Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-23

pert. has been arrested. charged with
selling a gallon of adulterated maple |
syrup last April contrary to the pure
food law of the United States. He
furnished $3.50 bail to appear at the |
next session of federal court. /
Candidate FIeetwood's Dates. ~
F. G. Fleetwood will give an I'D
dress before the Winooski Valley |
Grange at East Montpelier Satur ay,
March %, he will speak in Iras Jurg
on 'The Vermont of the ,Fut' re-"
Mr.. Fleetwood was invited to speak |
the tax law yesterday.
Springfield Fire Cost One ife.
With his body burned air .ost to a
crisp and suffering intense agony, B.
G. Cupler lived for four ho rs follow
ing fire in R. j. Kenne y's wood
afternoon. George Graham and R. j.
Kennedy. also burned quite badly in
the same fire, will recover.
Generous Offer to Middlebury College.
Ex-Gov. John G. Mccullough, of
BENIN gton has offered to give S25, 900
towar is gymnasium for Middlebury
College provided the remainder of a
fun of $500 is secured by COM
men cement, June %. Less than ten
Gays ago President Thomas issued an
appeal to the alumni for a gymnasi
UNI and he has already received over
$4,000 aside from this conditional
offer. 1t is believed that Ex-Governor
McCullough's offer assures success of
the movement and that Middlebury
can build large and we'll equipped
gymnasium in time for the opening of
the college in 1911.
Heress to Million.
Mrs Harriet B. Howard, of Brat
tleboro after % years work in dress
making. is looking forward to a lega-
cy of one million dollars 1t is to
come to her from the estate of her
age. who owned large real estate
holdings on the famous Baybridge
street, Dublin. ireland. Mrs. How
ard last November received news
from firm of law solicitors, that she
was one of the heirs, who would in
herit the estate of 1900. 900. left
by her grandmother. She immediSte-
ly communicated with her three broth
ers and sisters in Nova Scotia and
| learned that they had received the
same notice. Then she began invest
| igating the matter and found it to be
real. Thursday she went to Boston
| to consult with attorneys there. She
| expects to receive her share of the
estate about August /. She has been
engaged during the winter months
submitting proofs of her claim and
| identity.
To Help West Side Farmers.
A special train will be run on the
Rutland Division of the New York
Central lines from Alburg to Bellows
Falls and Bennington inclusive on
| April 1915 next. The railroad runs
this train in cooperation with the
State commissioner of agriculture
and the Diversity of Vermont. The
train will consist of baggage car
and three passenger coaches. In the
former will be carried exhibits il
Illustrating forestry, spraying of crops
and dairying, the latter consisting of
two or three cows of desirable and
undesirable conformation which will
be used for demonstrating these
points The three passenger coaches
will be fitted up with lecture plat
form and will be devoted. one to horti-
culture and forestry, one to fert. liz
ers and crops, and one to dairying and
stock feeding. Stops of an hour each
or Whereabouts will be made at vari-
Gus stations. Two or three addresses
not to exceed Is minutes each will be
given in each car, and about Is or 20
MINUTES given to demonstrations in the
baggage car. All addresses will be
illustrated ny charts, specimens, or
otherwise. The lecturing and demon
strating crew will be supplied about
half by the Commissioner of Agri-
culture and half by the University.
This train will in many respects
resent lie the train run four years
ago on the east side of the state by
the Boston and Maine railroad. The
train schedule will be published later.
Eddy Showed No Emotion.
Robert Eddy of Wallingford. aged %
years, was found guilty of manslaugh-
ter by jury in Rutland county court
Thursday for causing the death of
Miss Mary Jane Johnson of Walllng-
ford, aged 81 years, on October 9. 1910.
The jury was out &c hours. Eddy was
tried few weeks after Miss Johnson
was killed, the jury disagreeing. The
trial of the present case was begun
on March and the case was given to
the jury at IL as o. clock Mar II. They
went into court with the verdict at 2
% o'clock the next afternoon. few
minutes before the jury entered the
court room and Foreman John Dele
hanty of Fair Haven, announced that
they had found the respondent guilty
of murder in the third degree. As
! there is no such degree of murder un
der the Vermont statutes, the verdict
was not acc pied and Judge A. A.
Hall sent the jurors back to their
room for further consideration of
the case. It was generally bel eyed
by the people in the court room at the
time that by ''third degree" the jury
meant manslaughter and there was
no surprise when the verdict for this
was rendered Is minutes later. At
torney Fish moved that the verdict be
set aside on the ground that there
was no evidence in the case to war
rant such conviction. The motto