Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-29

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. AUG. q.

reSentativeS from all the large cities.
: The army rs in command of Lieutenant
Colonel W. ]. Cozzens Of Boston.
AT the Christian Alliance camp-meet-
ing in Old Orchard yesterday, under the
leadership of Rev. DR.. B. Simpson of
New York, the sum of $50 900 was raised
for foreign missions. About S22 900 OF
that amount were secured in cash and
pledges during the forenoon services,
a farmer giving $4,000. In the afternoon
an indicidual check for $4,000 was sent in.
MONDAY, AUG. %.
The Spanish prisoners held a burlesqus
bulIfight at Camp Long, Portsmouth.
Sunday afternoon, and it was witnessed
by fully 5000 people. The 1900 Spaniards
formed in a circle near the water front
and there enjoyed their favorite pastime
Organized labor of Boston and vicinity
will probably lock horns in a contest
with the managers of some of the
theatres during the coming season, and
if a change of attitude on the part of one
or both parties to the contest does not
occur, the city will witness one of the
hottest labor wars ever inaugurateG
in New ngland.
TUESDAY, AUG. 25.
AS result of q ruling about 500 Boston
real estate brokers will have their special
tax of $50 returned to them, the internal
revenue commissioner having decided
that they do not come within the mean
ing of the law. Writing Collector Gill
on this matter, Commissioner Scott SAYS:
@'You are advised that neither sales of
real estate, nor negotiations of loans
secured by mortgages constitute the
business of a broker as defined in para
graph 2, section 2, Of the act of June 49,
1885,
In one street of Brunswick. Me. are
the homesteads where Longfellow wrote
"Outre Mer,' Mrs. Stowe Uncle Toms
Cabin" J. S. G. Abbott "a History of
Napoleon Bonaparte," Professor Cleve-
land his ''Mineralogy," and Professor
Upham his Moral and Mental Philoso-
ply
WEDNESDAY, AUG. "a
Eastport, Me-, man is contemplating
the purchase of the plant of the Elec-
trolytic Marine Salts company at North
Lubec, for use as a sardine factory It
Is understood that the stockholders in
the company want $4,000 for the prop
erty. 1t cost nearly 10 times that sum-
The placing of iced water fountains
about Boston appears to have interfered
with the business of dispensers of drinks.
and objection has been made to their ex-
tension.
John Hall, the we1l-known football
player, and Professor Wurtz of the Yale
law school went to the New Haven hos
pital and offered their services to Super
intendent Starkweather as nurses for
the sick and wounded soldiers They
donned white aprons, like trained nurses.
and began work Immediately
Secretary of the Navy Long and Mrs
Ton how TO -foI II
they will spend the next week at the
homestead where the secretary first saw
the light of day. 60 years ago.
THURSDAY, AUG. %.
A contest is now evident between the
widow of Joseph Bannigan of Provi-
dence and the executors of the will.
Notice has been given that no opposition
will be made to the probate of the doc
ument, and an appeal may be filed any
time within 40 days. Mrs. Banigan pre-
fers her dover to the $4,000 annuity left
her by the will.
Willie Lyunggren. u years old saved
the lives of William Matthewson. Is.
and his brother, who were bathing in
Riverside, r. l., and little Willie is now
the hero Of the village, but bears his
honors modestly.
The 32nd annual convention of the
Universal Peace union began at Mystic
Conn.
A member of the Massachusetts, Watch
and Ward society made a tour of the
grounds at the Portland fair with an Of
ficer. He asked for the removal of some
alleged objectional shows, but did not
The ''barkers'' in the Midway
were ordered to throw a shade less color
ing into their description of their attrac-
nd fn raj w
word pictures. The banners on the Mid
way came down, and so did the price of
FRIDAY, AUG. 26.
The Goth tri-ennial general conference
of the Free Baptist denomination opened
in Old Orchard, Me-, yesterday, with
President Mosher of HillsdaIe. Mich.
in the char,
Elmer L. Bumpus of Brockton has
just returned from the Klondike with
a tale to discourage others who might
have an idea of trying their luck there. |
He says there is more gold to be found
by working in the Brockton shoe fac
tories than there is in Alaska
Something Of q sensation was sprune
in Lewiston by the service of the writ
in a $4,000 suit for breach of promise to
marry brought by r. NJ. Lewsen of
Portland against Mrs. E. ]. Wright.
proprietress Ct the Victoria formerly /
the Rockingham hotel, in that city Mr.. /
LeWSen is q merchant.
The Resolute arrived at Portsmouth /
yesterday afternoon from Camp Nc
Gala. Guantanamo, Cuba, with 46S ma
rines on board.
SATURDAY, AUG. %.
doc" Daniel Webster, who was known /
all over the country as fakir and side /
show man. died after surgical operation
in Providence. For several summers he |
had been located at Crescent Park, r. l.
He was 40 years old
Many affecting scenes transpired or
the arrival of the hospital train in Au-
guSta. In one instance a mother saw