Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-12-23
STATE NEWS
Typhoid Increasine in St. Alban..

Typhoid Increasing in St. Albans.
There are "a cases of typhoid fever
in st. Adams. two new cases having
been reported to the health officer dur
ing the past few days. Of this num-
Der there has been but one death.
Gift to M. S.
1t is announced that Montpelier SEM
mary has just received Christmas
/ gift of $4,000. Including this gift, the
school has received between So, 900 and
So, 900 in a month. The name of the
donor. is withheld.
Brattleboro Schools Reopen December
%.
Three new cases of smallpox have
been reported to the board of health
in Brattleboro, being the first since
December 5. At consultation of the
school board and selectmen it was de-
cided to open the schools December %.
Veteran Dies in County Jail
William H. Petrie. age 81 years. and
Civil war veteran, died Wednesday
at the county jail of Rutland of heart
trouble. He was serving a 3O.day
sentence for third offense of intoxi-
cation. Petrie is a native of Wood
stock. His only surviving relative is
sister in Massachusetts.
Rrakayo.n Fatally Hurt
Edward H. Pendergrast, aged 26, liv-
ing at West WaIpoIe and employed as
a brakeman on the B. & M. while
working shifting cars in North WaIpole,
fell from the top of a freight car and
was found a short while later lying on
the rail. Doctors summoned found the
man suffering from fracture of the
skull and injuries to the back and legs
2137 Deer Were Killed.
Fish and Game Commissioner Henry
G. Thomas of Stowe announces that
2137 deer had been legally killed in
Vermont in the open season. Wind
sor county leads the list. Statistics
have not yet been completed in regard
to doesskilled. This slaughter exceeds
that of any previous year. The num-
bel. in 1906 was 634 and in 1907 it
was 99l.
Game Season Fatalities.
The chase of the moose deer and
other game in the three northern states
Of New England and the adjoining
Canadian provinces for the season
which just closed, cost the lives of "a
human beings. % by firearms. four by
drowning and one by falling ,Fon a
knife. Two more were killed while
hunting Sin Massachusetts. Scores
were crippled or wounded five or six of
whom may yet be added to the list of
dead.
Kill rs Head Of Cattle.
DR.. Robert Weir superintendent the
killing Of the 76 cattle of the Vermont
Marble company's herd which were
found to be affected will tuberculosis.
Up to Wednesday night So of the cattle
had been killed and buried in a huge
trench and the remainder were killed
| later. About So Of the cattle were
| found to be in very bad condition.
There arc about S, 900 more cattle in
the herd to be tested, but the work has
| been held up through the failure to
procure tubercuiin from the state.
Medicine Man Arrested.
CDR" II. NJ Stiner proprietor of a
travelling medicine show, was arrested
at Hubbardton on the charge of prac-
ticing medicine without state license.
He pleaded not guilty and was bound
over in the sum of $500 to the March
grand jury. County Judge Horace M.
Redfeld of Hubbardton going bail.
Stiner was arrested on complaint of
w. Scott Nay. of Underhill secretary
of the medical registration board.
/ Stiner sold medicine on guarantee
| to cure" basis and States Attorney
Jones has RECEIPTS for SIS and $17.5O
given by Stiner. to Middletown people
for medicine bought.
$85, 900 Shortage in Somersworth, N. II.
Bank.
Fred M. Varney, cashier of the First
National bank in Somersworth, N. g..
was arrested Wednesday charged with
embezzlement. It is said that he has
confessed and that the amount Of tht
shortage is $4,000. The trouble wa
discovered by National Bank Examine
) Bean. who made an unexpected visi
to the bank. It is supposed that Var
, ney lost the money in speculation ant
that no one else is implicated. It
. stated that he began taking money 81,
! years ago. Varney is Al years old
e married and has one child. He ha
been cashier II years. Previously tn
bank had been robbed by joseph Kel