Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-20

for a new weave shed 312x352 feet. It
will be the property of the Bourne mill,
and Will contain when completed 1900
looms A tax exemption Of 10 years has
been granted the corporation by the
town authorities.
Covernor-eIect Crane of Lassa chu-
sets has formally announced that ne
will appoint Major General Samuel Dali
ton as the adjutant general Of his staff.
General Dalton has held the position of
executive military officer for the gov
ernor for 16 years.
The students Of Yale university in
mass meeting ratified the new plan of
consolidating the mana cement of the
affairs Of the several university athletic
associations under the direction Of the
governing board, with 2 graduate treas
urer as executive.
]. H. Harper, vice president of Harper
& Bros, announces that at meeting of
the directors of the publishing company
George 3. NJ. Harvey, editor and pro-
prietOr Of the North American Review,
was elected president and managing
director of Harper Bros.
COmmander-in-chief Shaw OF the G.
A r., and General Daniel Sickles urged
Secretary Root to make a favorable
recommendation in his annual report for
a national military park at Fredericlls-
burg, Va. The secretary said he would
make the recommendation.
4 postal deficiency Of &c. go, III for the
fiscal year just closed, almost q per-
cent decrease from last years de-
ficiency, is shown in the annual report
Of Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden. The total receipts from all
sources We're over $685. 600, 900.
The replies Of the European nations
interested in China to the request Of the
state department. for formal under
taking to preserve the open door, in the
east are not expected for several weeks,
as the exchanges are not taking place in
Washington. but at the various Euro
pean capitols-
The indications are decidedly against
any reCpening in the immediate future
Of negotiations looking to a permanent
adjustment of the Alaskan boundary
question. The modus vivendi, which
was adopted to define temporarily the
respective rights of the two parties, is
working satisfactorily.
Attorney Charles E. German has
brought two suits aggregatiEg $31, 500
against the estate of tie late Joseph
Banigan of Providence. The suits are
for services rendered Mr.. Banigan dur
ing his life time and for services rem
dered his heirs in the probatiug Of the
will and the settlement of the estate.
Andrew Carnegie has approved the
plans for a library building for Pittsburg
uneQualled in any land Mr.. Carnegie
told the chairman Of the board of trus-
tees of the Carnegie institute that ST.
$50, 900 was at the disposal of the man
ayers to be used in charging the build
ing and proceeding with the work.
A meeting of the Democratic national
committee will probably be held at
Washington on Jan. or Feb. II. Chair
man Jones has settled upon these two
dates, and by his instructions Secretary
Johnson will notify members of the COM
mittee to send by letter their preference
of the two dates suggested by Chairman
Jones.
There was shipped from East Berlin,
Conn. q ears of structural material
from the works of the Berlin Iron Bridge
company, consigned to the United States
commission at Paris. This train load of
material is for the steel framework Of
typical American machine shop to be
used exclusively by the American ex-
hibition of iron and woodworking ma
chinery at the sair Of 1900