Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, DEC. II.

furniture store OF Mcintosh & Graham,
Portsmouth, n. h, which did $500 dam
age.
Leslie circuit, three times married,
became raving maniac at Riverton,
N. FL. because it is thought he was
Tilted. and tried to hang himself.
MONDAY, DEC. 10.
Fire destroyed three buildings atDur-
ham. n. H, including the postoff1ce, the
loss reaching $1,000.
John Brennan was stabbed seriously
at Haverhill, Mass, in row with two
negroes over q young woman
"A monstrous travesty' is one of many
terms applied by a Boston minister to the
police commission in that city
w. NcAIister, one of the attendants
IN the Concord, Mass, reformatory, has
lust found his wife in Norfolk, Va, af-
ter a separation which began with his
enlistment in the navy.
Rev. William Knight of the Central
CONGREGATIONAL church of Fall River,
Mass. offered to reduce his own salary
10 per cent il similar reduction would
be agreed to by the mill officials.
F. d. Cannon, aged 90, was arrested
at New Haven for Otealing packages
from cars consigned 20 the Adams Elk
press company, by which he was en-
Moved,
were taken for receiving stolen property.
TUESDAY, DEC. IA.
Emma c. Rand, IS years, killed her
self in Boston by innaling gas.
Joseph Reardon, years old, was run
over by a wagon in Boston and killed.
]. E. Steele, % years, lost both legs
and a hand by falling under a car at
Somerville. Mass.
Lynn. Mass, is suffering from series
of daring holdups, the perpetrators Of
which manage to elude the police.
Arsenic has been found in the body of
Sally w. Jones, Milton, n. H, whose son
suspected foul play on account of family
trouble.
For stealing a pair of trousers in Chez
sea, Mass, two men with bad records
will be imprisoned for not more than
five years.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. Is.
About $50 worllmen in a Haverhill.
Mass, factory quit work because Of a
reduction.
Peter Quinn fell asleep in the office Of
q Boston stable and was dead from coal
gas when discovered.
Young woman was robbed of q poe
textbook and several trinkets by a high
waynlan in Providence.
According TO representations made to
the election commissioners, there are
Gil men whose names appear on the vot-
ing lists in Boston who are Illegally reg
istered.
Bath CAIe.) iron works viii receive the
contract for the practice ship for the
Annapolis naval academy at a cost OF
over S2O0, 00O. The work viii be begun
at once.
Committee Of Fall River manufacture
~
the factory officials be reduced the same
percentage as that agreed upon as re
Spects operatives.
THURSDAY, DEC. 16.
Slab of state killed William Dillon in q
quarry at South Poultney, VT.
Congressman Fitzgerald has offered to
distribute $4,000 if Candidate Riley re-
ceives 10000 votes in the Boston election
Tuesday.
Charles y. Roscoe, a grocer at Provi-
dence, was shot and seriously wounded
in his store by Alexander L. Provost, As
years Of age, supposed to be insane.
Valentine La1nc&reax, aged Is years.
died at her home a. Quidnick, r. L, IN
der circumstances that indicate that her
death was due to fright arising from the
belief that a tramp was following her
David w. Pierce, who has previously
served a term n the reformatory for
forgery, was sent to the house Of cor
rection for two and one-half years for
passing q worthless check en- a Boston
stablekeeper.
Half-droWned sailor, who arrived at
the custom house at Portland, Me-, re-
ported himself the sole survivor Of the
crew of seven CT the Susan p. ThurIow
of New York, which was driven on the
rocks on the outer shore of Cushing's
island.
FRIDAY, DEC. II.
Henry Balkirk, Fail River, Mass, was
killed by a falling tree
Eli Lundry was killed 20 miles from |
Rumford Falls, Me-, by the breaking of /!
an engine
Thieves secured $500 worth of dia-
mOnds and jewelry in the home of Percy |
Parker of Lowell, Mass.
arson and larceny" are the charges I
against Theophilus Smith, owner of /
property in Lowell, that was damaged |
by fire.
Clerk in Boston jewelry store dashed
a tray of rings in the faces CT two would I
be thieves and seized revolver, where |
upon the men ran off,
Patrick S. Bird of Amesbury, Mass.
seeks for nUility of marriage to Annie
Bird on the ground that she was insane /
at the time tbA nuptial knot was tied
Richard H. Johnson was sentenced
to Is years in prison for robbery COM
mitted last September upon Providence
woman, from whom he snatched a peck
etbook containing; $65.
Ellen Neville over go years of age, is
suing Mrs. ~Gi1e in a. Boston court to re-
cover demages to the amount of $50, 900
for, as alleged. alternating the affections
of the plaintiffs husband, Captain Will
lam B. Neville, a retired sea captain.
who died at the home of Mrs Gle in Sep
TENDER, 1895.
SATURDAY, DEC. 49,
William Lacrousa, aged 29 was killed !