Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-21
NEWS In BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, FEB. Is.

to average 20 cents for. each operative
Ioafing.
The New Hampshire legislature is
considering a proposition to equip an
infantry battalion of the national guard
as heavy artillery.
Yale will have no professional coach
for it's ball team this year, but Captain
Greenway will be assisted in his work
by a number of Yale's best players of
recent years.
The Rhode Island division of the Sons
of Veterans has voted to appoint COM
mittee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
inviting the national encampnent to
hold it's meeting of 1899 in Providence.
The Democratic leaders in Rhode ISL
and expect the labor organizations of
the state to take a prominent part ia the
campaign this spring. The election in
wolves beside a federal senator 10 judges
in the different districts.
MONDAY, FEB. IA.
Seventeen-year-o boy, unable to
make a living in Boston, takes paris
green and whisky anu will probably die.
Conference of textile delegates recon-
mended a general strike in New England
cotton mills; New Bedford, Mass, oper-
atives received news with evident dis
pleasure.
Peter Nelson, who shot Boston pa
the profession of a footpad-could not
get work, begging meant perpetual i'm
priSOnment and SO he tried robbery
Ex-Governor Robe of Gorham, Me-, is
announced as a candidate for depart
ment commander of the Maine Grand
Army. He served during the four years
of the war as paymaster of volunteers,
and was brevetted lieutenant colonel.
Boston's building commissioner reports
hot HI
dent at the recent fire; roof, heavily
weighted with snow and ice, fell. carry.
ing with it by shock the upper floor. in
creasing the weight on each, till the bot
tom was reached.
Arrangements have been made with
the Fall River line to transport a number
of Harvard graduates and their ladies
from New York to Boston in order that
they may attend a series of lectures to
be given in Sanders theater, Cambridge,
on the afternoons of the first Is alternate
days in March.
TUESDAY, FEB. Is
Bostons mayor wants a department
of public music, and so recommends to
the aldermen.
DR.. George L. Crockett fined $500 on
charge of m&nSlaughter at Auburn Me-,
which he promptly paid.
Mass meeting in Faneuil hall, Boston,
to protest against the passage of the
Lodge immigration bill.
Lynn, Mass, again frightened by the
cry, Hands upi" highwaymen being
three small boys, who had toy pistol.
First formal protest to the Boston
board of aldermen against the anti
high hat ordinance was made by visitor
calling herself Mrs. M. Coleman.
Plan for general strike of cotton
operatives falls flat, and prevailing SEN
timent is to help New Bedford strikers;
yarn mills may be struck to aid the
movement.
Fourteen employees of the New Eng
land railroad, chiefly conductors and
brakemen, have been arrested on
charges of obtaining money by false pre-
lenses
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16.
Boston and vicinity had a thunder
storm, accompanied by a gale in some
parts.
Bridgeport, Conn, youth scorned by !
an actress, shot himself fatally in a
theatre.
Boston milliners assert that the new
theatre hat order is working serious in
jury to their trade.
Colonel Stevenson, a leading citizen of
Connecticut, has joined the Salvation
army and presented it with check for
$4,000.
Massachusetts, legislative committee .
on labor stirs up middle in New Bed
ford by it's method of procedure in in
vestigating strike, and decides on
change of base; mill men will be heard
if they appear.
THURSDAY, FEB. II.
Massachusetts legislature may abolish
the office of fire marshal
The worst storm of the season held
northern New England in it's grasp and
blocked travel.
Patrick A. Collins, ESQ., said at the
Boston protest against immigration
Monday evening, that if the bill were in
operation years ago he would not be
here.
AlonZo r. NickerSon of BOothbay has
been nominated commissioner of sea
and shore fisheries in Maine.
A site for a new observatory for Am
-herst college has been recently purchased
through funds given the college by !
Charles T. Wilder of Wellesley, Mass
Permanent memorial will be erected ;
at Harvard to Marshall Newell, who
was killed Christmas eve at Springfield,
Mass. 1t has been suggested that new
gate to the college yard would be most
fitting, but its location has not yet been
determined.
FRIDAY, FEB 10.
Charles Eliot Norton is to retire from
the department of fine arts of Harvard
university.
Station agent at Tower Hill, Weston,
Mass, robbed and fatally shot by
negro, who was captured.
Member of the Massachusetts legfs-
Iature offers an order for an investiga-
ton into the condition of the artillery
of the state militia, which, he asserts, is
antiquated and useless.
Yale has chosen to support the affirm
ntive in the annual forensic contest with !
Princeton university March 3d. the ques- |
ton being: Resolved, that municipal