Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-28
JEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. MARCH 20.

Worcester academy
Failure of plan to settle the New
Bedford, Mass, strike, the manufactur-
ers refusing to entertain strikers offer
to accept percent cutdown.
Shoe shipments last week from Haver-
hill, Mass, were IL, 724 cases, the highest
number for a similar period during the
past 10 years. The outlook for a busy
season this summer is said to be very
encouraging.
MONDAY, MARCH 81.
All hope of compromise of New Bed
ford strike abandoned; operatives have
thus far lost $675, 900 in wages.
Roland Worthington, formerly collec-
tor of the port of Boston and for many
years proprietor of the Boston Traveller,
died Sunday.
The following subject has been chosen
by Harvard for the Harvard-Prince-
ton debate at Cambridge May 6: Re
solved that the present restrictions on
immigration into the United States are
insufficient Princeton is to have the
choice of side on this question.
TUESDAY, MARCH %.
Ex-senator George F. Edmunds has
given to Burlington, VT, land worth
S35, 900 to be used as a site for high
school building.
ham, Mass, house of correction, taking
with them more than $4,000 belonging to
Jail officials and prisoners.
The report that the Merrimack Manu-
featuring company intends to move it's
Lowell, Mass, plant to the south is pre-
mature and unfounded.
BY the election of the Democratic can
didate for alderman at a special ballot
ing, the. Democrats have secured con-
troll of the city council of Ellsworth,
Me
Charles e. Sears of the Dwight Manu-
featuring company of Chicopee, Mass,
will be the new agent of the Atlantic
cotton mills of Lawrence. He is 80
years old, and this is his first mill.
The presentation to Portland, Me-, of a
1ife-size portrait of General Neal Dow
by his son, Colonel Fred N. Dow, took
place Monday afternoon in the presence
of a number of prominent citizens.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH %.
New England governors were enter
tanned at a banquet in Boston.
Swampscott, Mass, has voted to pur-
chase the entire plant of the Marble
head Water company for s94, 00O
John Donaldson, alleged to have swim
died New York diamond houses out of
$25, 900 worth of stones, was arrested in
Boston after three years disappearance
Bill providing for use of electricity in
executions in place of the rope passed to
be engrossed without division in the
Massachusetts house, as did the anti
cigaret bill.
Secretary Cunnane of the New Bed
ford strike council resigned and Mat
thew Hart was chosen to fill the va
cancy; Rhode Island manufacturers
talk of a curtailment in production or
further cut in wages.
The assay of the gold which it is al
legged was extracted from sea water at
North Lubec, Me, has been completed
at the government assay office in New
York. The ingots, weighing 1922 ounces,
yielded gold worth $599.61 and silver
worth S32.1
THURSDAY, MARCH "a
Oldest business man in Hartford is
dead.
Silver service presented to Trinity
commandery, K. T.. of Manchester, N.
H, by Providence brethren.
Steps to secure one day off week
for all workingmen have been made by
religious societies in Boston.
Commissioner Carleton denies there
has been great slaughter of big game
in Maine during the past winter.
Delay in paying off the men of the
Machias at the navy yard in Charles
town, Mass, causes small mutiny
Pension agents have unearthed a big
conspiracy in Providence to cheat the
to such schemes.
FRIDAY, MARCH %.
Boston pronounced safe from a naval
attack
The president is DESTROYS of relieving
the suffering in Cuba without entering
upon war.
ing poison walked Boston streets until
taken to a station by a policeman.
Bronze statue of Rufus Choate, made
possible by a bequest of s14,00 for the
purpose in the will of George B. Hyde,
a schoolmaster, will be set up in the
courthouse at Boston.
Rev. J. H. Craig of Newport, r. T., has
been extended a call to become pastor
of the First Presbyterian parish in
Lowell, Mass, to succeed the late Dr.
Court. The salary was fixed at $500 a
year.
In the will of Nancy Bracket of
Quincy, Mass, are contained public be-
quests as follows: $4,000 to the American
Unitarian association of Boston. the in
come to be used for the distribution of
the publications of the society; $4,000 to
the endowment funds of the city hospi-
tai of Quincy and $1,000 to Rev. Donald
NJ. Wilson of Quincy
SATURDAY: MARCH 26
Professor Henry A. Frink of Amherst
died suddenly.
Analysis OF fruit jellies by the Massa-
oh I'd Of =,
preparations contain no such fruits as
the labels represent.
Representatives of the Dedham, Mass.
No-icense league officially request the
board of police of Boston to remove the
liquor saloons near the Dedham line.
Liquors and tobacco are the principal
eli Id