Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-08-04

killed by trolley car July %. 1t was
about II o'clock at night and Ward |
was said to have been drunk.
Fat Men Meet in Portland.
The New England Fat Mems club,
H. E. P. Parker, of Bradford, secre-
tary, meet in Portland, Me-, August
Is and IA. The club now numbers
about 1900 and it is expected to num-
Der nearly 1000 before this meeting
has closed.
Seventy-eight Towns Get No Money.
Because they did not vote so cents
on the dollar of their grand list for
school purposes 78 towns of the state
will receive no money from the state.
In Orleans county the towns receiving
no money are: Greensboro, Holland
and Westmore. Burke only in Gale
donia does not receive it.
Foot Cut Off by Moving Machine
William Darrah 6, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Darrah of MorrisvilIe,
stepped in front of a moving machine
driven by his father Monday, and his
foot was cut off above the ankle. He
had been following the machine and
had been told by his father to stand
back. The accident happened as the
machine was turning corner.
Saves Broth er with Rake.
Anna LaLiberte, of ST. Johnsbury,
aged II years, rescued her 10-year-old
brother Henry from drowning while
swimming in the Passumpsic river July
% by wading in and catching the boy
with rake. When a neighbor saw
%lo h0xy ,.V1ly CIa 1oI 70 CT
who was the only other person nearby,
and Anna walked into the river until
the water reached her waist, before
she could reach the struggling child.
The boy was resuscitated by two
physicians.
Prof Burt Acquitted
The case of Nelson A. Goss of
Middlebury against Prof. E. A. Burt
of Middlebury college, which was in
stituted last week, was heard Satur-
day before Justice A. w. Dickens and
the defendant was discharged. The
suit was brought on the ground that
Prof. Burt used unnecessary violence
in driving the young son of. Goss from
his grounds and $50 damages was asked
for. Two similar suits have been
brought by the parents of children
accompanying OSS. THESE cases Will
be heard tomorrow.
Rutland Company Gets Big Contract.
The Rutland Florence Marble Co.
of Fowler, has been given the contract
by N. B Knox, president of the
MacCaul co. of Philadelphia, contrac-
tors, to furnish marble to the value of
$780, 900 for interior postofice work
federal buildings at Atlanta, Toledo
and Baltimore. The Pittsford-I Italian
marble, as the Fowler concerns grade
is called, won out in competition with
Georgia white marble. About SIS, 600
worth of marble from Vermont is to
go into the Atlanta building and $780,.
900 in each of the other structures.
Seeks $4,000 Damages.
George E. Marshall of Poultney,
aged Is years, has brought suit in Rut.
land county court to recover $4,000 for
alleged negligence from E. M. Bixby.
grain merchant, also of POultney,.
The boy claims that when he went into
the defendants mill to buy grain last
January the dust was flying from a
grinding machine so that he could not
see and he fell into a hole in the floor
in which machinery was in motion, be-
coming caught in the machinery so
that his left foot is crippled for life.
He claims that the mill owner was
negligent in that he did not have the
hole guarded,
Murder and Attempted Suicide.
George Mitchell, aged Is years, a
candy maker in the employ of G. G..
Mascot, of Barre. with no known mo-
tive and for no apparent cause except
disorded brain, shot the wife of his
employer dead Sunday afternoon July
Is in the living apartments of Mr..
Mascot at the rear of his candy
kitchen. After killing Mrs. Mascot
Mitchell turned the revolver upor
himself, evidently intending to shoot
himself through the head, but the
bullet went wild. Although the sur.
geons at the hospital where he wa!
hurried have not yet probed for tn
bullet, which is lodged somewhere ir
his head, it is thought he will recover
Gift to Brattleboro r >treat.
Mrs Richard Bradley, wife of s;
former trustee of the Brattlebort
retreat, has presented $4,000 to tina
institution in memory of her husband
who for many years and up to the time
of his death was a trustee of thu
Institution as his father had been be
fore him. The money is to be used a
a fund in establishing and building g
recreation building for the patients a.
the retreat The gift was made will
an agreement on the part of tn
trustees of the institution that tn,
beautiful forest on the westerly slop
of Antastiquet mountain, directl.
opposite the village of Brattleboro
shall be preserved by the retreat il
perpetuity.
To b. Examined as to Sanity.
Beatrice Thompson has been com
mitted to the state hospital for tn
insane at Waterbury for inspection a
to her sanity. She is held in $25, 90
for an attempt upon the life of tn
Row z ellis a Catholic xaziora