Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-01-25

duty of depressing crime and discovering
1.-The authors of the recent horrible murders
ofsmen and women in that city
Roderick R. Sargent died in Fairhaven
Mimi, recently. He was found sitting in
his chair, and it is supposed that heart
disease was the trouble. He was a mem
Der of the Seventh Vermont Volunteers
and went West about twenty years ago.
The fourth-cass postmasters i'll the
state have received circulars asking them
to call a convention and appoint dele
gates to the national convention OF post
masters, which meets at Chicago next
month One of the objects of the meet
ing IS to demand higher wages.
There is considerable excitement in
Brattleboro over the reported movement
for the pardon of Silas M. Waite, ex-
President of the ruined First National
Bank: who is now serving short sen
tence in the House of Correction at Rut.
land. Mr.. Phelps, Minister to England,
and Waite's counsel, are said to have ask
ed Pres ident Cleveland for pardon. A
strong protest viii be made
The supreme court in session at Bur
lington reverses the decree of the chanc-
cry court in the case of the Rutland rail-
road company against Clement & Sons,
j. M. Haven and j. A. Mead, and remands
the suit, with a decree that the bill be dis
missed with costs to the defendants, and
that the validity of certificates of 297O
shares of preferred stock held by defend
ants, and alleged to be void, be establish
ed.
A defect in the brick wall of a steam
+ heater in the residence of Mrs. A. w.
Tewksbury i'll West Randolph caused
four or five tons of coal in bin in close
proximity to the heater to ignite at an
early hour Wednesday morning and fill
the house with smoke and gas Mrs.
Tewks5ury and her daughter Nettie had
very narrow escape from suffocation
and the house from destruction by fire,
both of which were prevented by an alarm
and the prompt arrival of timely aid.
Both ladies have recovered.
Exceptions in the case of the state
against Oscar Meyer, the convicted muir
derer of Herman Krause, were heard by
the supreme court at ST. Adams Wednes-
day afternoon. Meyer created scene at
the foot of the courthouse stairs by fall
ing as if in faint. His case was to have
been heard early in the forenoon, but he
was reported as bleeding at the lungs and
unable to appear. The physician declined
to advise in the case and Judge Powers
ordered him brought in. Meyer is be-
lieved to have feigned part ofhis illness.
Mrs. Rachel Temple, while attempting
to cross the railroad track Wednesday
noon in front of an approaching train
near the depot in the village of Middle
sex, was struck by the engine on the Bos-
ton express train and almost instantly
killed The engineer signalled twice,
but she evidently did not hear the signal.
or notice that the train was approaching.
for she walked leisurely across, and just
as she was leaving the track the train
reached her and knocked her senseless
and caused injuries about the head and
back from which she died in few min
utes. The deceased was widow 60 yrs
of age and resided in Middlesex.
A big fire in Hartford early Wednesday
morning consumed John Bugbee's black
smith and paint shops, lumber sheds and
cider mill, Moore, Maiden & Stimson's
grist-mill storehouse, and Il. B. Clark's
saw-mill and box shop. Moore, Madden
& Stimson lost $500 bushels of corn, 1000
bushels of oats, $50 bushels of wheat so
barrels of flour and 100 bushels of grain:
their loss is $4,000, insurance $500.
Clarks loss is $4,000, no insurance VIM.
Tinkham lost $1,000 on tools and paints,
and j. II. Hunter and Arthur Pigeon lost
all their wheelwright tools The total
loss is about $4,000 and insurance only
$4,000.
The widow of the late Congressman,
Charles w. Willard of Montpelier, died
in Boston few days ago, from the effects
of removing tumor from her neck Mrs
Willard was the daughter of the late Hez-
ekiah n. Reed of Montpelier, and was So
years of age. She leaves four children.
The Oldest son is a rising young lawyer,
repnted to be one of the best read attor-
neys in Vermont, he having finished the
compiling of the revised laws of Vermont
after the decease of his father, one ofthe
Commissioners. Mrs. Willard had never
been prominent as a society woman, but
in the home circle she shone with the
purest luster. Her charities were wide
spread, but of such nature as not to at
tract attention, and in many cases her
gratuities were so conveyed that the re-
cipients never discovered whence they
came.