Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-04

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
THURSDAY, SEPT. %.

| at Somervilles Mass.
! By the bursting of a dywheel in a rub
/ Der factory at Providence two men were
! killed and other employees were injured.
| There is no prospect for settlement
! of the lasters' strike at Brockton, Mass.
| The manufacturers will run open shops.
/ Fred E. Bedard of Newton, Mass, de-
| spondent over failure to obtain work,
| committed suicide by taking paris green.
William Flannery, a 16-year-old oper-
| ative at the delaine mills in Olneyville,
R. l., dropped dead just inside the factory
gate while trying to avoid being late.
FRIDAY, SEPT. "a.
Green hands are taking the places of
| strikers in shoe factories at Brockton,
| Mass.
| Body of a workman named Manuello
| was torn to pieces in stone crusher at
| North Cohasset, Mass
James Frazier, Fall River Mass has
| a terrible wound in the groin that
| Thomas Butler caused during quarrel
| over affections of their boarding mis-
| tress.
| Joseph Cameron was fatally hurt in
| desperate encounter with a robber in
his barn at Providence. having had a leg
broken, his skull fractured and his
money amounting to s35 stolen.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 25.
Papers criticising jury system and
| bearing Henry H. Faxon's name were re-
ceived by Lawrence (Mass.) jurors.
The village of Morgan's Mills r. l..
! will have another mill, to be erected by
Leander w. Peckham, whose present
factories are running night and day.
A man named Gallagher, under ar
hest at Providence, confesses to the
murderous assault upon Peddler Cam
eron, but says it was in self-defence.
Robert E. Calvin of Haverhill, Mass,
was sentenced to not less than II nor more
than 20 years in state prison for man
| slaughter in causing death of Robert
Kydd.
SUNDAY, SEPT. &c.
Maine had a trembling from earth
| quake.
President Mckinley laid cornerstone
at Adams, Mass.
-Four men have been arrested at Web
ster Mass, for looting cottages at Lake
Chanburgamaug.
Frederick Brunette, Putnam, Conn,
fell between cars while stealing a ride
ana died in an hour.
Boy named Reardon received a stray
bullet in an arm while walking in the
| woods at Lynn, Mass, and walked
| long distance to find a surgeon.
rested at East Sandwich, Mass, for
felonious assault upon a girl, Is years,
with whose parents he boarded.
J. NJ. Pulsifor of Wakefield Mass,
commercial traveller, was robbed of
$500 worth of personal property at a
Rochester IN. FL hotel The thieves
entered the room by picking the lock
of the door. Inside of two hours Bos-
ton detectives had arrested two men
with the stolen property.
MONDAY, SEPT. %.
Horse thieves are at work near Port
land, Me.
Manchester N. H., policeman in CT
william clothes was beaten by telephone
lineman.
Charles T. Wilder left $4,000 as
parting gift to his paper mill employees
at Olcott Falls, VT.
Frank Day fell into a quarry at Rock
land Me- and when found 20 hours later
had a broken leg and a badly bruised
head.
Harry A Litchfield, alleged to have
stolen $500 last week, was captured by
the Boston police with 10 cents in his
possession.
A mob of Italians was frightened from
attempt to rescue comrades from Med
ford (Mass.) police by threats of the lat
ter to shoot.
Lawyer F. w. Valentine, Brooklyn.
was killed and Druggist Burt's skull was
fractured in a runaway accident at
Putnam, Conn.
Ara Cushman, shoe manufacturer at
Auburn, Me-, had a shoulder dislocated
and two ribs fractured by being thrown
from carriage with his wife.
Lynn (Mass.) grammar school boys are
on strike. They assert that they will
not parade en- city government day of
carnival week unless they have mo
school, every afternoon.
TUESDAY, SEPT. IS.
President Mckinley was in a slight
carriage accident at Adams, Mass, but
was not injured.
H. A. Litchf1eld, Boston young man,
took s716 from his employer and spent it
all in riotous living.
Boston young woman Of wealthy fam
lily joins the Salvation Army and is to
marry coworker intended for a rabbi.
Strike at BrCckton, Mass, is now on to
a finish. Secretary McSherry says there
will be no appeal for arbitration from
sole fasteners.
Lynn (Mass.) grammar school boys
win their strike" school board voting
to have only one session day in all
schools during carnival week.
An intensely dramatic story of how an
alleged Portland, Me-, frebug was
trapped by Boston de&ectives was told
in court; he confesses to Reading cleo
trio car holdup
There never has been a prohibitory
law enforced, and none ever will be-"
said an evangelist at Manchester N. H.
II do not favor license for the revenue
derived, but simply as means of con-
trolling the traffic. I repeat that prohi-
bit1on never accomplished anything, and
1t never will" He added that the n.ro
hibitlon movement was a work of the
devil
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. %