Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. FEB. q.


Bore Boston club, denounced Spain as a
Nurse to civilization.
The Boston and Maine railroad has
declared a quarterly dividend of s1.50
per share on the common stock, payable
April 1, to stock of record Feb. g.
BY the completion of the Sudbury res
ervoir and the diversion of the waters
of the Nashua the metropolitan district
in Massachusetts will have in the coming
season available supply of about 1O0,-
100000 gallons, and by the completion of
the WachuSett reservoir this capacity
will be increased to about 173, 900 600 gal
Ions per day. A slight extension in the
future by taking in the Assabet water
shed would carry the capacity up to
POI, 000, 900 gallons daily.
MONDAY. FEB. %.
New Bedford strike council sends rep
teSentativeS to Washington to urge s.
hour amendment to the constitution.
British steamer Legislator burned at
sea; six men persisted and 80 other per-
sons were rescued after three days and
landed at Boston Sunday.
President Tucker of Dartmouth col
lege, Hanover, n. H, in speaking Of
the relations between the United States
and Spain urged that the situation be
met by restraint of speech and careful
consideration of the responsibility at
hand, saying that irresponsible speech
could not be tolerated
The vacancy at the Boston branch of
the United States bureau of animal in
dustry, caused by the resignation of
Chief Inspector Lee, who has held the
position for about five years, has been
filled by transferring to the Boston sta
ton DR.. A. S. Richardson, chief inspector
of abattoirs at Cincinnati.
TUESDAY. MARCH 1.
Lieutenant Weaver, U. S. artillery, de-
clares that Boston is at the mercy of
any hostile fleet.
The proposition to become a part of
Boston is the one subject of discussion
In Quincy at the present time. Several
meetings in relation to the matter have
been held.
The Massachusetts superintendent of
prisons urges the employment of 1000
prisoners serving six months or more
In the construction of the Cape Cod
canal his estimate OF the cost of the
Job being $4,000 600.
Chief Wade of the Massachusetts DO
lice is an advocate of the bill to stop
fgreen stamp" contracts. He says more
law is needed because in Boston it has
been decided that the use of these stamps
twas legal. He thinks that many trad
tracts if they could.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2.
DR.. w. A Rogers, recently a profess
sor of Colby university, died Tuesday in
Waterville, Me. He was a scientist of
international reputation.
Three Brown university freshmen who
we're kidnapped by sophOmores are hailed
as heroes; one of them jumped over
board from launch at Newport and
swan ashore.
f. G. Pettigrove, superintendent of
Massachusetts prisons, explains that he
did not intend or propose to employ the
convictS in the state prison on the Cape
Cod canal, but simply those from coun-
try prisons. for whom there is INSULT
Gent work at this time for the latter
Richard H. Dana at the last meeting
of the board of directors of the New
England conservatory of music in Bos-
ton, handed in his resignation as presi-
dent. Business cares compelled him to
take the step, although he will continue
to be member of the board of directors.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
Richard Olney talked at Harvard on
the international isolation of the United
States.
The crisis in the high hat ordinance
of Boston has stirred up the ladies all
are pouring into the mayor.
Lena Bishop of Chelsea, Mass, was
arrested for being a stubborn child on
complaint of her father who wished to
prevent her marriage; she was of age
and married the man of her choice in
court.
d. l.. Perkins, a Manchester N H,
lawyer, who killed himself Wednesday
in railway station, was at one time in
the office of the comptroller of the cur
rency, where, in the capacity in which
he was employed, he signed his initials
to over 500, 000, 600 of currency.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4.
A Stoughton, Mass, boy of II was
arrested for giving his age as 81 in the
securing of a marriage license.
Smith G.. Davis was sentenced at Mid
dlebury, VT, to four years in prison for
eausing the DEATH of Dora Cushman.
The investigation committee of the
Nashua, n. H, board of education rec
pmmends that three high school boys
be expelled and three others suspended
for misconduct.
The annual convention of the Young
Woman's Christian association of Mas
Eachusetts and Rhode Island began in
Lowell yesterday with a large atten-
dance of delegates.
Townsmen in Bethel, Me-, and friends
of Judge Foster of the supreme court
whose scalp the w. C. 7. union is
after, have petitiOned the governor to
ignore the charges and reappoint him.
The Mortified Congregational church
at Weston, Conn, by advice Of the mu-
tuaI council, which recently found the
Rev. 9. NJ. Arthur guilty of unnnin-
sterial conduct, has voted to dispense
with Mr.. Arthur's services at once.
SATURDAY, MARCH 5.
Boston audience was told by Samuel
,Eompers that he was confident the New