Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-08
ALL AROUND The WORLD.
SUNDAY lilly 81.

proviso that if the market could alb
sorb more the limit could be extended
to :. 200. 600 tons. The aIlotments for June
and July were $4,000 900 and 100000 tons
respectively.
Under the present tariff law, the
amount &C duty collected in the last
fiscal year on the personal effects OF
steamship passengers arriving in this
country was about four times the
amount received in the previous fiscal
year Last year the amount collected
was S3435 SIS, or abaut 81 per capita, as
against S92, 512, of 941a cents per capita,
for the previous year.
MONDAY, AUG. L.
A balance nas just been struck of the
conscience fund in the treasury of the
United States, showing that the total
amount received and credited to it since
it was opened in 1911 is 1921, 1852.
Tarrasch won the first prize in the
international chess tournament, $500,
Pillsbury of Boston, the second prize,
$1,000 The final game was decided a
draw, and the score stands, Tarrasch,
21a; Pillsbury, ~.
The bureau of statistics in its monthly
summary of finance and commerce
presents the details of the imports and
exports in the fiscal year ending June 80,
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parts of the world increased both in
manufactured and products of agricul-
ture. and that While there was a great
falling off in imports, the reduction was
almost exclusively in manufactured ar
ticles and food products.
TUESDAY, AUG. 2.
Ephraim W. Sells, the elder of the
Sells Brothers, well-knOWn circus men,
died in Columbus, o., of bright's disease.
The comptroller Of the currency has
declared dividend of so percent in favor
of the creditors of the Hampshire County
National bank of Northampton, Mass.
The first lord of the British admiralty
has arranged to organize naval re-
serve among the Newfoundland fisher
men, enrolling 500 who will be drilled by
special instructors sent from England.
Forts are being erected specially for this
purpose the men receiving $50 each cash
for each month engaged. Newfound-
land is the only colony where the expert
A movement to form new organiza-
ton combining all those outside the
ranks of the Liberals and the Conserva-
tives is now being promoted in Ontario
and the dominion generally. The chiefs
of the smaller political sects hope to
reach an agreement which will give them
something like a swaying power in
dominion affairs. They are to be known
as Canadian compatriOts.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8.
The war department has granted per-
mission to the members of the White
Cross association of America to send
it's hospital supplies and trained corps
of nurses to Manila on the steamer
Arizona, which is now being equipped
as supply ship, and will leave San
Francisco for the Philippines about the
middle of August.
Full and complete recognition of meri-
torious and gallant conduct displayed
by officers and men is to be given by the
president
A letter from Santiago to the Asso-
ciated Press quotes a naval officer as say
ing: 'Over $4,000, 900 worth of ammu-
milton thrown at the batteries defending
Santiago harbor was absolutely inef-
fective, so far as reducing the batteries
was concerned; and, while it may have
given the Spaniards a wholesome re-
spect for US, it simply bore out the we'll
known fact that it is waste of time and
money to lombard earthworks.''
THURSDAY, AUG. 4.
An assistant secretary of the treasury
is sending to subscribers about 5000
bonds day, and this number will be in
creased later on. Recently notices of
allotments have been sent to a number
Of people who subscribed and forwarded
the required cash, but who now deny
all knowledge Of the transaction.
Letters state that prospectors between
Copper river and Cooks inlet, Alaska,
have abandoned their search for gold
and are locating coal claims. The
country is said to be one mass of coal,
in which is claimed to be an excellent
quality Of Ignite.
One of the sureties on the $40, 900 bond
of Lewis Warner to the Hampshire
Savings bank of Northampton has made
the statement that the bondsmen had
agreed to make fight before they would
settle with the receiver for the amount
of the bond.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5.
Samuel L. Black, mayor of Columbus,
O., was elected president of the League
of American Municipalities, and Mayor
Taylor of Bridgeport treasurer. Mayor
Ashley of New Bedford is one of the
three trustees.
President Mckinley and wife, from
present indications, will be the central
figures in the official reviewing stand
during the big parade Of the Knights
Templar at the triennal conclave in
Pittsburg in October. About 80, 900. visit
ing Templars will take part.
The American society in London is
waging campaign against the shop
keepers who are using the American
flag as device to catch tourists dollars.
During this season London is overrun
with Americans. The society's COM
mttee visited the principal shops and
represented that such an exhibition of
the national colors was distasteful.
In his argument before the. interstate
commerce commission in Chicago yes
terday, General Passenger Agent Eustis
Of the Burling ton road warned the Can
aGian Pacific that. if it continued a
shotgun policy towards the American