Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-29
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. AUG. 81

last year.
a celebrated matchmaker of Berlin
has perfected a mechanism capable OF
measuring and recording the thousandth
part of a second.
A ST. Louis street car manufacturing
company is negotiating Il contract for
the largest order of cars ever made by
an American company for use in Japan.
The contract will call for $50 of the finest
motor cars for Kioto, Sapan.
MONDAY. AUG. p.
In view of the fact that congress, by
special legislation, has provided means
for executing declarations by claimants
residing abroad and for the medical
examination. it has been decided that
there shall be NO distinction between
claims filed by those who reside in this
country and those who reside in foreign
countries.
There was high temperature between
the Rocky mountains and the Missouri
river Sunday. Rapid City and Omaha
reported 100 degrees; North Platte 80
degrees; st. Louis and Pueblo 96 de-
grees; Huron, Denver, Dodge City and
Little Rock "a degrees. The wave has
been broken in Montana by decided
fall in temperature.
TUESDAY, AUG. %.
In a letter to the president of the New
York Soldiers and Sailors Families
Protective association, Admiral Cervera
says: Il seize with pleasure the op-
portunity Of expressing my gratitude to
the people of the United States for the
marks of sympathy they are always
showing me, which I shall remember as
long as [ live
1t is announced that D. K. Pearson of
Chicago has offered to give $4,000 to
Paramount college in Wichita, Kan, if
others will give s150000. President
Morrison of the college says he has the
promise of more than $4,000 already
from people in New Jersey and Vermont.
and thinks he will be able to raise the
entire amount within six months.
There are in Mexico II SIP schools. OF
these 1852 are sustained by the state.
3212 by cities, and Pap are private
schools. OF the total 6027 are for males
3104 are for females and 1881 are mixed.
The actual attendance at these schools
is 400, 746, and the annual amount appro.
priated for the support Of public schools
is nearly $500 900.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. "A.
The war department has ordered Cen
eral Breckenridge to abandon Camp
Thomas at Chickamauga park, and the
general is using every means to comply
with the order as rapidly as possible.
The various regiments will get out as
fast as railroads can transport them.
A proposition has been made for the
consolidation of the flour mills of Mime
apolis, Duluth and New York into one
company. A few years ago the mills of
New York city We're consolidated
At meeting of the Women's National
y1Tor Relief aSSOciati in
yesterday it was announced that Helen
M Gould had given $25, 900 to purchase
food and delicacies for the i'll and wound
ed soldiers in Camp Wikoff
THURSDAY, AUG. 25.
At joint meeting of all the German
societies in convention in milwaukee,
resolutions were adopted protesting
against restriction Of immigration. scor
ing sensational journalism and en-
dorsing par0cfial schools, Catholic So
cieties and Catholic press as necessary
for the retention and spread of Catholic |
belief
Or. Andrews favors adding Spanish to !
the studies taught in the Chicag go schools. /
Supreme Chancellor Colgrove of the
Pythians has appointed John H. Alex |
ander Of Virginia and William 3. Gale |
Of Massachusetts supreme tribunes. |
These appointments are for six years.
The school census of Chicago shows /
that the city's population is very un- |
evenly distributed. One city block has
a population Of 2727, of which 1912 are
Poles while another block has but one
house, the home of millionaire. and /
contains a population of but nine The
most cosmopolitan block in the city has |
representatives of over 20 nationalities |
FRIDAY AUG. 26.
An excellent test of business is found |
in the RELOCATION of third-class offices
to the fourth class. The number for
1894 was 40. This exceeded that of any
other year, the next highest being Al in
1897. delegations for 1898 are only II.
less thar half that for any previous year.
The advances of the year are not con-
fined to any one section of the country.
but are general, being divided among 80 I
states ard territories.
The queen regent sent message to
the returned troops on board the Ali
cante. congratulating them upon their
conduct in the field and saying that she
proposed to be the first to welcome them
home. There was no yellow fever on
board, though 60 died of other diseases
during the voyage.
Among the vice presidents elected at
the meeting of bankers in Denver were:
Connecticut, G. A Lewis; Maine, A. G.
Rogers; Massachusetts, Alfred L. Rip
ley; New Hampshire, W. F. Thayer:
Rhode Island, H. ]. Wells; Vermont,
w. Bailey.
Commodore G. c. Remey has been de-
tached from command of the naval base
at Key West and ordered to duty as com
mandant Of the navy yard in Ports
mouth, where he will relieve Admiral G.
c. Carpenter, retired, who is authorized
to re turn to his home.
SATURDAY. AUG. 81
One Of the first permanent memorials
Of the Spanish-American war to be