Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-21
State News Items.

The grand lodge of Good Templars
held it's annual meeting at Richford
last week.
The corn canning factory at North
field has paid this season about So, 600
for corn, and 81 900 for help in taking
care of it.
Col Proctor denies that he is at
work in the interest of Col. Harrison
to make him candidate for the next
presidency.
Patrick Daley, the Brandon farmer
who was so brutally assaulted by Pat
rick Sloane last week Tuesday, died
from his injuries early Friday morn
ing. a...
Col. Amasa o. Gates of Morrisville,
Gov. Fuller's chief of staff, died re-
Gently, aged fifty three years. He
was first sergeant of Company O.,
Seventeenth Vermont, during the
war.
Lydia Stevenson, at st. Adams, has
been found guilty of causing the death
of Estella Houghton of SWanton, by
criminal operation. The case will be
carried to the supreme court.
Daniel L. Gushing, prominent civil
engineer, and one of the best known
denly on the 10th. In 1854 he had
practical oversight of the enlarge
ment of the Erie canal between Roch-
ester and Lyons.
The Fife Lumber Company's steam
saw and dressing mill at Belvidere,
operated by Sheldon & Larned, burn
ed on the 9th, with considerable lum-
Der. Loss on mill $4,000; insurance,
$2500. Twice before in the past 10
years the mill has burned.
The infant son of Chas. F. Johnson
of ST. Adams was straugled to death
Saturday The child was found dead
with rope about his neck. The rope
had been used by other children for a
swing. The child probably twisted
the rope about his neck and then fell
accidentally.
The experiment of starting a daily
paper in Rutland will soon be tried
again. The men back of the project
are said to have ample capital. The
paper will be known as the Rutland
NeaUs, and will be run on the same
lines as the Burlington NeaUs which
has been a highly successful paper
from the start.
At Bennington on the 18th, horse
belonging to j. @. Colgate of New
York, who has a summer residence
here, ran away, and in turning a cor
ner in the village, threw down Walter
Collins of the Putnam House, who
was crossing the street with five
year-o old son Of George Bushnell. Col
Inns is seriously injured, and the child
was killed.
Three women were badly hurt in
Starksboro recently by being thrown
from a carriage, by the breaking of
harness, while coming down steep
hill. If there is any greater fault than
to permit three women to drive about
the country alone, it is to have a har-
ness that is old and unsafe. 1t is
criminal to endanger life by using old
or worn harness straps.
Fred E. Smith, state Inspector of
finance made a report of his examina-
ton of the Granite State Provident
Association of Manchester, n. Ell.
After deducting $4,000 from the as
sets, he finds the company solvent.
He says in his report that he is ''fear-
full that many shareholders who have
been led or permitted to believe their
shares would mature in eight years
will be disappointed"
John S. Carr, president of the J. S.
Carr Cracker Co. of Springfield, Mass,
died in that city Wednesday. He was
native of Danville, and began life as
an employe of the Fairbanks Scale
Co. at ST. Johnsbury. At Gov. Fair
banks request he started a bakery in
ST. Johnsbury in 1851, and seven
years later he established the same
business at Springfield He was a
highly successful business man, and
prominent Mason, and in 1892 was
delegate to the national Republican
convention.
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