Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-03-03


! suing from the building. II proved to b.
steam arising from the room on which
: the workmen had been employed. cover
! ing with a composition. The affair VA
considered joke until Dir. Scott dropped
through the hole, a distance of twelyt
feet.
vincently Truskoski received injuries
at the Harrington marble quarry in Wes
Rutland Feb. 10 which resulted in hi
death an hour later. He, in company
with several others, was engaged in blast
ing, and shortly after 8 o'clock he at
tempted to set OF two blasts at once
Only one of them exploded and after 9
short wait Truskoski went TO investigate
} thinking the fuse of the other blast had
gone out 1t exploded as he drew neal
and three of his ribs were driven into bis
right lung, causing death about an
hour later from internal hemorrhages.
TIE man was thrown about IS feet by the
explosion but he was conscious when
picked up. file leaves a wife and -four
children in Russia.
The house aud barns on the Joseph
Murray place, about three miles from
Milton, we're destroyed BY fire Feb. 10,
with their entire contents, only part of
the household goods being saved. Eigh-
teen COWS were burned In the stable and
Mr.. Murray was nearly caught in the fire
himself by the closing Of the door after
he had let out four of the cows The Are
is thought to have caught in the upper
part OF the house, which was all in flames
when discovered and soon reached the
barn, which was in the direction the
wind was blowing. Mr.. Murray had
leased The farm for the coming season
and was soon to move from there. II is
reported that the loss on the buildings is
covered by insurance.
Leaving a note in v hich she complained
that she was tired of living. Mrs. Sarah
Gray OF Hardwick, aged ~ years, com
mitted suicide by drowning Feb 81. Her
body was found below the Robbie mill dam
next morning. Mrs. Gray was employed
at the home OF DR.. and Mrs. s. e. BAR
+ ling, and as she was in the habit OF retir-
/ ing early, Mrs. Darling thought that she
was in her room. When the doctor found
next morning that no breakfast had been
/ prepared he instituted a search, Tracks
were discovered in the snow leading to
hole in the ice of the river, beside v hirh
4 lay Mrs. Oray's hat. The body was found
in shallow water a short distance below,
where it had become wedged between the
thin leo and the river bottom.
st. Stanislaw church in West Rutland
is to have a new set Of chimes for the
Faster services. This is in keeping with
the custom OF Father MichuIka, the pas
tor, TO add something to the furnishings
of his church each year at Easter. Al
ready the church has been provided with
a pipe organ, q main altar and two side
affairs and several statues. For all of
these, the church was forced to go into
debt s$22, 900, but of this sum, only
81, 900 now remains unpaid. In the four
years he has been in West Rutland,
Father MiehHlka has built large brick
church and parsonage and has installed
q school In the basement OF the church.
Two teachers are employed in the school
and there is an enrolment OF 65 pupils.
The United States grand jury, in ses-
sion at Burlington, last week reported
seventeen true bills found. OF these in
dictments, only four parties are now I'M
der arrest Mitchell and Charles Leonard,
who we're jointly Indicted for smuggling
wool; X. @. Bartlett, alias Chandler, an
alleged fake commission merchant, in
dicted for fraudulent use Of the mails;
Warner Hubbell OF Winooski, indicted
for bringing alien women into the United
States for immoral purposes. Bartlett
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three
months in the county jail. Warren Hub
bell pleaded not guilty and bail was fixed
at $3.50. Mitchell Leonard was fined
1900 and four months in the Orleans
county jail. Charles Leonard was given
the same ine, with thirty days in Jail.
A four-team base ball league has been |
formed, consisting OF Bennington, W., /
North Adams and Pittsfeld, Mass, and .
N. Y. The series OF games
will begin July and continue through .
the season, and Sunday games will be
played. The Bennington team will play
at least four games a week, two at home
and two out of town, and will be COM
posed Of salaried players. Nearly all OF
the players have been engaged for the
team which will include
Pitcher cap Haynes Of the University OF
Vermont, Harry Watson, former Will
Iiams college player, Joseph Carroll OF
Trinity, Lloyd Waters OF Rensselaer, Poly
technic institute, Cable Prindle OF Will
Jamestown and Frank Hickey OF Water
town, n. Y. All played on the fast team
Of last year.
The little town of Medora, 10 the CEN
trail part OF the state of Kansas, boasts
sugar camp, which was established by p.
D. Barnes, a Vermonter, who went to
that state thirty years ago. He decided
10 relieve the monctony Of the treeless
plains by the planting of sugar naples,
md started $50 OF them. That was %
years ago and today the sugar camp is in
lull operation. The grove is all tapped
ind the sap is being carried to the camp
o be boiled down. II is declared that
be sandy plains aad the soil conditions
n Kansas produce more and sweeter
yrup than the hill country in Vermont.
Ar. Barnes sells the syrup to the people
i central Kansas. Many farmers in the
counties plant annually
small field Of buckwheat, in anticipa-
ion Of the pure maple syrup to be pro-
uced at the Medora sugar camp.
Col. Olin Scott, proprietor Of the Ben
ington Machine Works, has given $780,
90 for the erection OF Masonic temple
Remington. The gift to the building
und followed the announcement OF the
lift OF a site for the temple by Mr.. and
frs. John n. Norton. The proposed site
. iocofad IN Moth Main afraaf in the