Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY JAN. so.

many injured.
Lawrence (Mass.) Operatives accept
the reduction for the present, thus CEN
serfng the textile struggle in New Bed
ford, where the pinch of poverty is be-
ginning to be felt
Petition has been sent to the Massa-
chusetts legislature asking that an art
commission be appointed to look into the
general condition of art education in the
public schools of the state.
MONDAY JAN. 81.
Ex-Governor Plaisted died in Augusta,
Me.
John G.. Jones of Unity, N. H., rounds
out 102 years.
Mrs. II. H. Beach of Boston has won
renown as a music composer.
Maine sheriffs undisturbed by Gov
ernor Powers edict relative to the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law.
George c. Howard, prominent Bridge
water, Mass, citizen, arrested on
charge of forgery and confesses crime.
Yale's football mascot goes to the bad;
proves to be an migrate; has been ar
rested for intoXication and is addicted
to use of opium.
James Deitrick of Boston, recently
from Alaska, warns women not to go
there and only the strongest men to at
tempt gold hunting
TUESDAY, FEB. l.
A motorman loses his life in trolley
collision at West Newbury Mass
Effort to be made to have more grad
yates of Boston schools on school board.
The most severe storm of the winter in
southern New England breaks wires and
blocks wheels
Talk of removing training station to
New London from Newport is revived in
the naval department. a
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warned to have no dealings with the
Fletcher Webster post of Brockton.
Superintendent Pettigrove of Mas
sachusetts will recommend that pris-
Oners be employed upon great. public
works; he will disclose his pIanIater on.
WEDNESDAY, FEB g
The East Boston highWaymen be-
Geved to be members of a Providence
gang. ~. -
Eight lives were lost by the wreck of the
C. A. Briggs, Fall River, Mass. OF. the
rocks at Nahant, Mass. q. .-,.:,.,-. .,..>. &C.
Business men of Quincy, Mas, desire
that the city be a part OF Boston: a. petit
ton has been drawn up.
Fourteen lives known to have been
lost at Gloucester, Mass; a dozen vessels
totally wrecked and the money loss very
heavy. -. ....-s
Best part of New England was knocked
out by the blizzard that developed Mon
day afternoon, car traffic and wire SER
vice of every description being sus-
pended
Governor Woleott of Massachusetts, is
preparing a special message to the leg
islature in support of the proposition to
employ convict labor in the construction
Of the Cape Cod canal .-.....
THURSDAY, FEB. g.
New England paper trade men say
business is better.
Discussions are brewing among New
Bedford strikers.
Attorney general of Massachusetts,
thanks God that there is such thing as
southern competition. ......t
Lowell, Mass, man in the Klondike,
shot and killed by cowboy; murderer
hanged after trial by committee.
President Eliot of Harvard in his re-
port condemns athletics, and advocates
a change in graduating system.
Evangelist Moody began his three
days campaign in Boston, preaching to
large audiences in fremont Temple.
Mayor Heard of Biddeford, Me-, ap-
points a committee to investigate the
cotton mills strike.
Rosemont. Mass, family, driven from
their home, forced to take refuge in a
hencoop, where their sufferings from the
cold were frightful.
The Consumers league of Massachu-
sets organized in Boston yesterday:
many prominent persons present in the
cause of social Improvement
Except for Interruption on wire sys-
TENS Boston and its vicinity have re-
covered from the blizzard; electric car
and train service restored; resumption
of business throughout New England
Terrible tales OF the wreck of the YES
Mf air
England coast; IL bodies ashore at
Bakers island, near Magnolia; four at
Gloucester, and five at Nahant; long
stretches of coast yet to be heard from.
FRIDAY, FEB. T.
General Henry of Vermont has been
appointed pension agent at Concord, N.
H.
Widow of J. c.. Aver left 500, 900 to a
home in Lowell, Mass, and $50, 600 to a
Philadelphia hospital. j.
Lower branch of the Massachusetts
legislature concurs in the senatorial
order for an investigation of the mill
situation.
Higher prices are asked in Boston for
certain commodities; marketmen say
it IS on account of the storm but COM
mission men don't agree with them.
There was a train wreck at the Winter
Hill station, Somerville, Mass, of the
boston and Maine railroad, in which
between 40 and so persons were injured.
Pinch of poverty felt by non-union
weaVers. of New Bedford, Mass, and
the end of the strike is thought not far
OFF; Mrs. Pickering fails to win wom-
ems support at public meeting; Bid
deford, Me, investigation committee re-
fuses to act deeming it futile.
SATURDAY. FEB s.
Fitzwilliam, n. H, girl fatally burned
SIr. Moody closes his present cam
paign in Boston.