Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, DEC. 26.

Cambridge woman was held up and
robbed of Sc.
William Best was killed in Portland,
Me-, by falling downstairs.
Providence couple were nearly dead
from coal gas when their door was broken
in by the police.
George Wilson, As years old, killed
himself by inhaling gas in a Boston
store where he was employed.
Chinese laundryman lost a roll COM
tanning 5000 in a fire that destroyed his
laundry in Wakefield, RI.
John German 26 years of age, fell
backward downstairs in Dover, N. H.,
and died of a ruptured artery.
MONDAY, DEC. 81. g.:
Loss of $4,000 was caused by incendiary
fire in Granite house, Exeter, N. H.
Contract 20 supply goods in Boston has
been obtained by cotton manufacturer
In Denver.
Catherine Terry, married, 26 years old,
Dnded her dependency by taking poison
at Springfield, Mass.
During fight in the Italian portion of
Boston two men were killed and the
murderer is in a hospital with knife
wounds in leg. -:Jzi.e - ~ t,3l
- TUESDAY, DEC. %. .Ii ST.
James Morrissey, Z years old, was
drowned in Fall River while skating.
Fire caused $4,000 loss to hardware
establishment of Stone. Penniman &
Payson, Windsor, VT. 5ts
Mary A. Burns, whose mind was UNI
balanced by illness, drank carbolic acid
in Manchester, N. H,
Philip Johnson, a sailor, split his skull
by falling headforemost upon the deck of
a vessel at Portsmouth, N. H.
WiIlia m HQOIan was c q hhad fO dao th
in Haverhil1, Mass, by William Daily,
his brother-in- law, during a quarrel.
Julia Murphy, aged 20. died in Law
renee of burns sustained by a fire in her
bed started by a spark from her pipe ..
Fall River manufacturers decline any
compromise with the operatives in carry
ing cut the resolution to lower wages.
Mason & Cobb, shoe manufacturers
In Auburn, Me-. have assigned with la
bilities of 100000 and assets of $75, 600.
FTremen's Benevolent society, Hart
ford, was left $1,000 by Susan Clark. who
also donated $1,000 to the orphast asylum
In the same city. 49, = -
I WEDNESDAY, DEC. 90.
Boston's school board wants So 44O, 900
FOR 1898.
Roderick Mcdonald cut his throat at
Bethlehem Junction. n. H.
II. NJ. Coates was arrested at Everett,
Mass, on a charge of bigamy
Francis Mooney, so, who had been out
OF work fer four months. poisoned him
self in Providence.
James Dalton, prisoner at East Cam
bridge. Mass, house Of correction COM
united suicide by hanging himself.
Herman Sachs. on trial at Mfddletown,
Conn, for the alleged killing of B. t.
Hotchkfss, was declared not guilty
Frederick Cook confesses to setting
fire to a New Haven hotel, and impli-
Gates q Springfield. Mass. man as ac-
ressory
Louis NJ. Packer, Lynn, Mass. who
brought suit against the Thomson
Houston Electric Light company for
800, 900 for loss of both hands at the
works of the company two years ago,
was awarded $4,000 by jury:
THURSDAY. DEC. SO
Fire destroyed the Tiffany block in
Webster, Mass.
Robert Johnson, aged 90, was arrested
at Mystic, Conn, on two charges of
arson.
John Crowley, stevedore in Boston,
fractured his skull by falling into
vessels hold.
Carders of Fall River vote Affirmative
a
committee against a strike
The will of Mrs. Hannah c. Hubbard.
recently deceased in Amesbury, Mass,
gives S25500 in public bequests.''
Larger mill corporations of Lowell on
q capitalization of s12 610. 900 paid in div
idends this year of s4OS. 600, against $685.
600 in 1892. gs.-; a
Samuel Porter, superintendent of the
Nonotuck silk mills in Florence. Mass,
had his lego rushed by case weighing
1000 pounds falling upon him.
Of n savings banks in New Hamp-
shire IL are in liquidation, under the
management of their own officers. and
nine by assignees appointed by the
courtr.r
FRIDAY. DEC. 81.
Michael O'Leary fell 20 feet from a
Bangor, Me-, bridge and died of his in
Juries.
President of Boston institute of tech
noIogy expects 81, 900, 600 in requests be-
fore spring.
Two-yearold son of T. Gauthier, Ware,
Mass. fell into a boiler of scalding water
and died in short time
Boston's Boilermakers' and Ship
builders union members refuse to patch
q steamer so that it could proceed to New
York for repairs
All of the labor unions in Fall River.
Mass, but the spinners have voted to
accept the cutdown, and the excepted
body will ballot Saturday on the PROPOSE
ton
SATURDAY, JAN. 1.
Fifty Somerville, Mass, women have
formed stormy day short skirt as
ISOLATION
Locomotive killed c.. J. Blaney, aged
3. on the track near his home in Rox-
bury, Mass.
Estelle Hovey was burned to death
In Lynn, Mass, having undertaken to
ill a lighted lamp.
Women's Charity club hospital of Bos-