Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-25
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, JULY II.

the main trophies DIT tHe AHleIiCdh
Whist league congress. The American
club of Boston captured the league chal-
-ienge trophy.
Shipbuilding in Maine promises better
this year than for a long time past,
and 1t is thought that one result of the
Spanish war will be an increased de-
sl.and for briggs and schooners of mod
crate size Very few ships or barks
have been built in Maine for the past
10 years, and no brig has been launched
from a Maine yard since 1888. The only
vessel now under construction is steel
vessel of about 5000 tons in the yard of
Arthur Sewell & Co.. at Bath.
MONDAY JULY Is.
A Maine guide reports that in a three
weeks trip to Musquacook lake he
counted AIS deer. % moose and three
caribou. He took particular pains not
to count the same deer twice, and on
this account refrained from counting
some so which he saw. 1t is the op1n-
ion of all the Maine guides that deer are
more plentiful than last year.
The state presidents of the National
women's Christian Temperance union
have decided to abandon the temple
building enterprise in Chicago, and
adopted q resolution in which the fol-
lowing appears: And we recommend
that no further call to local unions. or
effort by them. be made to secure owner
ship of or pay for the temple"
At Northport, on Penobscot bay, Me-.
from July 80 to Aug. IS, summer school
under the direction of the Maine State
Sunday School association will be held.
The program includes a course of lee
lures on the art of teaching, normal
lessons on the English bible, lectures
on child study, preliminary work, kim
dergarten department. home department
and normal department.
TUESDAY, JULY 10. ~.
a fierce fire, probably caused by spon-
taneous combustion, in the Central
building in Cambridge, caused a loss
of $500.
John Lamb, the rattlesnake specu-
lator of Boston, has been given II months
In state prison for handling and selling
dangerous and poisonous reptiles in
Rutland, VT.
Mary Hopkins, aged 49, widow of
Americas famous educator, Mark Hop
kins, died Monday, after a lingering
sickness of two years. : She was life
long resident of Williat1stown Mass,
and leaves seven childre1E
The 10Th annual session of the New
at Lakeview, South birmingham, Mass,
last night with about 1000 people in at
tendance. The veteran DIR. Hurlburt
was not present, his place being filled by
DR.. Dunning, editor of The Congrega-
tionalist of Boston, who opened the
meeting.
WEDNESDAY. JULY 20.
st. PauPs church, Springfield, has
decided to call Rev. Flint M. Bissell of
Spencer.
Agents of 80 Fall River mills decide
to shut down for four weeks in August,
and half of the $4,000 hands will be
idle.
The factory of the Portland Canning
company in Canton, Me-, was struck by
lightning and completely destroyed
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
Captain Jonathan Norton, who will
be 102 years of age Aug 1, was the
central figure at the flag raising at East
Lee, Mass, Monday evening. He ad-
dressed few words to the audience.
The 3-story factory in Danbury, Conn.,,
occupied by Butler & Dexter, hat form
ers. and Merritt & Knox, hat manu-
facturers, was entirely destroyed by
fire. Butler & Dexters loss is $4,000;
Merritt & Knox, $1OOO loss on the build
ing, $4,000.
Ezra Is. Bailey of Windsor Locks
Conn, has been appointed temporary
receiver of the Seymour Paper company.
Bonds were fixed at 30,000 A suit has
been brought against the company for
the appointment of a permanent re-
ceiVer which will be argued in October.
THURSDAY, JULY q.
Elery Gray of Lyndon, VT, aged 40,
has lived in sight of the cars nearly ali
his life but never has rode in one yet.
The adjutant general of Connecticut
figures that the state has furnished 964
men in excess of the requirements of
the government on the two calls and in
addition has furnished 203 officers and
men for sea duty from the naval bat
talon; so that Connecticut has a credit
of 1149 men instead of deficit as given
by the war department.
FRIDAY. JULY %.
Boston's gross debt is $79, 592, 91O.76, an
increase of $3.50, 31019 over last year.
The annual assembly of the Maine
Chautauqua union at Fryeburg, to-
gether with a school of methods, will be
opened July 2S, to continue until Aug. IL.
Massachusetts has money enough on
hand to meet expenses until Sept. l.
Then it will be necessary to make use Of
$1,000, eco, the proceeds of the sale of new
bonds.
The will of Sidonia Olzendam of Man 4
chester contained these requests:
Tuskegee normal school for negroes at
Tuskegee, Ala, $4,000; American Uni
tartan association, $4,000; American Uni
tartan association, $4,000 in trust, income
to the Woman's National alliance;
orphans home at Franklin, $4,000; New
Hampshire Woman's Temperance union,
S5000 for the mercy home in Manches-
ter; Woman's city mission auxiliary of
Manchester, $4,000; woman's aid hospi-
tai, Concord, $4,000; Elliott Hospital as
Fociates, $4,000; diet Kitchen, Manchester: |
$4,000; Johanna Steinbrick of Inter
boomer, Germany $4,000