Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-21

e.. committed suicide at Millville.
Mass By shooting.
The deaths al Boston for the week
numbered go Pneumonia led the
list with forty-eight deaths.
Discouraged because or i'll health.
John D. Pierce. "a shot and killed
himself IN his home at Boston.
John S Hyde. one OF the most
r-ominent ship builders in Maine,
died at the age Of As. lie was ma
tive CT Bath.
Mrs. Martha j. Hadley, prominent
social service worker and contributor
TO many publications. died at Cam
hri1ge. Mass.
Mary Diego. ?. fell into a wash
boiler that was filed with scalding
water at Quincy. Mass. and was
scaled to death.
Petty officers in details of two ana
four viii leave the Charlestown navy
yard for tour Of recruiting in east
err Massachusetts.
Ernest c. Moore. professor of edu-
cation at Harvard university. has &C
copied the presidency of the Los An
geles normal school.
New Bedford, Mass, shoe manu-
facturers announced an increase OF 10
percent in wages and Saturday half
holiday for workers.
Two provisional companies of in
fantry have been formed at Bowdoin
college, Brunswick, Me-, and they
will hold weekly drills.
While seated at a table in a res
taurant at Boston, in the presence or
several diners, Edward Higgins, 43,
shot and killed himself.
A freight train tore away a bumper
in the South station. Boston. plunged
through the high fence and crashed
into the main cigar stand.
The Massachusetts, department of
the Navy league of the United States
has now 1910 members. and new
members are coming in daily.
Walter w. Crockett. s, was killed
at South Portland, Ne when the body
OF a dump cart. under which he was
playing in a barn, fell on him.
Weavers in the sheds of the Goodan
Worsted company, Sanford, Me-.
struck for a 10 percent wage advance
and changes in working conditions.
Mrs. Mary F. Lampman, town
clerk of Pownal, VT, who was first
elected twenty five years ago, will
not be a candidate for reelection.
Frank P. Andrews, 10. president
of the Merrimack County Savings
bank, died at Concord. N. H. He
entered the banks employ as clerk
in 1872.
There we're seven deaths at Lyman.
Ne, during the past year, and OF
the seven all but one was over 50
years old. The single exception was
81 years old
Mrs. Louis Bayette, 90, drowned
herself and her year-old daughter at
Bridgewater, Conn. No cause for her
act is known.
Captain John Gillooly. for thirty
three years a member of the Somer-
Vile. Mass. fire department, was
found dead in his bed at the fire house
Of heart disease.
The parsonage Of the Congregation
al church and two other houses, to-
gether with a public library of 15, 0UO
volumes, were destroyed by fire at
Westminster, Vt /.
The Maine senate passed a bill
amending the constitution and giving
the governor power to remove sher-
ifs from office for failure to properly
carry out their duty.
a chase for muskrats led to the
death OF 8-year-old Joseph Hansbury
and his 13-year- old brother, John.
The children were drowned near their
home at Natick, Mass
Samuel Tomison, King of the
Newsboys. 4" il wanted on the charge
of larceny OF $500 from the Spring
field, Mass. Newsboys' union, OF
which he was treasurer.
DR.. E. NJ. Funk, general manager
of the International Explosives COM
pany's Swanton, VT, plant, was
seriously injured by an explosion in
the illuminate dry house
The heaviest run Of sap in years
and consequent bumper crop or
maple sugar and syrup are Indicated
this spring BY preliminary reports
from Vermont sugar makers.
With revolver clutched in his hand
and a bullet wound in his temple.
Frank X Mcdonald, Co.. q travelling
salesman, was found dead in bed in
MS room at Brookline. Mass
The city of Lowell has been select
ed for the first direct experiment OF
the Massachusetts, homestead com
mission in the erection Of moderate