Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-04-03

oath. Most of his works were based
on science. to which he added lioer-
ally by vivid imagination. His best
known books were "Tour of the
World in Eighty Days." Journey to
to the Center of the Earth journey
the Moon" "The Mysterious Island -
and Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea-" He was a prolific
writer, turning out two complete
novels year.
Powder Mill Explosion.
Three men were killed outright and
another so badly injured that he died
a few hours later, by an explosion at
the Schaghticoke powder mills, north
of Troy, N. Y, Tuesday afternoon.
The bodies of three of the victims
were blown to fragments and after
the accident were scooped mp into
water pals. The fourth victim.
White, was found 300 feet away alive,
but he could not recover. 1t is a re-
markable fact that no fire among the
buildings succeeded the explosion.
How the Maine Was Destroyed.
Gessler Rousseau, who attempted to
blow up the statue of Frederick the
Great at Washington, and who was
convicted in New York last week of
sending an Internal machine to be
placed aboard the Cunarder Umbria,
claims it was continuance of his
manufacture that blew up the battle
chip Maine in Havana harbor in 1898.
He says the plan was to blow up some
of the Spanish war vessels in the har-
Dor, but by mistake the mine was at
tached to Maine. The Cuban who
was responsible committed suicide.
according to Gessler, when he learned
the truth.
Blown Through Roof of Tunnel.
Blown by compressed air through
the roof of the rapid transit tunnel
under the East river, New York city,
through 10 feet of water, and shot
into the air at the apex of geyser
20 feet high, Monday, March 81, Rich
ard Creegan, workman, fell back
into the river unconscious. When
dragged out by rescuers in a boat,
however, he recovered his senses,
and an hour after the accident he was
ready to go back to work. There
were three other men in the COM
pressed air compartment in the tun-
mel with Creegan. Instead of being
forced up through the river they were
fiattened against the walls, rem aiming
there, unable to move, until the pres
sure was released.
Brockton Inquest.
"No evidence has been presented to
me to show the criminal responsible |
ty of any person for this explosion.
which caused such large loss of life |
and in which the public is so deeply |
Interested" said Dist. Atty French |
in regard to the Grover
factory horror which occurred at |
Broekton, Massachusetts, March 20.
The explosion was due to a
danger peculiar to this class of boil
3rs, danger in the structural form of
'he boiler, almost impossible of detec-
ion, and therefore defect all the
more dangerous because SO subtle.
10 paraphrase an old saying, I would
ay that the person morally rospon-
IDLE for this explosion and loss of
life is the man who devised this par
ocular type of boiler"
Mrs. Chadwick Gets 10 Years.
Unless the higher court interferes,
1rs. Cassie L. Chadwick will spend
he greater part of the next ten years
the Ohio state penitentiary. A
entence of ten years was recently
imposed upon her by Judge Robert W.
'aylor in the United States district
curt. The sentence came at the
lose of busy day for the court in
earring arguments on motion for a
lew trial. The motion was over
uled. Mrs. Chadwick was convicted
pom seven counts and sentenced
pom six counts. For four of these
cunts sentence of two years each
vas imposed. Upon two counts a
of one year each was i'm
'oseo, making total sentence of
en- years. Mrs. Chadwick was NOT
PARTICULARLY affected by the action of
he court.
Big Counterfeit Scheme Unearthed.
A counterfeiting scheme gigantic in
Is proportions and rich in results
which has as its field the whole of the
United States, has just been unearthed ,
y the federal authorities. A number
f government secret service agents
re now in Denver, Col, following 6