Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-03-21
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ALL AROUND TIE WORLD.
SUNDAY. MARCH Is.

Company has been formed to supply
water for New York from the Adiron-
dacks.
Company has been incorporated in
Albany to lay dust in both railroads and
highways.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York says
the officials of that city will brook no in
reference from the legislature.
The Rev. r. B. Meyer of London. just
returned from this country, makes
wholesale charges of chicanery and cor
ruption against public officials, and says
he is able to substantiate every one of
the charges of w. T. Stead. Meyer as
| serts that he found it unsafe to walk in
the towns Of Kansas after dark, except
in the middle of the road, owing to crimes
of violence.
MONDAY, MARCH H.
Treasury seems likely to be embar-
raised by an influx Of gold.
Katherine Tingley and the Universal
Brotherhood' repudiated at meeting
of the Theosophical society.
p. II. McKiernan, who took the NAM
moth picture of union generals at peace
banquet held in Saratoga, n. Y, i'm
1nediately following the close of the civil
war; is dead. The photograph contained
almost 100 generals.
Senator Proctor, just returned from
Cuba declares his belief that the loss
of the Maine was not due to an accident;
he declares that the condition among the
Cuban reconcentrados is as bad as has
been previously reported; Weyler says
the United States must declare war, if
war is to be, but that America can never
have Cuba; active preparations for war
continue.
TUESDAY, MARCH Is.
An Atlanta editor and judge fought in
a hotel dining room and caused a panic.
| Senator Mason receives a challenge
| from Marquis de Alta Villa, a Spanish
editor.
The United States senate passed bill
for new revenue cutters, one to be for
Boston harbor.
Wife of United States Senator Thurs
ton dies on board the yacht Anita at
Sagua Ia Grande, Cuba.
Mckinley buys the Amazonas and
| the Abreuale sister ships, built for
| Brazil, and blocks SPANS purchase of
! the O'Higgins; Spanish fleet starts
| across the Atlantic, consisting of three
torpedo boats and three torpedo boat
destroyers, with Porto Rico as their
oostensible objective point, but it Should
be noted that they are not needed
against the Cubans; proposed to fit out
the ST. Paul and the ST. Louis.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16.
Naval affairs committee decides upon
building five dry docks, and Boston and
Portsmouth are each to have one
Admiral Bermejo of Spain declines to
affirm or deny that the Spanish govern
| rnent has purchased the CHILEAN cruiser.
| O'Higgins.
A semi-official paper in Rome denies
that Spain has sought to procure the
support of any power in conflict with
the United States.
I'VE do not enter into a conflict with
out a righteous cause, but if war does
| come we should have no Bull Runs but
an Appomattox," said General Miles at
a banquet in Washington.
Through an error in the resolutions
| adopted by the legislature providing for
| the submission of the constitutional
amendments to the popular vote two
! state elections will have to be held in
Texas this year.
| Spain is said to have made important
| demands on the United States-that the
! fleets be withdrawn from Key West and
| the Tortugas, and that war preparations
| should cease; she also wishes an ex-
PLANTATION of the purchase of two new
warships abroad and says that it seems
| to imply an intent to attack Spain.
THURSDAY, MARCH II.
John L. Sullivan says he will meet
| Kilrain.
Thirteen Methods conferences so
! far favor lay representation.
The senate confirm the nomination of
| Powderly to be commissioner of immi-
| grafton.
Peterson's magazine, one of the oldest
! monthly periodicals in the country, has
been purchased by Frank A. Munsey and
will be published hereafter from his New
York office.
Maine court of inquiry arrives at Key
West and begins to consider the testi-
mony; Spain's request for disbandon-
ment of the American fleet promptly re-
fused by the United States; war prep
arations still continue with earnestness;
/ buying yachts and securing auxiliary
| cruisers.
Dr. Trumbull w. Cleveland of New
York who is accused of having caused
the death of an infant. was indicted for
manslaughter in the second degree. The
indictment charges that the physician
| caused the death of the child by criminal
! eareleSSneSS.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10.
No famine in the Klondike.
War feeling is growing in Havana.
| Another United States naval squad
ron is to be formed.
Boston vessels have been purchased
for the auxiliary fleet.
w. S. Pullman, son of the late million
| aire married teacher.
! President Mckinley will let Spain
strike the first blow if there is to be
| war.
Bill was introduced at the request of
the president in both houses that the
| army should be reorganzed and put on
| a war footing of 104,0 900 men.
Nearly every town in the country large
| enough in its own estimation to justify
/ such a claim has applied to Secretary