Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Inc electlOn OF supreme court Judges
will be held Thursday, Nov. 9th.
Hon. and Mrs. Frederick Billings re-
turned from New York to their home at
Woodstock last Saturday.
As Moses Larry of Jericho was catch
ing one of his sheep, the buck thought
there was something wrong and ''went
for Mr.. Larry, hitting him in the breast
and breaking his collar bone.
William Guyette of Winooski while
hunting, recently, had the misfor-
tune to shoot himself in the arm, so terri
bly, decorating it that amputation, just be-
low the elbow, was necessary.
Ralph, the 16-year-old son of William
H. belong, of West Cornwall, accident
ally shot himself while hunting last Fri
day afternoon. One shoulder was filled
with shot. and he bled to death before
surgeon could be had.
O. G. Fits of Wardsboro died the 22d,
aged fifty-four years. He had been en-
| gagged in the mercantile business some
| thirty years, serving most of that time as
| postmaster, and representing his towns
men one term in the Legislature.
The Vermont branch of the woman's
board of missions held its twelfth annual
meeting at Rutland, Wednesday, with
Mrs. Horace Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury,
the president in the chair. About two
hundred delegates were present. Mrs.
Fairbanks was reelected. Mrs. Bakarat,
a Syrian woman, delivered addresses.
Irasburgh, the shire town of Orleans
county, was coded to Ira Allen, nephew
of General Ethan Allen, and was named
Irasburgh for him. Here he lived and
died, reserving a rental on every farm he
sold, and unto this day few people in
that town are obliged to pay homage to
his estate, which is very large, and with
only one direct heir.
Frank Plumley, Esq, of Mortified, 6
member of the house iu 1892, is now
speaking in Michigan under the direction
of the Republican National Committee anG
is meeting with marked success. The
Detroit Sunday Post says: "Among the
campaign speakers who have made bril-
liant regulations in Michigan during thu
present canvass, the Hon. Frank Plumlel
of Vermont deserves especial mention.
Burlington is in a funny row, nominal
ly over the expense of running the Fletch
er free library, and that institution ha
ry was founded by gift, but the expens
es of running are paid by the city. Nov
that a spasm of economy has closed tn
doors, taxpayers are writing letters de
handing that they be opened again
) There is also a question whether by it
{ present course the city does not forfei
| the original fund. The sum wanted
. $500, and Burlington claims to be 9Th
queen city of New England"
A terrible accident occurred October s
on the Union Pacific railroad, by whic
Il George L. Chamberlin "a native if Middle
sex, met with terrible death at Elkhorr
e Neb., about % miles west of Omaha. Nj
/, Chamberlin was an engineer, and left On
aha on the above date, about O'Clock
m, with his train of &c freight cars boun
westward. At Elkhorn Greek, where til
road makes a rapid descent and a shar
e curve, he was met by wild engine, whic
was not discovered until within a fe
j. feet. The crash was terrible, causing h
|, engine and tender to double upwardl
and falling back caught the legs of Chan
berlin and his fireman, holding them liz
% wise from which no human effort cou
Il release them. They were literally roas
% ed to death and perfectly conscious
e their situation.