Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-04-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Hugh Savage of Hyde Park broke his
right leg while lifting boy ''stif.heels."
Avery, son of J. F. Calkins of Richford,
ran under an uplifted ak, and will have
crippled hand for life.
Burglars entered several stores and
shops in Swanton on recent night but |
secured but little booty. s4N
Conductor Sol. Esty of St. Adams was
instantly killed, recently, on the Ogdens- |
burg and Lake Champlain road.
The next annual meeting OF the Con-
necticat Valley Masonic Association will
be held in st. Johnsbury.
Ludlow is said to have man who is
lOS years old. He celebrated his last
birthday by walking several miles.
Colonel A. F. Walker of Rutland, who
was at last accounts in Cuba, is much i'm
proved in health and will soon return
home.
d. E. Jewett, successful business
man of Boston, died recently, aged sew
enty-fve years. He was native of st.
Johnsbury.
Rev. J. C. Houghton of Middlebury
has received call to the First Congre-
gational church at Prescott Arizona, with
a salary of $1,000.
James Buzzell, charged with robbing
the mail at Newport Center, has been
bound over in the sum of 81 900 for APP
pearance at the next term of the United
States court at Windsor.
The firm of Trim, Wallerstein & Co.,
shirt manufacturers, having five factories
in New York state, are to start a branch
factory at Rutland. They expect to en-
ploy from $50 to 500 girls, the payroll
amounting to nearly $4,000 per month.
A Chinaman who passed through Is
| and Pond the other day, on his way to
California, was bonded through the Ca
madam territory just as a piece of bag
| gage would be, entered on the customs
manifest as zone live Chinaman."
| Among the late Miss Louisa Towards
requests is one of $50, 900 to the Howard
Relief Society at Burlington to establish
a mission house after the society has out
grown its present quarters. She also
leaves $1,000 to the medical department
of the University of Vermont.
Receiver Rich has been ordered to pay
dividend of two and one-half cents to
the creditors of the defunct bank of St
Adams Trust Company, making forty-twc
and one-half per cent of the claims. This
dividend comes from $75, 900 in his hands
large part of it the proceeds of the re
cent sale of part Of the Norwood prop
erty.
The high water washed away bridg,
on the Southeastern Railway at Brigham
Que, and trains have been obliged tx
run over the Central Vermont road tt
Waterloo, thence to Sutton Junction
Passengers going from Farnham to Brig
ham have to travel 60 miles to get miles
A new bridge will probably be built in
few days.
At Brattleboro, April ID, an lS-foo
boiler weighing 1900 pounds in j. A
Church's sash and blind factory on Fla
street exploded, completely demolishin:
the brick boiler house, bricks from whicl
were hurled through the side Of the fac
, tory, barely missing number of employ
es. The boiler was thrown into the al
80 feet, and landed 260 feet away in r
A. Browns barn, killing a horse and bare
ly missing a number OF head of bloode
D stock. Roofs and windows of dwelling
5 near the factory were broken by the de
bris. The boiler struck within a few Zee
of two men, who saw it coming, but wer
spell-bound and unable to move from it
4 track. The loss is estimated at $4,000
Cause of explosion unknown.