Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The block Of w. H. Beasom at Nashua,
N H, took fire and damage was done to
the amount of $4,000 principally to STOCK
A portion of the plant of the Victor
Metal and Foundry company at Brain
tree. Mass, was burned, causing loss
of $4,000.
Zamold Richards, the first president
of the National Educational association,
died a Washington. aged IS. He was
born in Massachusetts,.
j. l.. Emerson, aged AZ, a dry goods
dealer OF Franklin Falls, \. H, was
found dead in the basement of his store.
Heart failure was the cause CT death.
Mrs. Phebe Williams died at New Bed
ford, Mass aged 1O2 years IL months.
She inherited her longevity from her
father, who lived to the age of 10 years.
The Mckay sewers a the Bates shoe
factory at Webster, Mass, are on strike
against what they claim is a reduction
in wages. The cut amounts to cents
case
Louise Rafferty,, Is years old, while
passing a building which was being re-
paired at Boston, was struck on the head
by a falling timber. She died two hours
later
Michael Is. Scanlon, representing a
Washington syndicate, has secured an
ton Baseball club for $4,000. The option
expires on Nov. 4.
The wreck of the schooner Tidal Wave
has been sighted. The wreck is low in
the water and the wind is driving her
into the track Of vessels, making her
dangerous obstruction.
The heirs of the Young estate on
whose farmlands near MiddIetown, Pa,
Camp Meade is located, have been mott
fed by the war department that the
camp will be abandoned.
The state department has been in
formed that the land wires connecting
the cables with the interior of Colombia,
including the capital, have been cut as
an incident of the revolution.
Both the Mutual and Equitable Life
Insurance companies of New York have
notified the government that they have
given UP the intention to apply for re-
admittance to do business in Prussia.
The sword presented to Admiral Dewey
by congress has been removed from the
office of the secretary of the navy, where
it has been on public exhibition for the
last few weeks, to the residence of the
admiral.
The official trial of the frst-cIass bat
tleship Kentucky will take place off the
Massachusetts coast on Nov. %. This
date has been decided upon by the build
ers, and the navy department will be
notified.
Henry 7. Higginson of the class Of '65,
who gave Soldiers Field to Harvard has
given the sum OF $4,000 to be used for
the erection and equipment of building
suitable for the uses of the Harvard Uni
versity club
Erwin Mckee, a weIl-knoWn Lowell
man. committed suicide at his home by
swallowing the contents of a tWO-Ounce
bottle of cresolene, a patent disirfectant
pondency due to loss of work is said
to be the cause.
The large barn Of the ElmWood stock
farm at NIillbury, Mass, owned by
Hobart n Jennison, was completely
burned. causing a loss of from $4,000 10
100000 The fire started from lantern,
which exploded.
John c. Ropes, author of several his
toricaI works, and widely known il lit
erary circles, died at Boston, as the
result of shock. Mr. Ropes was born
in St. Petersburg, Russia, of American
parentage, in 1886
Lieutenant HOdgson, navigator Of the
Brooklyn in the battle of Santiago, has
been ordered to report for duty al New
port, +. L. where he will superintend
the manufacture of smokeless powder at
the torpedo station.
No official intelligence has yet been
received at the Boston navy yard in re
gard to the report the navy department
is to curtail work in the steam engineer
ing and construction departments. Work
is going on as usual
Permission has been given by the
treasury department to agents of the
British government to compress in New
York and Boston, a large shipment of
Canadian hay, for the use of the British
army in South Africa.
The president has appointed George
T. Langhorne and James \. Shipton
majors and Harry L. Bishop q captain
in the volunteer establishment. They
will be at once assigned to duty with
regiments in the Philippines.
Professor George E. Beers, secretary
of the Yale law school faculty. has an
nounced his resignation. He will con-
tinue the professorship of elementary
law. however. Professor Beers will be
succeeded by Professor Foster.
Captain NicolI Ludlow has been re-
tired. with the rank of admiral in the
navy, on his own application, after 80
years of service. Captain Ludlow is
son-in-law of Mrs. Washington Mclean,
and brother-in-law of Mrs. Hazen.
The Quartermaster general has re-
ceived a cable dispatch announcing that
the transport Hooker, which went
aground on Corregidor island, Manila
bay. probably would be raised by the
contractor within the next few days.
The statement made that F. A. Powers
will not accept an appointment to the
Maine supreme bench after the retire
Inent Of Justice Peters is denied by that
gentleman, who says he has not ex-
pressed himself in regard to his candi-
dacy.
Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue bureau has held that an ex-
press company which buys or sells