Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THURSDAY. OCT. 81.

Haven for drunkenness, hanged him.
self in his cell.
Captain Hart OF schooner Napoleon
def1ed q sheriff at Bristol, r. l., and drove
him of hia vessel.
Joseph Russell of Canada was arrested
at St Johnsbury, Vt, for robbing the
postofice at Barnet, VT.
Charles J. Mooney, who embezzed
G.z00 from Jordan, Marsh &, Co., of Bos-
ter. sent to the reformatory.
TWO Democratic factions of Pawtuclet.
r. l.. nominated municipal tickets al the
same time and place amid great con-
fusion.
Arefhus Goodwin, So years old, crawIed
under the gates at q crossing at Maiden.
Mass, just in time to be struck by a
locomotive and killed.
FRIDAY, OCT. %.
Constitution day was observed grand
~ at Boston.
Judge Danforth, g prominent Demo-
crat Of WiIliamstown, Mass, was killed
by being thrown from carriage.
Annie A. Ridout was killed by a train
in Boston. It is thought to be case Of
suicide on account of family troubles.
Mrs. John Ahern fell down flight Of
stairs at her home in Hartford and died
almost instantly from injuries caused
by a flower pot.
Minnie Norton, 10 or 20 years old, died
in a police ambulance in Boston from the
effects of opium poisoning. The girl had
been respondent.
The body Of Marcus Griffin was found
in the river at Westfeld, Mass. with
the skull fractured and the windpipe
broken, and with little water in the
lungs.
The administrators Of General Buffers
estate are being sued by w. D. Dewey
of birmingham, Mass, for $4,000 because
the general did not enter suit for which
he accepted q retainer of 5000.
SATURDAY, OCT 23
George E. Justason of Waltham
Mass, says that he was held up by two
men near Lincoln.
Thomas McClosky, who tried to kill
a policeman and had burglars tools in
his possession, was sentenced to not less
than. 90 years in state prison at Charles
town, Mass.
w. C. Miner, Falls Village, Conn,
90 years of age, dreamed that he had
become rejuvenated, and his disappoint-
ment on awaking was so great that he
killed himself
SUNDAY, OCT. "a.
Alphonse Holmes killed himself with
rifle at Bangor.
Fire destroyed the grandstand at the
fair grounds in Bangor, Me.
Rebels in Cuba, said to be no longer in
need of arms and ammunition.
Four robbers of express wagons have
been taken into custody at Boston.
Masked bandits entered a grocery in
Lynn, Mass, and robbed seven persons,
besides rifling the money drawers.
Selma Esterholme, suffering from
criminal operation performed by a fe-
male doctor in Cambridge Mass. died
in d Salem hospital.
MONDAY, OCT. %.
Burglars got away with $40 at the post
Office in Waterbury, VT.
James Sullivan was drowned by the
capsizing of a sailboat at Narragansett
Pier.
Matches caused the fatal burning Of q
child named Brown at North Andover.
Mass.
Gould Camp, eccentric bachelor of
Stowe, VT, reports the loss of $4,000 from
his barn.
Patrick O'Brien, a wealthy farmer al
Chamcook, N. B., was murdered and his
body thrown into a river.
David ST. George, % years, was killed
accidentally by his brother while they
Mass.
TUESDAY, OCT. 26.
Charles Hagerman was drowned az
Lawrence, Mass.
The Massachusetts Masonic Life as
ISOLATION of Springeld has liabilities Of
$685. 900 and assets of $33, 600.
Oscar Hall, 35 years old, was struck
by a train at Cottage Farm station.
Boston, and died soon after of his in
uries.
Daniel Mahoney and William Grohar
quarrelled in a lunch wagon in Boston,
and it is alleged that Grohan shot Ma
honey in the head.
Casper Blanchette, while running
away from the county farm at Gofftown,
n. H, was fired upon by an officer and
wounded dangerously.
An explosion of gas in an old fire we'll
in Providence tore up the street for Il
distance of $50 feet and shattered panes
Of glass in houses all about the place.
The big strike Of the sole fasteners in
Brockton, Mass, which involved mem
bers of the sole fasteners, fnishers and
machine operators unions, has been de-
clared off, and the strikers will ask the
manufacturers for their old jobs.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. q.
William Brown, Lewiston, Me, hanged
himself in his woodshed
Ralph Hastings, South Hope, Me-, was
sandbagged and robbed of $13.
Owing to weak boilers, four schools
in South Boston have been closed.
One boy was killed and another badly
injured by falling lumber at Boston.
G. E. Jones, Greenfield, Mass, had his
neck broken by a fall from carriage.
John Sloane, Newton, Vt, a brakeman.
was killed by striking a bridge at Walt
ham, Mass.
An attempt was made to burn the
Shaw-G Cooling shoe factory at Spring
field, Mass.
w. C. Todd, Atkinson, N. H., has do
mated $4,000 for the purchase of news
Co.