Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-01
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, JULY "a.

IflaI section.
Many of the crew Of the Colon at
Seavey's island are convfcts from the
Canary islands, and they have shown
more disposition to sulk and not obey
orders than all the rest of the spanish
prisoners.
A Portland boy wrote to Admiral Ger
vera asking for a button and the ad-
miraFs autograph. He was made happy
by receiving a note from the Spaniard,
saying that the writer's clothing was
left on shfpboard when the necessity of
seeking the shore forced itself upon the
attention of officers and crew
MONDAY, JULY rs.
Young people of New Haven got mar
tried last November and had prepared a
home without the knowledge of their
parents, who were completing arrange
ments for a sumptuous wedding when
the secret was told.
F. II. Rindge, the California philan-
thropist and millionaire, founder of the
Cambridge manual training school and
fits benefactOr for the past 10 years, is
about to turn that establishment over
to the city of Cambridge The institu-
ton costs $4,000 year
TUESDAY, JULY IS.
Two Chinese merchants of Boston are
trying to secure the admittance of their
children into the country in spite of the
legal wall opposed to the immigra-
ton of their kind. The boys have
reached the Canadian border. but can
pass no further unless some loophole
in the law can be discovered
The Laconia IN. HI knitting mill,
O'Shea Bros, proprietors, will begin TO
make samples to put on the market in
the course OF q week or 10 days The
plant has been idle for nearly two years.
and tl.s management proposes to start
UP if possible in season to be ready for
the fall and winter trade. The mill
formerly furnished employment to from
70 to 100 hands.
Lewis Warner, the defau1ting bank
president and treasurer of Northampton.
Will return almost penniless When
he left Northampton, Friday morning,
April 90, he had with him $3.50, which he
had borrowed from his son and sister,
This little driblet of the princely $780,
600 which has gone never to return has
been expended while he has been liv-
ing in Louisville.
WEDNESDAY. JULY q.
The committee appointed by the state
committee of the national Democratic
party to nominate a candidate for gov
ernor of Maine nominated Erastus
Lemmond Of Thomaston, who has signi-
fled his acceptance of the nomination.
There has been a total of 1884 new pen
sions issued during the past year in
the Boston district, representing
money value of 1854, 1926. The So
655 names on the roll July / represented
in cold cash $6.9O5,O64. The roll shows
81, 1888 Massachusetts names.
The 21st annual meeting Of the Uni
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mally opened in Weirs, n. H, last even
ing by a reception and reunion at the
headquarters of the association. The
president called attention to the fact
that for the first time the Universalists
united with the Unitarians in holding
the grove meeting, instead Of maintain
ing q separate and distinct meeting one
week later.
THURSDAY, JULY 2S.
Governor Wolc0tt has been obliged to
refuse permission TO the Highland ca
diets of Montreal to participate in the
Scottish gathering which is to be held
in Boston in September because of
an old statute Of that commonwealth
which forbids the carrying of arms by
any organization outside of the state
militia and the Ancient and Honorable
ARTILLERY company of Boston.
Southern Berkshire, Mass, is threat
ened with q water famine, no rain hav-
ing fallen during the month, except oc-
casional showers at night. There has
been considerably more rain in the north
ern part of the county, and the Housa-
tonic river is not very low but the
smaller streams show the lack of rain
The Naumkeag steam cotton mill of
Salem will shut down for two weeks
The mill employs from 1900 to 1900 hands.
General business depression and the
necessity for a thorough repairing OF
the machinery are assigned as causes.
FRIDAY, JULY %.
Notices have been posted in the Stew
ems wooden mill in Ware, Mass, an
nouncing a shutdown for five weeks.
The mill, which gives employment to be-
tween It's and 200 hands, has been closed
but one day in four years.
The name of Rev. B. D. Hahn, pastor
S1f Baptist church in Springfield, is
said to be under consideration for the
presidency of Brown university, which
position was made vacant by the resig-
nation of President E. B. Andrews
The Northampton cycle WORKS, owned
by Embezzler Warner, and which has
been run by Assignee T. G. Spalding
since the bankers estate was declared
insolvent, is closed, and Will probably
never be opened again for the manu-
facture of wheels. More than so hands
are thrown out Of employment and a
business that could pay q Il percent
dividend is lost to the city.
SATURDAY, JULY 80.
Within a year. Thomas Sanderson of
Fall River. years old, has fallen from
a second-story window, drank a pint
Of kerosene, been run over twice, and
escaped without breaking bone.
The total value Of machinery. i'm
plements and tools in use in 1895 in Mas
Eachusetts was Sis, 735454. Of this
large aggregate value, S165, 402616 rep
.'esents the value of machinery imple-