Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-04-11
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY. APRIL 2


against Sc, 2S2, 4O7 for the third week il
March, 1897, an increase of $805, 223. Fifty
roads show increases, and six decreases
= Helen Gould has given $40, 900 to thu
school of engineering of the university
of New York. Her first gift was made
to the engineering department about a
year ago.@The latest gift brings up the
total of Miss GouIds benefaction to
100000.
Hudson Maxim, a resident of Maine
has invented an aerial torpedo that is
used the same any cannon or mortar
The gun from which it is fired has a bore
of 26 inches, which is double the size OF
any cannon now used in the world II
will throw ton of dynamite five miles
If the torpedo strikes anywhere within
200 feet of a warship, it will shiver it to
atoms.
MONDAY, APRIL f.
Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese states
man, is accused of accepting a bride
from Russia.
There is a war between the American
and National Trotting associations over
the new rules.
The pope has consented to act as me-
diator in the interest of peace if the
United States consents.
President Mckinley Is said to be hes
itating as to the policy he shall pursue,
meantime trying to feel the pulse of the
public.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5.
Fifteen feet Of water over the town
of Shawneetown, Ills, and a 35-mile wind
is rolling the waves 10 feet high; loss of
life will not exceed 100.
Claims against Spain aggregating
$4,000, 900 for injury and loss incident to
the war in Cuba have been filed with the
state department by citizens of the
United States residing in that country.
Londoner who made submarine mines
for Spain, some of which were planted
in Havana harbor, tells how they were
constructed and exploded; his state
ments seem to prove the Spanish guilty
of the destruction of the Maine
Careful research among the archives Of
the American Philosophical society of
Philadelphia has brought to light the
original copy of the declaration of indie
pendence as written by Jefferson, in his
own handwriting, amended by the COM
mittee of which he was chairman, pre-
sented to congress on June %. 1776. and
adopted July 4.
Hannah J. Bailey, superintendent of
the department of peace and arbitra-
ton for the Worlds and National
Women's Christian Temperance union.
has sent letter to President Mckinley
in behalf of half a million women"
commencing the action of the admins
tration in the present crisis and urging
the maintenance of peace.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL g.
League of American Wheelmen has
lost 200 members since January.
Man from one of the whalers ice-bound
off Point Barrows makes his way to
British Columbia and reports awful des-
titution among the men of the Inflated
vessels; ships will be a total wreck
Twenty-three known dead, a posi-
bility that the list may reach 80: 700
people homeless and property damage
to the extent of 100000, the net result
of the flood at Shawneetown, Ills, Sun
day afternoon.
A Madrid correspondent says that the
answer of Spain to the demand for Gu
ban independence is mo, no, eternally
mol" that all SPANS efforts now are
for delay, and that only Woodford's
ambition to gain renown as a diplomat
is prolonging the hopeless negotiations.
THURSDAY, APRIL Z.
War preparations continue with un-
abated activity on the part of the war
and navy departments.
Dispatch to the New York Sun says
that 200 reconcentrados have been mas
sacred by Spanish soldiers.
McKinley's message not sent in yester-
day; postponed until Monday to give
General Lee time to get Americans out
Of Cuba.
Delegation of brewers protested to
the house ways and means committee
against proposed increased tax on
beer in event of war;
The increase in money circulation in
the United States during March was
S2S, 681, 1886. The increase in IL months
ended with March was $S7, O57, 951 The
circulation per capita April L. 1898 was
E23. SO, estimating the population at "a
$4,000. The estimated amount of money
n the country was never so large as at
present.
The Canadian finance minister gives
revenue of the dominion for 1869 as
S37, 829, IT'S; expenditures, $3S, 349, 1853: de-
felt $519,981. For the current year end |
ng June 80 next he estimates revenue at
SIS, 900, and expenditures, $38, $50 900.
$550,0O0 Canada's debt was |
S261, 53S, 596 on June last, and 81 500 900 |
will be added to it during the current |
year.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8.
Margaret Mather, the actress, died at
w. Va.
Ex-senator Henry S. Little of Tren-
on, N. j., has given 500, 900 for the cree
ion of a dormitory at Princeton uni
'ersity.
The total output of coal in the United
states in 1897 amounted approximately
o 19S,250,000 short tons with an ag
,regate value of $19S, 100, 600, an increase
ver 1896 of about 3.3 percent.
hal, after an investigation, says that
he farmers in Kansas who paid off their
Mortgages and who have money piled
p in the banks, are Populists.
President Mckinley notified the Wash
ngton representatives of the powers.