Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-06

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY MAY %.

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shut down again for an indefinite time,
throwing 140 hands out of employment
The agent claims to be losing money at
the present price of print cloth
Mayor Quincy of Boston has author
lied reward of $500 for the arrest of the
murderer of the foreman of a division of
the street cleaning department, who was
i shot and instantly killed by an Italian.
Nora L. Bryan, former postmistress
of Middlefield, Mass, who was tried in
the United States circuit court, upon an
indictment charging her with having
opened letters addressed to divers per-
sons in that town, was found not guilty.
MONDAY, MAY 80.
The Holyoke high school won the
western Massachusetts interscholastic
meet held at Amherst by a walkover,
scoring a points. Westf1eld scored 3d.
Springfield high, q; Monsoon academy
16, and Amherst, 8. Chadwick of Hol-
yoke won the greatest number of points
of any contestant, scoring 81.
The Massachusetts council, Daughters
of the Revolution, has passed a resoIu-
ton that the governing body of our
commonwealth, and those in authority
in the various towns and cities within
its borders, be requested to use every
effort to prevent the useless expenditure
plays and explosives of all kinds for the
celebration of independence day" but
to divert the money thus wastefully ex-
pended to the better purpose of furnish
ing supplies for the hospital ship of the
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid associa-
ton
TUESDAY, MAY 81.
f. D. Blackwell of Montpelier returns
to his home after being n1ourned for
dead 20 months.
After six years in the pastorate of
Chicago Congregational church, Rev.
Willard Scott will hand in his resigna-
ton, and If it is formally acted upon he
will accept a call to the Piedmont Con-
gregational church at Worcester.
Deputy Sheriff Dyer of Pennington,
Me-, and James Whorff, who were re-
sponsible for the capture of bank mes
senger who absconded from Boston with
$50, 600, have brought an action to de-
ternine the size of the reward they shall
receive.
The withdrawal of General John G.
Mccullough from the canvass for gov
ernor, and retirement of State Treasurer
Henry f. Field, Wo does not desire
renonina ton, complicate the political
situation in Vermont as in no other in
stance for a quarter of a century.
Wednesday, JUNE i.
DR.. John r. Hatch convicted at Ossi-
pee, n. H, of numbering his wife
Governor Dyer of Rhode Island in
augurated for the second term
The prospects for mackereIing off
Marthas Vineyard are excellent, as the
fish are now schooling in vast num-
bers
William S. Greene of Fall River elect
ed successor to the late CONGRESSMAN
Simpkins in the Thirteenth Massachu-
sets district
Chauncey L. Knapp of Lowell who
served in congress in 1856 and '5S, de-
feating General B. T. Butler in his first
campaign, died yesterday, aged 80 years
He was a native of Berlin, VT, and had
been an editor on the New York Tribune.
and owner Of papers in Montpelier and
Lowell. He was secretary of the state
of Vermont from 1886 to 1870
THURSDAY, JUNE 2.
The will of Sophia Brown of New York
leaves ST. Marks Protestant Episcopal
Church society of New Canaan Conn.
and five other religious societies $4,000
each.
The new Episcopal church of Our
Saviour in Middleboro, Mass, was con-
secrated yesterday by Bishop Lawrence.
There were about 20 visiting clergymen
and a number of laymen from out of
town.
A state body of Daughters of Veterans
was organized yesterday in Nashua
tents from all sections of New Hamp-
shire being present. The following Of
fice~S were elected: President Lottie
A. Canrey of Nashua; senior vice presi-
chaplain, Minnie Piper Manchester:
vice president, Mary A. Kenan, Concord;
chaplain, Mime Piper, Manchester;
treasurer, Mary Savage, Nashua; secre-
tary, Louise Butterfeld, Nashua
FRIDAY, JUNE 8.
Mrs. Charles J. Williams of Salem,
Mass, was fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of lamp.
The American watch factory in Walt
ham will close down for the annual vaca-
ton June 80, and will open July 20. Sew
eral departments will run during the first
part of the vacation.
The will of D. r. Avery of Highland
vile, Mass, bequeaths $500 each to the
First Baptist church, Needham; the
Baptist church, Newton Upper Falls,
and the Methodist Episcopal church,
Highlandville.
The premium of $3.50 offered by the
Rhode Island Medical society for the
best essay on medical subject named
has been awarded to DR.. David A Wolf
stein Of Cincinnati A premium of $3.50
Is offered for 1898.
Calais, Me, has sold for $35, 900 it's
interest in the st. Croix and Penobscot
railroad to the Washington county road
On condition that the machine shops are
quilt at Calais. The face value of the
bonds held by the city is $76,0
The Maine Medical association elected
these officers yesterday: President,
Dr. S. c. Hunt, Portland; first vice pres
nent, DR.. w. B. Small, Lewiston; second
rice president, DR.. S. J. Bassford, Bid
1eford; corresponding secretary, DR..
II. Hamlin, Orono; treasurer, Er. A. S.