Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-31
Vermont Murder and Suicide.

town of Weathersheld. Tuesday after.
noon, August %, shot his wife, Isabel
c. huey, shot the horse she was drlv-
ing and then fired a bullet through his
own breast, dying almost instantly,
Huey and his wife had been on bad /
terms since June when she left him
and went to board at the home OF G. |
= Parks. who resides about three
fourths of a mile from the Huey farm.
Last week one day, Mrs. Parks and
Mrs. Huey drove to Tinmouth to visit
some relatives and on the return trip
Mrs. Parks stopped off at Cuttings
Vile, leaving Mrs. Huey to return
home alone. She was obliged to pass
the Huey farm on her way and 1t was
almost in front of the house that she
met her death. Two bullets entered
the body of the woman, one just below
the chin, passing through the neck,
and the other entering about five inch.
es below the first and passing out OF
/ the right side just below the armplt.
/ The horse which belonged to Z. y.
! Parks, a neighbor, was shot through
| the neck, while the bullet which
proved fatal to Huey himself. entered
his chest almost in the center and
nassed entirely through his body. The
tragedy occurred in the afternoon, but
the bodies were not discovered until
about 6 80, when an automobile party
made the grewsome find and reported
the matter to the selectmen.
Oleornargarine Threatens Vermont.
Congressman Frank Plumley told
500 Vermont grangers at Lake Bono
seen August 10, that to allow manutac-
turers of oleomargarine to color their
products at the factories, as powerful
forces are now trying to induce Con-
grass to permit them to do, would be
sounding the death knell, to the dairy
interests and, therefore, to the farm,
in Vermont and like communities:
Congressman Plumley spoke in
non-partizan way, he said, In sorepre-
sentative a body Of all classes and par
ties to avoid politics.
He devoted most of his time to dis
cussion Of the oleomargarlne question
as il is before Congress, Impresslng
upon the grangers the fact that the
! contention of the substitute for but
ter had strength behind 1T. The farm
? ers of the South are behind the oleo
e margarine industry because they see
-. in it a use for one of the big product t:
> of cotton. Big beef men like Armour
!, and Swift are arrayed against dairy
Z mems interests because there is II
the oleomargarine industry an oppor
tunity to turn to good account one o.
the big products of their slaughter
houses. These powerful forces arr
q backed by thousands of laboring mel
{ who cannot afford to pay the price O
real butter.
: What the fighters for oleomargarin
i want is the right to color their prod
a ucts at the factories. The presen
II interstate commerce laws levy ia.
% of ten cents a pound on oleomargarln
g sold colored and only a quarter OF
y cent on the uncolored. The law i
&c unfavorable to the federal authorities
Z also because it does not give the RICH
re of search and seizure and is, therefore
- difficult to enforce. A change OF la
~ is bound to come, but to allow the oleC
..e margarine manufacturer to color tn
10 product at the factories would be deaf
le to the dairy interests and to kill tn
d. daires is to kill the farms in commun
ties like Vermont.
Id Surveying for New Railroad in State.
r. w. Mccormack, a civil enginet
- and surveyor in the employ of the Ha
e. rison Engineering Company of Ne
VI York, assisted by force of men fro
Vermont, has been at work laying out
.. survey for the proposed railroad b.
ne tween Montpelier and Rutland, whlC
II is to be constructed by the Rutland al
nu Montpelier Railroad company. III
70 survey is being made to determine tt
exact route and the cost of cOnstruc
60 ing the road. 1t is thought that Il
al survey will require about three montl
- to complete it. The railroad must
10 commenced by November 29, 1871
~ The cost of the survey will be abo
:. $40, 900. The railroad will be stea
~ road of standard gauge and will RI
'iJ from Montpelier to Rutland, startil
nu along the south side of the Winoos
W. river to Moretown at point direct
% opposite MiddleseX, skirting the M
river valley and passing throul
Waitsfeld. Warren. Granville, Ha
cock, Stockbridge, Pittsfeld, Mendo
ny and Rutland. The officers of the CO.
i" pany refuse to say anything furth
10 regarding the matter. The corps {
70 gagged in the work is now camping
'ilSi Waitsfeld and will move as soon as
w, rno completes the work in the immedia
~ vicinity of the camp. The work OF
77nl survey was started on the Langd
iua meadow and the distance to be CT
cred is about IS miles. 1t is not eXpe
eu LUdL OuLSlue VI IOCh SA(oN dGlOll yin
ool, will be any serious obstacles to ov
az az come. The company which have
~, contract for the survey are also r;
~ road builders and are at the pres
gn time constructing roads in varit
,1s parts of the country.
I y 20 :; The cost of the survey is being +
" by those interested in the constr
me- ton of the road. which if built '
,ely mean great saving in the carry
pais of freight between the two cit
CT The fact that the survey is being m
ack does not mean that the road will
MA constructed as great deal will dep
in. on the cost of carrying out the prof.
hns- Prizes for Vermonters.
NJ Conspicuous among the prizes Il
ona 1 offered at the Vermont State fair
anu White River Junction, September
,h; Il. 70, and % are the prizes giver
mn th Charles S. Mellen, president of the
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