Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-04-15
STATE NEWS.
Twelve Months and $500 Fine.

'Slim" Braxton. finally captured by
his bondsman after chase to Canada
and finally to New York from which
city he was brought to Burlington
Wednesday night. was taken into
Chittenden county court where he was
arraigned on the charge of selling
liquor without authority, He received
the heaviest sentence which the law
allows on his plea of guilty. He was
sentenced to serve not less than nine
or more than IL months at the house
of correction and to pay fine of $500.
The alternative Of the fine is three
days confinement for each dollar.
which would make 1900 days. but the
court limited the sentence by specify
ing that the entire penalty was not to
exceed three years.
Slack to Go to Penitentiary.
1t took the jury in United States
district court just nine minutes to
bring in verdict OF guilty in the case
against Fred c.. Slack. the Mortified
man charged with sending a so. called
Black Hand letter to Frank Severance
at Mortified last December. Dis
trict Attorney Dunnett Immediately
moved for sentence and Judge James
L. Martin sentenced Slack to Is
months Imprisonment in the govern
ment penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.
The case was a peculiar one. All
parties concerned were agreed that
Slack wrote the letter, including Slack
himself. The evidence showed that
Severance sent the $50 which Slack S
alleged Matchmaking letter demanded
and which was a trap set by the Wood
| Morgan detective agency.
Canadian Hay and Oats.
The figures for the month of March
showing the amount of business done
in the customs district Of Vermont
have just been given out by Collector
Charles II. Darling. A remarkable
fact about them is that the duties
collected in the month are about $l0.-
| 900 in excess of the amount collected
during the month Of March the pre-
ceding year, when the old tariff was in
effect. The duties collected last month
amounted to $50, 99498 as against
$50. $685. 80 in March. 1913. The reason
for the large collection seems to- be ir
the fact that the importations Of oats
have greatly increased under the re-
vised tariff. The old tariff charged IL
cents a bushel which was almost pro
hibltive, and the revised tariff is five
cents DuShel. About S2S, OOU OF the
duties collected last month was on oats
and about S21, 900 was on hay.
Fire Losses in 1913.
One thousand, six hundred anc
forty two fires in Vermont during the
year 1913 entailed property damage Of
81, 1928. 576 IS, according to the repor
of the state insurance department
which has just been issued. With /;
total loss from fires of 1922. 932, Chit
tenden easily leads the counties will
} Rutland county second with a tota
property damage of $2O2, 299. 80. Little
Grand Isle county had six fires which
} caused losses totalling Sc, 529. 88. There
were POP fires in Chittenden county
during the year and ITO in RUTLAND
county. Washington county suffered
property damage of only $95, 3O6. Il
J from 100 fires, a remarkably low recort
, which will be more than trebled thi
!; year-the loss from the Union blocl
fire alone being close to 100000. TIL,
? city of Barre led the county with 81
fires but the total loss was only S13,
767.37 while in Montpelier 80 fire
: wiped out property valued at $33,
Isl. 80. The fire loss for 1913 by coun
ties was: