Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-11
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. JULY :.

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Albany train yards in birmingham,
Mass, two engines were derailed and
badly damaged, and traffic was delayed
for several hours.
William Rollins of Whftinsville, Mass,
aged so. was loading a large cannon with
a charge, and premature discharge Of
the weapon occurred. Rollins arms
will be amputated below the elbow
Bert Bickford of Fitchford, Is years
old, received the contents Of a toy can
non full in the face and will lose his
sight The cannon had failed to dis
charge, and Bickford was investigating
when the powder fgnited-
MONDAY, JULY A.
George N Avery, son of Rev. n. A.
Avery of Alton, n. H, was drowned in
Lake Winnipisaukee- The body was re-
covered.
Portland had one of the moss success
full celebrations in it's history yester-
day, an interesting program being COM
memorative of the 50th anniversary of
the building of the Grand Trunk rail-
road, as well as of the glorious fourth
The visiting Royal Scots of Montreal
were the special object of interest, and a
continuous ovation was given the Cana
dian regiment along the long route of
the afternoon procession.
TUESDAY, JULY s.
Cyclone Strikes Hampton Beach, N.
H, demoiishing buildings and causing
loss of life and injuries to several peo-
pie.
Boston gold seekers, who arrive at
San Francisco, having been stranded at
Montevideo, report that scurvy and
other diseases have broken out at the
KIondike
Edward w. MinkIer, paymaSter's clerk
at the torpedo station in Newport, COM
mitted suici-e with a gun. It was due
to mental G. preston, caused by over
work and worry.
The strike of the brickmakers in East
Brookfield, Mass, has been brought to a
successful termination, and all the
strikers who have not left for their
homes started work today.
The Aldrich satinet mills OF Millbury
Mass, has shut down for two weeks,
throwing rs hands out of work Illness
of the owner, c. T. Aldrich and the de-
sire to make repairs, are the cause.
WEDNESDAY. JULY6.
The body of Charles A Low, aged
"a, was found in a pasture near his
home in Derry, N. III. In climbing over
a wall his shotgun caught and was dis
the neck.
DR.. David b. Nelson of Laconia, N. H,
died yesterday, aged IS. He was a
graduate of the Harvard medical school
and q veteran of the rebellion, having
served as major in the Second Rhode
Island cavalry.
Massac husetts' loss at Santiago SO
far as reported, is seven men of the
Second Massachusetts killed and more
than 40 of the same command injured
Springfield, Greenfield and Holyoke have
suffered most severely.
The wreck of the tern schooner James
M. Seaman of New Haven which left
Apalachicola Feb. last for Boston with
600 feet of lumber, and was never
heard from, has been towed in to Hall
fax. She carried crew of seven men,
A committee of the Boston Merchants
association has gone to Washington to
interview the quartermaster general
and Massachusetts senators and con-
gressmen, with a view to having a gov
eminent depot established in Boston for
the purchase of supplies for the army
and navy.
THURSDAY, JULY Z.
The stockholders of the New England
Telephone and Telegraph company have
voted to increase the capital stock from
So, 900, 900 to $4,000 600, as recommended
by the directors
Rev. Walter G. Webster of Providence
who it is feared went down with the
French line steamer La Bourgogne. was
ordained in the priesthood of the Prot
estant Episcopal church by Right Rev.
DR.. McVicker, bishop coadjutor of Rhode
Island, last Ascension day.
AT the request OF Major Bell of the
FOrty-third regiment of Ottawa rifles.
Adjutant General T. S. Peck of BurIine-
ton presented the regiment with a
United States flag and staff, which the,
carried into Ottawa, side by side with
the British colors at the head of the
regiment. The flag will be preserved in
their armory for a reminder of their
visit to that city.
FRIDAY, JULY s.
Orders have been received at Spring
field to increase the output of rifles from
2S0 to 500 per day.
Louis F. Gray, formerly executive
clerk and librarian of the Boston pub
lie library, has been appointed librarian
of the Linonian and Brothers library of
Yale university.
At the 18th encampment of the Yer
mont division, Sons of Veterans, yester-
day, in Barre, it was voted to hold the
next encampment at Bradford. 1t was
also voted to instruct the state delegates
to vote to have the national encamp-
ment in Boston. w. w. Lapointe of
Barre was elected division commander.
it being the first reelection to that of
flee in the history of the organization
in Vermont, and the third one in the |
United States.
- SATURDAY, JULY 9.
The carriage shipments from Ames- |
BURY, Mass. for June amount to $685. as
against 1177 for the corresponding |
month last year.