Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
State News Items.

Senator Morrill,, who has been kept
at his Vermont home by Illness, re-
turned to Washington on Monday.
Returns Of the condition of the ma
tional banks show the reserve on Oct.
in Vermont was 31.48 per cent,
against 30.39 on July IL.
John FL. Mead, of w est Rutland re-
ceived the first prize at the worlds
fair for rams. He also received a
prize on the eve he had on exhibition.
Major General 0. o. Howard, U. S.
A., in his annual report recommends
the purchase of an additional tract of
ground in connection with Fort Ethan
Allen
Lieut. Gov. Stranhan, of ST. Adams
Will deliver the address at the 21st re-
union Of the survivors of the 1st Yer
mont cavalry regiment, in Burlington,
Nov. Il.
Among the fourth class postmas
tiers appointed last week were these
in Vermont: Charles E. Van Schaick,
South Windham;E Dudley at Brown
ington Center and Herbert G. Boxby
at Chelsea.
In St. Johnsbury, Oct. 10, by pre-
mature explosion, while blasting
stone at Leon Guyer's quarry, Au-
gustin Morancy and Frank Blais were
badly injured Oct 49, Morancy will
lose his eye sight and Blais is burned
about the face, head and hands.
Collector B. B. Smalley announced
Friday the following appointments of
deputy collectors and inspectors:
Clarence P. Ewings, North Troy; @. NJ.
Fletcher, Canaan; NJ. E. Sprague, ST.
Adams; Hiss Harriet Rockwell, ST.
Adams; J. NJ. Culver, Richford, CLAIR
ence Hicks, Burlington.
Crank G. Parks" one of ST. Johns
bury's Cinnamon, who was recently
indicted on a charge Of being one of a
party engaged in regular system of
smuggling Cinnamon into this state,
had his trial in the United States
court at Rutland last week. and was
sentenced to two months in the house
of correction, and fine of $50.
The Springfield Republican says
that Col. Aldace Z. Walker, formerly
of Rutland, '!has resigned the chair
manship Of the West Railroad Asso
This probably means that the latest
and most elaborate attempts of the
roads to control rates has busted 1t
is said that Mr.. Walker viii not re-
turn to Vermont.
Junction says: CDR Mary Walker, in
customary attire, spent Sunday night
at the Junction house. She was on
her way to Lebanon. She claims the
reward Of $4,000 offered for the cap
lure Of the murderer Of Christie War
den, and persists that it was Abbott
who committed the crime, and that
Amy, the real murderer is now in Sy
racuse, Ny, where he was arrested at
her instigation.'
The Citizens Savings bank of ST.
JohnSbury ,Lyndonville National bank
and Lyndonville gSavings bank have
petitioned Charles T. Walter, of st.
Johnsbury, into insolvency. The Git
izens' bank held about $4,000 of Wal
ter's notes and the LyndonvilIe banks
$4,000. Walters liabilities are about
$50, 900; assets about $4,000. Over half
his liabilities are notes to banks in
that vicinity which have good indoors
ers. Eleven thousand dollars of the
paper has forged Endorsements, and
Walter is now under arrest for these
forgeries, but out on bail.
The jury in the noted Gould case in
the Rutland county court returned a
verdict Of guilty against Mrs. Lorraine
Gould for performing a criminal op
GRAFTON upon Miss Eva Shaw, of
Fair Haven, which resulted in death.
Mrs. Gould was remanded to Jail. The
trial of Ell. FL. Pitkin for completely in
the crime will be begun soon. Mrs.
Guild will probably appeal to the su
preme court. She has for some years
borne an unenviable reputation in Rut
land. She is well along in years and
feeble in health, SO that she was fore
ed to recline on a cot in the court
room.
General News Items.