Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-11
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts
of New England

knocked down and killed at Boston ~
an automobile.
George Wiggin. g.. died at Haver-
hill. Mass. as a result OF being
scratched by car. ID Eas
Frederick c. Murnick. II. was
killed BY being struck BY an automo-
bile at Somerville. Mass.
The Kennebec river was opened to
navigation with the passing out or
the last of the winters ice.
Jacob W. Wilbur. 10. one of the
/ pioneer real estate brokers Of Bos-
ton. died from heart trouble.
Soft coal prices st Portland, Me-,
have jumped from 50 TO S11 a ton, the
/ highest price since the Civil war.
| The body Of Alice Crowe1l, 8, who
wandered away from her home at
Hyannis, Mass. was found face down
| in a ditch.
The A. L. Sayles & Sons mill.
Pascoag, r. l.. closed for an indef-
mite period. and about $50 hands are
out of employment.
Florence Martin, so, of Springfield,
Mass, who was stabbed with nail
| file by George Polls at Bridgeport,
} Conn, is recovering.
/ Orders were issued by Major Par
ker, in charge of the marine recruit
] ing station in Boston, calling all ex-
marines to the colors.
George c. Fisk, president of the
Wason company. car manufacturers,
from 1871 to 1907, died at Spring
field, Mass, aged So.
About score of the young women
telephone operators at the Beach ex-
change, Boston, are suffering from
form Of ptomaine poisoning
Eugene Sullivan. a 19-year-old
! hunter, accidentally shot and killed
himself at Franklin. N. H, while
! climbing barbed wire fence.
The Metz company of Waltham.
Mass, viii plough and harrow forty
acres Of land near the factory for the
employees to raise foodstufs.
In the Calais, Me-. city election
W. n. Miner. >Repuhlican, was
elected mayor. The Republicans car
carried six out Of seven wards.
John DalInski. 4 months old, was
scaIded to death at Haverhfl1. Mass,
when large glass bottle. filed with
hot water. burst and burned him
While crossing a street at Boston,
within sight Of his home. Frank
Connolly, 4. stepped in the path of
trolley car and was Instantly killed
i Russell C. Parsons, a Springfield.
Mass. real estate dealer, owes
1896. 40 and has assets of SIT, 1923.
/ according to voluntary petition in
bankruptcy
The gigantic memorial statue for
the men who gave their lives on the
Titanic to save women and children
was shipped from Quincy, Mass.
stone sheds to New York
The gfft to the city by seven ctt1-
zens Of Newton, Mass, Of land and
buildings valued at about s48 600.
has settled the dispute as to the fu-
ture site Of Newton's city hall.
John n Paquette, %, a native or
Grovet0n. N H, was compelled to
make public apology at Manchester,
VI, by Judge Perkins for applying
a vile name to President Wilson.
Ransom B. Fuller. IA, died at
Brookline. Mass. He was president
of the Boston Insurance company, Old
Colony Insurance company and the
Renfrew Manufacturing company.
a discrepancy Of approximately
$50. 900 was found in the accounts or
Benjamin c. Reed, town treasurer
and tax collector OF Whitman,
Mass, who has been missing since
Feb Il
The Sterling Mcer Car company
Brockton, Mass, which completed
+ orders for several million one-pound
shells for the Russian government a
few weeks ago, i re-emploEing sew
eraI hundred hands
The Maine house Of representatives
voted to adhere IN its action inden-
nfteIy postponing the act providing
for military training in the public
schools The senate had passed the
bill TO be engTossed.
More than y. 900 shoe workers are
affected bE q notice given BY twenty
three members OF the Lynn, Mass
Shoe Manufacturers association that
On April % the factories viii be closed
for an indefinite period
IN urgent call for skilled recruits
men qualified 10 take their places
at once N one department or another
OF the naval serFfce-was issued bg
the commanders OF the United States
warships Ct the Boston navy yard
Garfield Boone shot and killed him
self at Island Falls. Me-, when a
deputy sheriff attempted TO arrest