Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-05-02
ALL AROUND The WORLD.
SUNDAY, APRIL "a.

q pilgrimage to Ireland in July and will
/ stay here to fight.
| President Mckinley yesterday issued
q proclamation calling for 125, 900 vol
| unteer troops to serve two years un-S
LESS sooner discharged.
Ohio senate adopts the majority report
| of the investigating committee, which
finds that Hanna was elected United
States senator through conspiracy.
| A $500, 600 coo loan is provided for in the
new war tariff bill in the form of 8 per-
| cent 1920 bonds. Certificates of indebt-
| edness of 500, 600 900, to bear 3 percent
| interest, are also provided for
MONDAY, APRIL %.
Seven prizes have been taken by the
American warships.
A decree is gazetted in Madrid, de-
claring a state of war between the United
States and Spain.
Mass meeting in Trafalgar square,
London, adopted resolutions for free
| Cuba and cries of Good old Yankee
Chickamauga park, where the United
States regulars are encamped, visited
by many thousands of people Sunday.
The president has sent message to
| congress stating why it was desirable
| that a formal declaration of war be
made.
| Charles M Murphy and E. E. Anderson
are to try to make a mile a minute on
| bicycles behind a Long Island loco
motive.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26.
William Sexton, the billiard expert,
died suddenly in New York.
Democrats Of the ways and means COM
mittee favor an income tax as a substi
tute for bond provision of war revenue
| measure.
no
national guardsmen must resign as
members of the militia and enlist in the
regular army.
Lieutenant Carronza of the Spanish
| navy, former aid to Minister Bernabe,
challenges General Lee and Captain
Sigsbee to fight duels.
| Theodore Roosevelt has resigned as
assistant secretary of the navy to take
| effect at the presidents convenience
after the commencement of active opera
tions.
The president made his formal call for
troops from the several states; declara-
ton of war passed and signed; Secretary
| Sherman resigned, his place being filled
by Judge Lay, who was succeeded by
John B. Moore, professor of interna-
tional law at Columbia university; the
war department decides to order an in
vasion of Cuba, and the naval bill passes
the senate with a provision allowing the
president to enlist men in the navy.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL q.
Lieutenant Rowan lands in Cuba and
starts for the camp of General Garcia
to secure his cooperation in the Cuban
war.
Movement of troops into Cuba may be
| postponed; Secretary Alger's letter in
regard to volunteers may lead to con-
troversies.
H. M. Plummer, a bank cashier of
Scranton, Miss, and his wife, formerly
of Bangor, Me-, commit suicide at their
home by mutual agreement.
An order prohibiting the dispatch to
Spain and her colonies of mail originat-
ing in the United States during the con-
tinuance of hostilities has been issued by
the postmaster general.
The inhabitants of unfortified places
along Uncle Sans coast who. may be
shivering in their shoes for fear of a
possible Spanish bombardment need
have no more ague spells if Spain fol-
lows out the generally recognized prin-
ciples of international law.
THURSDAY, APRIL %.
Congress not likely to adjourn until the
war is over.
Debate OF the war revenue measure
begins in the house.
General William Booth. head of the
Salvation army, left yesterday for Liver
pool.
The trend of English sentiment toward
| Spain is becoming SO pronounced as to be
q generally recognized fact.
There is a reckless disregard on the
part of masters of vessels of the pub
| lished regulations for the protection of
shipping and the mines and torpedoes
recently located at the principal harbors
on the Atlantic coast.
The declaration of war has caused an
increase in coastwise shipping rates.
The sum Of $1.25 per ton was offered at
Norfolk yesterday to load barge cargoes
for Portland. This is the highest rate
offered for several years.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20.
Helen Gould has telegra pied to Presi-
dent Mckinley, offering to donate $780,
900, to be used for national purposes.
The president will accept this offer.
The Hawaiian minister has been ad-
viSed that this country will not change
it's policy toward the Hawaiian islands
pending congressional action on annexa-
ton.
Transports have been chartered for
sending 5000 troops to Cuba, probably
Matanzas, at once; these troops to es-
| tablish a base of supplies for the distri-
button of food to the starving and arms
| and ammunition to the insurgents; the
| admin stration believes the insurgents
can do much toward Kidding the island
OF the Spanish.
SATURDAY, APRIL 80.
Gladstone is reported to be rapidly
nearing his end
Bradstreets reports little interruption
to business, now that war is actually
under way.
Senator German, as chairman of the
Democratic caucus committee, has been
c,1ooap1ad bu Mr. T11rpia