Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-09

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tional manner on the threshold of police
headquarters in Hartford, Conn, Sunday,
Aug. 20, after bis arrest Since the young
man reached his majority last April, he
had squandered his inheritance Of several
thousand dollars in attempting to fellow
the pace that kills. When be was being
escorted to the police station, being
under arrest on charges of passing worth
less checks and larceny, be slyly pressed
q revolver to his head and fred, dying
at once.
Charles j. Glidden OF Boston, president
OF the Aerial Navigation Co, announces
that Rutland will be one of the stations
on the air line. Mr.. Glidden will make
the initial trip from Boston to New York,
18S miles, next summer when the COM
pany expects to begin active operations.
The problem OF aerial navigation, says
Mr.. Glidden, is now task for the chem
list who must invent cheap form of gas
with lift equal to or greater than that
of expensive hydrogen. When the cost
is down TO that Of coal gas, which is now
used in ordinary balloons, aviators will
multiply by the hundreds, be declares.
Attorney-General j. @. Sargent has
made public his Interpretation of the hunt
ers' license Law passed BY the legislature
Of 1908, which has occasioned a great
deal Of discussion in regard to the mean
ing of the word ''alien" in the second
section. The ruling of the attorney-gen-
eral practically eliminates the word alien
from the law and makes il synonymous
with the word nonresident, which is
used in the same section. According to
this ruling any bona fide resident Of Yer
mont, although he is not naturalized,
can take out q hunters license for so
cents instead OF S15, required OF an alien.
/ We're Langevine, aged nine years, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis F. Langevine. was
fatally injured by jumping from an auto
mobile at Pittsford, Friday, although it
was at first thought he was not seriously
injured and the little fellow walked to
his home half q mile away. He died
three hours after the accident, OF cerebral
hemorrhage. Young Langevine and an
other lad were given a ride on the rum
ming board of J. e. McCormick's automo-
bile. As the machine was slowing down
for the boys to dismount, young LANCE
vine jumped from the running board,
tripped and fell to the ground, striking
his head.
Just after starting in his automobile
from Lake Dunmore for Montreal last
week Tuesday, DR.. William Brown of
Waterbury. Conn, a prominent musician
in Connecticut, met with q painful acct
dent which necessitated medical atten-
dance " hen he reached Middlebury. The
doctors machine. in which his wife was
also riding, reached point on the East
Middlebury road where the heavy wind
had Ioosened the limb of tree so that II
hung down close to the highway. The
wind shield of the automobile struck the
limb, which rebounded against DR..
Browns face, infiicting deep cash over
the eye, besides some bruises.
The Cory Dsavitt- Frost Co. has closed
a contract with d. w. Cooley of Water
bury for building an additional dam
about 1000 feet sbove the present plant
at Kinney's mills in East Montpelier.
The cost will be nearly $35, 900 and when
it is completed, in addition to furnishing
power for running the electric cars be-
tween Montpelier and Barre, the COM
pany will run a pole line to the Barre
: quarries as it has just closed a contract
: for i've years to furnish electricity for the
Wetmore & Morse quarries at Granite
vile. The contract calls for the compile
tion of the new dam by December /,
1909. II will be $50 feet long, 1915 feet
: high with a fall OF 80 feet and will have a
capacity of about 1 200 horse power, thus
nearly doubling the capacity Of the pres
ent plant.
. Mayor Burke and two policemen barred
the entrance to the ball where Emma
Goldman was scheduled to sDeak at Bur
Iington Friday night, the mayor then de-
I liveriug q speech in which he, in the
name of the city of Burlington. law and
society, refused permission for the an
! archist to speak in the city. Then DR..
Reitman of New York, Miss Goldman's
l manager, started to speak on "free
3 speech" but was forbidden. Miss Gold
? man followed with a bersting of Mayor
: Burke, calling him sn "ignoramus. !"
After being refused Miss Goldman re-
: turned to her hotel, declaring that she
would return to Burlington and make a
I fight for her rights in the matter OF de-
' Iivering a speech. She spoke in Barre be-
! fore the anarchists of that city, but was
: mild in her language
Mrs. Elsie Taylor, aged rs years, and
her step-son, Francis Taylor, aged IL,
. were drowned last week Monday after
noon at Marlboro south pond in MARI
boro. A party of young women had the
child pose on the edge of q raft to have
his picture taken. The raft was showed
a little way from the shore and the
camera was being adjusted when the boy
: fell of the wet and slippery edge OF the
8 raft into deep water. Mrs. Taylor could
/ swim a little and she at once plunged in
8 to save her step-son. He failed to rise
!. and, hampered by her clothing, Mrs. Tay-
t lor was unable to do anything. The
girls ran for help which was some dis
d lance away and when they returned the
s woman and boy were drowned. The &C
! cident occurred in front of the summer
n hume OF the Taylors in Marlboro.
Emma Goldman, an anarchist known
/ througho the country, for whom
II Eagles hall had been engaged for last
{ Thursday evening at Montpelier, was
IS unable to get the ball when il was learned
; that her subject was to be "Anti-
d Militarism," but finally the use of Social
:. lists hall in the upper part Of the city
IS was rendered her and thither she went,
e accompanied by q crowd of 81 mpathizers.
is Miss Goldman changed her subject and
gave the lecture on "Anarchism" that
o she gave in Barre the evening before. In