Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-14
STATE NEWS.
Skull was Fractured Near Morrisville.

Skull was Fractured Near Morrisville.
An autopsy performed on the body
of Henry Crowell. whose body was
found Friday, Jan. 2, after it had lain
for two weeks in barn on an
abandoned farm near Morrisville,
showed that the skull had been
fractured. supposedly by shovel. The
fracture extended from the top of the
right ear across the back of the head
for five and half inches. Traces of
paris green were found about the
mouth and nostrils, and it is thought |
that the poison, was placed there to
suggest that the man met death by
his own act. David Trudo, at whose
Jail to await the outcome of the
investigation being conducted by the
states attorney. Crowell left the
home of I'rudo about three weeks ago
and had not been heard from since.
An investigation of the premises
where the body was found is said to
have revealed evidence that the body
was placed there after death.
Extending Vermont Electric Powers.
The addition of a most important
link in the chain of great hydraulic
power developments in western Yer
mont. owned by interests represented
by the Rutland Railway, Light and
Power company, has been accomplished
in the formation of new company,
the Pittsford Power company. and the
investment through this company.
which the banking firm, Moors &
Cabot of Boston, are about to make,
of $25O.O0O in the building and equip
ment of power house near "Slab
City," in Chittenden. and pipe lines.
The work has already begun. These
improvements will further develop the
water power at Chittenden reservoir,
which, with the East Pittsford reser-
voir. and the plant of the allied
Western Vermont Power and Light
company at Carver's Falls in Fair
Haven, already furnishes electricity
upon network of wires to New York
and New Hampshire as well as to
Mrs Redfield Proctor Refuses $500
: Washington correspondents are writ
ing about an appropriation of $500.
which they say has been football"
, the past six years between the United
States treasury and Mrs. Redfeld
, Proctor, wife of the senator of
Vermont. who died March A, 1908. 1t
, is customary for congress to vote a
, years salary to the near kin of any
| member of the house or the senate
who dies within his term, or SO much
of it as may remain of his term,
providing that it is not more than one
year. Thus it came about that when
: Senator Proctor died, congress made
the usual appropriation for the widow.
{ Mrs. Proctor is a woman of large
: means and she refused to accept the
| money. The treasury department has
r held the money as an uneXpendeC
{ balance. and has tried repeatedly tC
l have Mrs. Proctor accept it. but she
2 steadily refuses. Her action is ad
E mirable, although it is said to be 6
=. case without a precedent. as the
j families of other wealthy senators
! have not refused payments under
Y similar conditions.
l Public Service Commission is Sustained
The upshot of very able Supreme
e Court opinion prepared by Judge
t HaseltOn at the opening of thu
d January term of September court a
S Montpelier was to sustain the power
h conferred on the public service com
n mission by the legislature of 1908
f which were held not to be in violation
e Of the constitution. The claim wa
n made that because the commission
were empowered to render judgmen
they became an administrative bod,
i in violation of the constitution which
e declared the departments of tn
d government should be kept separate
d and distinct. The court declared tina
s it should take comprehensive rattle
e than narrow meaning of the statut
e which COMFORTS to constitu tiona
/ purposes.
f When parties cannot agree amons
d themselves it becomes necessary t.
). refer the matter to an impartia
d tribunal, the court said, and the publ
e service commission was such a body
j. The writ of prohibition sought by tn
# plaintiff to prevent the commission
# from proceeding was denied and tn
j. court held it was the right and duty O
), the commission to proceed. TIL
j. original case over land damages wa
e in respect to a pole line across tn
IS plaintiffs land near Montpelier juno
IS ton.
II Horace w. Bailey Died at Rutland.
IS Horace Ward Bailey. United State
j. marshall for the district of Vernon
N since 1903. we'll known throughout tn
e entire state and one of the best poste
Is men in the commonwealth on tn
=. history of the Green Mountain people
a died at the Rutland hospital Tuesda
Is evening, Jan. 6. following an acut
!. attack Of Bright's disease. Marsha
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