Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-16
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SATURDAY. NAY Z.


I, nointment of Rear Admiral John G.
Walker. retired as assistant secretary
! nf the navy to succeed Theodore Roose-
Welt.
] There is a pronounced sentiment
! among some Of the cor gressmen in favor
/ of leaving the majority of the brigadier
generalships vacant for time and fill
| ing them later by promotion of officers
no distinguished themselves in action.
An Interesting question has arisen at
the war department in connection with
the appointments to military places in
| the volunteer army Of persons who now
occupy federal positions 1t comes up
particularly with reference to Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt.
SUNDAY, MAY 8.
Consuls who were obliged to leave
their Spanish and Cuban posts abruptly
will be paid for lost time.
Opinion is expressed by stra tegists that
with superb judgment Dewey absolutely
smothered the fire of the Spanish bat
teries and ships under the weight of his
metal before they had an opportunity
to make any effective response.
Speaker Reed has sent to Colonel r.
E. Boothby, president of the Portland
board of trade, a letter received from
Secretary Long in reply to suggestions
made by the board asking for inside
harbor patrol. The secretary says that
besides the cruisers that have been pa
trolling the New England coast for
about a week other vessels viii join them
in few days.
MONDAY, MAY 9.
Emilio CASTELAR,, the Republican states
man. says he will "save Spain as Thiersl
saved France"
The first section of the army to in
wade Cuba will be the $4,000 or $4,000
troops that are now assembled at New
Orleans and Tampa.
The late Chief Engineer Randall of the
Mccullough was brother of Mrs. w. D.
Hardy Of Concord. He was ordered to
the East Indian service after having been
stationed for some time at Sitl1a, and the
sudden change of climate is thought by
his sister to have caused his death.
TUESDAY, MAY 10.
Fitzsimmons will fight Corbett and
Mccoy if they will. make good their
promises about conditions.
The supreme court holds that the Iowa
law forbidding the sale of liquors in the
state and making it a crime to trans
port them is unconstitutional as an in
reference with Interstate commerce.
This was the order sent by Secretary
Long to Admiral Dewey: War has
commenced between the United States
and Spain Proceed at once to Phil
ippine islands. Commence operations
at once, particularly against the Spanish
fleet. You must capture vessels@or de-
stroy them. Use utmost endeavors."
The faculty of Union college in
Schenectady N. Y, has suspended three
seniors for being the instigators of a
general college bolt a couple of weeks
ago, the occasion being an anti-Spanish
demonstrat on. The senior class to
man say that unless the suspended men
are reinstated they will make no at
tempt to do their college work.
WEDNESDAY, MAY II.
Rev. J. S. Perry, Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Iowa, has been gazetted in
England as chaplain of the grand priory
of the hospitallers of ST. John of Jeru-
salem.
Frances Burnett, the novelist, has OBJ
tanned a divorce from DR.. Swan M. Bur-
nett, a well known Washington oculist,
and is permitted to resume her maiden
name of Hodgson.
Chaplain Chadwick, formerly of the
Maine and now Of the Cincinnati, is con-
fined to the marine hospital in Key West
with an attack of erysipelas. but his
condition is not at all serious.
THURSDAY, MAY IL.
The government Of Uruguay has re-
fused permission to establish a Red
Cross society in aid of the wounded
Spaniards.
The Japanese consulate at Shashi
province of Hu-Pei, China, was burned
On Monday last by the rioters, who also
burned the customs house and several
foreign buildings
The Haytian government has been
formally notified by the United States
To oxnAota6 70 f11Ifi11 al q
obligations it entered into in the treaty
of 1851
In April the customs receipts fell off
to S14, 1888, 976. For the first II days of
the present month they amount to 5,157,-
221 So far the actual disbursements
made on account Of the war amount to
about $16,000,00O
German export houses, says dispatch
from Berlin, are suffering severely in
consequence of the absence or with
drawal of orders from the United States.
Already the loss to Germany is estimated
at many millions of marks.
FRIDAY, MAY 13.
Forts at San Juan, Porto Rico, were
reduced by SIMPSONS fleet.
Ensign Bagley and four men of the
torpedoboat Winslow were killed We'd
nesday by fire from masked batteries
off Cardenas, and the boat was badly
damaged.
The navy department has closed the
accounts of the contractors who worked
on the wreck of the Maine-the Merritt
& Chapman wrecking company and the
Boston Towboat company-and has set
tied their claims for an aggregate of
$50 900, about one-half of the appropria-
ton made by congress for the work.
SATURDAY, MAY Ia.
Bradstreet's weekly review Of the bust
ness situation represents it as I'M
changed.