Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-06
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. NAY 20.

Montreal charged with stealing an i'm
portant letter belonging to De Bose and
Lieutenant Carranza, ex-minister Polo
aSsocia tes.
The London Times complains bitterly
of the refusal of the Spanish authorities
in Cuba to release its correspondent, Mr..
Knight who, The Times says was sent
with the full approval of the Spanish au-.
thorities, and, in landing from small
boat was only complying with the Span
ish request that he land in a neutral YES
sci.
MONDAY, MAY 80.
A freight train broke down in a cut
Just west of Blair, Neb, blocking the
track The Black Hills express which
was following, dashed into the wreck at
top speed. The engine, baggage and
mail car were derailed. The engineer of
the passenger tain was killed, his fire.
man will die, and two mail clerks were
hurt.
The Mexican congress has taken final
action on the constitutional amendments
looking to making military service COM
pulsory. Universal CONSUMPTION is not
contemplated, but the idea underlying
the new law is to make forced service
legal, and to provide a system for appH-
cation in case of an emergency, such
as an invasion.
TUESDAY, MAY 81.
A London news agency asserts that
the pope has forwarded peace proposals
to President Mckinley
The president and Mrs. Mckinley sent
a beautiful bouquet to New York to be
placed on the tomb of General Grant.
For the first time in Mobile history
there was a general participation in
Decoration day services at the national
cemetery there.
The dates for monetary congress in
Omaha have been fixed. The conven-
ton via be convened Sept. Is and will
continue through three days.
Queen Victoria wrote to Mrs. Glad
stone as follows about the dead states
man: 81 shall always remember his
devotion and zeal in all that concerned
my personal welfare
Commander Booth-Tuclser announces
that the Salvation Army has purchased
a tract of fine farm land of 285 acres near
Mentor. few miles east of Cleveland
to be used colonization farm.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1.
American electrical machinery manu-
facturers are to have an opportunity to
provide machinery valued at 81, 600, 900
for the Paris exhibition, as a result of
efforts made by the special American
commission sent to Paris to advise re-
garding American display there
The will of Jacob Wendell, a New York
merchant, bequeaths to Harvard col
lege $4,000, with directions that the in
come from this amount shall be used
annually for distribution, as the author
tiles may deem best among the students
who excel in their studies.
Three thousand more men are to be
added at once to Uncle Sans navy.
The men are to be enlisted under the
direction of Rear Admiral Erben, who
has charge OF, the coast defense scheme,
and are to be recruited from the naval
militias or outside, as the occasion war
rants.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2.
Yesterday New York witnessed the
greatest police parade ever held in
America It was the first parade Of the
consolidated forces of 1900 men.
Representative Lacy of Iowa has in
troduced bill to enable volunteer sol
diers in the field to vote in congressional
elections during the present war. Mr.
Lacy says he believes the measure has
been framed so as to avoid unconstitu-
tionality.
Two seamen from the Gloucester fish
ing schooner Atlanta were rescued Tues
day and landed at st. Johns N. f., after
having passed eight days and nights
without food drifting in a dory on the
fishing banks. The men will probably
recover, although they were reduced al
N, 80 co. dition of Skeletons
A ration is one days fooc supply for
one soldier On this basis there is sub
sistence at Tampa for an army of so, 900
men for 100 days. The supply is being
increased daily in view of the arrival of
additional soldiers to be employed in the
army of occupation of Cuba and Porto
Rico.
Samuel Henderson of Philadelphia, Is
years old, who was convicted of murder
in the second degree in having caused the
death of Percy Lockyer, aged 5 years,
was sentenced to 20years' Imprisonment.
Henderson brutal1y stabbed young
Lockyear to death and then threw his
body in a creek and weighted it down
with stones.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8.
Polo Bernardo, formerly Spanish min
lister to the United States, has been APP
pointed under secretary in the foreign
office.
A Dominion line steamship which
sailed from Boston for Liverpool yes
terday carried the largest number of
passengers in her history, SOB in all, in
Guiding two large groups, one of Irish
and the other Scandinavians
The Pennsylvania volunteers on the
Pacific are in a serious plight. They
need shoes so badly that the regiment
is seriously crippled for lack of them.
Many of the men cannot drill on account
of the condition of their footgear.
The owners of the British steamship
Foscolia, which was sunk by the Column
bia off Fire island Sunday last, will pre-
sent claim for about 5000, 900 DANA ges.
The company's counsel say that the evil
hence brought out before the naval
board of inquiry showed that the Co
luTnbia was entirely to blame.