Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-09-20
STATE NEWS.
Installation of President Benton.

ton, A. M, -. u, LII. L., DIS preSl-
dent of the University of Vermont
will take place in Burlington, October
5 and 6. On the first day there will
be an educational conference in which
a number of distinguished educators
will participate. In the morning of
the second day the representatives of
various colleges and learned societies
will give five minute addresses and in
the afternoon the formal installa ton
will take place and the inaugural ad-
dress will be given. In the evening
there will be banquet rendered by
the University corporation.
Alleged Horse THE Was Lodged in Jail:
49,. Arthur Langmaid of Newark was
unprecedented in his native town Thurs
day and taken to ST. Jobnsbury and
q; lodged in Jail by Deputy Sheriff 0. l..
Leonard of Burke on the charge OF
horse stealing. Langmaid is young
maprabout twenty years old. 1t is al
legged that he stole a horse, wagon
and harness and after getting away
became frightened and disposed of
fhe property in various ways and hid
himself in an old barn. Authorities
got on>track of him and he was soon
ursept for. -. Young Langmaid was in
o>dictede last December for gratuitously
docking the tail of horse belonging
to a neighbor. He was put on proba'
tion for that offense.
Prisoners Nearly Escape.
Tires prisoners confined in Wind
ham county Jail at Newfane almost
= made a successful escape Saturday
Jrafght:r The prisoners made saw out
stof knife which they secured posses
sion off, and with this instrument
e sawed off the bars so that two of
- them made their way to the corridor.
When, discovered early Sunday morn
, ing by Jailer Earl Davis. they had
nearly completed their escape by dig
sging a hole through the exterior wall.
Mr.. Davis was awakened by the
breaking of slat and went to inves-
s. stigate the disturbance just in time to
tdetaiR- his prisoners for breakfast.
The prisoners acknowledge that they
had worked four days to accomplish
the lob
Blood Stains on Garments.
&c rand Juror PhiIo Hill Of Fayston
sIThursday found Woman's upderVest
5Ieevered with blood and a piece Of
2elokh alsoablood stained; in the hay
lya1e4u}ift the Baird barn. in South Fay
ston, where James C. Baird was
killed Tuesday. and he took the cloth
:. Inc. to Montpelier and turned it over
~ to States Attorney Carver. 1t Is
t. said that Mrs. Baird claims she slept
in the barn the night before the body
of her husband was found. Her face
: hears the marks of scratches and
there are marks on her shoulders, all
of which she claims were made by her
&usbPnd in the quarrel she had with
him lust before she left the house at
II o'clock Tuesday forenoon. john
Stewart, a town charge, who has
been missing since Baird's death,
showed up in Fayston yesterday. He
a.. scorrob0rates Mrs. Baird's statement
of her fight with her husband Tuesday
morning, Stewart claiming that NJ
was in the house at the time. 1t l!
reported about Fayston that the au
topsy on Baird's body revealed
broken nose. bad bruise over on
eye nearly closing the eye, and othe
bruises on his head; also that hi
lungs were found to be infamed, a
though pneumonia had set in or wa
about to set in. There were lndlca
tons about the spot where the bod
Law that Baird laid there and thrashe
about for some time before he dice
It was very cold night and 1t
thought that the cold and eXposur
might have fastened his death. III
discovery of what is said to be bloc
on the shirt of George Watson, one {
the two men in Jail has led to r
doubled efforts to find his coat. t
was coatless when located by tt
30 officers. Edward Conway, who w
at the carousal at Baird's house Tue
day, is the other man in jail. MI
Baird is also detained.
49,. 400 Ate Dinner and Heard Speech es
The second annual meeting of t
caledonia Forest and Stream cl
- was held on the campus at st. job
- byy Thursday. beginning with
"A business meeting at II o'clock 6
followed by dinner at twelve. S
tx ty new members were admitted
80 membership. Fully four hundred
~. down to- dinner, which was nicely
hsJ.s ranged in large tent. After the c
I'll. Et ner President John W. Titcomb. st
'2}~ 7aish and game commissioner, sp
briefly as to the work of those I'M
ested in the promotion of fish
game and their proper llmltatle
,9s,s In conclusion he yielded to Dist
Attorney Alexander Dunnett, who
-, ed as POSTMASTER for the occas
@'2 Three after dinner speeches follow
which would be hard to beat IN
We 81 state on any occasion. Burg
Johnson, a former son of Verm
now of New York, held the atten
r,1@ of his hearers with delightful
IL. the way of commentary on t
as r., cal Yankee shrewdness. He was
lowed by. Will Carlton. the
known poet, who made one of
s... best after dinner speeches ever N
in these parts. 1t is something Q
..,, testimonial to the merits of
80 speech. when it is known that
outside an aeroplane was making
enticing maneuvers and notW
s11 standing. the poet was able to !
ks>%s his audience spellbound with his II
liable commixture of sparkling
asg12@ Inn dIecnullor anu ull aiii eei1 .unI
70 ssgGQnnoR SENSE, ne was wv" 1 81