Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-21
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
of New England

Charles A Daniels of Maiden, dean
of the Massachusetts school teachers.
observed his SD birthday.
Mrs. George W. Prefer. IS. club
woman and former teacher of parlia-
mentary law. died at Boston.
Mrs. Margaret Regan. 70, died at
Boston ten minutes after she had
been knocked down by an automo-
bile.
Ten ear-old James Brown died at
Brockton, Mass, from a fractured
skull sustained when he slipped on an
icy street.
Arthur G. Lewis. Il. died at wor
eester. Mass, where he was for
thirty-eight years principal of pub
lie school.
DR.. Lemuel F. Noble was found
guilty by a Boston jury of Illegally
prescribing and dispensing narcotic
drugs to addiets.
Acton, Mass. is one Of the first
towns in Massachusetts TO indorse
military training and drill by the
citizens of the town.
Herbert Singleton. 80. was instantly
killed when he fell sixty-five feet
from the fifth floor TO the basement O
building at Boston.
Accidental falls down stone SAT-
ways of Boston subway entrances
brought death to Daniel Carney, As,
and Peter Hughes, A.
The American ambulance field ser
vice viii receive more than SO, 900
as the result of a collection taken at
the Boston opera house.
Strike losses in Connecticut indus
trial plants during the past two years
are placed at 81. 500, 200 by the state
bureau of labor statistics.
Captain Sutherland, commandant
Of the cadet corps at New Hampshire
college. Durham, received notice or
his transfer to El Paso, Tex.
Grief over the recent death of his
wife caused the death of Colonel Al
fred Hooking. Is. superintendent OF
the Melrose, Mass. postofice.
Thirty employees in the Boston and
Maine railroad passenger station at
Lyndonville, Vt. escaped without in
jury when fire partially destroyed the
building.
Kfdder, Peabody & Co., treasur-
ers, Boston, announced a total OF
contributions to the American fund
for French wounded amounting to
| $2O6. 2s7 So.
Standing before a mirror and hold
I ing a picture Of her husband in one
hand Mrs. Esther Rotterdam, 35.
shot and killed herself in her home at
Revere. Mass.
Two fremen were overcome and
the lives Of several others were en-
dangered by gas escaping in the base
ment Of the Wales building, Boston,
during a $50 900 fire.
Charles r. Harris, for twenty-one
years bookkeeper and cashier for the
Portland, Ne, water department,
was asked to resign. An auditor is
working on his books.
Captain Joseph Whitmore, assist
ant keeper OF Crabtree ledge light,
was drowned by the capsizing of a
boat in which he was returning to his
post from Ellsworth, Me.
Arthur v. Phillips of New Haven
was killed and Mrs. James T. Pat
terson of Milford was probably ia
tally injured in an automobile acct
dent at Bridgeport, Conn.
Lieutenant Porter, aide TO Com
mandant Rush at the Boston navy
yard, viii go to every city and town
on the Maine seacoast to stimulate
recruiting for the navy patrol.
Leon A Gilman of Willimantic,
Conn, who killed his grandfather.
Nelson Gilman, and his counsin, Ed
ward E. Gilman, in that city, was
indicted for murder in the first de-
gree.
Viola Lynch. Is. who disappeared
from a Woonsocket, r. T.. reform
school last December and who had
been missing since that time, was To-
Gated in Boston and taken back to the
institution.
Violation OF the hours of service
act Is alleged in an information filed
sgainst the Grand Trunk Railway
company in the federal district court
at Rutland, VT The imposition or
s29 900 in fines is asked.
Two unidentified men entered the
Pawtucket exchange Of the Provf-
dence Telephone company, choked
Miss E. n Mcdonald, "a, the cash
Ter. until she was unconscious, ana
ssade their escape with over 800.
. warrant was issued at Nashua
n. H, for the arrest Of Henry J..
Knowlton, financial secretary or
Earela tent. Order Of the Maccabees
on charge OF obtaining money un-