Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-08-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THURSDAY, JULY %

Mass.
Eva Duffy, 2-year-oid Waltham
(Mass.) girl, run over by cart and in
stantly killed.
William H. Tierney taken from
Providence to Boston to stand trial for
larceny Of 1915 from his father.
John O'Neil, Jr., was found guilty Of
murder of Mrs. McCloud. Verdict re-
turned after hours deliberation by jury.
FRIDAY, JULY so.
John P. Lowell of Boston died at Cot
tage City, Mass.
Miss Sarah Wheelwright, the reported
friend of Miss Alice Garrett, says she
didn't know the girl, never made her
presents and never engaged rooms at
the Thorndike.
Alfred C. Williams was arrested at
Lynn, Mass, and charged with the muir
der of John Gullo at Lynnfield Centre.
Gullo was murdered, robbed and his
cabin set on fire.
Charles S. Newhan, who robbed the
Melrose (Mass.) Cooperative bank, the
Melrose Highlands Congrega tional
church and the Agricultural Insurance
company Of boston, was found in Maine.
He says his downfall was Que to an effort
to drown a great sorrow.
SATURDAY, JULY 81.
President Andrews of Brown uniVer
sity is to become the head Of great
popular college.
Three-day convention cf the American
Philatelic association to be held in BOs-
ton next month.
Haverhill (1Iass.) expedition for Klon-
dyke with no Baverhill men in It. Money
is posted and contract signed TO start
next week.
l,loo X H. ]
his wife and child, who disappeared a
year ago, at Waterville, Me-, and took
his daughter and started home.
Newhau, the confessed NIelrose (NIass.)
embezzler, detained at Bar Harbor. Me-
for Boston police. He says his pecula-
tons will not amount to more than $4,000.
SUNDAY, AUG. 1.
Owen J. Barker of Lynn, Mass, was
shot in the breast by highwaymen Sun
day morning.
The Verrnons Fish and Game league
VIII give an elaborate entertainment to
the chief executive the coming week.
Charles S. NewhaH, the embezzler of
Melrose, Mass. was brought from South
west Harbor, Me, and locked UP in the
Charles street Jail, Boston.
A bloody ak was found near the scene
of John Gallo's murder on Phillips farm,
Lynnfield, Mass, with traces of human
hair on it. Williams, accused of the
murder, pleaded not guilty.
An interview with Mrs. Barrett of
Boston, the mother of Alice, together
with the denials Of both of the John
Codmans, makes impregnabIe the theory
that the girl shot herself. She had used
her money in extravagant ways, de-
ceived her mother, and when exposure
was coming shot herself.
MONDAY, AUG. 2.
D. L. Moody denies the statement that
he is about to retire.
The counsel for Joseph Kelley, the
Somersworth, n. H, murderer, viii set
up claim OF insanity at his trial.
Michael NcAuliffe, confined in East
Weymouth (Mass.) Jail for assault on
officer, freed by friends entering and
breaking bars of cells.
Funeral Of John P. Lowell at East
Weymouth, Mass. The whole town in
mourning over one of its most esteemed
and respected citizens.
Boston Central Labor union adopted
resolutions deprecating the action of the
trustees Of Brown university which re-
suited in the resignation Of President
Andrews.
Count Carl Cronheiln, who has been a.
H.,
appraised OF his inheritance to a title and
fortune in Sweden, and VIII leave Bos-
ton shortly to enjoy it.
TUESDAY, AUG. S.
Universalists' summer meeting opened
at The Weirs, n. H.
Open letter from Brown university
faculty condemns corporations action
in President Andrews case.
Harmon Cuff, impaled on an ice hook
and dragged along a Lynn (Mass.)
street had miraculous escape from
death.
Miss Alice Barrett's movements at
Boston traced up to the hour Of shoot
ing; fire marshal learns Ct a bath at
tendant calling upon her at a hotel.
More than 1000 unemployed men gath
cred outside the state house at Boston
to be registered for city work, three
fourths of whom were disappointed.
Some Boston underwriters believe that
big war in insurance rates is coming,
and that nothing can avert it. The cause
is cutting in the sly by over-shrewd
agents. One says all is needed is S10,-
OOO 900 fire to kill all talk of rate fight j..
Champion E. H. Ten Eyck reached
his Worcester (Mass.) home and was
met by the whole city; procession.
SpCCSliC2' ~ n.y. SIliIlSSS IdI1l0IIIS,
cheers, with a windup at Lake Quin-
young mans father received
a purse of $500.
WEDNESDAY. AUG. 4.
Death Of Michael Melledy, a centen-
arian of Roxbury Mass.
George Staples held for the Decost
killing at Gorham, N. H
Porgy fisherman fined 5000 and costs
in an Ellsworth (Me.) court
George w. Thomas of Boston is held at
Bangor, Me, on two charges of forgery.
Death OF Nelson Dingley, Sr., father of
Congressman Dingley, in Auburn, Me.
Brutal burglars attack three brothers
near New Ipswich, N. H., but secure