Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-29

house. The torch struck a CHANGING
blow and cut large cash on the side OF
the mans head.
Nathan P. Dillingham; OF Dandy. Who
had pleaded guilty in Rutland couptv
court to the charge Of adultery. WAS last
Thursday fined s4OO by Judge Waterman
and was in addition sentenced TO serve
not less than two and a half years nor
more than three years in the house Of cor
rection. The prison sentence was later
suspended, but the young man must
make monthly report to the probation
officer for three years.
No information has come to relatives az
the reported death from violence OF Dan
! lei Miner Rogers, the American Board
missionary at Adana IN Asiatic Turkey.
Mr.. Rogers was the son of Mr.. and Mrs
D. o. Rogers OF New Britain, Conn. He
was ordained to the ministry in septem-
Der, 1906, and became pastor at East Dor
set. Choosing the foreign mission field
Tor his work, he was commissioned last
August at New Britain, and, accompanied
BY his wife, left for Asiatic Turkey.
The Brattlehoro Masonic Building asso-
citation has bought a residence on Main
street In order to have available a site for
Masonic temple. The lot has 'front.'
age OF about 20 feet and a depth Of more
than 200 feet. When work Is started on
the temple, the residence will be moved
10 the rear of the lot. The temple will
cost nearly 500, 900. The association
Was incorporated In October, 1905. and
four Masonic bodies have contributed to
the building fund, which now amounts
to about $4,000.
Alice, the little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Choate OF West Barnet, was
! drowned April 10. brook near the
house was swollen by the recent rains
and bad become a stream OF considerabl BILE
size. The child had not been absent
more than ten minutes when she was
I missed. She was tracked through the
barn yard to the bank OF the brook. An
hour or two later her body was found
about 200 rods down the stream, caught
, IN wire fence. The little girl was the
only child OF Mr.. and Mrs. Choate.
A verdict Of guilty was returned last
week in Rutland county court by the Jury
} which heard the case OF the State vs.. Mrs
, Addie Crossman Of Shrewsbury, in which
the respondent was charged with assault
ing Overseer OF the Poor p q. Lord with
piece Of board. II took the Jury only
fifteen minutes to reach a verdict. Sem
tence was deferred. NJ. J. Hapgood Of
Peru did not appear, as expected, to testi-
, ~ in behalf OF Mrs. Crossman. The jury
I reported a verdict Of guilty, with a rec
1 ommendation Of mercy from the court.
A shocking fatality occurred at the
Eagle square Mfg. Co.'s works in South
salisbury April IL, when Ernest Matti-
, son, an employee, was instantly killed by
being struck by a knife which few from
a moulding machine. Tho unfortunate
: several knives used in moulding wood
into various shapes, and one Of the knives
flew out, striking Mr.. Mattison In the
+ throat. nearly severing his head from his
: body. He was about IS years old and
= left a wife and six children. He was
{. native Of SALISBURY.
The grain and feed store Of william
Morrison OF Barnet was entered some
time Sunday night, April IS, a pane OIL
glass being removed so that q window
! could be raised. Two pairs Of rubber
: boots a safety razor, twenty cents IN
! money, and thirty OF forty postage
! stamps were taken. Mr.. Morrison's Gus
q tom Is to leave his safe unlocked and take
2 The money home. The safe was rum
e mayed as papers taken from it were scat
tered about the flour. Two young meT
J. who we're seen about the village arr
d suspected. All the officers Of Caledonii
o county have been ordered TO be on thu
/. lookout for the burglars.
Ie Mrs. Arthur Hawley, aged n years
e and her son, Roy, we're burned to deatl
~ last Thursday at their home at Mill vii
lage, a suburb OF Rutland. They wer
,. alone in the house at the time OF the acct
D. dent. Neighbors we're attracted to tn
e house by smoke and found the deaf
BOD - har
le kitchen floor was an empty kerosene cal
II near the stove. II is believed that tn
A. mother attempted TO light a fire will
kerosene while the child was in her arms
M The clothing was burned from both, bu
Ia death probably resulted from inhalinl
= flames. The bodies were net badl
m cbarred. The husband is q milk peddler
At Nellie Fregosi, the five-year-old daugh
K ter OF Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo Fregosi O
es Rutland narrowly escaped drowning las
week Wednesday. The little girl, who
a. subject to fits, was playing near the eye 9
!; East creek, v hen she was taken with 4
4 and fell into the water. She drifted raj
~ idly down stream, in the sight OF sever
"A Ell people, whose shouts attracted the al
= tention OF Arthur r. Niles, who Is en-
- ployed at the Rutland Railway Light an
Power companyis gas house. and
=
q about 400 feet below the point where sh
~ fell in The water was about two fec
~ deep where Mr.. Niles waded in. tn
s,s child was little the worse for the acc
y dent.
er Aiken Dukett, the 10-year-old son
20 Mr.. and Mrs. William Dukett OF Brio
lE port, died Friday at the Mary Fleteh'
hospital in Burlington, where be Wa
he taken in an un conscious condition with
st revolver bullet in his brain. just no
at the accident occurred may never |
80 known. The boy had returned froi
ok school in the afternoon and had gor
be upstairs to change his clothes. The r
ne voIver was one belonging to Leo
hit swinton. the hired man, and was kept
rs. the latter's room. Hearing the sho
he Mrs. Dukett ran upstairs and found q
re-. child senseless on the floor. The buile
ss- one OF 80 calibre, had entered his mead o
LIE left