Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. MARCH Ii.

John A. Roberts of Danvers, Mass, 5s
years old. was found hanging by rope
in his hencoop. He disappeared a few
days ago, but his family thought he had
gone away.
Frank Collins of Moscow. Me-, was
accidentally killed Saturday while
Ehovelling out a landing for logs fol
Henry Lane at Carrying Place. The
pile started and rolled over him.
MONDAY, MARCH II.
Connecticut river fast rising and mil
streams in northern New Hampshire are
raging torrents.
Secretary Cunnane of the New Bed
ford, Mass. strike council scores Comp
ers for his action in matter of collections
and makes a statement on the fines is
sue.
The drygoods store of r. c. Houghtof
of Rutland, VT, was visited by fire Sun
day morning, the stock being ruined By
fire and water Loss, $50, 600; insured
for SIS, 500.
The Maine ice crop for trade outside
the state and which is put up almost en-
tirely on the Penobscot and Kennebet
rivers is estimated at about 900 tons
Of this amount 100000 tons belong to tn
Kennebec regions and 10000 tons to the
Penobscot The harvest on the Penob
scot has just closed.
TUESDAY, MARCH Is.
Democrats of Rhode Island nominated
Daniel T. Church of Tiverton for gov
ernor.
New south union station in Boston, i
is said. will be completed and ready fo'
use Jan. 1, 1899.
Republicans carried Augusta, Bangor
and Belfast, Me-, and the citizens tickle
won in Biddeford.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery com.
pany OF Boston celebrates the 260th an
niversary of its organization.
In proportion to the population more
patents were issued in 1897 to citizens o:
Connecticut than to those of any other
state-one to every 1876 Inhabitants
Next in order are the following: Mas
sachusetts, District of Columbia, New
Jersey, Rhode Island, New York.
During the past 20 years the New
England Watch and Ward society has
secured 673 convictions for various of
lenses The amount of fines imposed
and paid was $12S, 7S9; time sentences i'm
posed IL years, s months; simmora
books, pictures, cards, etc., seized and
destroyed, 1888.
Will of Ann E. Porter of Newburyport
Mass gives $500 to the free library OF
that city in memory'of Charles L. Emer
son, father of the testatriX; $1,000 to the
public library at Springfield, VT, in
memory of Charles E. Porter and son;
$500 to St. Marks church at Spring
field, for a memorial window to Mr.
Porter and wife, and $1,000 each to the
Whitefield church, the poor of ST. PauPs
church. the building fund of the Girls
Friendly society, all of Newburyport.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Is.
Governor Ramsde11 has appointed
April 81 as Fast day in New Hampshire.
The Y. M. c. A. of Brockton, Mass,
closed a membership contest last night
with an increase of 491 new members
There were two sides soliciting mem
bers. the yellow and the pink, each side
having % solicitors. The former secured
253 members, while the latter secured
23S The new acquisition makes
membership of 1910.
The aurora Tuesday night was the sub
.ject of considerable interest at Harvard
observatory, a number of Professor
Pickerings assistants making notes of
the display. An observation of the sun
at noon disclosed three or four gigantic
spots, denoting violent eruptions; which
gives additional ground for the theory
that the aurora is closely connected with
disturbances of the sun.
III tuesday,, MAttCH II.
Tenth banquet of the Connecticut Val
aey Amherst College Alumni association
R-as held in Springfield last night.
The Melrose, Mass, Y. M. c. A. has
elected B. E. Lovejoy of North Adams
general secretary. He has had several
years experience at North Adams and
Springfield.
General Secretary Day of the Lynn
Young Mems Christian association h :
received calls to become the generi.-
secretary Of associations in Washington
and Worcester, but will remain where
he is.
Barre, VT, has just received a model
for a statue of Robert Burns, to be
erected on the park at the Spaulding
academy. 1t represents the poet with
his coat over one arm and a roll of
manuscript in his right hand.
A guest at one of the hotels in Bos-
ton has a room assigned to him where h.
can hear the roar of street traffic. His
occupation of prospector carries him
into the wilderness for long periods, and
the silence becomes so oppressive that
the noise is relief to his nerves.
In an appeal for aid the strikers COM
mittee in New Bedford, Mass, say:
There is no break no dissension in
our ranks. but it is mutually agreed
by those in want, and those yet be-
youd the reach of actual want, that we
must have far more substantial sympa-
thy and support, or we must acknowl-
edge defeat"
FRIDAY, MARCH 10.
Striking operatives at Lewiston, Me-,
voted not to return to work.
There are 25 chapters of the Daughters
OF the Revolution in Massachusetts,, with
a membership of $50.
Gypsy moth people secured the large
appropriation of $780, 200, making $780,
900 for the destruction Of this pest in
Massachusetts,.
John Mckay, father of William Nc
Kay of South Quincy, Mass, who was