Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-10-15

considerable slope In the quarry floor.
The block gained such momentum that
the men in front were knocked down and
caught before they could get out Of the
way.
The new lawyers are a. follows:-Ed-
ward Cops Of Rutland, william 7. Foley
Of West Rutland, Hugh Warren Hastings
OF st. Johnsbury, Jasper I. Page OF Mid
dlebury, William II. sprague Of Chelsea.
The candidates were given . talk By Chief
Judge Rowell when he sdministepd the
oath. Rev. P. A. smith, Methodist pas
tor at Worthwhile, was admitted to prac-
tice before the Vermont supreme court.
Mr.. Smith was q member of the Maine
bar and practised there for some time.
He does not intend at present to give up
the work OF clergyman.
As Mrs. Victor Bushway OF Norwich,
who took four teaspoonfuls Of paris
green by intent, il in . very critical
condition. Mrs. Bushway had been in
poor health for some months and had
recently returned from q treatment of
( Ave weeks at the Mary Hitchcock
hospital, Hanover, N. II. She went &c
the paris green box Q week ago and
taking out four teaspoonfuls In q paper
kept IL concealed until she took it In q
I glass of water before breakfast. Three
I physicians and a trained nurse from the
Massachusetts, General hospital, Boston,
have been attending the unfortunate wo-
man.
Eta, the sevsn-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Kirby OF Winooski,
was frightfully burned with matches at
her home last Thursday and died as the
result that night. The little girl had
gone to the bath room and lighted a
match when her clothing caught fire. She
ran from the room, and into the street,
her clothing q mass OF flames. Her
mother. hearing her cries, followed her
and after q short chase caught her in her
arms in an effort to smother the flames.
In doing so, she was also badly burned
about the arms and hands. Physicians
found the child a mass Of burns about the
body, arms and head.
A $4,000 malpractice case has been
filed in Rutland county court in which
Harlena Giddings Of Pittsford is the
plaintiff and DR.. R. NJ. Grain of Rutland
is the defendant The suit is returnab
at the March term OF court. The woman
alleges that DR.. Grain, while performing
an operation on her for the removal of al
abscess Feb. 10, 1906, cut certain duct
connecting the bladder with one Of the
kidneys. which caused an injury from
which she will suffer for life. It is fur
Their alleged that the physician falsely de
tefmined the nature and extent OF the alb
scess and that be did not remove within 8
reasonable time a smell piece OF gauze left
in the wound. The writ describes ths
DOCTORS acts as negligent and unskili-
full"
The body OF an unknown man, about
80 years old, was found lying on the Cen.
trail Vermont railway tracks Friday morn
ing by employees of the Montpelier q
Wells River Railroad Co. The body was
found near the Montpelier Grocery Co. i
building and was terribly mangled. The
head was cut OF and the body cut in two
Evidently the man had tried to toard the
freight train at 2:30 O'Clock in the morn
ing. The man was identified by means
OF time book found ia his pocket with
the name Dom CariteIli, as . recent work.
man on the dam ct Kinney's mills in
East Montpelier. He left work Monday
saying he was going to Waterbury, Conn.
II Is believed that be was not intoxicated,