Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-09-08


GERMS machine shop and ofiee buildinI
we're saved only BY the hardest work
The hrc IS supposed 10 have started fror
a spark in the cupola. The loss is 5000
well covered by insurance. The building
was an old one. Gray & Son make case
lene engines and other heavy machinery
Sept. is is the day set by Contractor w
shelton Swallow OF New York for begin
ming operations on the superstracture o
Hotel Vermont at Burlington. The con
tract for the steel alone, Nhich was let L
the Vermont Construction company o
Burlington, was for s14, 900. Part OF thil
is already en- route to Burlington from
Pennsylvania. Some fine engineering
work is being done in building the founda
lions to the structure, and this work Il
coming on finely.
The question OF the relations Of tb,
summer visitor and the library seems tC
be very important. Some OF the libraries
are inclined to make a special charge Il
them for the use OF the library and not tc
allow them the same privileges which are
enjoyed by the citizens of the town.
Such a course seems TO be very unwise.
The Centennial library at Morrisville has
placed them on the same footing with the
rest Of its patrons and 10 many instances
has been rewarded by valuable gifts.
Engineer Babcock Of the Central Yer
mon derrick ear, which was wrecked at
Riverton last week Sunday, has been hav-
ing bad luck for some time. About two
years ago his wife fell aud broke leg,
shortly after which be was injured on the
derrick car. About three weeks ago Mrs.
Ba5eock was again injured and compelled
to use crutches at the time her husband
was hurt Sunday. Since the wreck 1t has
been learned that an man lost
the end OF the third finger on his right
hand.
Suits for alleged damages %aggregating
s12, 800 have been entered in tie Chitten-
den county court by ten separate persons
the Adam Forepaugh 4 Sells
Bros shows and Otto Ringing, Ell al,
two appeliatious being used in designat-
ing the defendants. The various sections
are brought because OF injuries alleged to
have been received at the time the seats
10 the circus tent collapsed in Burlington
in 1907. Negligence on the part Of the
is alleged. Thirteen cases ia
all have now been entered with the county
clerk.
Six broken ribs from the spine, q COM
pound fracture OF the right leg, aud a bad
bruised hip are the injuries sustained
by Dana Horton OF Clarendon, Aug. 20,
Rhen his horse took fright at an automo-
bile. Mr.. Horton was returning from the
,heese factory when he met the car OF j.
Buxton Of Middletown Springs. He
rot out OF the wagon and stood at the
head. When the machine ran
past slowly the animal Jumped, striking
Horton in the chest. lie fell TO the
round and the horse dragged the wagon
,ver him.
Two serious accidents occurred in
Bakersfield Aug. 80. The first was a bad
of his foot by Robert Bonor. who
vas splitting wood when the axe slipped
md cut the great toe OF then right foot
of. The second accident occurred
bout 5 O'Clock when Viola Mefiin, 10
cars old, living oil the old Fuller place,
vas kicked by a horse, making q danger
us and painful wound. The left ear was
ORR on and the skin and flesh torn nearly
o the bone from a point back OF the ear
0 the eye and nearly to the nose. Twelve
titches were required to close the wound.
Stuart Kelley, the 10-year-old son OF
and Mrs. John L. Kelley OF Burling-
on, was SO seriously injured Aug. 30, by
fall from a tree that be will probably
The sharp point of g sawed on
imb pierced his side, severing his liver
nd penetrating one OF his lungs. The
oungster himself pulled the wood from
is side and walked for a distance Of
100 yards toward his home, where
e was met by his mother, who carried
i'm into the house. The boy retained
aud when he was removed
} the hospital had to be etherized for the
which followed.
Papers have been fled in Washington
ounty court in a negligence suit brought
Y ]. Ward Carver of Barre, administra-
,r OF the estate OF irene Farrar, against
j. b. Sanguinetti and her four chill
owners OF the Sanguinetti block on
'orth Main street in Barre, for S15, 600
amages. Feb. z last Miss Irene Farrar,
ged II years, was struck on the head by
falling from a cornice at the top OF
Sanguinetti block. Her skull was
and she died the next morning.
'egligence of the defendant is claimed
! allowing the property to be unsafe aud
Jus endangering the lives OF the public.
In an ancient trunk, unopened for more
ian a generation, discovered recently in
Woodstock attic, we're found papers and
full OF interest to those inter
ted in national history. Among them
as a package of letters addressed to
harles Marsh, three OF them from DAN
! Webster, four from jeremiah Mason,
HON many considered q greater lawyer
ian Webster; one from John Jay, the
rst chief justice OF the supreme court Of
le United States; Dewitt Clinton, George