Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-06-13
State News Items.


The Methodist church at West Enos-
burgh was struck by lightning June 2,
damaged $500.
john Coy, formerly of Burlington,
was instantly killed at Montreal, re-
Gently, by walking out of fourth
story window of hospital
Fifty-four sturgeon were caught,
June 1, in the Lamoille river at West
Milton-probably the largest catch in
Vermont during one day.
A son of AFRO R. Rogers of South
Newbury was seized with cramps
while bathing in the Connecticut riv
er, June 1, and drowned.
An attempt was made by couple of
sharpers to bunco G. w. Stilphen,
we'll to do farmer of ST. Adams. Still
'ssecurity,'' and the scheme fell
through.
A freight train of three cars loaded
with coal was wrecked at Richmond,
June 8, and several thousand dollars
damage was done. The track was torn
up for many rods. No one was in
jured.
The nomination by the president
and confirmation of Major Fred @.
Ainsworth, surgeon United States ar
my by the United States senate, pro-
notes this officer to the rank of colo
mel, and places him at the head of the
record and pension division, which is
one of the most important depart
ments in the war Office. Colonel Aims
worth's home is in Woodstock.
A man alleged to have saved all the
maple sugar he has made in the past
fifty years, having now on hand a
considerable quantity of the boiling of
1912 and his entire crop of every year
since, the whole aggregating 10000
pounds. 1t is all stirred sugar and has
kept perfectly. Nobody knows why
he boards the sugar, and he offers no
explanation. He lives in Burke.
The second annual show, under the
auspices of the Northern Caledonia
Fair Association, was held at Lyndon
vile June 1. Twenty five stations
were entered, including all the best
bred horses in the vicinity. Congress
ster and Pathfinder. w. S. Bailey,
proprietor Of the Maplewood Stock
Farm, East Hardwick, showed Lam
bert B., 2:2614, by Daniel Lambert,
and his stallion, Sprague Suberb.
When the Delaware & Hudson train
due in Whitehall, N. Y, at 2:2O, June
2, was near Hydeville, VT, the rear
coach ran off the track and went down
an embankment Conductor E. S.
Wood of Rutland received injuries
resulting in his death. Mrs. Frederick
Fem of Rutland, w. HI. Preston of
Fair Haven, n. A. Litchfield of Hyde
vile, Frederick Spencer of Whitehall,
Mrs. Miller and son of Albany, n. Y,
II l. 14I@ VI =
Hunt of Worcester, Mass, were in
jured. The engineer says he cannot
explain the accident.
Major R. J. Coffey of the Soldiers
Home has received a medal of honor
for distinguished conduct at Bank
Fords, Va, May 4, 1868, no better ac
count of which can be given than that
found on page 166, volume 1, Vermont
in the Civil War: "Notable among
many individual exploits in this battle
was the capture by Sergeant Robert
Coffey of Company K, single-handed,
of a captain and lieutenant of the
Twenty first North Carolina, and five
privates of the Eighth Louisiana.
These, after the repulse of Hooks
and Hays brigades by the Vermont
Brigade, had sought shelter in ra-
vine in front of the Fourth Vermont.
Sergeant Coffey, who was among the
skirmishers, came suddenly upon
them, ordered them to surrender, and
when'they complied, threw their mus
kets into the stream and secured the
swords of the officers before they dis
covered that he was alone, and then,
aided by some men of Company A,
who came to his assistance, secured
and marched them all in, to their in
tense notification