Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-11


o. the Vermont legislature.
The bobbin factory Of the Dana 5.
Courtney company. Chieopee. Mass.
was burned With = loss of $3.50, 900.
Three Red Cross base hospital
units. orgsnizsd IN Boston. win be
ready for war service When the army
requires them.
Eight Of the ten business blocks at
Castleton. Vt. and three residences
were destroyed By fire. The loss is
estimated at $50 600
The body Of Carl r. Trevo. IS. 8
Quincy, Mass. farmer. was found
hanging from a tree. Re had been de-
spondent over i'll health.
TIE bodies Of six Of the thirteen
Youths ahesr} the launch Noxie when
it was lest II ToSten h0rbor came
ashore at Winthrop. Mass.
Frank Hammond. 90. a farmer.
died at 70 lton. Ne. as the result
Of beating received from an I'M
known man Who robbed him.
Richard E. Bradley. s5. superin-
tendeat Of the coal handling plant or
the Portland. Me. Terminal COM
pany. dropped dead at his work.
Flames. starting in the Patten
House, swept through a section OF
Patten. Me-, causing loss estimat-
ed at between SIS. 900 and 500, 900.
Elias H. Russell. so. formerly
principal of the state normal school
at Worcester. Mass, died at San
bornton. n. H, after a long i'll
ness.
The New Hampshire supreme court
reappointed Albert o. Brown OF
Manchester as a member of the state
tax commission for a term of six
years.
Facing ruin as a result of unfortu-
nate speculations in the wheat mar
ket, Charles s. Van Patten commit
ted suicide at Burlington. VT, by
shooting.
DR.. William A. Bell. Sc. of Som
erviIle, Mass, dropped dead OF
neuralgia of the heart, while inspect
ing his automobile in the garage at
his home.
The establishment of pension
system among the $500 employees OF
the National India Rubber company,
Bristol. r. L. was announced by the
management.
The Maine legislature, under sus-
pension of rules, appropriated ST.
600, 600 for general defense purposes.
The bill was signed at once by Gov
ernor Nilliken.
Camille Batistello of Maiden,
Mass. was freed when arraigned on
a charge of manslaughter in having
caused the death by shooting or
Dominick Morbi.
Massachusetts, because of its cen
trail location, ports and railroad ia
cilities, may soon be the training
state for all the New England troops
called to the colors.
Governor Mccall cabled to the
Russian duma at Petrograd: "Massa-
chusetts. the oldest commonwealth in
the new world, sends hearty greet
ing to Russian democracy.
The seventy-fye members OF Gen
eraI Henry ". Lawton camp, U. s.
". v. Springfield, Mass, have
been sworn in as special police OH
GERS for home defense duty.
Many more machinists, helpers and
+chippers" are wanted at the Water
town. Mass, arsenal. Three shifts
OF eight hours each viii be the sched-
ule in place Of two of ten hours.
All resources of the state of Rhode
Island in men and money for the ser
vice of the nation were pledged in
resolutions adopted unanimously by
the general assembly of the state.
Mattresses may no longer be en-
ployed in certain coffee houses or
Lynn. Mass, according to an ordi-
nance passed by the city council.
Music and dancing are also eIimi-
mated.
A demand for shorter hours by 200
men, night workers in the combfng
department Of the Arlington mills,
Lawrence. Mass, which the mill Of
hcials declined to grant, resulted in
a strike.
Charles E. Blaney, once the ma
pOleon Of melodrama" and more re-
Gently q motion picture promoter, or
Lawrence, Mass, admits that he
has unsecured liabilities Of 1858, 595
and no assets.
AIIston p Joyce. 81. former city
clerk Of Medford, Mass, was re-
leased from prison on parole. In
April. 1915, Joyce pleaded guilty to
larceny from the city Of Medford ana
given q sentence of three years.
A dividend Of 70 percent on a CAPT
talization Of 81 200, 900. the largest
IN the history OF the cetton manufac-