Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, JAN. 2.

Recount of votes In Boston leaves the
board of aldermen tied politically, six
each.
While crossing the tracks at Roslin-
dale, Mass, August Reinhardt was
struck by n train receiving injuries from
which he died.
Haverhin, Mass, motorman was seized
with alteration of the mind while run
ming his car but no mishap befelI him
during the trip.
1t is claimed that Margaret Frazer of
Boston threw her Legitimate baby out
of a Second-story window into yard,
resulting in its death.
MONDAY, JAN g.
Timothy Shay, gasworks employee,
was Suffocated in Fall River Mass, by
gas.
j. F. Fletcher was killed by an ele-
vator in a sash factory in Goffstown,
N. H.
Judge Bennett, dean of Boston uni
versity, 70 years old, died Sunday in
Boston.
Mrs. John Kennedy, whothad been sick
a year, committed suicide in Providence
by inhaling gas.
Rev. J. s. Bacon, Manchester. N. Fl
wants a cut of 10 percent in his salary
on account of the reduction in the mills
Rev. MIR. Dick of Lowell, Mass thinks
that on the argument Of southern COM
petition there is no need for reduction
In wages of mill operatives.
TUESDAY, JAN. T.
Wages have been reduced in all of
the cotton mills in Maine.
Ernest Keller, % years, after stealing
bicycles for three months, was arrested
an Boston.
Sakri ,Kariss fell between cars in
and was killed.
James Dennison, 60 years old, had his
legs cut off by a locomotive in West
Newton, Mass.
Horace Peak was killed in South
Hampton, Mass, whether by accident or
otherwise is not known.
DR.. lehman, Boston, is accused of
criminal assault upon a woman who
called at his Office for treatment
H. A. Frost, p years, was arrested in
Lexington, Mass, after a struggle with
the man whose house he was trying to
rob-
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5.
Engine killed Henry Warner. aged so,
in Fitchburg, Mass.
Samuel Brooks, 80 years, was killed
by a freight train in Boston.
Large saw and grist mill at Canaan
Centre, N. H, was burned with all ma
chinerX.
Andrew Groom, plumber in Boston,
was suffocated while repairing a leak
in gaspipe.
Patrick Driscon, 81 years, fell asleep
in Boston while smoking, and was
burned severely.
Twelve horses were roasted in a, fire
that destroyed Contractor Hinch's
stable and sheds in East Norwalk. Conn.
Reduction in wages in the cotton m lis
in Lewiston, Me, will amount to from
10 to IL 1-9 percent, and other mills will
adopt either one or the other of these
rates.
THURSDAY, JAN. g.
New Bedford, Mass, spinners voted to
resist the reduction.
Wages in cotton mills in Exeter, N H.
and Ncrthbridge, Mass, has been low
cred.
E. P. Quinn, a brakeman, was killed in
New Haven by a switcfer crashing into
a freight.
Lynn, Mass, jeweler fired four shots
at a thief who snatched three rings. but
none took effect
Portland, Me-, has 800 persons holding
receipts for liquor licenses issued by the
revenue department.
Henry Bennington, 20 years old, made
his own in Cambridge. Mass.
James Carroll, for killing his cousin ia
Preston, Conn, was sentenced to seven
years imprisonment and fined a dollar
and costs.
FRIDAY,JAN T.
New Bedfird, Mass, weavers have
voted to strike
Mrs. Trafton of Auburn, Me-, deIiber-
ately refused. food, and slowly wasted to
her death.
John Piodla has been held for the
grand on a charge of killing a compatriot
in Shirley, Mass.
Ethel Moore of Southport, Me-. weds
William Wilson og Monte Visto, Colo,
after courtship conducted by mail.
Mabel -Frackelton who stole jewelry
from her employers in Providence, and
Ernest Downing, who received it. have
been arrested.
Annie Dupont, agea Is, was wounded
slightly the street in westviIle. Me-.
by Joseph Peltier, VIII did not know his
gun was loaded.
Man named Saunders has Swiudled
several persons in New England bySsand-
ing packages alleged to be valuable and
having charges collected on delivery.
Mayor of Lowell, Mass, found Iaborsers
doing no work and yet receiving pay.
and that outsiders have been furnishing
horses for park work when city horses
were idle
SATURDAY, JAN. g.
Edward Brown, "a years old, swal-
lowed carbolic acid on the street in Bos-
ton.
Frederick Sturn, aged 35, was killed in
a Lowell, Mass, brewery by failing into
the elevator we'll
John 0'Nai1 WAS hanged a f Graonfaqd
Mass, for the murder of Mrs McCIoud.
protesting his Innocence to the last.
Charles Hayward, Sc years, killed his
wife with an ak in Marshf1eld, Mass.
and cut hemsef fatally with a razor
Franklin county hospital in Greenfield