Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-11-11


Thursday evening, when q resolution
drawn by City Attorney IA. s. Villas, was
passed, providing for the payment OF
f27.500 for the Central Vermont railway
dock at the foot Of College street. ends a
struggle for years on the part OF the city
TO get It's main thoroughfaFes, which ex-
tend west, continued to the lake, as all
were originally surveyed, being successful
in regard to one of its principal streets al
though, at considerable expense.
meeting OF the committee on recon-
mending changes for the state constitu-
tion, v hich was appointed by Gov @. H.
Prouty, was held at the Van Ness House,
Burlington, Nov. s. A considerable
amount OF work was done, contemplating
changes in the constitution, and another
meeting OF the committee was appointed
for Nov. 10, at Rutland. The committee
is made up as follows: F. c. Partridge of
Proctor, chairman, F. L. Greene Of st.
Adams, d. L. Cady OF Middlebury, Allen
NJ. Fletcher of Cayendish and NJ. q.
Leary OF Burlington.
H. L. Bryant, aged about 40, met With
/ a very serious accident Friday. A few
days before, while engaged in blasting, be
put three or four dynamite caps in his
vest pocket. Friday morning, while car
rying wood into the house, be stumbled
with an armful and an explosion oc-
Cured, inficting a severe wound in the
lower right side OF his abdomen. car
fridge went into the lining Of the intes-
tines, making a hole as large as silver
dollar, from which one OF the exploded
caps was taken. Peritonitis is feared as
we'll as blood poisoning.
Mitchell Cummings. q farmer living
near The village Of souti0 salisbury, was
instantly killed at the Rutland railroad
crossing about two miles north of BEN
ningtoa, Friday by the south-bound
flyer. He was returning from the cider
mill, where he delivered a load Of apples,
with pair OF horses bitcbed to a heavy
wagon. Both horses and dog riding in
the wagon were killed. One horse was
driven so tightly on the pilot by the inn
pact that il was necessary to bitch a
chain around the animal and use the power
OF the locomotive to remove it.
Louis Larock, Fred Larock ard Sydney
French OF Brandon, none over 10 years
old, were arraiRned Nov. on the charge
of attempting to wreck a train at Bran |
don few weeks ago. The lads waived
examination and were bound over to |
county court In the sum OF $1,000 bail !
each. They furnished security. 1t is
charged that the respondents placed rail- /
road ties on the track OF the Rutland /
railroad on "mile curve north of Bran I
don. II happened to be daylight at the |
time aud the malicious trick was discov-
cred just before a passenger train was
due.
Fire early Saturday morning destroyed 1
the Knights OF Pythias and the Becky /
buildings at Marshfield and slightly dam +
aged the Universalist church building. +
The loss Is estimated at about $4,000, 4
partly covered by insurance. The occu-
pants OF the Becky building had mar
row escape and made their way into the /
streets in their night clothes. The post
office was in the Knights OF Pythias build 4
ing but the government reports were
saved. A call for help was sent to Mont
pelief and the fire department Of that 4
place responded, arriving on special
train.
Nelson Bonner OF MorrisviIIe was seri-
ously wounded by his son, Charles Bon
ner, Nov. 1, when the boy was trying to
defend his mother from the attacks Of the
elder Bonner, rho was crazy with drink.
Bonner was taken to the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington, having frac-
tured skull. The elder Bonner beat his wife
and tried to cut her throat with a jack
knife. The woman's sons came to her
aid, and William, aged 10, the eldest.
threw the father to the ground. Then
Charles, aged IS, picked up an axe and
struck him over the eve, crushing the
skull and infiicting an ugly wound.
The boy Was discharged at hearing.
The supreme court handed down a de-
eision Nov. in the case OF Elroy Kent,
who had been found guilty In the lower
court of the murder OF Miss Della Cong
don of East Wallingford, and ordered
that the man be confined at hard labor at
he state prison at Windsor from now un- I
til Oct. IS, 1910, then to be placed In sol I
itary confinement until Jan. Is, 1911, I
" hen he is to be hanged between the .
hours of one and three o'clock in the aft !
ernoon. When Kent was asked II he had
anything to say be appeared dazed and
il was only after being spoken to by bis ]
counsel that he mumbled, swell, lam
not guilty, that's all I've got to say"
The quo warranto proceedings against
George r. Alderman Of South Vernon,
proprietor Of the only oasis in southern !
Vermont, were dismissed By the supreme
court son its own notion" The court de- J
cided that no Individual or other person )
has power TO assume the rights Of the
Itate BY quo warranto and that it is for
he state to say through its own officials
= neither Il has q grievance. II was :
,laimed by the plaintiffs that South Yer :
1on was not the principal village OF the !
own OF Vernon. that it was not incorpor-
tied and II was objected to by the citizens !
II Northheld, Mass, on account Of its i
proximity TO the Dwight l. Moody
chools in Mortified and Mt. Hermon !
Because Sheriff E. c. Fish allowed the n
ury to separate, letting two who were III y
emain in their rooms at the Berwick >
House, while the Others went to the din d
ng room for dinner, the trial Of the case Il
4 Robert Eddy, for the murder Of Miss d
lane johnson Of Wsllingtord, came TO 9 a
udden end in Rutland county court late p
Wednesday afternoon Of last week after \
TX witnesses had been heard. The jury B
ras discharged on motion Of Atty.-Gen. II
!. q. Sargent and Sheriff Fish, who vas c.
q his way 10 Montpelier to take Elroy h