Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-13
STATE NEWS.

was drowned in the Winooski river
Tuesday afternoon on the Burlington
side of the island just below the rail-
road bridge. The boy was in swim
ming in company with several COM
panions. 1t is believed that he got
in the undertow and was carried
down the stream. The body was re-
covered shortly afterward.
Railroad Wreck.
Twenty-four persons were killed
and thirteen persons injured on the
Virginia Midland division of the
Southern railway at Rock Fish. Va,
Tuesday afternoon. Passenger train
No. IS, leaving Washington at 11:15
a. m. for Atlanta, Ga, dashed into an
open switch. The engine, the bag
gage, express and second-class
passenger coaches of No. 80 were
wrecked. The coach was occupied
chiefly by immigrants. Trainmen cut
through the panels of the baggage
car and express car and took out
twenty of the dead. Probably a
score of injured were removed. Most
of the immigrants were Austrians,
and were bound for points as far dis
tant as California.
National G. A. r. Encampment.
The thirty National En-
campment, Grand Army of the Re-
public, will be held at San Francisco,
the week of August 1922, 1908.
Headquarters of the Department of
Vermont will be at the Palace Hotel,
and will be opened August Is. Com
rades and their friends are cordially
invited to call and register and will
be welcome at all times. Rate, for
the round trip from all points in Yer
mont will be S66 60. This is the
lowest rate ever offered for a like
trip to California, and is golden
opportunity of which all possible
should avail themselves. Tickets
will be on sale, good going from July
81 to August IA, inclusive; final re-
turn limit to starting point, October
Is, 1903.
| Stone-sheds in Barre Closed.
All the stone sheds in Barre are
closed as result of vote taken by
the Granite Manufacturers Associa-
ton. Over thirteen hundred men
are thrown out Of work and are likely
to continue losfing until the manu-
facturers rescir d their vote. Although
the manufacturers do not like to have
1t called lock out, that Is virtually
what it is. The trouble comes from
the subletting of work by some of the
firms, the two firms Immediately
concerned being Moore Bros. and J..
P. Corskie. The manufacturers are
understood to have submitted several
propositions to the union and it is
understood they were accepted so
that at one time it looked as though
it were all settled but the trouble
came later when the manufacturers
voted to close their sheds, the alleged
point at issue being that of deciding
the subletting principle.
Vermont Boy Pardoned by President
Roosevelt
Frank McRae, a former member of
Co. E, 1st Vermont Volunteers, who
served with the company at Chicka
manga, has just returned to Barre
after an absence of five years. After
being mustered out of the Vermont
regiment Mr.. McRae enlisted in the
18th U. 8. Infantry and went to the
Philippines. He showed himself to be
a good soldier there and after a time
was promoted to corporal and later
to sergeant. One day while in the
southern section of the island of
Luzon he returned one evening from
a hard days scouting and was assist
ing his men in feeding their horses.
He was carrying bundle of hay I'M
der his arm when captain of
another company accosted him in a
surly manner and told him that the
horses must not be fed. McRae went
along with the grass and said moth
ing, whereupon the officer struck
him over the head with a lantern and
knocked him down. McRae got uI
and ran to corner of the corral
The officer followed him up and
struck him across the neck with his
sword, cutting a deep cash from
which he came near bleeding tt
death. Immediately upon being
struck the last time McRae drew hi
Colts six shooter and fired, tn,
bullet striking the captain in tn,
. stomach and killing him almost in
s stantly. A court-martial followe,
this affair and McRae was sentence,
5 to life imprisonment. He was finall,
: transferred to Fort Leavenworth
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