Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-04-06


atives of the deceased. A daughter.
Tneodora Willard, will receive nearly
a million while the husband of the
deceased receives over half million
Under clause in the will the ST. i
JohnsbUry Athenaeum would have /
received 100000 had the daughter ,
not survived her mother. similar
clause made provision for a bequest |
of $780, to the state of Vermont in |
the event of several benefciaries not |
surviving the, testatrix. This be /
quest, of course does not stand, the |
benefciaries being alive. The money
Was to have been used in connection
with libraries in small and needy Ver-
mont towns.
$4,000 Fire Loss.
Fire shortly after midnight Monday,
March rs, DESTROYED the house and
barns of r. j. ShuItleff who lives
about mile from Hardwick on the
East Hardwick road. and the contents
of the buildings were lost as well.
The property loss is estimated at
$4,000 with $4,000 insurance.. In
attempting to save some valuable
papers, Mr.. Shurtleff came near losing
his life. He jumped from window
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Shurtlef was a dealer in wagons,
horses, and farm machinery. The
fire wiped out his property entirely.
not only in the dwelling house but
valuable stock, consisting of five
horses. four colts, and one COW, four
, teen wagons, about fifteen sleighs,
large number of harnesses. robes,
blankets and quantity of farm
machinery was consumed. In the
house were two aged women, and Mrs.
| Shurtleff, who is i'll of the grip. Mrs.
+ Shurtlef was taken out of the burn
ing building in her night clothes and
lost her complete wardrobe. Because
of the time taken in removing the
women, Mr.. Shurtleff could not start
to recover his valuable papers before
the fire was so fierce that he had to
abandon the attempt and barely got
out with his own life. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
Young Man Disappears.
Joseph Treahey, Is year old night
operator at the New England tele-
phone station in Fair Haven disap-
peared Saturday, March &c. He had
been i'll with acute indigestion.
Sunday Deputy Sheriff j. H. Policy
attempted to race the young man by
means of trained bloodhounds from
the kennels of ]. L. Winchell. The
hounds picked up trail that led
along the railroad track from Fair
Haven to Stephen Eaton's house,
thence along the road around Cedar
Swamp, coming out at the /. A. Wood
place, along the main road by the
home of George Kelly to Poultney,
East Poultney and to Frank Cassidy
place near Middletown Springs.
There the search was given up.
Treahev has lived with his mother,
Mrs. Thomas Treahey. on Cedar
street, and is her only living child.
The boys relations with his mother
were pleasant. 1t was his habit to
walk for exercise every day, and he
usually went from his home to the Will
liam Mound farm and from there
around the road through Cedar Swamp.
When Treahey started out Saturday
afternoon he told his mother he won Ii
return in about fifteen minutes anc
accompany her to church. Mrs
Treahey waited, then went to church
and returned home about four O'Clock
AS the hour of five approached she be
came anxious, as it was nearly time fol
her son to begin his work at the tele
phone office. She then notified the
authorities and a search for the boy
was instituted. The search was con
tinued all Saturday night and Sunda!
and was not abandoned until Monday
noon. 1t is thought that he is eithe
temporarily deranged or that he ha
deliberately run away.
Accused of Infanticide.
, On Tuesday morning, March 20. a
ten O'Clock a daughter of Mr.. an.
Mrs. Samuel Myers, of Shelburn
Falls, three months and Is days oil
died under peculiar circumstances
During the past eight years thre
other children of these parents hav
died under the same peculiar condi
tions and an investigation was mad
4 by DR.. w. H. Ranks, health officer O
= Shelburne. The conditions foun
were startling. It was discovere
that the mother had fed paregoric t
the child since it's birth, havin
= mixed it in warm water so that tn
. child could nurse it out of bottle
y The child weighed nine pounds a
:, birth and only six pounds after death
I and appeared as if it had been starve
: visited the home and in the barn foun
% empty paregoric bottles and ar
r other bottle half full of the sam
!, liquid. There were eight empt
: Castoria bottles. On Monday tn
@ moher said that she fed the baby
a Ill bottle and part of another bottle
Q TIE baby died the following morning
e 4 was also learned that up to wee
and half ago the family had bee
,, purchasing quart of mill a day. Dr
H. B. Stone and DR.. G. F. Dalto
performed an autopsy on, the body
= Doctor Dalton said that the result
. of the autopsy would not be know
unit two or three days. They wi
d report the result of their findings
States Attorney Shaw.
Doctor Ranks said that there ha
been talk concerning the circumstar
ces of the deaths of the other Myer
babies. all under year old, and tina
the parents had been warned. Whe
;, he heard of the last death he imme