Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-04
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, JUNE 26.

trail railroad shops III Wateryille that
the full time schedule will be resumed.
This is an addition of one-ffth wages
at present earned, the shops having been
run but eight hours daily. Some 800
hands are affected.
The receipts of fresh fish for the week
ending Saturday were very heavy in the
aggregate. AT Gloucester were landed
1,575, 900 pounds and 93S, 900 pounds at
Boston. During the corresponding week
last year the combined fleet landed ,173,-
900 pounds at Boston.
The Rollins commencement prize
speaking at Dartmouth was won by'>Nel-
son P. Brown, Everett, Mass, with Guy
a. Ham and Robert F. Leavens of Boston
second and third, respectively Mr.
Browns subject was The Landing of
the Pilgrims;" Mr.. Hams was "Ursus
and the Bull, and Mr.. Leavens delivered
"a Speech on Cuba"
MONDAY. JUNE q.
Nathan S. Miller of Danbury Conn.,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in Sandy Hills, n. Y, Saturday night.
He was a years of age, and veteran of
the civil war. He leaves a wife and
four children, living in Connecticut.
A dog, supposed to have been mad
ran through number of the streets in
Lynn Sunday afternoon and bit four
persons before he was shot and killed
by the police. The victims, two of
whom were women, had their wounds
cauterized.
The French-Catholic church in Brock
ton was damaged to the amount of $4,000
by fire which caught from a candle
near the altar. The interior of the
church, together with the draperies,
nd CT
suffered.
TUESDAY. JUNE %.
Rev. Willard T. Johnson OF Middleboro
has accepted the call to the pastorate
of the First Baptist church of Med
ford, and will begin his labors on the
first Sabbath in September.
The 17-year-old so nof Robert Meserve
of South Gorham, Me, ran away from
home taking $3.50 with him that his ia
Their was to pay his workmen with. He
returned bringing back the money, OF
which he had not spent a cent.
Chang, the Chinese giant with
Barnum for wears, and who was phe-
nomenal1y tall Yankee, was granted a
divorce in Providence. Chang, to Bur-
rillville people, is frederick A. Bailey
They call him Chang Bailey, and when
clean shaver he has physiognomy that
might be easily fixed up to typify a
genuine Monaghan.
= WEDNESDAY, JUNE 90.
The Lowell aldermen have passed a
joint resolution extending the thanks of
the city to George Charette, the Lowell
man who was aboard the Merrimac with
Hobson.
The Rev. John Perkins Forbes of
Taunton, Mass, has formally accepted
the pastorate of the Unitarian church
of the Savior,in Brooklyn, to take effect
in the fall. MIR. Forbes was ordained
20 years ago. His predecessor is the
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, son of President
Eliot of Harvard university.
The quota of troops under the sec
ond call from Rhode Island was formally
filed yesterday afternoon by the muster
in of battery B. The enlistment COM
plete is 329 infantrymen, PIP battery
men and eight commissioned officers
The state has contributed under both
calls 400 men in excess Of the required
quota.
The triennial catalogue Of Yale shows
that the whole number Of graduates of
the university is 1S,449, of whom 1919
are living and $500 are dead. The total
number of honorary graduates is 1910,
only 24S of whom are living. The num-
Der of deaths recorded this year is 121.
The average age of the graduates of the
academical DEPARTMENT is about 62 years.
THURSDAY, JUNE 80.
L. G. Penley of Auburn fell from a rail
road bridge between Lewiston and Au-
burn, Me, and was instantly killed He
was riding bicycle on the path outside
the rails and lost his balance. He fell 90
feet
Five Overseers of Harvard We're elect
ed yesterday to fill vacancies in the
board. There were IL candidates.
Those chosen were as follows: Moore
field Story of Brookline. John Noble of
Boston, Winslow Warren Of Dedhan,
Henry Hindikoper and George Adams of
Boston.
At yesterdays session of the Woman's
Suffrage association in South Royals
ton, VT, the following officers were
elected: Rev. G.. L. Story, Milton, pres
ident: Mrs. Z. L. Colony, Waterbury,
treasurer; Mrs. Laura Moore Barnet
secretary; a. D. Chandler, Barton Land
ing, auditor. An associate member 20
the vice president in each county was
elected.
FRIDAY, JULY 1.
The degree of master Of arts has been
conferred upon W1lllaln K. Lay, S9cre-
tary of state, by the university Of Mich
igan.
A son of County Register G. H Ken
dali of WoodsviIle, N. H, fell from a
loaded dumpcart, the wheels Of which
passed over his head, killing Inn al
most instantly.
Mrs. Philander Vail Of Goshen, Conn.,,
was>instantly killed at a railroad cross
ing: James bradshaw a farmland was
badly injured and may die; the horse
was instantly killed and the wagon de-
molished. The horse baked on the
track.
The Prohibition state convention of
Maine nominated Rev. A S Laid of