Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-12-05
GENERAL NEWS.
Suicide.

Suicide.
Everton Chapman, whose home IS
in New York City, committed suicide
Nov. %, at the Carlton Hotel, Lon
don, by throwing himself from the
third floor landing to the vestibule,
where he vas shockingly mangIed on
the marble floor. He died in terrible
agony wit hin a few minutes.
Dewey Declines to Serve.
In the fear that some of his rulings
might involve this country in strained
relations with England or Russia, Ad-
miral Dewey has declined to be a
member of the international commits
sion of inquiry into the North Sea in
cident, in which a British fishing feet
was fired on by the Russian squadron.
Gas Explosion.
With a terrific report and an alarm
ing conclusion, felt for a mile around,
flames 100 feet long shot out of a
main, one to the east, one to the west,
in the generating house Of the Con-
solidated gas plant, in West Forty
fourth street, west of Eleventh ave-
nue., New York, at $50 O'Clock N
morning recently. A young man was
killed and a dozen men we're injured,
four seriously.
Colleges Get Millions.
The Fayerwether will case vas de-
cided by the Supreme Court of the
United States Nov. %. The case in
wolves a bequest Of about 50, 500, 900
made to twenty different colleges by
the late Daniel G.. Fayerwether, a
leather merchant of New YorK, who
died in 1890. The will was attacked
by Fayerwether's widow and two
n~ieces, fraud being charged. The
case has long been pending in the
courts and has been before the Su-
preme Court on several occasions.
Harvard-Tech Affair.
AS the date of the annual meeting
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology approaches, interest in
the proposed "treaty'' or concert of
effort" between that institution and
Harvard university increases. This
much discussed matter will come up
in definite form at the meeting in
question, which will be held about the
middle of December, and the terms of
the tentative agreement entered into
by the joint committees of each insti-
tuition will be reported to the corpor-
alton.
Gompers Reelected.
Samuel Gompers was practically
unanimously reelected president of
the American federation of labor re-
Gently in San Francisco. One dele
gate, Victor Rergers of Milwaukee, a
leader of the socialistic element in the
convention, voted in the negative
and asked that his vote be SO record
ed. Mr.. Gompers was given a great
ovation when he retook the gaveI.
He promised the delegates to try to
do much more for the labor move
ment in the future than he had done
in the past. Secretary Frank Morri-
son and Treasurer John B. Lennon
were unanimously chosen to serve
another term.
Boy Robbers.
Edward Welsh, John Harmon and
John Quill, each II years of age, are
locked up on ten charges of breaking
and entering and larcency from build
ings in Boston. The trio, with aspi-
rations to become ''yeggmen," were
captured Monday, and when ques-
toned by the police, readily admitted
that they were implicated in the doz-
en- burglaries which have been re-
ported since last July, and which the
police thought were the work of other
parties. They have been fairly sue
cessful in their robberies, and have
stolen about 500 in cash in addition
to revolvers and other articles which
would appeal to dime novel readers
s5OO.OOO Forgery.
At the Holland House in New York
is quartered Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick
of Cleveland, who secured $3.50, 800
from Herbert B. Newton of Brookline,
giving as security a promissory note