Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-03-06

NEW ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
SUNDAY, FEB. &c.

student at Fryeburg academy.
The annual convention Of the West
ern Massachusetts Interscholastic Ath-
letic association was held at Amherst.
The following officers were chosen:
President L. p Reed, HOlyoke; vice
presidents, A A. Darlington, Springfield,
and E. NJ. Cole, Westfield; secretary,
Arthur Clements. Monsoon; treasurer,
Lawson Stone, Amherst.
Hebron (Me.) institute is to be the
recipient of a fine new building for
girls, the gift of Mrs. B. F. Sturdevant
of Boston, work upon the same to COM
mence in the spring.
MONDAY, FEB. q.
At a meeting Of the trustees of the
Eastern MSine General hospital, Dr. ii.
T. Clough was chosen as the head of the
department of diseases of the eye and
ear.
Flags on all the public buildings at
Newton. Mass, are at half mast in honor
of Privates John B. Denning and James
3. Pendergast of company G, Fifth Mas
sachusetts volunteers, who died Friday
at GreenVille, N. G.
A legal fight may follow the failure of
the Highland Brewing company of
Springfield, Mass, to vote to enter a COM
bination of four local and nearby
breweries The directors claim they
have fulfilled their agreement by voting
to Join The promoters claim the agree
ment was to sell outright, and that the
directors must do so.
TUESDAY, FEB. %.
The suggestion emanating from New
Haven for a Harvard and Yale regatta
at the time of the yearly race at New
London has met with considera bic favor
in Cambridge and definite answer
from Harvard is expected in a few days.
The Veterans of the Civil War, who
have been or are connected With the
Massachusetts state department or the
legislature held their ninth annual re-
union at Boston. These officers were
elected: President, George A. Marden,
Lowell; vice presidents, Rufus Soule,
New Bedford; William H. Marden,
Stoneham; secretary and treasurer,
Charles G. David Boston; chaplain, S.
H. Emery, Taunton.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1.
The New Hampshire senate passed
bill to punish unnatural and lascivious
crimes, and killed the bill prohibiting the
sale of game birds.
A dual league in athletics between
Brown university and Dartmouth coll
lege has been decided upon.
Edmond w. Billetdoux of North
Adams, Mass, has been selected by the
faculty as valedictorian of the class of
80 dI w lllldIHS COlIeSS
Deputy fire marshals visited Clifton
dale, Mass. They Investigated the re-
cent fire there and decided that it was
of incendiary origin.
The Thayer public library and art
building, a magnificent structure pre-
scented to the city of Keene, N. H., by the
late Edward G. Thayer was dedicated
yesterday.
THURSDAY, MARCH2.
DR.. F. w. Page, superintendent of the
Vermont hospital for the insane, has
resigned his position. DR.. Marcello
Hutchinson, now superintendent of the
dipsomaniac department of the Mas
sachusetts general hospital has been
named by the trustees to fill the vacancy
The sheds of the Boston and GIouces-
ter Packet company at Boston were
partially burned and large amount of
freight badly damage The loss to the
company will be about $SOO0
William H. Van Blake, colored, aged
so, was engaged in washing windows
in the New England block at PittsfeId
Mass, and fell from the first story frac-
turing his skull He died shortly after
ward.
Rev. James E. Bagley, pastor of the
Unitarian church at Wollaston Mass,
dropped dead of heart failure at his
home. He had been to Boston and when
he returned home he complained that he
did not feel well. On going to his study
he sat down in chair and expired. He
was born in Craftsbury, VT, in 1868.
FRIDAY. MARCH 3.
Governor Powers of Maine has ap-
pointed John II. Hill judge, and Will
Der C. Whelden recorder of the Portland
municipal court.
The Boston common council voted to
request the mayor to restore wages of
city employees. The reduction Of wages
occurred last month, cut of ~ percent
being made in all departments.
Edouard Rod, the French dramatic
critic, began his lectures at Harvard on
Dramatic Poetry in France M. Rod
is also to lecture at Williams and Smith
colleges and at Worcester while he is at
Harvard, and afterward at Yale, Co
lumbia, Adelphi, Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania and Cornell.
DR.. Stephen z. Ranney, the oldest and
one of the most prominent physicians
in Bennington county, VT, died at
North Bennington of heart failure. He
was born in Townsend in 1923, and had
resided in North bennington As years.
The case against Henry B. Foulke, al
1eging the commission of an unnatural
act, was thrown out of the superior court
sitting at Plymouth, Mass.
SATURDAY, MARCH 4.
The Dartmouth student body voted
unanimously TO enter into a two years
agreement with Brown in baseball and
football. The arrangement of track a tn
letics is to be settled later.
The New Hampshire house of repre-
sentatives passed bills requiring the
licensing Of bicycles.
Charles G. Bigwood, SO years old, is
charged with the larceny of shoes and
shoe findings valued at $500 from Nor