Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-08-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THURSDAY. AUG. y.


Alfred c. Williams has been held for
the murder of John Gallo at LynnfielG,
Mass.
There have seen nothing but elusive
clews in the Reed murder case at North
Adams, Mass.
Alderman Morgan of Cambridge,
Mass, weds young colored woman of
Springfield, Ills.
Two Fail River (Mass.) council.len
were arrested on charge of conspiracy
to accept a bride from an architect.
FRIDAY, AUG. Is.
Mrs. Hannah Robinson of Augusta,
Me, died in her 102nd year
Mrs. Mary A. Howard committed sui
eide by shooting herself at her brothers
home in Charlestown, Mass.
officers are following two men alleged
to be Bolinay and Weeks, who are wanted
in Connecticut on a charge of murder.
It is also thought they could explain the
killing of Henry Reed and his sister
Blanche in North Adams, Mass.
Everett Willis told how he and his
brother had Planned to get out of the
CharlestoWn (Mass.) prison. They ex-
pected to force the officers to give up the
keys, open the door, push Townsend
into the octagon and walk through a
door to freedom.
SATURDAY, AUG. IA.
A one-eyed man in Chelsea, Mass, cut
off II inches of girls beautiful hair.
Charles Wallace of Dorchester, Mass,
impaled on a carriage shaft while riding
q bicycle and killed
East Boston boy dies from conclusion
of brain caused by batted bail at a
Wood Island park game.
Herbert A. Willis, life convict in
Charlestown (Mass.) prison, who, with
his brother, attempted on Tuesday to
escape, died of his wounds.
officers confess themselves at the end
of their rope in the Reed case; two sus-
poets arrested at Lee, but no evidence
is forthcoming to connect them with
the murder at North Adams, Mass.
SUNDAY, AUG. 10.
Call issued for Democratic state con-
vention at Worcester, Mass. Sept %.
Herbert A. Willis. the convict, buried
at Bristol, r. T.: funeral service held at
Taunton, Mass
State Messenger William II. Whiting
of Boston confessed to leading a double
fife, and asserts he will stand by women
he has wronGed.
Hon. Ashley 3. Wright, member Of
congress from the First Massachusetts
district, died suddenly at his home in
found by his wife on entering the library,
after an evening visit to friends.
MONDAY. AUG. IS.
Vermont VIII have an open month for
deer hunting in October.
The siX-d,ay bicycle race was started at
Charles River track, Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Of GroveIand.
Mass, were badly injured in fire in
cottage on Plum island.
Captain George P. Burnham and
daughter were Frustrated by lightning
striking their house at Melrose. Mass.
The 15-year-old daughter of Or. Cush-
man found dead in a Vermont pasture.
The circumstances are said to be sus-
picious.
Mrs. Mary Waldo Weber. great grand
daughter of General Israel Putnam, OBJ
served her Goth birth day at West Somer-
vile, Mass.
Shirt covered with blood found near
North Adams, Mass. officers, how
ever. do not think it has any connection
with the Reed murder case.
designations. voluntary and otherwise,
expected from the faculty Of Brown
university in consequence of the SYM
pathy with President Andrews.
TUESDAY, AUG. IT,
Lightning caused havoc throughout
New England.
The great New England fair at Port
land. Ne. opened.
Marked falling off in imports at Bos-
ton under he new tariff law.
Reunion o. Thirty-third Massachu-
sets regimen at Forrest grove.
Boston merchants Will not arrange fall
trade excursions because of action of
Consolidated road, but. having the
goods, they feel confident of securing
the trade.
Albert Lambert, claiming to be a car
penter from Worcester, Mass, arrested
at Boston for bill raising job, shot him
self through the heart in cell at police
station ?.
Smith Davis, the Bristol CVt.) fugi-
tive from justice, reached his uncle's
house in Manchester, N. H, Sunday,
stayed there all night and in the morning
told his uncle his version of Dora Cush-
mans death; was advised to go back
and make a clean breast of it, and he
left, promising to do so. Dora E. Cush-
man died of oil of cedar, taken to conceal
the shame which could be concealed but !
little longer.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. Is.
Funeral of Congressman Wright at
North Adams, Mass.
Odd Fellows of the Tenth Maine dis
trict held field day in Pennington.
Massachusetts prison commissioners
commend warden and five officers of |
state prison for bravery.
Doe, alias woodward, notorious bunco
sharp, captured in Boston, is wanted in |
New York for 100000 Matchmaking job. |
Private Joseph Williams, secretary to. |
Major Meade at Charlestown (Mass) |
navy yard, committed suicide by hang
ing.
Springfield (Mass.) city government
committee revoked the license of a show
that the mana said he 1poc