Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THURSDAY, OCT. Z.


Lynn, Mass.
! Henry Revoir Newport, VT, was ia
| tally injured by a cavein while at work
in a siX-feet ditch
| Payroll of the Androscoggin mills at
| Lewiston, Me-, is 40 per cent greater
| than it has been in months.
FRIDAY, OCT. 8.
| William Mckay, Quincy, Mass, was
killed in quarry at Rockland, Me.
w. c. Kingman jumped from fourth
/ story window in Boston, while delirious
| from fever and will die.
Thomas Donohue, ball player, was ar
rested at Taunton, Mass. for assault
on saloon keeper in 1894 with intent to
kill
SATURDAY, OCT. 8.
| Locomotive killed Timothy Coughlin
at Belmont, Mass, while he was on the
way to church.
Joseph Kelly of Holyoke, Mass, aged
| 16 years, was wound around a shafting
| at Middletown, Conn, and frightfully
hurt.
Boston man gave as a reason for want
| ing divorce that he was made to drink
| tea for supper for "a years when he
wanted coffee.
Elizabeth Lunt, So years, stepped on
| a match in her home at Cambridge,
Mass, the flame setting fire to her clothes
| and causing her death.
Before inf1icting a terrible wound in
his throat that brought death, Thomas
Cooper knelt by the side Of the bed in his
humble room in the Faneuil House,
Brighton, Mass, and spent his last dy-
ing momeEats in prayer and supplication.
SUNDAY, OCT. 10.
Lysander Battles died two hours after
North Randolph, VT.
Torpedo boat Stiletto was sunk at
Newport while an attempt was being
made to remove her boiler.
f. A. Curtis and Lucinda Foss have
been held at Rockland, Me, for the al
legged murder of Charles Bowen.
Ira A. Abbott Haverhill, Mass, has
received a bequest of $4,000 under the
will of Mrs. Stickney of Chicago.
F. A Brown attempted to dig his way
out of the county Jail al Pennington, Me-,
to escape a four years sentence in prison
for burglary.
Action of tort for $25, 900 has been insti-
tuted against Hannah V. Ross, spiritual
istic medium of Boston, and her divorced
husband, Charles H. Ross of Providence,
by Mrs. Dean of Onset, Mass, to recover
bonds and cash aggregating over $S000
it is alleged, obtained by fraud.
MONDAY, OCT. IL.
Highwaymen relieved Charles Briggs
of $13 66 at Lynn, Mass.
Thomas Hogan, 20 years, was killed
by a fall in a stable at Roxbury, Mass.
Jennie Brook of Spencer, Mass, 10
years, committed suicide by drowning.
No cause is assigned for the act.
By the breaking of the bar of a cap
stan used in moving building al Quincy,
Mass, William Bennett, 20 years, re-
ceived fatal injuries.
Frederick Hanson, conductor of train
between Boston and Lawrence, slipped
when trying to board moving 1ocomo-
tive, and lost an arm under wheel
A clash predicted at the next conven-
ton of the worlds w. C. T. U. owing to
opposition to the views of Lady Henry
Somerset and TO Frances E. Willard be-
cause Of her alleged sympathy with the
English woman.
TUESDAY, OCT. II.
Lad named Aronndich fell from a
Boston roof and was killed.
J. T. O'Sullivan, the politician OF Law
renee, Mass, is dead al Ashevi1le n. c.
Weavers struck at a worsted mill in
Clinton Mass, for an increase in wages.
Monday New Bedford began weeks
jubilee in commemoration Of its golden
anniversary.
Body of Francis Pratt, so years of age,
was found hanging from a beam in
his bedroom at Holbrook, Mass.
George Doane, So years, in jumping
a ditch at Duxbury, Mass, with a loaded
gun, accidentally discharged the weapon
and was killed.
w. A. Trask, accused of stealing
s64O4 from a bank at WalIingford, Conn,
and $500 from the borough, has been
arrested at Halifax.
John F. Boynton of Leominster, Mass,
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. Family troubles are
believed to have been the cause of the
act.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13.
Joseph Goldman, Montpelier, VT, took
rough on rats
E. w. Frake, Bridgeport, Conn, is al
legged to have passed worthless check
at Rochester and is under arrest.
H. w. Cass was arrested at Concord,
N. H., on suspicion of having started
fire in the house of his son-in-law.
Harry Fine and William F. Rafferty,,
mere lads, are under arrest in Boston
for larceny of $4,000 worth of goods from
their employer.
Joseph Goldman took trough on rats
at his home near Montpelier, VT, and
will die. He was so years old, unmarried
and was Respondent.
James Haley of East Milton, Mass,
formerly station agent at the Old Colony
depot at that place, was found by Bos-
ton officers with his skull fractured.
oliver Barnish of Palmer, Mass, and
Winnie E. Stewart of Nashua, N. H. |
were arrested in Boston yesterday on
a warrant charging them with the lar
ceny of $156 from John French of
Nashua.
The four days convention of the |
Knights of Malta, which began in Bos-
ton Yesterday, was initiated by parade |