Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. JAN. 9.


Michael Lynch, aged 33, fractured his
skull in Boston by falling while drunk.
Felix Hanna, at one time prominent in
the Democratic party, committed sui
eide at Exeter, N. H, by cutting his
throat with razor.
Daniel Gorton, Providence, salesman
was arrested for alleged theft of money
and goods from the store in which he was
employed for the benefit of a store con-
Quoted by his wife.
MONDAY, JAN 10.
Three boarding houses, stable and Is
horses were burned at South Gardiner,
Me.
Dennis Buckley, Is years of age, was
drowned while skating In Mattapan
Mass.
Fire in the Upton block and City ho-
itel in Manchester, N. H., caused a loss
Of $751; 600.
Policeman hunting for burglars found
a candle among inf1ammables in a house
i'm Boston.
Lizzie Curtis, 16-year-old Roclzland.
Me-, girl, who eloped with Captain John
Bucklin of Salvation army was arrested
in Fall River.
Although the national council OF mule
spinners has sanctioned strikes at New
Bedford and LoweM, Mass, it is believed
the former city will be the battle-ground
and the fight will be a long one
TUESDAY, JAN IL.
Weavers in Burlington, VT, struck
John Hank, Is years DID, was drowned
in Westport, Conn, while fishing
New Bedford spinners decided to strike
with only three negatives in vote of
390
No key has been found for the dead
lock in the board of aldermen in Bos-
ton
L. B. Grants farm buildings in Patten,
Me-, were burned, together with live
stock and pdoduce.
Antoine Zanni was suffocated and
Luigi Daleo nearly so by Illuminating
gas in a Boston hotel.
John Harris, Waltham Mass, was SEN
fenced for life for killing Mrs Buffers
in Concord, Mass.
Francis Newton, his wife and daugh-
ter were killed with axe on their
farm in Brookfield, Mass, supposedly
by an employee named Miller.
J. d. Patterson, claiming to be the
son of an English nobleman, was ar
rested in New York for alleged forgery,
and is wanted in Boston to explain about
q diamond ring which he pawned.
WEDNESDAY, JAN r.
Weavers in the Wanskuck mill. Provi-
dence. struck
Palace hotel, Pawtucket, r. l., was
destroyed by fire at a loss of sS50O
Efforts to avert a strike in New Bed
ford, Mass, by the state board of arbi-
tration failed.
Cornelius Bailey. for stealing a coat
worth $40 in Boston, Was sent to prison
for five years.
James Emery, who killed himself in
Madison, Me-, was short S166O as treas
urer of the town.
Several persons are affected seriously
by the failure of B. P. Weston, min
owner in Madison, Me. 81
William L. Wilson, a thrifty farmer
residing about a mile from the village of
Spencer, Mass, was robbed of $1,000 and
a gold watch.
John Michaud, Fort Kent, Me- res
cued his five children from a burning
building and walked long distance to
q neighbours almost naked.
THURSDAY, JAN. Ii.
Limb of a tree fell and killed Harvey
Fisher, aged so, near East Concord, VT.
Frederick Aldrich, Providence, was ar
trested in Bridgton, Me-, for alleged
burglary.
Riot in jail in Bridgeport, Conn, was
quelled by a threat to turn the hose upon
the prisoners.
Police arrested DR.. Eayrs of Boston
and Nashua, n. H, on charge of as
saulting girls 10 years old.
NJ. N. Benson, II years, believed to
be one Of gang of burglars, was cap
tured in Ruzzard's Bay. Mass.
There is strong likelihood that Lowell,
Mass, spfnners will not strike, but will
assist the fight in New Bedford
Magnus Dolan. marine at the navy
yard at Charlestown, Mass, will lose
an eye from vitriol that somebody threw
at him
]. E. Gordon killed J. w TowIe in
Boston in the belief that he was to be
attacked with a knife for interfering in
a dispute which the victim was holding
with another about the rent Of a room.
FRIDAY, JAN. IA.
George Lloyd. Gloucester, Mass, was
drowned while tending travis.
Explosion of Illuminating gas caused
injury to five members of a Boston fam
ily
There was a $4,000 blaze in the picker
room of the Hamlet mill, Woonsocket,
r. I.
Fire burned Taylor & Bankers chem
ical factory in Wameset. near Lowell,
Mass.
Weavers in the Androscoggin mill,
Lewiston, Ne, voted to resist the cut
down.
1SC1SS oiiIAtil, w dh0nSIO. MASS, was
caught between trains in Melrose and
killed.
Joe Curtis, New Haven, cut his throat |
an a retreat for nervous patients in Lex
ington, Mass.
F1ywheel weighing 200 pounds burst |
zn Hunts sawmill in Athol, Mass, and I
caused a boiler explosion.
Three youths arrested in Boston con- t
fessed TO q series of burglaries that had |
gone unchecked for six months
An unknown woman was found in a
woodshed in the rear of a New York |