Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-22

Is grandchildren, "a great grandchiI-
dren and three great great grandchil-
dren living.
The new machinery for doubling
the force of the screen mill at Ran
dolph has arrived and has been set
up, SO that the mill started with an
increase Monday. About $50 hands
will now be employed.
The Vermont members of the House
were not fortunate in the drawing of
seats on Monday. Gen. CIRCUITS seat
is in the Cherokee Strip and Judge
Powers is far back from the center on
the Republican side.
The decision of the Nebraska Su
preme Court in deciding against the
validity of $500, 900 worth of gold re-
funding bonds of the city of Lincoln
is seriously felt here, as the bonds are
held by many Vermont investors.
At the town meeting at Woodford
the voters unanimously voted not to
allow the running of cars In that town
Sunday. This is direct blow at the
Bennington and Woodford electric
railroad, which for two years has run
cars into that town on Sunday.
Philip Connolly, who was committed
to the insane asylum at BrattleborO
from Bennington in 1849, died recent
ly at that institution. He was seven
ty- three years old and had been a
harmless lunatic at Brattleboro since
he was twenty five years old. He was
a native of county Tipperary, Ireland.
Mrs. Mary Howe LAWN will close a
remarkably successful season of grand
opera and concert in Berlin in about
@vry0 or,t1 he, nd nCc eafI 0IY7Cr
happens she will return to Brattle-
boro with her brother, Lucien Howe,
about May 1st. She will then prob
ably fill some concert engagements in
this country.
The Howe Scale company, of Rut-
land, has put on the market a high
grade bicycle called the tsHoWe.u The
company has madeaa contract with
the Remington Scholes Typewriter
company to handle its entire output.
The Howe company has perfected a
grain and coal scale which registers
automatically the weight ofany guam
tity passed through it.
John Morey of Sandgate met with
an accident last week which may re-
suit fatally. Mr.. Morey was riding
on load of logs, when he was thrown
down an embankment, the logs fall
ing on him. When found it took the
united strength of four men TO extri-
cate him from his pSrilOus position.
His hips and back were crushed and
he received internal injuries.
Milton B. Wiseman of Poultney, an
employee in the lumber and feed mill
of w. w. Broughton, was killed last |
Wednesday by the bursting of an en-
cry wheel. He was working over the |
wheel, when it flew to pieces, a large |
piece striking him in the forehead, |
breaking the skull and mangling the
brain. His left hand and leg were
also crushed and piece of the stone
entered his shoulder. He lived only
few minutes. His wife was visiting
at Atlanta, Ca, at the time.
The residents of Barre who dwell
on Washington street were very much
scared several days ago, when
a team load of granite, consisting of
single block that would weigh in the
vicinity of eight tons, got away from
the driver on the down gradegand ran
ahead of the horses, dragging the an
imals down to the foot of the hill.
One horse was cut by being thrown
on the icy road and the pole was
broken, but these were the only dam
ages that resulted from a dangerous
looking accident.