Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Lunenburgh depot was burned the 10th,
Loss $500.
Stephen Tiff, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Morrisville, has failed.
Ex-Governor Hiland Hall has gone to
Springfield, Mass, where he will pass
the winter with his son, Charles Hall.
Good Templars' lodge of about thir-
ty members was instituted at st. Adams
Bay, recently by Rev. J. r. Bartlett, state
organizer.
Oscar A. Burton of Burlington, di-
rector of the st. Adams bank, was ac
quilted of perjury IN the United States
court at Rutland, the 10th inst.
In the case of j. M. Haven, ex-treas-
urer Of the Rutland railroad, charged
with the fraudulent issue of stock, the
jury returned verdict of not guilty.
Dir. William Z. Crooke, a member of
the Burlington medical college class of
'S4, committed suicide at Pueblo, Col, re-
| Gently. No cause for the act is assigned.
The car containing the rams shipped
from Middlebury a few weeks ago to Alb
| ilene, Texas, by c. A. Chapman, was
| thrown from the track near Kansas City,
| Missouri, and twenty of them were kill
ed
The partially decomposed body OF
Spencer Towne, pauper, aged seventy
/ ,,,,ic tor
was found in Black river, near its mouth
in Springfield on the 18th inst. The drown
inc was evidently accidental.
Peter Reynolds Of Barre, aged twenty
five years, recently went to White River
Junction to visit his brother Louis, who
keeps a restaurant. Peter was left in
charge of the restaurant, and some time
during the night committed suicide by
| shooting. He left Il note saying he was
tired of life, and asking that word OF his
death be sent to Miss Fanny Bates OF
Barre.
The nineteenth annual convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
| of Vermont will be held in st. Adams,
beginning Oct 30th and closing Novem-
Der 1st. Members of the International
| Committee will be present. Workers
| from neighooriu9 states will be present.
In years past these gatherings have been
most profitable. and there is every reason
to believe that this year will be equally
as profitable,
Thomas j. Tiffany, the absconding
Bennington postmaster, who fled state
March 9th, 1884, and has been fugitive
from Justice until the present day, was
to answer to indictments charging him
with embezzlement and intercepting the
mails. He was discovered in a rancho in
Colorado where he was herding sheep at
$40 Il month and board. He is SO much
changed that he was scarcely recognized
by his former friends. He wore SLOUGH
ed hat and blue blouse and his face is
much hronaed by exposure. He appears
quite cheerful and converses freely con
cerniug his former career. He will be ar
raigned under indictments charging hin
with embellishments and with intercept
ing letters. Tiffany will be defended by
Hon. james X. Batchelder of Arlington
He is reticent as to his further move
ments. 1t is said thai his bondsmen have
made good the amount of his detalcatlol
to the Government, which is put at $4,000
Besides this, he is charged with being
defaulter to the village school funds, o
} which he was Treasurer, in the sum o
$1,000.
George Gould was killed instantly an,
james L. Kelly was hurt badly at Farm
i ington, W. Va, recently by ihe explosion
9 of an empty whiskey barrel. Gould il
serted u red-hot iron into the spisot hole
. In Summer county, Tenn, sixty mul
ders have been committed since the wa