Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-08-14

Two Men Killed.
A horrible accident occurred in
Charlotte Tuesday afternoon as the
train bound south, struck the car
riage in which S. w. Weston of this
village and his son, Leslie Weston, of
New York city were riding. The men
and the horse were instantly killed
and the carriage was totally wrecked.
Rear Admiral Clark Retired.
Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark
VINO brought the battleship Oregon
around Cape Horn from San Fran
cisco, during the Spanish American
war, was placed on the retired list
Thursday, his 62nd birthday. Capt.
Clark is one of Vermont's most dis
tinguished products, having been
born at Bradford in 1s43, and his
friends of his native state are observ-
ing his notable career by rendering
him reception at Lake Mansfield,
near st. Adams, where he is spend
lug tue summer.
Thousands of Dollars Damage Asked
One of the most impe rtant civil
suits ever tried in Vermont was be-
gun at Brunswick Tuesday. AS there
are said to be more than five hundred
witnesses summoned, 1t is liable to be
a lengthy hearing. The question in
controversy is the continuation of tie
trial of the suit brought against the
Grand Trunk Railroad company by
Connecticut Valley Lumber company,
George VanDyke, Boston, president,
for damages, it is alleged, sustained
by the memorable forest fires of 1903
to it's timbered lands situated in the
organized towns of Bloomfield and
Brunswick, and unorganized town of
Ferdinand and Lewis, in the northern
part of the state. 1t is claimed that
10000 acres of cumberland were de-
stroyed by fire caused by sparks
from the defendants locomotive.
The Waterman Poisoning Case.
Nothing has so far been proved to
show that the suspected poisoning of
Robert Waterman's child by her
father in Victory, recently, was really
case OF poisoning. The stomach of
the child has been sent to Burlington
for expert examination but it will
take some time to determine whether
or not poison was taken into the or
gan. Until something more definite
is learned Waterman is at liberty in
the charge of a keeper LATERAL |
the preliminary hearing of the case
the father has been charged with poi
soning his young daughter, as analy.
sis of girls stomach shows definite |
traces of salicylic acid, constituent
of oil of wintergreen.
May Buy, Lie or Steal.
Invitations have been sent out for !
the annual summer outing of the New
England Fat Mems club, to be held a.
Wells River Aug. IS. Its principal |
feature is to be North Carolina bar
becue. A large marquee has been
procured, and will be set up for a
dining room. A baseball game is to
be played between the heavy weights
Of the club, capitalized by Arthur Ell.
Moulton, who weighs 406l5, and the
light weights, under the leadership of
Franklin Falls, who weighs 377. A
ishlng contest is announced, for a
ash prize. Fishing is permitted, in
he language of the invitation, Sin all
'pen waters south Of Connecticut
axes, and the prize is to go only to a
resi- water fish, This provision in
he contest is made necessary by the
lext one, which states that "compet-
tors may buy, lie or steal" Other
outdoor sports are promised. Hon.
Horace w. Bailey is to be the toast
master at the barbecue, and an IN
usually fine list of speakers is prom
sed. Many men prominent in social
political and business ways, as we'll as
N that physical way which makes
them eligible to the club, have prom
sed to be present; state officials and
legislators are to be present.
skunk Farm
Woodstock has a skunk farm. The
enterprise was started some time ago
oy E. o. Chamberlin at the Laurel
farm on the Church Hill
road just this side of the Lake View
trout preserve. About two years ago
Mr.. Chamberlin started the colony
With half dozen skunks, and the
ollowing spring the colony was in
by a score of young ones.
Owing to defects in the Enclosure,
However, most of them escaped. Last
all he replenished his stock by cap
ure and otherwi e, and now has
bout'40 old ones. Many young ones
ave been born within the Enclosure