Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-08
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. JULY 81.


New England Spiritualist Camp asso-
citation. to last through 80 days, was
opened auspiciously in Lake Pleasant,
Mass, Sunday.
Samuel c. Bennett, the present acting
: dean of the Boston university law
school, has been officially chosen dean of
this department of the university. He
is the son of the late dean.
The will of the late Annie Mute of
Rochester, n. H, by which she left her
entire property, amounting in value to
$4,000, to her nephew, Charles w. Par
sons, is to be contested by Ford Parsons
and Sarah Dame of Dover, brother and
sister of the deceased
MONDAY. AUG. l.
Two cars of the Lowell, Lawrence and
Haverllil Street Railway company col
lided below Belle grove, three miles be-
low Lowell, Sunday, and motornan and
several passengers were hurt.
Sunday afternoon lightning burned a
cotton storehouse owned by the Union
Wadding- company of Pawtucket and
caused loss of $4,000 to St. James
Episcopal church in Providence Woon-
socket suffered severely from rain
All male visitors to Camp Dalton in
South birmingham, Mass. Sunday were
searched as they passed through the
gates in the endeavOr to prevent LIQUOR
being struggled upon the grounds, and
several bottles were found Colonel
Whitney is determined that the camp
will be as orderly as possible, and in
toXicating liquors are not allowed under
any condition.
TUESDAY, AUG. 2.
The carriage shipments from Ames-
bury, Mass, for July were 5S1, as against
$50 for the corresponding month last
year.
There were 136 alarms of IRE during
June in Boston. Twelve Were needless
alarms. IL from smokers pipes 10 set by
boys and 10 caused by f1recrackers: II
fires were caused in some way by kero-
sene and eight by gas jets coming in con-
tact with curtains. The losses during
June amounted to S2O,64O, as against
$50, 900 for the same month of 1897.
WEDNESDAY, AUG 3.
The Maine division of the L. A w.
has voted to pay SIS to any person Civ
ms information which will lead to the
conviction of anyone guilty of malicious
ly placing tacks or other distractions
on bicycle paths for the purpose of
,,uncturing tires or otherwise. disabling
wheels.
Albert Curtis of Worcester left S117,-
OS0 in public requests, among them the
fouowinS: Worcester home for aged
females, $1,000; home for aged men,
$4,000; polytechnic institute, So 900; Ma
tional History society, $1,000; Society of
Antiquity, $1,000; City Missionary So
ciety, $4,000; Children's Friend society,"
The Massachusetts Single Tax league
has sent to the clergymen of Boston a
communication asking their support in
f@AI, o1f Of he CT, 10 toxr
ment. The paper refers to the pressing
social problems of the day, and instances
the lard question as one of the greatest
if not he fundamental question, which
needs solution.
THURSDAY. AUG. T.
Fifteen girls employed at the Senter
house, Cen ter Harbor, N. H, refused to
work at a late hour last night on ac-
count of efusal by the management to
allow them to go on a moonlight eXcur-
sion on the lake. The proprietor of the
house was present and at once teIe-
graphed to Boston for help to, take the
places of the striking employees New
girls arrived on the Montreal express at
Facredith.
Officials of the Fitchburg road state
that business of late has been run
ming somewhat lighter, and for July will
probably be 10 percent less than it was
for the corresponding month last year
Local passenger traffic, always good at
this season of the year, is holding up
well, but the freight business has been
suffering from the prevailing general
dizziness in the business situation.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5.
John Reardon of SomerviIIe, Mass,
was run over by a train and instantly
killed
The boys assembly, now in session at
Good Will Pines, in East Fairfield Me-,
is -one>ef- the most unique assemblages
ever held. 1t might be described as a
summer school for boys, with some of
the characteristics of a campmeeting
with an afternoon holiday every day.
There are 300 boys there, and they are
under semi military discipline as re-
CARDS hours of exercise, instruction anu
recitation.
The regimental canteen in South
birmingham made $1,000 in July and it
takes in about $3.50 day The men are
served at about cost, and the profit is
made off visitors. A dividend of 1851 has
been given to the band for instruments,
and each company receives s40 while a
surplus of $500 is ket by the exchange.
Mrs. Louise Bosco of Brockton was
probably fatally burned by her clothing
taking fire while she was cooking over an
oil stove. William Fox, a neighbor, was
burned while wrapping a blanket around
MS. Bosco.
SATURDAY, AUG. 6.
In New England the traffic to Maine
coast has been larger than ever before
and the Pullman people claim it is due
10 the fact that great many people of
wealth who have formerly spent the sum
mer months abroad are thisyear travel
ing on the New England coast. The
Pullman company is now running $50
cars in New England, of which number
about 100 are on the Boston & Maine
system.