Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-07


the commission before Hon. Piumley
will be held.
Delegates Names.
Gov. @. J. Bell has named the fol-
lowing delegates from Vermont to at
tend the thirteenth annual meeting
of the National Irrigation Congress
which is to meet in Portland, Ore,
Aug. Il "a: n. G.. Williams of Bel
lows Falls, w. J. Van Patten of Bur-
lington, Alexander Dunnett of st.
Johnsbury, R. B. Galusha of Royalton,
j. E. Buxton of Rutland and q. O.
Manuel of Richford.
The Vermonter who is the Legal Adviser
of Japan.
Baron Komura, the Japanese plen-
ipotentiary, arrived in New Yor K on
Tuesday, and he and his retinue oc-
cupy a suite of twenty five rooms on
the fourth floor at the Waldorf Asto-
ria. A Japanese flag flies from one of
the windows, and by it's side foated
on Tuesday the State flag of Vermont.
This somewhat noticeable circum-
stance is explained by the fact that
the Vermont flag was displayed in
honor of Mr.. III. w. Denison, a ma
tive Vermonter, who has been for
twenty FIVE years the legal adviser of
the foreign Office of Japan.
In Memory of Ann Story.
The monument in memory of Ann
Story, the Salisbury pioneer and Rev
patriot, was dedicated on
the site of her cabin at Salisbury
by the Vermont society of
Colonial Danes. The monument is of
white marble with truscated pyra-
mid weighing FIVE tons, the gift of
Fletcher D. Proctor. Governor @.
j. Bell and Congressman D. ]. Foster
in the exercises and the
leading address was delivered by
Judge Wendell P. Stafford of the SUI
preme court of the District of Colum-
bia, who is a native of Vermont.
Mrs. Julia G. r. Dorr of Rutland con-
tributed poem for the occasion.
Vermonter for Professorship.
Prof. Oliver M. W. Sprague of st
Johnsbury has resigned as assist
ant professor in the department
of economics at Harvard Univer-
sity to accept professorship in
the Imperial University of Japan at
Toxic. He will be professor of polit-
ical economy and finance in the col
lege Of law in the Imperial University
and lecturer on the same subjects in
the Toxic higher commercial school.
DIR. Sprague is the son of W. W.
Sprague. He received the degree of
Phi. D. from Harvard in 1897 and has
spent two summers studying inEurope.
Professor and Mrs. Sprague leave Tor
the Orient the last of this month.
Suspected Poisoning.
This arrest of Robert Waterman Of
Gallups Mills for the suspicious cir
connected with the death
of his threeyear old daughter recent
ly is the cause of considerable excite
ment in this section Waterman's
first and second wives and three chill
dren have previously died under
peculiar circumstances but not till
the death of the last child have the
people deemed the circumstances
sufficiently suspicious to warrant an
investigation. He persuaded the
child to drink a fluid that is thought
to have been poisoned, stating on be-
ing questioned later that the child
was i'll, but it is known that the child
was not sick.
Mysterious Death os Child
Harry B. Amey, states attorney, is
busy these days investigating the cir
cumstances connected with the sud
den death of Lila Waterman, the
three year old daughter of Robert
Waterman of Victory. 1t is said that
Lila died shortly after drinking a
quantity of liquid which had been ad-
minister 81 by her father, and it is upor
this allegation that the suspicion in
the case rests. The stomach of the
child has been sent to the state chem
list, and a report upon the question
of the cause of death is expected il
season for the hearing before the JUS
tice, which is set for Friday, mean
while the father is under surveillance
The case was called to Mr.: Aney'
attentio2on account or the ehild's
demise, as well as on account of the
allegation that three other children
of Waterman died in the past two
or three years, as well as his FIRST and
second wives.
A Gard.