Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-16
State News Items.

The Democratic State committee
has organized by electing Col. Her
bert F. Brigham of Bakersfield chair
man, John H. Senter of Montpelier,
secretary, and Morris F: Atkins of
Montpelier, assistant secretary.
The lumber mill at Ottawa, Cana
da, which was burned recently, was
the largest one on the continent, with
capacity of 100000 feet yearly.
The loss is s35O,O0O. The mill was
owned by J. r. Booth of Burlington.
Another large mill near it was saved.
The Orange County prohibition
convention nominated Rev. J.O.Sher-
burne and Norman w. Barrett for
senators, G. N. Abbot and j. A. r.
Corwin for ide-judges. J. E. Cox,of
Wells River, high bailiff. S. L. Swasey
was chosen treasurer of the county
committee.
The Passumpsic and Connecticut
River divisions Of the Boston 6 Maine
railroad system have been consolidat-
ed, and both have been placed under
the charge of Superintendent I'll. E.
Folsom. His headquarters will re-
main at Lyndonville and he will have
an assistant at Springfield.
The State fair will be held at Bill
Hngs park, White River Junction,
Sept. Al, and preparations to make
it grand success in every way are
already we'll under way. The prem
jun list offering $4,000 in premiums is
already in the hands of the printer
and will soon be ready for distribution.
The Queen City Cotton company
has been formed at Burlington with a
capital stock Of $500, 900. w. J. Van
Patten, U. A. Woodbury. and Elias
Lyman, of Burlington, and capitalists
r. T., are interested in the concern.
A large factory will soon be erected.
Mr.. E. Austin of Enosburgh Falls
committed suicide by hanging, Fri
day, June 20. No cause is assigned
forenoon he went to the barn as usu
al. About II O'Clock, his daughter,
wondering at his remaining out so
long, went to the barn and found him
hanging to beam. Help was sum-
moned and he was cut down, but life
was extinct.
House of Correction, and only rs cells
for their accommodation. Beds are
set up in various parts of the institu
ton for prisoners serving short sem
fences. The report Of the House of
Correction for the past two years
shows 805 COMMITMENTS which is the
largest number since the institution
has been built. -x - t
Solomon James and Effie Spaulding
have been found guilty, in Windsor
county court, of attempted murder
by administering arsenic to Wilbur
Spaulding, husband of the latter. This
guilty pair desired to live together,
and concocted a scheme to do away
with Spaulding and get his life insur-
ed. They have been sent to state
prison for q term of years.
A correspondent from Chelsea
states: We were visited on Wednes-
day by a thunderstorm of almost I'M
precedented violence. The water be-
came higher in several streams than
it has risen since the freshet of
1869, and the town has nine bridges
to replace, besides much damage to
highways to repair. There was besides
a great deal of damage to private
property. The court house was struck
by lightning, but was not damaged
There is standing on the farm of
James Wilson of Danville probably
the oldest and largest willow in Yer
mont. In the year 1890, John Wilson,
while coming from Peacham on horse
back, cut willow switch and upon
his arrival home stuck it into the
ground, where it took root and to-day
measures, circumference of its trunk,
II feet; diameter of its foliage, rs
feet. This spring, while some limbs
were being burned under the tree, the
fire caught in the hollow trunk and
burned for a long time, leaving hol-
low in which three men can stand up
right, the hollow being nearly fifteen
feet in height.
The finishing shop and large new
mill of the Vermont Marble company
at Proctor were burned the morning
of July Sd, with heavy loss. The new
mill contained 25 gangs of saws, and
a large amount of unfinished work.
Rutland was called on for help and
steamer and several firemen, in charge
of Chief Hannum, quickly responded,
reaching the scene of the fire about
4:30 O'Clock. The fire was cotton un
der control about three O'Clock the
morning after, having burned the new
mill of the Vermont Marble company
together with the large finishing
shop. Hundreds of tons of marble in
chinery were also destroyed The
loss is estimated from S75 900 to $780,
600. 1t was we'll insured in the Yer
mont Mutual Of Montpelier and sew
eral other companies. About 800
men were temporarily thrown out of
employment, but the company will
start up other mills and thus give the
men work.