Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-26
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. SEPT. IS.

| prasent to limit the amount which can
| hereafter be granted to any one de-
| pository to twice the amount of it's CAPT
| tai, the purpose being to distribute the
funds as much as possible among banks
In all sections of the country.
| There are $50, 847 freight cars out Of
1153. $50, or 81 percent, that are still
| equipped with automatic couplers; 642,-
| I54, or Sc percent, that are unequipped
with train brakes, and 1921, or 10 per-
cent. of the locomotives uneQuipped with
driving wheel brakes up to June L, 1898.
Grace Perkins and Charles Bourne
return to Middleboro. Mass. alive. well
| and married, the young girls mother
| says: Bourne says they are not mar
ried: the funeral flowers were bought.
the hearse ordered. and the father was
on the way with the body Of the girl
found at Bridgeport which ne had iden-
| titled as his daughter.
| MONDAY, SEPT. 10.
A gigantic electric trust has been
! formed with combined catitap of $25,-
! 000 600. The Walker Electric company
| of Chicago was merged with the West
| inghouse Electric company of Pittsburg
on the basis Of a consolidation of all
the patents owned by the two corpora
tons.
| by the war department to investigate
the health conditions and cause of i'll
ness in the military camps in the south
has completed it's work a Camp Poland,
Knoxville, Tenn, and has made a report
which brings strong charges of neglect
in regard to sanitary and health regula-
lions on the part of the military au-
thorities there.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 90
News has reached Knoxville of the
death of Nahala Mullins, a famous fat
woman and moonshiner of Hancock
county, Tenn. She weighed $50 pounds
and lived on top of mountain where
she conducted a still in defiance of
the law. The officers were unable to
approach her on account Of her size,
there being no way to get her down the
mountain. Mrs. Mullins was one of
the tribe Of Malungeons, whose origin
has been mystery to chronological
students for many years.
P. T. Dodge, a patent attorney of New
York city and Of WASHINGTON, has pre-
scented to Cornell university the original
Paige typesetting machine, the only one
Of its kind ever built. TWAS constructed
at cost of nearly 100000. It consists
of over 10, 900 parts, and is in every detail
perfect in its working. 1t is considered
the most expensive piece of machinery
in the world.
There are over 100 typhoid fever
patients in the division hospitals in Mid
dletown, Pa, and the Red Cross wards
have been increased to double their for
mer size to accommodate this class of
patients. The society has 50 trained
female nurses on the ground taking care
of the most serious cases.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. u.
The citizens committee appointed for
the purpose of arranging a peace jubilee
in Philadelphia has selected Oct. 26 and
q as the dates upon which the ceIebra-
ton will be held. President Mckinley
has been invited to attend and it is ex-
pected that French, English and other
foreign warships will take part in the
naval parade.
The Michigan NJ. E. conference had a
lively contest over the question of adop-
ton of resolutions pledging the brethren
to prohibition. Some of the delegates
bitterly opposed the resolutions on the
ground that they were blow at a mans
individu&- rights. The prohibitionists
had a majority, however, and the reso-
lutiOrS We're adopted. They severely
censure ministers who have voted any
other than the prohibition ticket in the
past.
The war department orders 5000 troops
to Manila and later supplements the
order with another sending 1161 privates
and 36 officers.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20.
The publication of the official records
Of the rebellion is to be completed with
out delay
At the unwilling of the ChampIain
monument in Quebec, the Marblehead's
DIV Of
facing the monument. While many of
them were still weak from their hard
Sampaign and their line was not always
as correct as it might have been, they
had all the time the lions share of the
crowds admiration. Captain McCalla
was given a place of honor at the cere-
mo-ies.
An order has been issued by the post
office department. which authorizes post
mastor- 60 issue money orders payable
a. their .vn offices. This departure will,
IT Is believed, be a. source of great con-
veni5nce 10 a great number of people,
who, not having an account at the bank,
desire TO follow this economical way.
FRIDAY, SEPT. %.
Major General Shafter while on his
way to Constantine Mich, received
ovations from the citizens. At Hudson
the car which General Shafter occupied
was filled almost to suffocation by a
crowd anxious to shake hands with the
general.
Tobacco manufacturers and dealers in
St. Louis regard the 10 percent cut made
by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco COM
pany on all its brands as the beginning
CT another fight to be waged between the
independent factories and the American
Tobacco company, commonly referred
to as the trust.
SATURDAY, SEPT "a
Flags were raised on the public school
buildings in Atlanta yesterday with