Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-25
ALL AROUND The WORLD.
SUNDAY, JULY II.

Ex-President Cleveland subscribed
| for $4,000 worth of the new bonds.
The stars and stripes are raised over
| the municipal government building in
Santiago and General McKibbon is ap
pointed temporary military governor.
Gold seekers with s1000,000 on their
way home from Alaska. reach Wet oria,
b c. One man, who suffered the mis-
fortune of having his feet. frozen. and
losing both by amputation, feels COM
pensated by the possession of 500, 900
in cash, the proceeds of the sale of five
mining claims. J. Davis spent one
month in the Klondike. but during that
period realized $4,000 from his claim,
and then sold it for SIS, 900, so that his
days at Dawson were exceedingly profit
able.
MONDAY, JULY IS.
Dean Judson of the Chicago university
is looked upon as strong candidate
for president of Brown university il
succession to DR.. Andrews.
The prevalence of yellow fever at
Santiago, in the opinion of the postal
authorities, has made it necessary to
dsinfect the mails coming from that
place.
A private letter from Havana asserts
that compact has been concluded be-
eral Blanco, by which Blanco is to be
elected president of Cuba.
United States commissioner in OF
tunwa, Ia, has held a clerk of an ex-
press company for the grand jury for
compellinf patrons to affiX stamps in
violation of the revenue law.
TUESDAY, JULY 10.
The navy department has decided to
curtail the coast signal service which
was enlarged at the beginning of the
war. Among the stations to be retained
are Rockport Me-; Cape Cod, Mass,
and Block island. It is believed that
as a Spanish fleet is not likely to come
to the United States coast the necessity
for the other stations has ceased.
. m Carroll college Of Waukesha, Wis.,
has received from Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
VOORHEES, of New Jersey a donation of
$50, 900 on condition that $50, 900 more be
secured by Oct. 1, and that $4,000 of the
total sum be set apart as endowment
the remainder to be expended for build
ings and equipment. The president has
received pledges of $4,000 toward the
$5O,OOO
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20.
Fears are expressed that the injury to
the kneecap of the Prince of Wales may
result in a permanent weakness, per-
>hapS in lameneSs.
The Roanoke arrived in Seattle from
ST. Michael yesterday with 240 pessen-
gers and $1,000, 900 in gold. The bulk of
the gold belongs to a Canadian bank
Professor Andrews, president of
Brown university, in a telegram to the
president of the board of education,
formally accepted the position Of super
intendent of Chicago's schools.
According to the Hong Kong papers
Admiral DiedrichS of the German fleet
at Manila is credited with the statement
that he will prevent Admiral Dewey
from bombarding Manila or any port in
the Philippines.
Patriotic German Americans in New
York are agitating q movement to pre-
sent the national government with a
modern battleship, armed and equipped
Their cOuntrymen in other cities will
be asked to cooperate with them. The
proposition is endorsed by the leading
German Americans in New York.
THURSDAY, JULY 81.
Professor E. F. Andrews, director of
the Corcoran school of art at Washing
ton, has painted a magnificent full
length military portrait of General Lee
to be presented to the Confederate Me-
mortal association.
The navy department continues to re-
ceive elaborate designs for the sword
to be presented to Admiral Dewey un-
der act of congress. One of these is
baS-relief of an actual sword, with the
hilt set with many brilliant stones, rep
resenting diamonds and rubies. The
design itself, with the many brilliants,
is more costly than most swords.
FRIDAY, JULY %.
Peter Scruckel Of Hartford, while at
h11i16ino
struck one5the head by a falling block
and died azfew minutes afterward.
The members of the Hawaiian COM
nnissfon,<S enators Cullom and Morgan
and Representative Hit, will sail from |
San Francisco for Honolulu Aug. 10. |
They expect to be ready to report to the
congress when it reassembles next De- |
cember.
Rev. John Turner, formerly an Epis- |
copal clergyman, who has been received |
into the Catholic church by the Passion |
lists in Paris, comes from a wealthy |
family in Brooklyn, and is said to be |
worth from 81, 600, 900 to 81, 900, 900 in his |
own right.
Francisco has been presented by the |
Chinese government with a banner |
which confers on him the right to en-
ter the public grounds of Pekin. This
is the highest honor ever conferred on
a white man except General Grant, who
was also given similar banner. Tt |
was given to the chief in consideration
of his fair treatment of the Chinese
during his 25 years incumbency Of the
office.
SATURDAY. JULY 23
The controller of the currency has
called on national banks for a statement
of their condition at the close of business
Thursday, July Il.
The conservative figures on the sea-
sons surplus of the wheat crop in the