Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, OCT. 9.

was brought into court in Slzowhegan,
he, Friday for sentence. Before SEN
tence was passed Freeman was allowed
TO speak in his own behalf and he de-
livered one of the most able and eloquent
addresses ever heard in the Somerset
county supreme courtroom, using lang
uage that fairly took the breath away
from the spectators and amazing the
older members of the bar
The charter of Fletcher Webster post
OF Brockton, Mass, annulled last Jan
uary, has been restored by the unani-
NOUS vote of Department Comma nder
Bartlett and the department council of
administration.
MONDAY, OCT. 10.
Unnecessary, unjust, unchristian.
and, to sum it all up, barbarous," were
the words with which Rev. Charles H.
Puffer of the First Universalist church
of Salem characterized capital punish
ment. Rev. Mr.. Puffer was the clergy
man who attended Murderer Williams
during his last hours in Salem jail, and
who stood with the condemned upon the
8caffoId. t.s...
The end of the gold from salt water
scheme with which Rev" p F. Jerne-
gan was concerned at Luebec, Me-, would
appear to have been reached, a careful
and thorough test of the alleged process
having failed completely to shed the
slightest result
Through the cleverness of New
Haven woman who keeps a candy store
three of band of Italian counterfeiters
having headquarters in New York were
taken into custody
TUESDAY, OCT IL.
An infant daughter of Frank Pember-
ton of Ellsworth, Me-, swallowed a
caterpillar last week The insect re-
manned in her throat until it caused
her death yesterday
BY the will of Franklin Poole the old
est resident of Wakefield, Mass, the old
homestead is left to the Baptist church
and $500 each to the Beebe town library
of Wakefield, Wakefield historical So
ciety and the Old Ladies' society of
Wakefield.
w. H. Parker, president of the First
National bank of Lowell is dead. aged
81. He was director of the Kitson Ma
chine company and Of the City Manufac-
turing and Bristol Manufa curing com
panies of New Bedford, and president
of the Parker mills of Fall River. He
also was engaged in the bobbin and shut
tie business.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. u.
Rev. w. F. Dusseault, former chap
lain of the Sixth Massachusetts, regf-
ment, who was with the troops in Porto
Rico, at the observance of the 2Sth an
n1verSary of a Grand Army post in
Somerville, Mass, sharply criticised the
treatment of troops as regards the food
which they were forced to eat and the
water they drank.
Colonel Guernsey S. Parsons ex- |
mayor OF Waterbury and one of the best |
known men in the tauking business of |
off la ioht
illness, aged 81 years.
Fall River manufacturers have signed !
an agreement which has for its purpose
the betterment of the print cloth trade. !
The selling Of print cloths is to be placed +
in the hands of two men, who will act |
from instructions given by five manu-
facturers to be selected by the associa-
ton.
THURSDAY, OCT. 49,
At the annual convention of the Con-
necticjt branch OF the Federation OF
Labor a committee was appointed to
investigate charges against National /
Organizer Cooper CO Lynn, Mass, who
is accused OF charging; the federation
for working overtime, contrary to the
privileges OF the Office.
The trustees of the Yarmouth. Mass
library received a communication from
the sisters of the late Congressman
Simpkins, who was one of the trustees
in his lifetime, announcing gift of
$4,000 to be known as the John Simpkins
fund, the income of which is to be used
in the purchase of books.
Ellsworth, Me, lumber men have sold
to Charles AIullan and others Of Old
town and Bangor half of a township in
Somerset county for SIS, 900. They have
practically closed negotiations in the
same locality, the purchase price of
which will be SIS coo. 1t is understood
that a syndicate of New York capitalists
proposes to erect a large pulp and paper
mill
FRIDAY, OCT H.
Representative McGeary, a Democrat
has introduced a local option bill in the !
Vermont house
An expert accountant who has had
charge of the examination of the ac-
counts of ex-TaX Collector Keough of
Holyoke, Mass, has reported to the
finance committee that credits amount
ing to s11S,O00 had been erased from the
collectors books. The erasures cover a
period of three years.
A Boston woman says that the most
marked production of the century, de
spite the advancement from the STAGE
coach to the electric motor carriage.
the fall of Napoleon to the driving out
OF the Spaniards from the western hemi-
sphere, was the advent of the new
woman and her development
As result of the action taken by the
Dartmouth college authorities on re-
cent cases of hazing the students at n
mass meeting tonight voted to abolish
the custom. There has been an excep-
uonally large amount of hazing during
the present term.
SATURDAY, OCT Is.
At recent meeting of the Boston
board Of health, the following. reeula
TiO0 was hoo 1.7 of 1,..144- I