Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-07
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. FEB. 81.

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cago.
Steamer La Champagne disabled on
Feb. IL and anchored on Newfoundland
banks where she was towed to Halifax
by a Boston steamer; boats crew sent
for assistance and picked up after six
days.
A card in a Middleboro, KY, news
paper asking .ex-confederates to form a
regiment to serve in case of war with
Spain brought more than enough re-
sponses to fill the ranks from southwest
Virginia, east Tennessee and Kentucky.
William F. Cody, better known as
Buffalo Bill is president of a company
that owns $50 900 acres of land in the Big
Horn basin, Mont, and is on his way out
there to direct operations for the coming
season. The center of the colony is the
small town of Cody, which contains
f1ourishing mill, bank, a general store
and several other thriving business in
situations.
MONDAY, FEB. %.
W. A. Eddy, of scientific kite fame,
has sent an application to Secretary
of the Navy Long for permission to test
his apparatus for the purpose of photo
graphing ships beyond the horizon at
sea.
Chicago is said to have the poorest
district in the world. There is more
congestion more poverty and less money
to the square inch within the bounds
Of three river wards than in any other
similarly populated territory on earth.
Insurance men in New York say that
the English Lloyd underwriters are
asking an additional premium upon
to Cuban ports. American companies
tho ic or I7af
is called a war risk.
TUESDAY, MARCH 1.
Clara Barton's latest addition to her
staff in Cuba are men who have been in
the Red Cross service for years and who
have seen duty in Armenia and else
where.
The government has on hand in ar
senals about 100000 army rifles; the
armories at Springfield can turn out
only 240 day of "a hours with the present
machinery.
The monthly debt statement shows a
surplus of receipts over expenditures
during February of about $1,900,00O.
There is about S945O 900 of surplus al
ready on hand.
CONGRESSMAN Boutelle, when asked
how he thought the public would take
his opposition to carrying out the re-
have said: 1.-The public can go to the
DEVIL
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2.
A new issue of the counterfeit So treas
ury note discovered by the secret service
some time ago has made it's appearance
This note bears check letter B and plate
No. %.
National league rules to suppress
rowdyism on the baseball field include
q tribunal to which cases shall be sub
nitted; legislation as adopted at ST.
Louis is very complete.
Colonel w. H. Rowe, Jr., of Troy, N.
Y, has been elected PRECEDENT of the
Young Woman's College Settlement as
ISOLATION which has been Incorporated
for all the principal cities of the Union.
The present home is 1853 Avenue B. New
York city. Colonel Rowe is a welI-known
philanthrophist.
Lord Wolseley, commander-in- chief of
the British army. in letter to an Ameri-
can newspaper, says: II do not as yet
believe there is any proof that the blow
ing up of the Maine was not due to an
accident. My own view is that the bulk
of evidence will ultimately incline to
support the theory of an accidental ex-
plosion on board the Maine
THURSDAY, MARCH 3.
The wife of Lieutenant Winslow, u. S.
N, who will christen the batt1eship
Kearsarge, writes to the w. G. T. u, de-
clining to depart from custom and use
water instead of wine.
Transportation companies on the Pa
cific will not allow over 1000 pounds of
freight to a man. Every boat on the
Pacific coast, old or new is being pressed
into the service, and we are going to
hear of some catastrophes as a result, as
many of the boats are unseaworthy.
Seattle and Tacoma are enjoying great
prosperity largely as result of the
Klondike rush.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4.
Nine persons were drowned by the
eapsizing of a schooner off Marquesas,
Fla, among them the Nichols family
Of Bridgeport, Conn.
The head of the Loyal Orange inst:
tuition offers the services of 200, 900 mem
bers of the order in case the president
should call for them.
There is general satisfaction among
baseball men over the adoption of a
measure that will do away with OBJ
scenity and vulgarity on the diamond.
The senate committee on buildings
has made a favorable report on the bill
providing for the erection of a public
building at Providence, r. l., at cost
not to exceed 81, 100000.
The chairman of the Republican con-
gressional committee said: ''The COM
ing campaign will be fought out on the
lines of the platform adopted at ST.
Louis. That will be our only guide
save as new issues are created as contin-
gencies arise and new policies made in
congress-
The Presbyterian board of home mis-
Sions in New York is trying to secure
the services of John Willis Baer of
Boston, who for eight years has been the
general secretary of the United Society
OF Christian Endeavor. He says 81
have been reminded by friends that my