Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-18
AT AROUND TIE WORLD.
SUNDAY, JULY 10.

| mote Acting Admiral Sampson and
/ Comm odcre Schley in recognition Of
/ their services in the destruction of the
/ Spanish fleet in American waters, but
| is undecided as to the extent of tile
/ promotion.
While the story that privateer has
been fitted out to attack the treasure
! boats bearing kIondike gold is not taken
seriously in Vancouver. the fact that
Admiral PaIliseer has dispatched a
/ British warship north is somewhat sig
| nificant. The order was issued after
the American consul had called the at
i tention of the admiral to the privateer
story.
MONDAY JULY II.
Owing to the disorders in Chattanooga
that have followed the payment OF the
soldiers at Camp Thomas, Gen ra!
Brooke has issued a stringent order al
lowing only two men from one company,
troop or battery to be absent from camp
at time.
Representative Fitzgerald of Massa-
chusetts has presented to the presi-
dent handsomely engrossed set of
resolutions from the Massachusetts,
Order of Foresters, pledging loyalty to
the government and endorsing the ac-
ton OF the president and congress.
An electric car filled with passengers
crashed into a horse car in Washington
last night One man was killed and
between % and 80 persons were injured.
TUESDAY, JULY II.
George A. Fowler of Kansas City has
given $21, 900 to rebuild the agricultural
shops of the university of Kansas, re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Colonel Bryan has been given a col
oneIs uniform. Most of his equipment
has been presented by friends. In
some instances he has received suffi-
cient number of articles to equip a cor
poraIs guard.
Among those who have volunteered
for service in Cuba and who have pro
ceeded to the scene of hostlities, not
only without pay, but at their own ex-
pense. is Rev. James n. Connolly, we'll
known as secretary to Archbishop Cor
rigan of New York.
The common council of Chicago passed
resolutions requesting the board of ed
ucation to confne itself to the state of
Illinois in selecting a superintendent
of public schools. This is intended as
a rebuke to the mayor, who wants DR..
Andrews of Brown university.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 49,
The celebrations in connection with
the battle of the Boyne We're marked
by renewal of the Orange conflicts in
Ireland. At Belfast the police and mill
tary suppressed several attempts at dis
order. Similar disturbances took place
in Donegal
a bill clerk of the Wells Fargo Elk
press company has been arrested in
Topeka for violating the new revenue
law. The action was brought by United
States Attorney Lambert to test the
IrvhQ I,a
must affix stamps to bills. An assistant
attorney general says the law is man
datory.
Something over 5000, 600 will be paid by
the government as head money to the !
officers and crews who destroyed Ger !
vera's ships This is according to the |
law, which provides payment of 500 a
head for every man on the ships of an
enemy when these ships are destroyed |
y few Of the officers will receive pretty |
good fortunes.
THURSDAY. JULY Il.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed and Kitty
Reed are guests of Congressman Wal |
lace T. Foote Jr., of Port Henry, N Y. |
The idea Of forming a central Euro
pean coalition, consisting of the triple |
alliance and its immediate neighbor, to
oppose the expected increasedly hostile |
is gaining ground in Germany.
A London paper gives prominence to
an article advocating an endeavor to
arrange penny postage between Great |
Britain and the United States as 'tan-
other link in Anglo-American kinship"
w. T. Stead, editor of The Review of |
Reviews, advocates the same scheme.
DIR. E. Benjamin Andrews, president
of Brown university was elected super
intendent Of Chicago schools last night
by the board of education. Thirteen
votes were cast for DR.. Andrews and
six for Albert G. Lane, the present su-
perinten6ent. 1t is understood that Dr.
Andrews will accept.
FRIDAY, JULY Is.
All the London papers tender an
ample need Of praise for the success of
American strategy in securing posses
sion of eastern Cuba with so little blood
SHE'D. They recognize that further re-
sistance on the part of Spain is hopeless
since in all probability famine will soon
compel Captain General Bla,nco to sur
render.
The subcommittee of the congress
sional postal service investigation com
mission will begin it's work in Boston
next Tuesday. The committee will
make an investigation Of all questions
bearing upon the management of sec
ond-class mail matter with the view Of
arriving at correct conclusions as to the
abuses which the Loud bill was intended
to correct.
The business of the western railroads
for the first six months Of the present
year was phenomenally heavy. Earn
ings made new records, the grain traf-
fic alone presenting surprising ag-
gregates The deliveries at Chicago
of al kinds of grain amounted to S34,-
176, 600 bushels, an increase of 40, 949, 900