Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-02-12
General News Items.

Miner, Beal & Co. one of the oldest
and best known wholesale clothing
concerns in Boston, doing business al
63 Summer St., made an assignment
Wednesday for the benefit Of their
creditors to Messrs. Charles Ell. Allen,
Ephraim Stearns and George B. San
ford.
| The Canadian Government has Civ
en- notice to move for an appropriation
of 81, ,O00,0 900 to pay for the contingents
| and also provide for a fund for the
| wives and families of those who may
fall, this fund made up of the differ
ences of imperial pay and that given
the Canadian militia. The So, ,O0O,OOO
will only come up to July 1. If the
war lasts longer more money will be
required,
A despatch from Manila states that
the insurgents captured supply train
of nine bull carts between Orani and
Dinalupijan Monday, killing corpor-
al and five privates of company G.,
Thirty second Infantry. The escort
consisted of a sergeant and eleven
ened the supports of bridge over a
| creek and the first cart went into the
| stream. While the escort was bunch
ed trying to hanl the cart out of the
water the insurgents fired volley
from the bushes killing the six Amer
| leans and also two native drivers.
The committee appointed to count
the votes cast in the recent national
plebiscite in Mexico has reported to
the national liberal convention that
1 ,548, ,654 votes were polled and ,456,
482 were for Gen. Diaz as candidate
for president. The committee waited
on the president and announced the
result, and DR.. Lisarge, speaking for
the members of the committee, said
it was high tribute to Gen. Diaz.
The national liberal convention an
nounced to the Mexican republic that
Diaz is the choice of the nation by an
immense majority as candidate for the
next presidency.
the famine in India is rapidly be-
coming worse, 1t threatens to eclipse
the last disaster of this nature and to
outrun the governments resources.
Already four million persons are re-
ceiving relief, and a steady increase
in this number is to be expected.
Deaths from starvation are becoming
frequent, especially at Rajputana.
The population of the western Deccan
are demoralized. Many of them,
panic stricken at the outlook, are
Hooking to the relief works, although
they are not yet destitute. The ad-
vent of famine refugees to Bombay
city aggravates a situation that is al
ready serious, owing to the prevalence
of plague, smallpox and other cpl
denies.
Assignee Heman W. Chaplin, who
for several weeks has been straighten-
ing out the financial affairs of the John
P. Squire & Go. corporation and it's
score of affiliated companies, has fl
nally accomplished the work, and
yesterday gave out complete state
m ent of the condition of the affairs of
the concern at the close of business
Dec. Is, 1899, the date of the assign
mont. This statement showed
that on that date the assets Of all the
companies combined were $6 PA, ,463.-
O6, and the liabilities $5,O25, 1896 81,
leaving surplus Of 1898, ,6S5 O4. The
statement of the corporation, exclu-
sive of the branches, was even more
favorable, the assets on the date
named being $4,O75, ,7O1.49 and the
liabilities 50. .671 sos 80, leaving a sur
plus of 81, 135, ,611.93.