Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-08-04

A fire at O'Clock Thursday morning
totally destroyed the engine house
and old Grazely boarding house at E.
L. Smith and Company's light quarry
in Graniteville near Barre. The loss
approximates $4,000, partly covered
by insurance.
Disastrous Storm.
A hard storm which ragged last Fri
day afternoon caused considerable
damage along the line of the st.
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad.
Twenty five washouts were reported
between st. Johnsbury and Hardwick.
One near Hardwick village was $50
feet in length.
Large Lumber Deal.
One of the largest timber deals
ever consummate in Windham
county took place last week, when F.
D. Chase, of Somerset, sold all his
property in Somerset and Stratton to
w. w. Peck of Morrisville. The price
paid is understood to be $4,000. The
property includes several thousand
acres of spruce and hard wood timber,
two water power mills, machinery,
horses, and other equipment. 1t is
the best numbering interest on the
Deer field river.
Papers Served on p. w. Clement.
The writ in the $50, 900 slander suit
brought by Samuel D. Wilson, alias
Waite, of Cambridge, Mass, was
served at Rutland by Deputy United
States Marshal Frank H. Chapman on
the defendant, Percival w. Clement,
high license local option candidate
for governor, Wednesday. The writ
contains fourteen counts, and alleges
that Mr.. Clement made slanderous
remarks about the plaintiff in his
(Clement's) preconvention campaign
addresses. The suit is returnable at
the October term of the second district
United States court, which convenes
in Rutland October Z.
New Decision by Judge Wheeler.
Judge II. H. Wheeler has filed
final decision in the case of the Cham
plain Construction company against
O'Brisn & Sheehan ofNew York, con-
tractors, in which he modifies previ-
Gus order decreeing payment of
$4,000 by Percival w. Clement of
Rutland to O'Brien & Sheehan, and
S14s,OO0 by the Champlain Construc-
ton company. The verdict now is
SAT, 1000 against Clement and $143,O0
against the construction company.
Judge Wheeler also orders the receiv-
ers of the,White River electric railroad
to sell the property, includiOg the
franchise, rolling stock and real estate
by auction August 10 at 3 p. M, at
the Central Vermont station in Bethel.
Examination for appointment to Naval
Academy.
Senator Proctor announces that the
competitive examination for the selec-
t on of principal and alternates for
the appointment of midshipman to
the U. S. Naval Academy atAnnapolis,
which he is entitled to make, will take
place at the County court house, Rut-
land, VT, August 10Th. Candidates
should report by II a. m. and be pre-
pared to sustain an examination in
grammar, spelling, geography, United
States and worlds history, arithmetic,
algebra (through quadratic equations)
and plane geometry. Candida Q
must be between fifteen and twenty
years of age, at least FIVE feet in
height, physically sound, and resi-
dents of the state of Vermont. Those
intending to to take the examination
should notify Senator Proctor at Proc
tor, VT, as early as possible. The
principal and alternates selected at
this examination are to take the
Academy's entrance examination, to
be held at Washington, D. c., Sept.
18th.