Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, JULY 10.

W. StetSOn OF Name, directors, Mas
sachusetts-T. A Monroe; Maine-John
S. Locke; New Hampshire. A. Rus
sell; VArmont-M. S. Stone; Rhode Isl
and-H. g Tarbel: Connecticut-F.< E
Howard.
Henry Spencer, a resident of Mflf0-d
Me, who has been cared for by tn.
town for sometime, has fallen heir to
about $4,000, left him by his wife. AT one
time he was one Of the wealthiest lum-
Der manufacturers of the vicinity, and
his check was good for $50, 00O to $40 900
but misfortune overlook him and he
gradually lost all he had
MONDAY, JULY II.
The Volunteer Aid association of
Massachusetts has shipped $50 mos
quito canopies to Roosevelt's rough
riders. All the Massachusetts boys
will also have these canopies.
Because one Chinaman joined a Sun
hav school and became a Christian he
objected to the gambling INDUCED in by
his fellow-countrymen in Lynn and vi
cinity and complained to the police, with
the result that II natives of the flowery
kingdom were found playing fantan-
TUESDAY, JULY II.
Captain John w. Weeks of the Mas
sachusetts naval brigade has received
word from Washington announcing his
promotion to the rank of lieutenant
commander of volunteers in the United
States navy. He also has been given
the command of the coast defenses of
this section OF the lighthouse service.
Frank MacOmber, q BoStonian, and
prominent as marine and fire under
writer, has been appointed consul gen
eral for the Ottoman empire at Boston
to succeed Joseph A. Iasigi, who was re-
moved some time ago
The trustees Of, the holders of the
first mortgage bonds of the Westbrook
(Me) Manufacturing company, manu-
facturer of ginghams, have taken pos
session of the plant under a mortgage.
the foreclosure of which was begun
q year ago. There are $500, 600 worth Of
these bonds. By the foreclosure $780,
600 worth of common stock, S152 600 of
preferred stock and $500, coo worth of
second mortgage bonds become worth
less. The plant cost $500, 600.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 49,
About 200 men employed by the Shaler
and Hall Quarry company of Portland
Conn, went out on strike yesterday be-
cause of a reduction in wages, said to
be about 10 percent. The quarry had
been shut down for sometime, but Etart-
ed up July 5.
New Hampshire's insurance commits
sioner has petitioned the supreme court
to have a receiver appointed for the
Cheshire County Mutual Fire Insurance
company of Keene, on the ground of in
ability to meet its obligations. The
company was organized in 1926.
The 200 upper leather cutters EMPLOYED
in the factories Of the S. H. Howe Shoe
company of Marlboro have asked for an
increase in wages of from 10 to % per-
cent. By a vote of the parties interest
ed it was decided to leave the adjust
ment to the joint council of the Boot
and Shoe Workers union
Bran, who was senenced in Boston
to life Imprisonment for murder on the
Herbert Fuller, has a ray of hope in the
possible illegality of his conviction or
sentence. The statute which permits
his sentence being life Imprisonment
was not a law until after the crime of
which he stands convicted was COM
mitted, and therefore gives rise to the
question whether it is not an ex post
facto law.
THURSDAY, JULY IA.
The 54th annual session Of the national
division Of the Sons of Temperance was
formally opened in Burlington, VT, yes
terday.
The Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION conference began in North
field, Mass, Wednesday evening with
an attendance large in numbers, which
is very encouraging to the management
Edward H. Carroll of Warner, n. H.
has been chosen national bank examiner
to succeed Franklin p. Kellogg of Con-
cord resigned. - Mr.. Carroll served as
postmaster. of Warner, in 1884, was treas
urer of Merrimac county and a member
of the legislature in 1898, being the au-
thor of the Carroll highway bill.
FRIDAY; JULY IS
Nermont's supreme court sustanis the
law on posting brooks by the commits
sioners in which fishing is prohibited
An unknown parasite is killing fish by
the hundreds. "31sf
The Melrose, Mass, school committee
appointed F. A. NiclzersOn Of Whitman /
superintendent of schools. Mr.. .Nicker-
son has been connected with the schools
of Melrose for five years and at Everett
for four years.
The New England Telephone and Tel
egraph company certifies to the New
York secretary of state an increase OF
its capital from $4,000, 900 to Sic, OO0, O00
Liz c4IAOoiI VI CotpIld1 ACTUALLY pdiu III
is 81, AS. 700, and the company's liza
bilities are S3,505, 404.
a dispatch from Lexington announces
the death of Roland Johnson, company
I, New Hampshire volunteers. He was
the first man from that state to die in
the service of the country during the
present war. He was about 20 years Of
age, and lived in Nashua
The news of the surrender of San
tiago was the signal for big demon
stration in Brockton. Whistles On all
the factories were blown for more than
an hour and at the same time the
chimes on. the First Congre gational
church and the bells on the Porter Con-