Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-15
NEWS IN BIZ E I.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THrRS DAY. NOV. 4.

Frank Weldon confessess to having
attempted to kill Daisy Coulters at
Auburn, r. I.
Robert Murphy, % years. living in
Charlestown, Mass, attempted to drown
himself because he could not find en-
ployment.
John Wendell, Jr., was arrested at
Portsmouth, N H., charged with at
tempting to bride and influence the jury
in civil case
EIithas Bean, Respondent farmer
aged "a years, attempted suicide at
East Bethel, Me, BY cutting his throat
and there is little hope of his recovery.
FRIDAY. NOV. 5.
Blaze in bakery at Derry, N. H.
spread and caused 100000 worth Of 1ar1-
age.
Louisa Wiberg and Arthur st. An
drossy were married in Boston in a den
of lions.
Police OF Lawrence, Mass, discovered
a cave in the woods where youth and
a mere lad had stored the rewards of
several robberies.
George Stenz1e, New Haven, was
found by members of a shooting party
that he had accompanied with part of
his head blown off.
Charles Carson, Salem, Mass, was
cartridge that boys had placed oTs the
street railway track, the bullet fodging
in the back Of the neck
Five men employed as drivers for a
mail carrier in Portland, Me-, and their
foreman complained to the postmaster
that the contractor had neglected to pay
them for seven months.
SATURDAY, NOV 6.
Alice Brown was strangled in Boston
by somebody unknown.
Augustus Berg, Sc years, swallowed
poison at Providence because of fail
ing sight, and died.
The mother of Postmaster Mcnamara.
Clinton, Mass, was burned fatally while
at work near store.
Captain Robert II. Coombs, a prom
inent ship captain in the days when ship
ping doomed at Belfast, Ne. dropped
dead.
The Vale mills at Nashua, N. H..
which have been shut down several
months, are to start up, giving employ
ment to about so men in the manufac-
ture of cotton goods.
SUNDAY, NOV l.
Michael Capron was stabbed in a
quarrel at Haverhill Mass.
Two burglars made quite a haul of
jewelry and plate at Attleboro, Mass.
o. o. Olcott, prominenmt resident of
Bellows Falls. VT, hung himself in his
barn.
James Ranger Holyoke, Mass, in at
tempting to board a train at Northamp-
ton, Mass, slipped under the cars and
suffered the loss of foot.
MONDAY, NOV. 8.
William Robinson, So years, fell % feet
from bridge at Newton, Mass, and was
killed.
George Collins, 81, jumped from train
in Charlestown, Mass, and died of his
injuries.
William Campfield is accused of steal
ing a check for $50 from his employer at
Portland, Me-, and having it cashed.
Sherman Sanderson was shot at
Lunenburg, Mass, by the accidental
discharge of L. H. Browns gun, but will
recover
Ann Kerrigan, demented, but hercul-
can in strength, threw her 50-year-old
daughter out of q window in Lowell,
causing the victim to break a leg.
James Boyle, Randolph, Mass, %
years, was wounded by an officer during
a struggle in store at Holbrook, which
he had entered, apparently, with burg
larious intent.
"A consummate fraud and clever
swindler' is the titles given to w. A.
Thompson, under arrest at New Haven
for embezzlement by the authorities of
Doncannon, Pa.
TUESDAY, NOV. 9.
Wife of Judge Chadburn, Alfred, Me-,
sustained fatal injuries by a fall down.
stairs.
A driving pulley in a Hyde Park,
Mass, cotton mill burst two operatives
having narrow escapes.
Michale Calvin, 81 years, did not hear
a train approaching, and met his death
on the tracks at BridgeWater.
A jury in East Cambridge awarded
Edith NJ. Holt $1,000 damages in her
breach of promise suit against Ralph E.
Lane.
Frank Nol, aged So, committed sui
eide at Bridgeport, Conn, by hanging.
He was taken i'll Saturday and became
respondent.
A vicious horse attacked Louis Carron
at Merrimack n. H, and he would have
been killed but for the interference of
his son, who had to kill the animal.
Boston police have arrested William
Leavitt a blind seller of songs, who
lodged on the floor above where Alice
Brown was Strangled, on suspicion OF
being the murderer
BY an order received in Boston from
President John r. Proctor of the United
States civil service commission, all the
examining boards of cities and towns
within radius Of 20 miles of Boston are
abolished. Their functions will be per-
formed hereafter by a joint board of
which G. z. Stebbins of Boston will be
permanent chairman and secretary.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10.
Rufus Smith, Revere, Mass, was killed
by a gravel train.
John Roach, Boston, with four aliases,
has been sentenced to % years in prison
as an habitual criminal.
Burglars secured $1,000 in cash and val