Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-13

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. DEC. 5.

A new clue is being followed up in re
gard to the wherea bouts CT Miss Bertha
Mellish, missing Mt. Rolyole college
girl.
Four women have been arrested al
Lynn, Mass, for shopIifting in several
cities, the value Of their plumber amount
ing to $4,000.
George S. Merrill, for u years insur-
ance commissioner of Massachusetts
has accepted an offer from the Insur-
ance News of Boston to act as associate
editor for 1898
MONDAY, DEC. 6.
Three men died OF alcoholism in Boston
police stations in one day.
Eliot Congregational church Boston.
was damaged about $500 by fire.
Michael W. Rooney of Stoneharn.
Mass, charged with passing mutilated
bills, is not well known in that town.
Four Yale students are likely to be ex-
PEELED for playing a practical joke. in
causing the arrest Of sophomore who is
insane.
Arrest of four women in Lynn for shop
lifting leads he police 50 believe that
a gigantic conspiracy to rob shopkeep-
ers has been unearthed.
William Leavitt of Bangor, Me- one
of the Competitor prisoners, is believed
q.
who ran away to sea in 1879.
Mrs Lizzie F'oss and her brother-in-
law, Frank z. Willard of Manchester.
N. H, are charged with deserving q babe
in the Old Colony station in Boston
Rev. Daniel L. Furber of the First
Congregational church of Newton Cen
ter, Mass. observed the 50th anniversary
OF his installation as pastor OF that
church.
Solomon Crouch and Joel Watrous
claiming to be prophets, stirred I'D the
sober, sedate Quakers of LeGyard, Conn,
in an attempt to revise their creed and
II their nightly exhortations in barns
and woods. and the burning of a house is
followed by talk of tar and feathers.
TUESDAY, DEC I.
Question OF reduction Of insurance
rates is being vigorously agitated in
Boston.
Frank Redhead, a letter thief in the
Lowell pOstoffce, was committed for
six months.
Rev. Francis A. Smith, a Jesuit, fatally
injured in Boston while riding bicycle
by a collision with a horse
Boston woman, % years old, stabbed
her sweetheart near the heart while
under the influence of liquor.
Manchester, N. H, man and woman
are under arrest in Boston on charge
Of abandoning a child in depot.
All Of the hand turn workmen. As in
number, employed ct the shoe factory
of Faunce & Spinney, Lynn, Mass, are
out On strike to resist a cutdown in
wages
Gang of nine burglars whose ages
range from Is to 16 years and who have
been committing many petty depreda-
tions have Been rounded up by the pc
lice Of Boston.
Frank Z. Platt, son Of an officer in the
United States navy. who has been board
ing for some time in Charlestowrf, Mass.
attempted suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. g.
Frank Pluff, Lewiston, Me-, reports
having been robbed Of $3.50.
Daniel Murray, 10 years of age, was
badly crushed between a car and Z coal
chute in Boston, and died
George Ellis, a carpenter, was fatally
injured by falling from a staging in
Marlboro, Mass, yesterday.
Thomas H. Shaw, former book-keeper
OF the Barbour-Stockwel company of
Cambridge, Mass, was sentenced to
eight years in the state prison fof. EN-
bezzlement.
THURSDAY, DEC. ..
Fail River, Mass, millmea have de-
cided upon cutdown of 10 per cent III
the wages of q, coo operatives
Jeremiah Mahoney, 80 years old, lost
his balance While crossing the span of a
railroad in Boston and was killed by Il
fall.
Piano case factory of Goddard e. Man
ming at Athol. Mass. was Quilted by fire.
from which w. D. Lee had q narrow es-
cape.
Fire caused damage estimated at 500
900 to books and a building owned by
MiffIin & Co. at Cambridge.
Mass.
David Weeks, in custody on charge
of killing Farmer Nichols. told the story
of the crime at the trial Of Char;e9
Bonay in Bridgeport Conn
Frank Brady, employed at a PownaI
VT, hotel, was arrested on a charge OF
being the highwayman who robbed a
woman at WilIiamstown. Mass.
Boston druggist named Paine was
beaten with revolver in his store by an
unknown desperate, who secured $1,000
IN bills from trunks where they had been
placed for safekeeping.
FRIDAY, DEC. 10.
Waterproof factory of Boynton e. O.
at Woburn, Mass, was burned.
Alfred Lepine was injured fatally by
an iron roller in a mill at Woonsocket.
John Manson, aged So, fell 20 feet a.
Lynn, Mass. and was fatally injured
E. Deslaumier Of Manchester. N. H.
father of six children, was killed by a
cavein.
Thomas Carney, an inmate of the
soldiers home at Togus, Me, committed
suicide in the river at Randolph. Me. j
after spree.
Large part, If not all. of the shortage
OF Congressional Librarian Spofford.
to $50, 900. will be accounted
for by batch of orders which the oh
sent-minded librarian forgot to cash.
SATURDAY, DEC. II.