Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. MARCH 6.

Princeton and Pennsylvania will have
football match this year.
Lewis A Horton, an armlesS veteran
of Boston, gets medal from the govern
ment for bravery performed in 1862
Edwin S.Thyng, treasurer of Exeter,
N H-,zwas arrested in Boston for being
short in his accounts some $4,000, ac-
cording to the town auditor.
Biddeford, Me-, strikers voted Satur-
day to return to work Monday, and great
rejoicing followed the decision; feeling
at New Bedford that the end of the strike
is not far distant.
MONDAY, MARCH Z.
Orders have been received at the
Charlestown, Mass, navy yard call
ing for the enlistment of men for the
several ratings in the enlisted force OF
the navy, including machiniStS and
others of the artificer class, seamen, or
binary seamen, landsmen, fremen and
coal paSSerS.
William Clafin, former governor OF
Massachusetts, became an octogenarian
Sunday, and his numerous friends, who
were aware that this was the anniver-
sary of his birth, planned a quiet re-
ception. In this they were disappointed
as Mr.. C1af1in was i'll, though not SER
iously so. Mr.. Clafiin is the eldest OF
state.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8.
The Baptist Social union of Boston
votes to institute a city mission.
Democrats carry Bath, Lewiston, ELS
worth, WeStbrook and Saco, and make
gains in the councils of other Maine
cities.
The Vermont State Fair association
has decided to hold the fair this year at
Billings park White River Junction. Il
will open Tuesday, Aug. 80, and continue
four days.
A new club called 'The Viveurs'' has
been formed by number of Yale sophie
nores to cultivate the art of after
dinner speaking. Several dinners will
be given.
New HAMPSHIRE will be represented at
convention in Boston March % to make
arrangements for a proper exhibit of
New England products at the Paris ex-
position in 1900
WEDNESDAY, MARCH g.
Bill for the electrocution of bay state
murderers in the state prison has been
reported to the general court.
The returns of the elections in New
Hampshire indicate a general drift to-
ward the Democracy, many Republican
towns going Democratic for the first
time in years.
Central Labor union of Boston has
adopted a resolution asking members
of organized labor to keep out of barber
shops that do not have the union card
conspicuously displayed.
The average cost per pupil to the city
of Boston for school books, supplies and
incidentals was s1.57; for fuel, gas and
water, S1.1S, a total cost per pupil of
Of Cto n
drawing materials purchased amounted
to S21, SS3.63. Over 100 tons of paper are
used annually in the schools
THURSDAY, MARCH 10.
Fairlee, VT, has telegrapher years
old named w. H. Daniel.
Mayor Perry of Sornerville, Mass, de-
nounces the posting of indecent theatre
cal advertisements in that city.
A mammoth wooden mill will be erected
at Centerville, r. l., by a syndicate of
Boston capitalists, which will furnish
employment to ceveral hundred persons.
Committee of the Massachusetts, gen
eral court reported a bill to limit the
number of licenses in Boston to one for
every thousand instead of 500 as at
present.
Great machine shops at the Water
town, Mass, arsenal are running Is
hours day. newly installed lighting
plant will be utilized to enable the work.
men to carry on the important construc-
ton ordered by the department at
Washington.
A question has arisen in Cottage City
Mass, as to the legality of the license
vote at the town meeting. The modera-
tor declared the result of the ballot to be
sc no and so yes, and'proceeded to state
that there were two more ballots than
there were names checked.
FRIDAY, MARCH II.
A Fall River dispatch says that as the
cutdown has not stimulated a demand
for print cloths, talk of curtailment of
production has started.
Judge Townsend of the United States
court in New Haven decides that the
Dingley bill became a law the moment
the president signed it.
Executive committee of the Vermont
State Firemen'S association has decided
to hold the next convention and tourna-
ment at Middlebury July 20 and Fl. The
contests will bar none, even hose laying
races being provided for.
AT the quarterly meeting in Boston of
the board of trustees of the United So
ciety of Christian Endeavor, the secre-
tary's statistical report showed the total
number of societies to be 50, TIT, with a
total membership of 8, 163, 020.
The New Bedford weavers repudiated
the plan for a settlement of the fines
question as prepared by their president,
and the state board of arbitration de-
cided that it was futile to continue it's
efforts in trying to settle the strike.
Governor Wolcott has induced the
governors of the other New England
states to promise that they will attend
the dinner of the Massachusetts state
board of trade to be held in Boston
March %, when the subject of having
this section of the country properly
represented at the Paris exposition of