Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-02-06
State News Items.

0IdI0 NEWS lIGIIlS-
The number of pensioners in YER
mont increased over 400 during the
year 1892.
Barre has instructed the bailiffs to
buy a $500 electric fire alarm system
for the village.
One contractor. at McIndoes Falls,
has finished saving 800, 900, 900 feet of
timber for one of the lumber firms.
William G. Laid, pioneer banker,
and one of the heaviest capitalist on
the Pacific coast, who died at Port
land, Ore, lately, was born in Hol-
land, VT.
A pair of Lambert geldings, four
and five years old, have recently been
sold from Vergennes to go into New
Jersey, for $500.
The Moses Newton shoe factory at
Nottingham was burned recently.
The loss is estimated at about $50, 1000;
insurance $4,000.
Charles Silver, a brakeman on the
Bennington and Rutland railroad, fell
in front of a car and was badly injur-
ed, both legs being cut and mangled
and one broken.
r. w. Adams house, in Richford,
was burned last week, and Geo. Shep
ard narrowly escaped suffocat1on,
The Barre w. G. T. U. have raised
$4,000 and sent father Of nine child
rem to the Montpelier Kelley Instl-
tute to be cured of drunkenness.
Frank E. and George Briggs, real
estate spectators at Brandon, have
gone into insolvency, with liabilities
estimated at S275,OOO and assests at
$4,000.
Harrison Spofford, one of Spring
fields wealthy citizens, who died re-
Gently, provided in his will for $780,
900 public library, to be known as the
Spofford library.
Ice boating, which is said to be es-
pecially fine, is just now claiming
considerable attention at Burlington,
where the opportunities for INDUCING
in that sport are ample.
Frank L. Greene has resigned as di-
vision commander of the Sons OF
Veterans, and meeting of the d1v1-
sion council will be held at Burlington,
Feb. 8, to elect his successor.
William Bates, an aged citizen of
Bennington, died recently of pneu-
monia He was prominent in affairs
| of that town for many years and had
resided there over seventy years.
A satisfactory compromise has been
reached in the legal controversy over
the will of the late DIR. III. A. Cutting
of Lunenburgh, and the petition for
the disallowance of the will has been
withdrawn.
Rev. Alfred Stevens, D. D., aged SO
years, and for 30 years pastor of the
Congregational church at Westmins-
ter, died Jan. 9th. He is said to
have been the longest continuous
passionate ever held in this state
E. R. HIPS three story building in
Fair Haven has been burned The
building was occupied by Mr.. Hill and
two others as, a carriage, paint and
blacksmith shop. Total loss about
SIC, 400; total insurance $4,000.
The West Dummerston station of
the Brattleboro and Whitehall railroad
was burned Wednesday morning, ow-
ING to a defective chimney. The
books and tickets were saved.
Waugh's new opera house at ST. AL
hans was opened Jan 81. The house
is one of the largest and finest In Yer
mont ond is located on the site of the
one burned in the fire of 1891.
John Hill, workman at the mill in
Middlebury, was almost instantly
killed by the falling upon him of a
large marble slab, Thursday last. He
was about 81 years old and came from
Dorset.
On one Of the recent cold mornings
a tramp was found in the woodshed
Of a school house in Arlington with
both feet SO badly frozen that ampu-
tation was to be resorted to in case
the man survived the terrible expert
ences he had undergone.
Rt. Rev. Bishop DeGoesbriand oil
Burlington left that city, February q
on journey to Rome and Jerusalem
He expects to be present at the cele-
bration of the fiftieth anniversary Of
the episcopal conservation of Pope
Leo XIII, and later to attend the Gu
charist congress to be held in Jerusa.
lem in April.