ancient and has been SO often 81
he posed that it hardly seems possible th'