Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-06-13
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5.

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son. He is now in Chicago. and his
agent has written asking for hotel ac-
| tommodations.
| The Cooper river gold discoveries are
a myth -Four thousand people are try
| ing to overcome insurmountable OBJ
! stacles to reach the much doomed coun-
| try, yet no one has yet come out from
| Copper river with gold.
MONDAY, JUNE 6.
| The North Pacific liner Victoria from
| China and Japan, has arrived in Tacoma,
Wash. On her present voyage she broke
! all previous records between Japan and
the west coast of the United States, hav-
! ing made the run from Yokohama, a dis
| lance of 1900 miles, in II days and IL
| hours.
| Nearly all the steamers running to
southern ports now include the marine
| war risk in their general insurance bill
| of Iadng without additional cost to
shippers. This was done to recover the
business taken by the railroads, which
have monopolized this carrying trade
since the outbreak of the war between
the United States and Spain.
TUESDAY, JUNE Z.
In answer to numerous queries on the
subject it is announced officially that the
government will pay all volunteer troops
for the time between the dates of en-
listment and muster.
The powerful double-t urreted monitor
Monadnock, now at Mare island navy
yard, ordered to sail for Manila within
10 days; she has sailed from Delaware
to San Francisco, around the horn so
is sea-Worthy.
The entire coast of Labrador is heavily
blockaded with ice. Fishing vessels are
unable to reach it, and the residents are
reduced to abject misery owing to the
exhaustion of the winters supply of pro-
visions and the want Of means to replace
these until the vessels arrive.
The committee Of Harvard graduates
authorized to select a gift for the cruiser
Harvard has reported that arrange
ments have been made with the chief of
the bureau of ordnance to mount upon
the cruiser a six-pounder Nordenfelt
gun with mount, shield and accessories.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE s.
Secretary AIger has accepted the
services of the American Red Cross So
ciety as auxiliary to the hospital service
of the army of the United States.
Representatives of the American,
White Star, North German Lloyd and
the principal transatlantic steamship
lines held a conference yesterday in Lon
don with view of deciding upon traffic
agreement but arrived at no under
standing.
The celebra ton of the semi-centen-
NAL of the anniversary of Wisconsin's
admission into the union opened yes
terday. Several thousand visitors were
present from all parts of the state. Gov
ernor Bushnell and staff of Ohio were
among the distinguished guests.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Gridley,
widow Of the late commander of the
Olympia, the acting secretary of the
navy cabled instructions to Paynaster
Gait at Yokohama to turn the remains
Of the deceased over to Mr.. Copman of
that city with a view to their cremation.
THURSDAY, JUNE9.
Although Messrs. Carranza and Du
Rose, the Spanish spy directors, say
they do not believe they are to be ordered
out of Canada, it is known they are max
ing preparations to leave Montreal.
The Congregational union of Ontario
and Quebec has passed resolutions Of
sympathy for the United States in the
war with Spain. 1t also endorsed the
project of an Anglo-American alliance.
Ex-UniteC States Senator William A
Pfeffer has been nominated for governor
by the Kansas Prohibitionists The
latform adopted endorses the action of
the government in the war with Spain.
The senate committee on postoffices
has reported favorably the bill providing
for the establishment of system of pos
tai savings banks. 1t authorizes every
money order postoffice TO receive de-
posts for any sum in excess of 81, and
allows interest at the rate Of 2 percent.
Thomas H. Bowles, president Of the
National Association of Life Under
writer's, who proposed a cooperative
plan whereby all life insurance compan-
Toe TO fol cI
addition to the government hospitals for
the care and protection of policy holders
during the war with Spain, states that
the plan has been abandoned owing to
the decision of the government that it
will not be able to delegate to others the
care of it's sick and wounded.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10.
Seven cases of yellow fever exist at
McHenry, Miss.
No action has yet been taken by the
Canadian government in respect to the
CarranZa matter CarranZa has denied
the words attributed to him, and so far
it has not been proven that the trans
lation was correct
The police of Hong Kong have seized
a cargo of arms aboard a British steam
err 1t is supposed the arms were des-
tined for the insurgents of the Philip
pine islands. They were seized under
the neutrality law.
Secretary Alger has sent to the house
a request for an appropriation of $40, O0O
for machinery, ETC., for the Springfield,
Mass, arsenal, for the manufacture of
spare parts of rifles and carbines, now in
the hands of the troops, without inter-
fering with the present manufacture
of complete rifles and carbines.
SATURDAY, JUNE II.
The relations between Chill and Ar
gentina are unchanged, and many peo-
pie fear wa will break out next spring
The government of the Argentine re-