Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-09
Jews IN BRIEF.
NCW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. MAY1.

either union sending In its men.
The Manchester high school boys
paraded the streets Saturday night.
headed by drum corps and squad of
cadets. bearing transpa rencies such as
Remember the Maine Down with
Spain" and Free Cuba An effigy of
General Weyler was in the parade.
Peabody, Mass, ended the license
regime Saturday night, and the saloons
were filed with men from all parts of
Essex county, beer and hard liquors be-
ing given away as freely as water. So
great was the influx of visitors that extra
electrics were run from Beverly,
Salem and Marblehead.
MONDAY, MAY 2.
John b. Benton, the largest heel man
ufacturer in the country and one of the
most prominent persons in business and
social circles in Lynn. is dead
Several hundred men stood in line at
the state house in Boston Sunday night
waiting for the opening of the office of
the civil service commissioners in the
morning that they might be enrolled
Some of them had been in line as early
as noontime yesterday.
t'Old Glory was torn to tatters and
trampled under foot in Medfeld, Mass,
Friday night. The fact has inst be-
come public, and has excited bitter and
widespread indignation. The police have
been notified, but so far the identity Of
those implicated in the outrage has not
been discovered.
TUESDAY, NAY 3.
Anniversary day at ST. Paul's school in
Concord, N. H, has been announced as
June 2.
The people of Windhan, VT, joined
yesterday in a celebration of the Tooth
ntr-fh of
ham, who, for so years, has been a prom
inent resident.
The Brockton, Mass, aldermen have
passed an order appropriating $1,000 for
the soldiers relief fund. The first step
towards organizing a Citizens War
league were taken by taxpayers, Colonel
J. J. Whipple being chosen president.
Directors of the Boston Elevated Ra L
road company passed res olutions to I've
to each empioye who enl SITS in the vOlun-
teer army or navy leave of abse nee, n
upon honorable discharge to give posi-
tion similar to thatszwhieh was held
the time Of enlistment, provided he is
physically and me ta15 capable of per-
forming the duties.
WEDNESDAY, MAY f.
The announcement is made that Will
lam Gericke has accepted an offer to re-
turn to his former position as conductor
of the Boston Symphony orchestra. Mr..
Paur severed his connection with the
orchestra last Saturday.
Letter found in which Warner, the
bank wrecker of Northampton, confesses
his wrongdoing; peculations in The last
80 years amount to about $500, 900; he says
he lost $4,000 by bucketshop failures;
no clew to his whereabouts.
Students of the New Hampshire COL
lege of agriculture and mechanic arts in
Durham celebrated the recent naval
victory last night witt parade through
the streets, followed with speeches by
members of the faculty and citizens Of
the town.
Commodore Dewey was born in Mont
pelier, and graduated from the Norwich
university at Mortified, i'll the class of
"a, in one of the leading military insti-
tutions of the country, and the residents
of Vermont unite in honoring him as a
gallant son and hero.
THURSDAY, MAY s.
Rev. Hugh Montgomery. wellknown
anti-saloonist, died in Marblehead,
Mass, of bright's disease, aged SO years.
He was born in Ireland.
The Massachusetts senate practically
kills the bill to reduce the number of
licenses in Boston by referring the
l..
The Atwood Automatic Tire Initiation
sompany has been organized in Ames-
bury, Mass, with a capital of $4,000.
The company will manufacture slot
machine for initiating bicycle tires.
Several thousand persons congregated
in Portsmouth last night, the occasion
being a monster bonfire in honor of Com
modore Dewey's victory at Manila. The
features of the jollification included the
burning of General Weyler in effigy.
FRIDAY, MAY6.
The Northampton, Mass, school board
has elected J. H. Carfrey of Naugatuck,
Conn, to be superintendent.
Thursday the president sent to the
senate the nomination of George NJ
Warren to be collector of customs, dis
trict of Castine, Me.
A verdict of not guilty was rendered
in the case of Mildred Brewster, who was
tried in Montpelier for killing Annie
Wheeler. The jurors were Influenced
by the defendants insanity.
The Cramp Shipbuilding company has
completed a handsome steam launch
and forwarded it to Harvard university
1t is named Frank Thomson, and is pre-
scented to the president and fellows of
Harvard by the president CT the Penn
sylvania railroad.
Prominent among the Massachusetts
men who participated in the victory of
Manila was Captain Frank Wildes of
the Boston, whose sister resides in West
Roxbury, Boston. Wildes is a native of
Boston, a graduate of the naval academy
and was under Farragut until the sur
render of Fort Morgan.
SATURDAY, MAY Z
No little Indignation prevails among
the townspeople of PeppereIl, Mass,
over the act of a miscreant in pulling
down 40 flags.
Captain c. G. Morton, detailed as in
structor of Names national guard has
been appointed by Governor Powers
lieutenant colonel of first MToipx,