Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-03-26
STATE NEWS.
Co. ID Loses State Championship.

The basket ball game deciding the
state championship was played in
White River Junction Wednesday
March 21, between the Brattle- !
boro Athletics and 90. D, 1st Inf, V.
N. G., st. Johnsbury, the Athletics
winning by the score of ri to 20.
McCabe Lacked Money.
A letter was received Wednesday
addressed to the ST. Adams Messenger
from Patrick F. McCabe, the alleged
30 ton train wreoke. now in Jail at
Montreal awaiting e~xtradi5lon, in
which he says that he was willing to
return to Vermont, but that the states
attorney "buIlied" matters by taking
him before a judge, thus preventing
his returning wi hout court proceed
ings. He says that he is not guilty
but went away owing to a lack Of
funds to fight the charges. The letter
from McCabe Was evidently smuggled
out Of Jail.
Putney Factory Closed.
The Stowell factory in Putney,
which employed forty hands last fall
and gradually reduced the number to
eighteen a short time ago, has now
shut down for good, and the en-
ployees are finding work elsewhere.
The company manufactures toys and
folding tables. The combination of
toy plants throughout the country
two or three years ago did not include
the Stowell plant, and the company
found it uphill business to market its
product at a fair price. During the
past year the company has been un-
able to run at a profit.
Indicted for Granddaughter.
The grand jury of Franklin County
has returned indictments for man
slaughter against two of the parties,
Miss Eva White and Almon White of
Richford, implicated in the alleged
wood alcohol poisoning case at Rich
ford. A bill was also found against
Almon White on the charge of selling
liquor without a license. The indict-
ments alleging granddaughter are
brought on the grounds that the
deaths of Mrs. Mary Legrodeur of st.
Armand, P. O., Nelson P. Roysuon
and MARSHALL s Bliss of Richford were
caused by drinking liquor, said to
contain wood alcohol and sold by the
respondents.
House of Correction Statistics.
During the month of February there
were so people committed to the
house of correction, Rutland. Only
one was a woman, Mabel MAY nard,
aged 81 years and unmarried, of Bur
nngton. The largest number sent to
the institution by any one place was
ten from Ratland. st. Adams has siz
to her credit and Montpelier and Ben.
nington FIVE each. There were three
cases from Dandy; two each from
North6eld, Essex, Orange, and New
port; and n each from Orwell, Gas
; tleton, West Rutland, Ludlow, Spring
field, Rockingham, Windsor, and Fai
!, Haven. There were foul colored PEG
i pie among the number.
:. Fails on saw.
!, While in a Ht, Edward R. Tinkhar
of Cabot fell back against a circula
saw and was killed instantly Tuesday
His head was nearly severed from hi
body, the spinal cord was cut and tn
head hung by a shread OF skin, on
, arm was practically am utated an
. the body otherwise badly mangleo
The accident occurred at 2:30 o'cloc
at the house of A. w. Bolton on Cabc
. Plains, where the gang OF men WEI
saving up frewood with a circula
saw propelled by a gasoline engine
Mr.. Tinkham was subject toshts an
+ he had just picked up a block OF WOO
. and was walking away from the sa'
when a fit seized him and he fe
! against the saw with the wood still j
his hands. The deceased was As year
old and leaves q widow and two chi
dren.