Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-30

gave their names as Peter Allen, Thomas
Harmon, Timothy Holland and Byron
Marble, and all but Marble pleaded
guilty. Those who searched him found
two quart bottles and two pint bottles OF
whiskey, enough to sink small ship, but
he insisted that although the appearances
on the outside might be against him, his
interior conditions would not warrant
him in entering plea of guilty of intoxi-
cation. The city itself didn't get very
rich of the circus, receiving S52 in ven-
doris license fees, S6 for water rental and
$50 as its part of the circus license fee.
The extras which the city had to pay out
covered most Of the receipts. The mer-
chants, however, got good thing as pay
day fell during the visit to Montpelier,
and the attaches of the circus dropped
their money literally among stores. One
storekeeper sold over 800 worth of cloth
ing to circus people in less than an hour.
Ambushed and shot in the back, An
gelo Lenzini lies in the John Holden hos
pital, Hardwick, in dangerous condition,
while bis assailant. supposed to be Pedro
Ruin, is at large. The attempted murder
occurred Sunday, July 10, and was the re-
suit of q personal encounter the day be-
fore, when Lenzini whacked his assailant
over the eye with pitcher and inflicted
q cut which needed five stitches to close.
the injury ranked in his mind and he
laid plans to get even with Lenzini, his
chance coming when Lenzini and two
companions went for walk. They took
the railroad track and Ruin, it is alleged,
crept to hiding place which command
ed a good range of the track. When the
time came, he aimed and fired, the bullet
striking his enemy in the back. Len
zini's friends made no effort to prevent
the escape of the shooter. The victim
was removed to the hospital and the
doctors foand that bullet, from q 32-
caIibre revolver, had entered the back and
pierced one lung. The bullet was re-
moved and Lenzini's condition is said to
be as comfortable as could be expected.
People who wanted soda and ice cream
in Brattleboro Sunday, July 10, got it in
spite of States Attorney Bacon's cam
paign for Sunday closing. The Brattlc-
boro places OF business were closed, but
Charles Oskes set up a tent on the island
in the Connecticut river directly opposite
the village, and being on New Hamp-
shire territory he was out of the jurisdic-
ton Of the Brattleboro police. All day
long q stream of people was going and
coming and Mr.. Cakes did a handsome
business. He has now been notified by
the Connecticut River Co. at Battleboro
that he cannot use their land on the
island for the sale of ice cream, drinks
and cigars on Sunday in defiance OF the
Sunday closing order. He is negotiating
for another site and proposes to continue
his defiance of the law. A minister who
was a comparative stranger in town tried
to get an orange phosphate in drug
store at the close of his sermon in the
morning, but his request was refused,
and on being told why the soda fountain
was closed, he, being q clergyman, said
things in temperate and printable lang
uage enough, but vehemently criticised
this manner of enforcing the law. At
the suggestion of the druggist he PROM
ised to take up the subject in his pulpit.
A double drowning accident occurred in
Lyndonville July 20, when Leo, the eight
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred
Beauregard and William, the seven-year-
old son and only child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Jock, were drowned in the Pas
sumpsic river near the schoolhouse. The
boys left their homes about three O'Clock
in company with several other boys and
were not seen again. When Mr.. Beaure-
gard came home from his work at the
railroad shops and found, that his young
son had not been seen for several hours
he became alarmed and began a search,
which resulted in finding the bodies be-
tween eight and nine O'Clock. Part of the
boys' clothing was found on the river
bank and one body was found about 200
feet from where the clothes were found
and the other still farther down the
stream; here it was caught on the bushes
which held it on the surface. The first
body was found on the river bottom.
A boat kept at the point where the boys
are thought to have been playing when
the accident occurred was found this
morning near the Lyndon Center bridge.
1t is thought the boys were playing in
the boat when it broke away from its
mornings and hoated down the stream.
Probably one boy became frightened and
jumped out into the water, sinking i'm
mediately, and little later the other
jumped near where he was found. Both
families are Frustrated by this double
calamity.
Chimes for Trinity Church.
The set of ten-bell chimes, the gener-
GUS gift to Trinity church, Montpelier, of
George W. Cross of st. Jobnsbury, in
memory OF his parents, has arrived from
the Baltimore foundries and was in
stalled in the church steeple last week.
Dedicatory programs we're rendered on
Sunday morning and evening and on
Monday and Tuesday.
The combined weight of the bells and
equipment is 1O,006 and the bells alone
weigh between 5000 and 5000 pounds,
while the large bell weighs 300.
On each are suitable inscriptions and
on the largest bell is inscribed "In low
ing memory Of my father and mother
Charles H. Cross and Carolyn M. Cross,
l join with my son, Harry NJ. Cross, in
dedication of these bells. George H. Cross,
May 6, 1905"
Republican Campaign Planned.
The Republican state committee held
conference at Burlington July 81 to dis
cuss with the Congressional delegation
and other leaders of the party in YER
mont matters connected with the opening
of the Republican campaign in Vermont
this year.
The committee held first an open ses-
sion, when suggestions were made by va
h. IN,