Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY. FEB. 20.

erville, at the request of it's city council,
10 make use of the feed wires of the street
railway in any emergency to charge the
battery of the fire alarm system of
Somerville.
The New England Homestead says
that the value of all classes of farm ami
mails on Jan. l. 1898, was S150,000,0 900
greater than year before. The total
valuation Jan. 1, 1897 was 81, 877, 900, 900,
while now it is 81, OBJ 900, 900. In 1896 the
valuation was 81, 1921, 926, 0S4 and in 1895 it
was 81, S19, 466, 306.
The amount charged to snow work in
Boston from Feb. to Feb. Is, inclusive,
was $50, 1865 for labor rolls, and $780,
058.75 for cost of wagons hired, making
a total of SIS, 249.40. The number of
single loads of snow removed was 103,-
915, in the paving division, and 19. ZIG in
the street cleaning division.
There are in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island 90 I. M. G. associations, employ
ing 136 general secretaries and other
paid officers. In 73 associations there
is an average membership of %, 800; So
associations report 7774 active members;
% own buildings valued at 81 ,975, 600; So
have gymnasiums with apparatus valued
at s45,277.
MONDAY, FEB. 81.
Earthquake shocks felt at Wilton and
Milford, n. H, Sunday morning.
ProvincetOwn, Mass, citizens object
to Plymouth alone being given the honor
as the landing place of the pilgrims.
Waltham, Mass, people are up in arms
over a recent article published in an
Episcopal paper which contained un-
complimentary remarks about the moral
and social standing of the community.
In the person of Charles Il. Shorey
has a representative who has become
so excited over the critical condition of
international affairs that he has placed
an order for a magazine rifle of 44-caI-
iber, with which he swears he will enlist
the instant war is declared with Spain.
TUESDAY, FEB. %.
Boston Hebrews cry Long live lola"
Grand opera returns to Boston; Media
and other singers heard in Faust"
James o. Lyford of Concord, N H,
has been appointed naval officer of Gus
toms at Boston.
Ex-Governor Busiel of New Hamp-
shire made bitter attack upon the Bos-
ton and Maine railroad.
A historic custom was carried out at
Wesleyan college, Middletown, Conn.,,
this morning shortly after midnight.
when members of the freshman class
fired the cannon on the college campus
to usher in the anniversary of the birth
of George Washington.
Lessons from the life of George Wash
ingtOn formed the theme of the exercises
in Boston's public schools Monday. The
chief feature, however, was the system
atiZed form of the observance, and over
$4,000 little people recited the maxim,
Labor to keep alive in your breast that
little spark of celestial fire-conscience,"
and afterwards had it's significance ex-
planned.
WEDNESDAY, FEB %.
Three days storm blocked business
and trains all over New England and
caused considerable damage.
George w. Simmons of Boston known
throughout New England as clothier,
was accidentally and fatally shot at
his estate at Little Nahant.
Nearly 1900 people attended the pub
lie reception by Governor Wolcott at the
statehouse in Boston. Military men
were out in force and resident consuls
of foreign nations paid their respects.
Boston Ancients are right on deck In
the delicate situation between America
and Spain. A proposition by Sergeant
Huckins that they should take the bull
by the horns and by sailing upon Madrid
as they did upon London bring about
unanimous approval and stunning
cheers at Tuesday nights gathering.
THURSDAY, FEB. "a.
A. B. Stow, famous as the proprietor of
the great London Show in its time
one of the best in the country, died in
Middletown, Conn.
Taking the figures of the last state
election as a basis of calculation the
proposed greater Boston would be Re-
publican by over $4,000.
Three hundred officers of the knights
of Honor from lodges all over the state
gathered in Boston to greet Supreme
Dictator Goheen of Philadelphia
The graduates of the Boston university
law school have decided to celebrate the
occasion of the coming celebration Of
the university's quarter centennial by
the presentation of some substantial
gift to their legal alma mater.
The Massachusetts, legislature has
been asked for an appropriation of $2O,-
900 for the American Memorial Monu-
ment association, to be used for the
construction of a monument to Rev S.
f. Smith, author of the national hymn,
FRIDAY, FEB. 25.
Department Commander Carlton of the
Maine G. A. r. criticises the would be
pension refOrmerS.
The supreme court of Rhode Island
has decided against the claims of the
arraganSett Indians.
Two Fall River mill men testified be-
fore the labor committee that southern
competition is a serious menace.
Starvation is likely to cause the break
ing of the strike in New Bedford Mass.
the subscriptions for it's maintenance
being meager.
Ellen Hyde, principal of the state nor
NAL school at birmingham, Mass, for
R3 years, has rendered her resignation
to the state board of education, to take
effect at the close of the present school
year. She has been an attache of the