Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-22
ALL AROUND The WORLD.
SUNDAY, AUG. Z.

Porto RICO ana OIIer newly dcQuiIeO
possessions: Sach appointments can
not DE made, however, in the absence of
congressional authorization. Mean
while employees of the department will
be detailed for this service. The depart
-ment is also receiving numerous in
uuiries ipIregard to public lands in the
new territory
The war department has decided to
send more -paymasters to Manila. They
will take 81 100000 to pay the troops
in the Philippines. A million dollars
will also be sent to pay the troops in
Porto Rico but the paymasters at San
tiago will be sent over to disbHrse the
money.
MONDAY. AUG. IS
Sneaker Reed received telegram
Sunday from Adjutant General Corbin
saving that the Maine troops would be
sent north the instant public service
permits This was in response to q dis
patch addressed by Mr.. Reed to the war
department. ;
What is regarded as an important
discovery of rich placer diggings is re-
ported to have been made on Pine creek,
a small stream eInptying into Atlin lake,
feeder of Lake Tagish. The dis
cov'ery is located in. the Northwest ter
a great stampede from Juneau and other
southeastern Alaska points.
Della. Cromwell the oldest woman in
Nebraska, is dead. in her home near
Table Rock. She insisted that she was
born in 1778 Neighbors who. have
known her for 80 years believe she was
about t10 years old. Her fourth hus-
band died of old age q quarter Of a CEN
fury ago.
TUESDAY, AUG. 16.
Great preparations are being made in
Hopateong, N. j., to receive President
Mckinley the last week in this month
The president and his family will be the
guests Of the Country club, of which
Attorney General Griggs is vice presi-
dent and Garet A Hobart one of the
directors.
The municipal and provincial authori-
ties along the Rhine have decreed the
removal of glazing advertisements of
an American cereal preparation, which
had been placed at the most conspicuous
and beautiful spots along the river.
Since the declaration of war the quar-
termaster's department has purchased
16 large vessels and IL small vessels, and
has chartered 66 ships and boats of vari-
Gus kinds for the transportation Of troops
lulu and the Philippines.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. II.
During the approaching autumn and
winter the German navy will be more
strongly represented in American
waters than at any time since 1891, when
Germany took a leading part in the set
Element of the Gillian trouble Five
warships, with a total tonnage of TO-
500 and carrying 1884 men, will be kept
here.
A deadly malady, that has SO far
baff1ed the skill of the physicians, has
broken out in Hebrew orphan asylum
in New York.
The promise of today, 'even with some
what unfavorable conditions hereafter,
is for a cotton crop Of over 10, 500, 900
bales assured with 10000 to 1900, O00
more within the range of possibilities.
The crop is advancing rapidly, with az
euuate rain and heat, and promises to
be earlier than any former year. with the
exception Of 1861, so that the Au-
gust movement will be large and that of
September enormous.
The New York board of aldermen las
adopted q resolution requesting the
United States government to lay out
national cemetery to which the bodies
of the soldiers who have fallen in the
Spanish war shall be transferred for
burial and to erect q monument therein.
THURSDAY. AUG. Is.
The PiccadilIy club of Cincinnati has
had a loving cup made for Admiral
Dewey.
It is announced that President Nc
Kin1ey will soon issue a proclamation,
fixing a date, presumably Oct. 10, as
Lafayette day for general observance
in every school district throughout the
United States. Governors of states and
superintendents of instruction will be
urged to cooperate.
The Matanzas Of the Ward line sailed
from New York yesterday for Havana,
being the first vessel to depart for that
port since the beginning of the war.
She had a large cargo of breadstuffs
rice. beans and fresh vegetables, while
"a part of her deckload consisted of 1000
fowls The vessel was formerly the
Guido, which was captured by the Eia-
Eana bIoclzaders and afterwards bought
by the Ward line.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the town
council of Mumfries, Scotland, the sum
of $50 O00, to build a public library.
FRIDAY, AUG. 10.
Vesuvius is. again in state Of active
STu15O1O4t- st OuI SCIC1IuS VI IdNd dIV
lowing down the mountain side at the
rate of 400 yards an hour. Constant ex
p4osiars are heard in the central crater,
which is vomiting ashes and flames.
The trustees of Lincoln university of
SprSugf1ald, Ills, have elected Professor
Robert f. CroweN Of Amherst college
as paDfsssor of languages.
The vatican asserts, despite the re-
ports to the contrary, that the recent
fitness Of the pope was a transitory in
disposition, from which he hs6-er1tirely
recovered. His holiness has resumed his
customary duties, and is daily receiving
deDGta&:Ons.
SATURDAY ATTC %