Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-06-02
STATE NEWS.
Dead at Age of 100 Years.

Dead at Age of 100 Years.
John Graham of kirkland died last
week at the age of 100. He was born
in Coleraine, Ireland. in 1902 and came
to New Bruins wick in 1925. For many
years he was leading Orangeman.
Up to month ago he was in possess
sion of all his faculties.
President Coming July 9.
President Taft will visit Burlington
on July 8, as planned. and the follow
ing day, the 9th, will be held open.
The local committee to arrange the
banquet at the college gymnasium
July 8, in honor of President Taft and
the foreign guests, has further organ
lied by selecting w. J. Bigelow as
treasurer to have charge of the sale
of the tickets and all applications
should be sent to him. Owing to the
prospective large demand for seats at
the banquet the committee has decided
to reserve no seats unless cash or
check accompanies the order. A large
number of applications from all sec.
tions of the state are already coming
to the committee. The price is
$3.50 per plate.
Quaker Oats Co. Pleads Guilty.
The Quaker Oats Co., through it's
attorney, G. F. Ladd of Richford,
pleaded guilty of rebating at the U. S.
court at Windsor last week and was
fined 81, 50O This case arose out of
shipments of cereals from western
points billed to Boston over the
Canadian Pacific railway, the latter
company allowing the Quaker Oats
Co. to unload it's goods at Richford,
and then re-ship to other New England
points without paying local tariff on
such goods. This is claimed to be
technical violation Of the interstate
law against rebates. District Attor-
ney Alexander Dunnett accepted the
plea on one count of the Indictment,
mol pressing the other 20 counts and
recommending the fine above irdi-
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The Canadian Pacific Railway company
has paid fine of $1,000 for accepting
rebates.in the same case.
Bullets through Heart.
The autopsy performed by DR.. B.
H. Stone, of the state laboratory of
hygiene, upon the body of Luigi
Cinello Louis SwansetD, the young
Italian who was shot and killed in
Bennington. A much stronger case is
made out against q Mikelo Teleppo,
michael PhillippD, who is now in
the county jail charged with the
murder of his fellow countryman
According to the findings of Dr. Stone,
both of the bullets fired into the
young Italians body struck him in
the back. Either one would have
caused death as both pierced the heart
and passed completely through the
body. The authorities are of the
opinion that Teleppo feared violence
at the hands of the half hundred men
who were searching the foothill OF
Mount Anthony and that he returned
to the house of George Schawb or
Raver street, where where he roomed
under the belief that he would there
be arrested and thus escape harm al
the hands of the posse. He pretends
not to know why he was arrested bu
the officers believe that he is sham
ming insanity.
Death of C. w. Pierce.
The Hon. George Warren Pierce
aged IS, prominent citizen of Brat
tleboro and we'll known Throughout
the state died suddenly Monday even
ing, May "a shortly after 8 O'Clock
at DR.. Russell's private sanitarium a
Winchendon, Mass, where he ha
been since Saturday. Death wa
due to heart failure. He had been i
failing health for the past year an
five years ago he had severe attac
of nervous prostration.. The funers
was held Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock, the Rev. Roy M. Houghtor
pastor of the Center Congregations
church, officiating, with burial i
Morningside cemetery, Brattlebor<
He was born in Westminster, Decen
Der 8, 1851, and was son of Natha
G. and Roxanna Leach) Pierce.
had been prominent in the agricu
tural interests of the town and sta
and in 1892 Gov. Levi K. Fuller a.
pointed him a member of the sta
board of agriculture. In 1897 he W;
appointed by Gov. Josiah Grout
commissioner to the Tennessee ce
tennial exposition and in 1899 Gov.
C. Smith appointed him delega
TO the farmers national congress, he
in Boston. Mr.. Pierce also serv