Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THURSDAY. AUG. 26.


hurt.
Mrs. PAMELA Stevens of Andover.
| Mass, who was over 100 years of age,
| is dead.
The representatives of Ten Eyck and
Mcguire have signed artiles for race
On Labor day.
John McGregor of Newton, Mass. was
fatally injured in a collision Of wheels
| at Auburndale.
| The Massachusetts Gold Democrats
will hold a. convention in .Fanueil hall.
| Thursday, Sept. 80.
FRIDAY, AUG. 81.
Whaling bark Swallow sails from Bos-
| ton for Southern seas.
Ernest MAIDEN of South Braintree
Mass, Is, rescued from band of gypsies
| in New York city.
Fire in Pittsburg, Mass, caused
panic among hotel guests; two f1remen
injured and two boys feared to be lost.
r. D. Wrenn successfully defends his
| title of American tennis champion by
| beating DR.. Eaves three sets to two at
Newport r. I.
Miss Cora B. Pike of Boston and Miss
Lizzie Kimball of Fitchburg nominated
for president of the Daughters of Veter-
ans. Ladies of the G. a. r. opposed to
consolidation with the w. r. G..
SATURDAY, AUG. %
Lewiston, Me-, clubs must go dry
| Sundays
Joe Patchen goes a mile in 2:02 at
Readville, Mass.
Judge Peters renominated chief jus.
tice of supreme court of Maine
Goddard mills in Rhode Island will
continue; 5000 persons employed.
Boy robbed of valuable dog at Water
vile, Me, by tramp with revolver
C9nf9jo Pn6oarc Of no oil
team is seriously sick with typhoid fever
Waltham's (Mass.) striking molders
hold a meeting and vote to continue the
fight.
Clues to the North Adams tMass)
Reed murderers may have been found at
Bennington.
Boston Elevated Railroad company tc
lease the West End; terms agreed upon
by committees.
Clambake at New Bedford, Mass, en-
joyed by ex-President Cleveland. many
navy and customs officers and others
Miss Beatrix Hoyt of Shinnecock Hills
beats Miss Sargent Of the Essex County
club in the finals of the women's ma
tional golf tournament.
Revival of famous Bath, Me-, scandal
through Mrs. Patterns demand for her
children. Mrs. Patten was recently
married to Hon. John o. Patten who
was a leading actor in the sensation.
SUNDAY, AUG. 30
Two men were killed and so injured by
the collapse of an old building on Bennett
street, Boston.
Lesna the French champion, defeated
Starbuck in a ,25-mile match race at
Charles River park, Boston
Star Pointer, the PAGER, went a mile
in 1859 IA at ReadviIle, Mass. This
snlashes every harness record.
Joe Mcguire has announced that he
will not row Ten Eyck at the Labor day
regatta of the n. E. r. A. at Boston.
John Clancy of West Newbury. Mass
was attacked by a mad dog He stood
him off for half an hour without being
bitten.
Remarkable shooting at Walnut Hill. |
Mass. H. L. Willard put u consecutive
shots into a circle the size Of a silver /!
dollar at 200 yards.
Daniel c. Brown, Jr, assistant post
master at Marblehead, Mass, was de
teCted in opening letters containing +
money. He confessed to thieving for /
two years.
MONDAY, AUG. so.
No solution of the Reed murder rnys- |
terry at North Adams, Mass.
Thomas E. Hayden and Nicola Cara /
blno were drowned at Lynn, Mass
Mrs. Gosseiin has mysteriously dis
appeared from Manchester, N H.
John H Butman had his boat and |
wharf blown up by dynamite at Salem,
Mass.
Boston cattle dealers have been no
titled not to handle cattle from New
York, because of Texas fever
Joseph Mason, wealthy farmer of
Amesbury, Mass, was selected by card
sharps as q victim. He was not fleeced. {
however.
Two stowaways Were brought to Bos-
ton on the steamer Roman. The boats
from the provinces are crowded with
excursionsts.
Captain Edwin J.. Canham and Mrs
Mary Penrose of post of the American
Volunteers disappeared from Boston,
leaving behind a wife and child and
husband and depleted treasury.
TUESDAY, AUG. 81
The fairs at Bangor and Lewiston
Me, have been opened.
The annual encampment of the New
Hampshire veterans opened at The
Weirs.
There was some sensational and racy
testimony in the Roberts Patten case
at Bath, Me, A servant, who saw, tells
the details of the sofa episode.
President Robert F. Straine and Treas
IA Ct SAd11So "a AdIIpSOu VI the OnlIoQ
Telegram company were arrested at
Boston charged with conspiring to de-
fraud the company.
John Swan, a Harvard senior, fell
1z5 feet into a ravine Monument
mountain, near Stockbridge Mass. He
struck against a tree, which saved him
from instant death. His condition is
however, quite serious
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. l.
Ethel Day, aged Is, of Waterv111e, Me.
attempted suicide because of a lovers