Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-10

new ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. OCT. 2

cooking and physical culture, and viii
have no evening schools this year. This
makes a saving of $4,000 in he sckoo!
expenses. and is made necessas>- by the
refusal of the city council 20 make the
appropriation that the committee de-
sires.
The carriage shipments from Alnes-
bury for September were 37G, against
33S for the corresponding month last
year; and 29S for the month of Septeu
Der, 1896.
MONDAY. OCT. 3.
Philadelphia B. DIowry, the Oldest
woman in Blackstone, Mass, died in her
99th year Saturday For several days
she has been urah:e % eat, and death
was due mainly to old age. She had
number of old descendants and VS. a
great-great -grandmother.
TheextraZ: ech1c shrdlu etaoin cmfwypb
Lizzie Noonan, a Ferrisburg woman
recently pardoned from a term in the
Vermont state prison, because of fatal
disease, is again under arrest, and in
Chftenden jail her apprehension having
been brought about by State Attorney
Fish of Addison county, who refused to
believe that a woman who could crea te
as much disturbance as she has been
lately was dying.
Phoebe Bauchamp of Boston was
fined $1,000 and sentences to Worcester
jail for five months for perjury. In
October. 1896, she married fol. the second
time. and had continued receiving pen
sion UP to the time of her arrest a $ the
widow of Peter Reed. Each time that
she procured a voucher she sWoTe that
she had not remarked since the death Of
her husband. Peter Reed.
TUESDAY. OCT. 4.
Mayor Eaton of Lawrence vetoed an
order authorizing payment Of wages to
city employees now in the United States
service because 1T is illegal and would
create a privileged class The common
council upheld the veto at its meeting
owing to the failure of two-thirds vote
to pass the order over the veto.
The stove foundry Of the Somersworth
Machine company of Salmon Falls, n.
H. shut down last night for an indefi-
mite period, owing TO the failure of the
Sawyer Wooden company in Dover. The
latter company was the chief owner Of
the foundry. The shutdown comes as
a blow to the town which will be serious
ly felt.
At special town meeting in Me.rose,
Mass. it was voted to apply to the leg
islature for a city charter. The vote
was 81 for and S32 against.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 5.
An engine drawing freight train on
the Canadian Pacific railroad ran off the
track On railroad wharf in Newport
VT, and was stopped q few in ches from
the lake. The engineer ard the fire
man jumped.
The largest mOnolith ever quarried in
the United States is being dressed at
the Barre, VT, quarries 1t is to mark
d g,
The monument is IS feet high and
weighs 100000 pounds. 1t IS to be
shipped on Nov. 1. It is only exceeded
in size by the obelisk in Central park
New York city
petition for the pardon of DR.. Moore.
who is serving four years sentence in
the Concord state prison for the Overis-
sue Of the stock OF the Union Publishing
company of Manchester, n. H, was pre-
scented at the meeting of the governor
and council today.
THURSDAY, OCT. 6.
Judge Whitehouse of Augusta, NJ,
has been petitioned to appoint a receiver
for the Fairfield Floral company by
Phebe E. Curtis of New York She
alleges that there were received from the
sale of artificial flowers about $50, coo:
that the business was fraudulent. and
that a pretense of returning 900 was
made.
The Henry E. Parker fellowship has
been established in Dartmouth college
by a vote CT the trustees. This viii
amount to $500 annually for a period OF
two years and is open to graduates OF
Dartmouth only. The holder will be re-
quired, after the expiration of his fellow
ship, to assume an engagement III the
q n at Ia
remuneration if his services are required
by the college.
The century mark has been reached by.
Esther Colby Of Harrisville, the oldest
resident of Burrillville, r. I. She was
born Oct. g. 1898 at Grafton, n. H.
FRIDAY, OCT. Z.
The Amoskeag corporation of Man
chester produced 101, 766,745 yards OF
cloth during the year and had on hann
June so 6.249, $50 yards, about 5000, 900
yards less than one year ago. The cost
of running the factory for II months
was So, 654, SOS. IL and the profits S257, 744.7S
The selling agents sold Sc. 454, 400. 81 worth
of cloth in New York, and sales amount
ing to S12,712.34 were made at the mills.
The Vermont legislature has convened
and organized by the election of Kit
fridge Hask:ns of Brattleboro as speaker
of the house and T. c. Cheney of Morris
willie, clerk J. ]. Mccullough of Ben
nington was elected president pro tenn in
the senate, Andrew Gillies Of Montpel-
Ter chaplain, and Max Powell, Burling-
ton, secretary.
The grand jury returned true bills for
murder in the second degree against
Eudora Guilford. Harry Guilford and
Rose Drayton of Bridgeport, and Albert
H. OXley of SOuthington, all charged
with being implicated in the death Of
Emma Gill. whose dismembered body
was found Sept. u and Is.
Attachments to the amount of S26, 900 /
We're placed on the shoe factory Of the
George z. Greeley company in West