Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-28
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. MARCH 90.

! suit for divorce against her husband for
| desertion.
! Governor Pingree solicits United
States senator's aid in his legislative
campaign against the railroads of Michi-
gan.
Turquoise beds discovered by a Cali
fornia professor, which may prove to be
those from which the Aztecs got their
supply of stones.
MONDAY, MARCH 81
There was a remarkable outbust of
enthusiasm when singers started up
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner in New
York.
Following the report of the court upon
the loss of the Maine, President McKin-
ley will make a demand upon Spain for
an indemnity; in case Spain refuses and
asks that the matter be left to arbitra-
ton, the president is disposed to yield
unless congress wills otherwise.
TUESDAY, MARCH o.
House passed the bill for the relief of
the national survivors and victims of the
Maine disaster.
Business men favor the establishment
of trade card catalogues of American
goods in foreign cities.
The vice chancellor of New Jersey de-
cides that agreements not to engage in
business are against public interest and
void
Dr. George Powell Of Lacrosse, Wis.
accepts in Senator Mason's stead the
challenge to a duel issued by Baron
E1cardo of Spain.
Edgar o. Achorn. displaced as first
secretary of the legation at ST. Peters,
burg refused to serveas second and re-
turned to Boston.
Long-1ooked-for report on the Maine
disaster completed and on it's way to
Washington; passed through Sicard's
hands and signed by him yesterday;
Senator Hale gives it up, that there is
no more hope for peace; war prepara-
lions will still go on.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %.
There was a remarkable demonstra-
ton of friendship for the United States
at a military banquet in Ottawa, Ont.
Bark Helen w. Amy was found bot
tom up off San Francisco, and it is sup
posed that 40 passengers and crew were
lost.
President Mckinley says that the re-
port of the court of inquiry will reach
Washington late Thursday night or
I early Friday morning, and will be sent
to congress by Monday.
Senator Hoar has introduced by re-
quest a bill appropriating $40 600, 900 to
be expended by the secretary of war in
the purpose being to relieve the strin-
gency Of the times by giving employment
to labor.
Representative Fitzgerald of Massa-
chusetts wants the secretary of the navy
to name one of the torpedo boats the
Acton in honor of the town which fur
nished the men who were the first to
shed blood in the cause of freedom in
the war of the revolution.
THURSDAY, MARCH "a
Floods do great damage in Ohio and ad-
jacent states.
Probability that Lord Salisbury will
resign both his offices in England.
A general banking and currency bill
has been reported to the house banking
committee.
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
in the senate tells the story of Cubas
woe as he saw it.
Rev. Jacob Ide, for AZ years pastor
Of the Mansfield, Mass, Congregational
church, commits suicide by shooting
Wholesale relief of the suffering peo-
pie in Cuba, insurgents and reconcen-
trados alike, will be insisted on, and if
objection is made force will be en-
ployed.
In the Canadian parliament bill was
introduced which is designed to pre-
vent United States Sunday newspapers
in Canada, and the publication of Sun
day papers in Canada was killed by
vote of 43 to CO.
FRIDAY, MARCH %.
Arrival of the report of the court Of
inquiry in Washington.
Sky-scrapers in Chicago must not be
more than 10 stories high in the future.
AS the result of a lively war between
kerosene oil dealers the price of the COM
modify in ST. Louis has declined to IL
cents a gallon. This is said to be the
lowest price in the world.
Battleships Kentucky and Gearsarge
were successfully launched at Newport
! News; water used by Miss Bradley in
christening Kentucky; bottles of old
bourbon whisky also broken on ships
sides. -
Sena tor Thurston makes a remark
able speech on Cuba in the senate, in
which he says the horrors are not half
told, that the United States must inter-
fere and that the Intervention means
war; also that the time for Gods force
has Gomez remarkable scene as he fin
ished.
An error in the new code presents the
possibility that Alabama may be with
out q senate in the next legislature
Even numbered senatorial districts have
prepared to hold elections next August
and the odd numbered districts in 1900
This puts an end to all possibility of an
election until the supreme court passes
on the law.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26.
Bradstreet's reports business some
what less active and prices lower.
Louisiana's constitutional convention
agrees upon a suffrage plan which bars
out by educational and property quail
fications ignorant foreigners and ne
groes.
Peoples bank of Philadelphia closes it's
doors as the result of the assignment of