Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-04-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. MARCH 81.

900 feet, the cut in 1897 having been 49,
I'll ,SS5 feet. Deep SHOWS and bad wealth
er have been responsible for the scale
down.
- The Harvard faculty is keeping a tight
rein over the students, and the result is
seen in the lessening of misdemeanor in
public and reports of those committed
privately. Swift punishment follows
the breaking of rules in these days.
Suits have been instituted at Mont
pelier VT, to prevent the turning of
sawdust into the river, on the ground
that when the river overf1ows it now no
longer leaves rich ailuvial deposits
the bordering lands, but incumbers them
instead with sawdust.
MONDAY, MARCH g.
Chester Thompson, 40, of Manchester
N H, charged with bigamy; woman of
So and another of 80 claim him as hus-
band
e Whitaker of Lynn, Mass, who at
tempted to reach the Klondike, has re-
turned to Boston and tells discourage
ing story of his adventures.
G. w. Kingsley of Cambridge, Mass
has given S25, 900 each to Colby univer-
sity at Waterville, Me-, American Bap-
fist Missionary union of Boston, the
American Baptist Publication society
of Philadelphia, the American Baptist
Home Missionary society of New York
the Newton theological institute in New
ton, Mass, and the Wor cester academy.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20.
About 200 strikers returned to work in
the York mill in Saco, Me-, but the effort
to run it was finally abandoned.
New England governors and mayors
in general commend the presidents mes
sage and the finding of the court of in
quiry.
Mayor Quincy says that both the navy
and war departments are alive to the
needs of Boston in the way of defenses
against a hostile feet
The Massachusetts, house yesterday
ordered to a third reading the bill ex-
tending the suffrage in the voting for
overseers of Harvard college.
New Hampshire has 525 schools aver
aging u pupils or less, and 123 averag-
ing six pupils or less. The average wages
per school month have risen from $50 u
to SCOTS for men, and from $23. 20 to S2S "a
for women, and the total paid in teach
ers' salaries from S446,S41 to $685. $50.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH go
Boston colOred men will fight for Uncle
Sam.
Orders have been received at the navy
yard in Charlestown to enlist more men.
Julia Arthur was taken i'll in a per-
Torrance of "A Lady of Quality in a
Boston theater.
Riotous scenes followed the opening
of the gates of the Androscoggin mill in
Lewiston, Me-, Agent Bean and a de-
tective being assaulted.
At the next exhibition of the New
Hampshire grange a prize will be given
for the best original essay on agricuI-
tural, household, or grange topics which
shall have been read in subordinate or
Pomona oranges in the state during the
year, the same not to exceed 600 words
in length. Two classes are provided for.
one for those under n years of age and
the other for those over u.
THURSDAY, MARCH 81.
Board of trade of Maine passed reso-
luton of confidence in President Nc
Kinley.
William B. Stevens of Stoneham has
been appointed a judge of the superior
court of Massachusetts.
Lewiston, Me. woman was arrested in
Boston charged with selling a; piano
which her lover gave her, and did not
pay for.
A negro was arrested in Boston on a
charge of burglary, after being locked
in a closet by a woman who discovered
him in her house
Professor Hollis of Harvard in an ad-
dress, said that naval officers would be
actuated by a spirit of vengeance in
fighting the Spaniards.
Boston judge decides that a person,
no matter on what business or authority
who Ioiters about a thoroughfare for
five minutes after being asked to move
by a police officer, breaks a city ordi-
nance, and is liable to arrest.
FRIDAY, APRIL l.
Herbert r. Dickerman of Brookline.
Mass, kills his wife and himself in a lit
Of melancholy.
Textile council was organized in Fall
River, and the curtailment of production
may be forced on manufacturers.
Isaac Pratt, Jr., of Boston and Mrs. S.
K. Tobey of Wareham are new contest
ants of the will of Millionaire Pratt of
Baltimore.
By the gift of a friend, who wishes
the name kept secret, Radcliffe college
is to have a new gymnasium in Cam
bridge, Mass.
Rev. Paul Van Dyke of the Edwards
church, Northampton, Mass. has de-
cided to accept the position offered him
by Princeton university.
The will Of George D. Arnes of Salem
makes the following requests to Salem
organizations: Calvary Baptistchurch,
$4,000; South church, $500; Y. M. c. A,
real estate, estimated at $40, 600.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2.
The date of the Princeton
debate has been set at May II, the sub
ject to be immigration and It's Restric-
tions.''
Rev. Lyman NJ. Greenman of the Graf
ton (Mass.) Unitarian church has re-
signed, but his people wish him to re-
main.
rrba NTo-SaoL,-a++s r,oia+,- ~ 49, Coos
of the Revolution has placed a tablet on
the American House, Boston, to mark
the site of the house in which General
Joseph Warren. the hero of Bunker Hill