Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-31
NEWS In I]hlEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. JAN. %.

Notes given in payment for liquor are
not collectable, the supreme court of
New Hampshire declares.
Three masked men entered Lynn
Mass, grocery store, robbed two men
of 50 and gold watcl., shot the prophet ~
In the neck and escaped.
Walter T. Norton, just elected super
intcndent of the Nashua On. H.) Light
and Heat company, is said to be the
youngest gas engineer in charge of a
plant in New England, if not in the coun-
try. He is scarcely "a, but is thoroughly
familiar with the manufacture of IL
Illuminating gas.
MONDAY, JAN. "a.
Names ice harv esting has begun.
Sheriffs of Massachusetts counties all
approve the proposal to have all execu-
tons in the state at the state prison. on
the score of humanity, economy and
morality
At a meeting of the executive COM
1nittee of the Cotton Mule Spinners as
association, the members stand firmly in
their original position, being satisfied
with the responses to the call for aid
High tide does vast amount of damage
all along the coast from cape Cod to
Portland; rafnstorm becomes heavy
snowfall in Maine and New Hampshire
inces. -
Special committee reports to the fire
underwriters in Boston in favor of a re-
duction in rates and the board will adopt
the report; it is cut of about cents a
risk; about 10 percent reduction all
around. *: +. -'r-ts<..sf' = ~t.a.s = 80"
TUESDAY, JAN. 90 =
American Whist league viii hold its
midsummer meet in Boston.
Maine boy drew his money from a
bank and started for the Klondike.
Forty-four ballots have been taken for
chairman of the Boston board of alder
men, and no compromise is in sight
Ways and means committee of Mas
sachusetts legislature wants question
of appropriation for prison industries
settled. So
The society of California pioneers OF
New England celebrated the 50th ami
versary of the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia in Boston.
New Bedford union operatives are on
strike pay, but calls upon city's poor de-
partment are increasing; mass meeting
held by strikers; Biddeford, Me-, mer-
chants rally to the support Of operatives.
Republican club of Massa chusetts
holds annual meeting and REFLECTS Mr..
Sohier of Beverly president, who makes
prompt and persistent work for the fall
campaign.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26.
No change in strike situation at New
Bedford; 100 ,weavers quit work at Cen
teryile, r. l..
Deadlock in board of aldermen in Bos-
ton was broken by choice of Republi-
can for chairman
Boston board of fire underwriters voted
unanimously to reduce rates in the con-,
gested district about 10 percent.
Professor Barrett Wendell's lecture to
Harvard undergraduates was broken
up by the burning of alarm clocks which
had been placed in the room.
THURSDAY, JAN. 27.
Exodus Of New Englanders to the
Alaskan gold fields is beginning to assume
large proportions.
Men in Boston, Lowell and Lynn killed
themselves owing to dependency aris-
ing from non-emp1oyment.fs
New Bedford (Mass.) mill men show
their hand; agents to be sent to England,
1t is said, to buy yarn and thus defeat
spinners; strikers maintain a solid front
Big meeting at Harvard in the interest
of organizing the Graduates Athletic as
sociation; Governor Woleott,. General
W. A. Bancroft and Theodore Roosevelt
spoke.
Lynn, Mass, women who stole from
stores in various cities in New England
plead guilty to two of eight counts
against them when ARA gnet in superior
court
At the 25th annual reunion and dinner
OF Brown alumni President Andrews,
President Eliot and Attorney General
the guests; efforts will be
made to raise fund of 81, 600 900 to ex-
tend usefulness of the university
Passengers who spit in the street cars
in Boston wifi receive cards from the
conductors reading: "The Boston Ele-
waited Railway company would respect
fully call your attention to the fact that
splitting in street cars is forbidden un-
der penalty of 500, by the orders of the |
several boards of health of Boston Cam
bridge, Somerville Chelsea, Everett, NAL /
den, Medford. Arlington, Watertown,
Newton and Brookline." at.-,.i -'s+7'
FRIDAY. JAN. %. sati
Lieutenant Weaver, U. S. A, says |
Boston is defenseless II ="
Joseph H. Marley of Augusta aspires
to be governor of Maine; already some
obstacles have been removed.
One of Lowell's (Mass.) wealthiest res
ddents to marry his housekeeper, who is |
his junior by 40 years.
Vermont supreme court convenes at |
hospital in Montpelier to hear argu- |
ments in the Mildred Brewster murder |
case.
Many strikers leave New Bedford for
Canada, convinced that the strike will |
last for some time; no change in the
situation elsewhere.
Ocean steamship lines ask the aid of
the Boston chamber of commerce in
preventing small sailing craft from tack
Ing across the bows of big steamers
when they are entering the harbor.
Full bench of the Massachusetts su-
preme court has decided that a r,rornise