Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-06
NEWS In BRIEF.
NEW ENGLANr HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. NOV. %.

Burglars obtained jewelry and s35
II the house of Mrs. L. A. Woodbury.,
:Titchburg, Mass.
Ernest Houghton, aged %. son of
physician at Rochester. n. H, was killed
by a train at Woodlawn. r. I.
Boston woollen merchants had a mar
row escape from being victimized by a
swindler to whom they shipped several
hundred dollars worth of cloth to AL
bany.
MONDAY, NOV. %.
Boston police arrested IL night walk
ers Sunday night.
Farmhouse was burned by an incen-
diary in Cranston, 2. 1.
Burning of feed wires tied up Boston's
car system for six hours Sunday.
There was vigorous denunciation Of
the prohibitory law by Portland (Me.)
pastor.
Newly born infant was mangled hor-
ribly at Hartford and then thrown or
the railroad track.
Incendiary set fire to planning mill
and house owned by Colonel Wallace
of West Manchester, n. II.
Edward T. Maher rescued two children
from death in a burning house al Maiden,
Mass, twice risking his life.
TUESDAY, NOV. So
Thurston's millinery store $1,000.
Fire did $4,000 worth of damage in
Moir Bros store at Lowell Mass.
Polly Cook was instantly killed while
walking or the tracks at Revere, Mass
jeremiah O'NeiI fractured his skull by
falling into the hold of a vessel at Provi-
Gence.
w. p. MCGOWAN, % years, was arrested
in Providence for burglarizing several
houses.
Elmer Bachus, aged II, fell under a car
at Stanton, VT, while stealing a ride and
was killed.
While fox hunting at Rye, N. H, G. T
Miner, IS years old, shot himself fatally
in the left breast.
Six thousand dollars in bills were con-
sumed in the burning Of Daniel Smiths
house in Cranston, r. /.
Four hundred dollars in money and
stamps were taken by burglars from
the postoffice at Antrim N Il
Matthew Sullivan fell from the roof of
a barn at Northampton, Mass, and re-
ceived injuries from which he died
During the parents absence, the 49,
months old son of Charles June, Afianus,
Conn, was burned to death by flames
from an overturned lamp.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. l.
William L. Kicker, Everett, Mass,
committed suicide, sorrowing for the
death of his wife.
Druggist Moses, Lynn, Mass, was
found dead in his store, which had been
closed two weeks.
Town Treasurer Harrity, Clinton,
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audit at the request Of the selectmen.
Massachusetts board of trade wants
the cost of mana ging the state reduced
and says that the burden of debt is too
heavy.
There was hot time at the n1ayoralty
and aldermanic conventions Of the Bos-
ton Democracy, fist fights on the stage
being a feature.
Peter Laf1eur, Thetford, Que. who
said that he spent $500 in searching for
his wife and four children, located them
at Somersworth, n. H.
Z. A. Keith, 80 years, and Nora Nc
Aneny, who had been separated from
her husband and three children. com
mitted suicide III a house in Lowell
Boston woman who bought 10000
shares of stock in a mining COMPANY
with land at Cripple Creek caused the
arrest of three men en- charge CT trying
to defraud her of $10,O 900.
Walter Chaplin, WalpoIe, Mass, was ar
rested on charge of obtaining property
valued at 800 on false pretences from
the International Shirt and Collar com
pany and others in Boston.
THURSDAY, DEC. 2
Amos Murgatroyd, Haverhiu. Mass.
newsdealer, shot himself dead.
Millinery store of Derby & Thayer at
South Weymouth, Mass, was entered
by burglars, who stole furnishings
valued at $3.50.
By bursting of a beer vat in Frank
Jones brewery at Portsmouth, William
White was injured and a financial loss of
$4,000 was caused.
Michael Clark, who was married in
Northampton Mass, Saturday, went to
New York on his wedding tour and there
lost himself. his money, his memory and
his wife. the latter returning to her home
in Rutland, VT.
DR.. T. E. Russell, whose wife's money
enabled him to leave silver plating to
become a physician, killed himself in
Boston for love of another woman who,
after promising to marry him after he
had secured a divorce, married another.
FRIDAY, DEC. g.
Foundry OF Davis &Farnham Manu-
featuring company at WaItham Mass.
was burned.
Fire did great damage to the furniture
establishment of Flint & Co. in Provi-
dence, and one of the workmen was
Suffocated.
. Giuseppe Fuda, convicted of the muir
der of his wife in East Norwalk, Conn,
Feb. IL last, was hanged at the state
prison at Wethersfield
SATURDAY, DEC
c. J. Corcoran was killed by a Iocomo-
tive at WobuTn, Mass. while walking on
the track.
Three men were struck by a train ct
Revere, Mass. two being knocked in:o
a creek and probably drowned
Isaac Meyer sat beneath q chandelier
with tube IN his mouth in his home in
Boston and was suffocated