Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-20

Tor nome use instead OF taking their
milk to the creameries.
The body of Ned Whalen, a quarryman
about as years old, Was found early May
10 by the road side near the village OF
Fowler. A shotgun near the body indi-
Gated case OF suicide. WhaIen had
boarded at Fowler in the family of Will
liam Brown. 1t is supposed that the
man got mp in the night, took the gun
and went out. The body was net fully
clothed when found. Whalen was un-
married, but is survived by brother in
Brandon. No motive for the deed is
known.
Six members Of the spaulding high
school baseball team of Barre failed last
week Saturday to catch the 4 80 train for
home at Burlington after the game with
the high school at Athletic park as the
faculty had directed them to do. As
result the captain and manager and five
a the hest players on the team were sus-
/ pended tor two weeks. Mastering their
disappointment at missing the train, the
boys were able TO see part OF the Yer
mont-Futts game at the university
grounds.
! Julia Jerue, aged 10 years, and daugh-
ter Of Mr.. aud Mrs. Louis n. Jerue, who
reside between Bar and Montpelier, has
been IN a critical condition as the result
OF taking corrosive sublimate last week
Wednesday, whether by suicidal intent or
by accident is not known, rs her parents
/ were very reticent about the case. The
young woman was alone at the time, and
when her condition was discovered physi-
clans we're hastily summoned, their
efforts being SO efficient as to bring the
young woman out Of danger.
Charles Dumas OF shoreham, who, with
his family, returned to that town two
weeks ago after a few years absence in
northern Michigan, has bad q series Of
inistortunes. May 5, his three-year-old
daughter was taken sick with pneumonia
and the next day his nine-months-old son
became i'll with the same disease. The
next day the little girl died. Mr.. Dumas
came to Middlebury Friday morning to
see an undertaken and when be arrived
there received by telephone the news that
bis little boy had died while he was on
the way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Choate Bellows narrow
ly escaped death in an accident a mile
from Bellows Falls late Friday night,
May 7. The horse was frightened by q
locomotive as Mr.. and Mrs. Bellows were
driving to their home in WaipoIe, n. H.,
backed over stone wall and threw Mr..
and Mrs. Bellows down a rocky bank.
The wagon was left hanging in q tree.
Mr.. Bellows fell in a gravel pit with his
scalp laid over his eyes and Mrs. Bellows
suffered internal injuries and several
broken ribs. She was unconscious sever
al hours.
Ernest Dillon, one Of the members OF
he fan, Of milan q ~
Montpelier, who have Just started a ma
chine shop, had a. marrow escape from Sc
rious injury last week Tuesday after
noon. He was putting on a belt on tho
main shaft when his hand caught and be
was pulled in. Harlow NJ. Smith, who
was near, prevented Mr.. Dillon from
being carried over the shaft while an
other turned off the current. Mr..
Dillon received a wrepched wrist and
badly bruised hand although no bones
were broken.
The medical report Of the superintend
ent Of the Vermont sanstorium at Pitts
ford shows that during the last quarter
there have been 20 patients discharged
Out OF this number there were only two
who had not improved. The others have
been apparently cured, or the disease ha'
been arrested. There are at present q
patients in this institution. The new
shack which has been under construction
is now ready. The completion Of thi.
building will increase the capacity TO AZ
, patients. The new shack will be occu
| pied about May Is.
The bill of exceptions upon which the
: case Of Elroy Kent, recently convicted il
Rutland county court OF the murder o
! Della Congdon of East Wsllingford, viii
! be taken to supreme court, has been filed
: The respondents counsel objects to thu
! Introduction as an exhibit by the prose
J cution of the Congdon barn door, oil
which Kent was supposed to have cut hi
| initiBls, also the comparison Of the letter
'sE. X" on the handle OF lawn move
, used by Kent at Waterbury state bospita
! for the insane, the same letters cut on tn
barn door. The case will be argued q
! Rutland in November.
The Champlain Manufacturing Co.
[ Burlington, has just received the entir
? contract for the interior finish OF the new
{ Office building now being erected by tn
John Hancock Life Insurance Co. OF Bos
' ton. il isa 1O-story granite building
4 and the estimated cost is about $1,000,
600. This Is the fourth large contrac
r the company has taken this year, th
! Others being for the interior finish 70
! four buildings for the Emma Willar'
5 seminary, Troy, n. Y, the engineerin
a building, Union college, Schenectady
, and the large department store buildin
r for r. II. Stearns & Co., Boston.
Three Granitevine women, Mrs. w. L
9 Murray. Mrs. W. X. Nicholson and tn
1 latter's 14-year-old daughter figured in
!. serious runaway accident last wee
/. Wednesday. As they were driving dow
ana steep hill, they met an automobile
\ which frightened the horse, causing it
' run. The horse was nearly under contrC
4 when, at the foot Of the hill, another aut
q was met. The horse again ran, this tim
/. throwing out the occupants Of the cal
}. rage. Mrs. Murray was badly bruised o
!, the head and face; Mrs. Nicholson's lei
! leg was broken at the ankle, and be
! daughter was somewhat bruised.
m David Bombard, the young man VIII
e Jumped through the window Of Patro
' man Timothy ]. Hallihan's house
n Springfield, Mass, after trying to wor