Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-14
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. FEB. 6.

! lament.
Montreal editor assessed damages
under the libel law for using irony and
| sarcasm.
Big silk manufacturing house of Ger
| many is to remove to the United States
and build mills in New Jersey.
]. a. Porter, the presidents secretary,
| has come in for considerable criticism
+ because of certain incidents in connec-
ton with the last White House recep-
ton.
w. J. Bryan says: 1.-The Democratic
party has put it's hand to the plough,
and unless 1 mistake the spirit which
animates the members, it will not look
back
MONDAY, FEB. Z.
Japan is to have the largest warship
in the world.
Money rather than food will do most
good in Cuba.
Speaker Reed wants Hawaiian an
nexation accomplished quickly.
Twenty-Five thousand men to leave
the middle west for the Klondike.
William Maxwell Evarts celebrated
his seth birthday in his New York home.
Society of Fruit Dealers in Berlin con-
denned the exclusion of American fruit.
Popuiists and Silver Republicans unite
in the support of Bryan for the presi-
dency in 1900.
State Engineer Adams of New York
says that New York foreign commerce
is being diverted to Boston and other
cities.
TUESDAY, FEB. 8.
Texas wants eastern cotton men to
locate there.
Thousands of Cubans are starving, and
Spain cannot help them.
Death Of General John Cochrane, who
ran for vice president with Fremont.
William Maxwell Evarts, once bril-
liant lawyer and statesman, is dying
in New York.
Brooklyn woman, insaneiy jealous,
murders her stepdaughter, tries to kill
her own husband and then attempts to
commit suicide.
Believed in Washington that the final
crisis as to our relations With Spain
is at hand; president hopes to avoid
war, but navy and army departments
have prepared for any emergency.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9.
lola was nearly mobbed at the trial in
Paris.
The English see a Jameson raid in
our Klondike relief expedition.
Rowley, weather prophet, says there
will be another big storm in March.
Spain to send another naval vessel
10 OHII0u oIdteS pOTlS heIdIlOHS D0-
tween the two countries do not look war
like.
Senators propose to fan the shoulder
ing Cuba fire into blaze; three resolu-
lions up for debate in the senate.
Fierce fight in Chicago between stu
dents and the police because the latter
interfered with the progress of a snow
balling scrimmage.
Chris Won der Abe, the ST. Louis base
ball man, was kidnapped in that city
and taken to Pittsburg on account of his
debt to Pitcher Baldwin.
There is another revolution in Central
America, this time in Nicaragua, and
one is threa tened in Uruguay over a
prospective dictatorship.
THURSDAY, FEB. 10.
Greater New York's population is given
as 3,439, 899.
Kruger reelected president of South
African republic.
Six persons were killed by a falling
wall during a fire in Pittsburg.
Progress Of the lola trial indicates
that the novelist is sure to be beaten.
Luetgert was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for killin> his wife in Chi
cago.
New York conference of Swedish Luz
theran church in America meets in Man
chester, N. II.
National turf congress makes impor-
tant changes in trotting rules, one re-
Quiring licenses for drivers.
The Spanish minister at Washington
virtually admits having written letter
disparaging President Mckinley.
President Barrios of Guatemala was
assassinated in Guatemala City with a
knife Tuesday night by a socialist
named Oscar Solinger.
of IQrit ic1, (t01, 10
very angry because Klondikers from
the United States insist on buying their
outfits in this country.
National house voted to unseat Mr.
Plowman of Alabama and senate dis
cussed the Corbett case and listened
to speeches in behalf of Cuba.
FRIDAY, FEB. II.
Canada is engaged in an elaborate
scheme of military defense.
Cuban relief committee in Maine has
sent $1,000 worth Of supplies to Havana.
Collapse of a gallery in a Russian
church caused the death of 20 persons.
President Barrios, assassinated in
Guatemala, amassed $40, 900, 900 in five
years.
Receipts from all sources for the fist
10 days of February by the treasury
were at the rate of 1886, 600, 900 per an
mum.
Minister De LONE confessed writing
al attack upon President Mckinley and
the Spanish cabinet accepted his resig-
nation.
Claus SpreckeIs daughter sues him for
tlle return of the 81, 500, 900 she gave him
when he calln1 her husband a fortune
hunter.
Senator Allen sharply criticises Speak
er Reed; says his course is disgrace
to the American people and to congrN;
house has hot-tempered day.
SATURDAY, FEB. 70