Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-19
NEWS In BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. SEPT. IL.


can candidate for governor Of Vermont
in the last four off years is q, 145. Gov
ernor-elect Smiths plurality thus ex-
ceeds the average for the time stated by
2,4S2. His plurality Is only exceeded by
the plurality given Woodbury. in 1894 (28,-
S21), when a vigorous campaign was con-
Quoted by the state committee.
The Manchester board of assessors
voted to ab2te the poll taxes for this
year of all the Manchester soldiers
in the First regiment OF New Hamp-
shire volunteers. The assessors de-
cided not to abate any portion of the
AmOskeag Manufacturing company'G
taxes OF 1898. The company had asked
for an abatement of $4,000
There viii be little more done in Fall
River in the curtailment line. as the
demand for novelties IS on the increase
Piques, welts. satines and checks are
being called for, and lightweights are
in demand to an encourag ing degree.
MONDAY. SEPT. z.
According to the report Of the board
of directors of the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad company for
the year ending June go the total gross
earnings from operation were $50. 322,-
Isl, while the operating expenses We're
S20,S91, 685; the income from operating
and other sources was $40, 032 119
Secretary and Mrs. Lohn D. Long re-
turned from Maine to their beautiful
bingham home Sunday night, after
nearly two weeks sojourn at the old
home in Buckield. Mrs. Long is still
in very poor health, and it is doubtful
If she returns to Washington this winter
On the trip home she was obliged to
stop over one night - DnrtIGrd owing
to her enfaebled coMdit:c
TUESDAY, SEPT. Is.
Sarah Mcneil, who had lived in East
Boston for % years, died there Sunday
morning, probably at the age Of 100
years. Although Mr.. Mcneil does not
know the date Of his mothers birth, he
is certain that she was 100 years old.
The 2C3rd anniversary of the incor-
poration of Concord, Mass, was ceIe-
brated Monday under the auspices of
the Concord Antiquarian society. The
orator of the occasion was tx overnOr
George s. Boutwell,, who made the life
and political achievements of his friend
and political associate, Samuel Hoar.
the subject of his scholarly remarks.
Otis Allen of Lowell, father of Charles
HI Allen, assistant secretary of the
navy, celebrated his Goth birthday Mon
day, and was visited by prominent
citizens. President Mckinley sent 2
letter of congratulation.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. IA.
Greater crowds never assembled in the
streets of Keene than rested Co. L,
First New Hampshire volunteers, on
the return last night. The band played
Home, Sweet Home, and an immense
bonfire lighted up the entire square
while cOlored fire and roman candles lent
additional beauty TO the scene
The wooden factory in Gardiner. Me-.
has been leased for two years to Taylor,
TnlQtson 6 Wall, and will start on full
time about Oct. I. They viii manufacture
frieze and cashmeres, and employ so peo-
pie to begin with, the preference to be
given to Gardiner people.
The Chelsea, Mass, aldermen have re-
fused to lower the age limit from 1G
to II years in the curfew ordinance, so
that city joins the list of those in the
state which are keeping children in
doors at night, by an enforcement of the
curfew i1W.
The Boston school committee has
made a sweeping reduction in salaries
in order to meet a deficit of $50 600
Every person in the employ of the school
board, from the superintendent, super
visors and instructors, down to the !
janitors will be affected
THURSDAY, SEPT. Is.
A souvenir of the Sd of July fight be-
fore Santiago, brought there by Ensign
William r. Sayles, the weather vane
from the Almirante Oquendo has been
placed on the tower of one of the thread
mills of Pawtucket. It happens that the /
mill in question is entirely owned by
Britishers.
Forty-nine out of the SO employees OF |
the L., L. and H. Street Railway COM
pany in HaverhiH have refused to sign i
the indemnity bonds ordered by the
company.
At the annual meeting of the Massa-
chusetts Street Railway association the !
following officers were elected Pres ;
ident, Z. f. Sullivan, Lowell; secretary. +
Charles Clark, Boston; treasurer, W. ;
F. Pope, Boston.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 16.
Several articles which will be val
liable in years to come as historic relies /
of American prOWess on the high seas
have been received at the Charlestown
navy yard. They include a pinnacle,
covered with barnacles. which divers
secured from a Spanish cruiser after
she was sunk, a piece of the foretop-
mast of the Colon, a bit of bronze scroll
work, and a 6-pounder ammunition box
from the Maria Teresa.
General James Dana died in Keene. N.
H, yesterday after a short Illness He
was born in Waltham, Mass, April 9.
1921, and went through the civil war.
rising to the rank of brigadier general in +
the quartermaster' department. After
the war he served in New Mexico Ari-
zona and Nebraska, and was placed on
the retired list in 1884
SATURDAY, SEPT. II.
One of the most patriotic events ever
witnessed in historic Por tsmouth &C