Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-16
GENERAL NEWS.
Increase in capital.


s15O. coo 900, making the total author
zed capital s4O0,OO0,0Oo.
Fire at Montreal.
One man dead, half dozen expect
ed to die, fifty patients stretched on
nainfuI cots in the various hospitals, !
as many more at home nursing minor
bruises il the record of the fire March
18th in the harbor at Montreal Whlch
DESTROYED ice paiG.la. steamer, Mont
real. ~ Q loss IF about $3.50, 900.
The Battleship Vermont.
Secretary Moody has reached de-
ciaior IS to thc states after which tne
i7a UattiesAips provided for In the
new naval law, shall be named. Inc
three i6 0G0 ton battleships are 10 De
named Vermont, Kansas and Mime
Gotta, and the two $4,000 ton vessels
Mississippi and Idaho
Alleged "Jack the siugger" Dead
George L. o. Perry, the negro Lao
indicted for the murder of Agnes NC
Phee at Sonervi!le and Clara Morton
at Waverley, Mass, commonly re-
farred 70 az "Iack the Slugger" cases,
died at the Cambridge Jail Monday OF
nervous exhaustion. He Is said TO
have admitted his guilt to his JalleT
and TO have completely exonerated
Mr.. Macon, who was first arrested.
Buried at Sea.
The Anchor Line steamer KaVa-
mania from Marsailie5, which arrived
in New York Tuesday, was detained
at quarantine because number OF her
crew and passengers died under very
pecultar circumstances on the voyage.
Six in all died-two of the crew ana
four passengers. All we're taken
with the same symptoms which were
cramps, nausea and collapse. 1t IS
thought that they were poisoned by
some noxious gases emanatlng from
the cargo. All we're buried at sea.
Cholera Infantum Cure.
Discovery of an anti-toxin which
will destroy the germs of cholera in
fantum, has been announced by Dr.
ESiunon Flexner, director of the Rookie
Teller Institute of Medical Research.
II was tbs death Of his grandson,
which turned Mr.. Rockefeller's atten-
: tlon TO the inability of the medical
, profession to cope successfully With
, this disease, that resulted in plans fol
a the establishment of the laboratory
t and hospital that is to be built IN Ne"
a York. Last fall the announcement
f was made that two students OF Int
3 the Johns Hopkins Medical Schoo
q had discovered the germ of the dis
= ease. 1t was then stated that th'
a energies of the Investigators would b.
d directed toward the discovery of
@ serum which would destroy the germ
# DIR. Flexner has declared that the per
# fecting of the serum would occup,
" but a few months longer, and tina
% before the end of 1908 the anti toxi
70 would be ready for practical use an
d. given to the world.
pr Eighty Millions for the Navy.
81 The naval appropriation bill as
7e became a law carried a total
vi S91, 877, 900, which is the largest ar
D. preparation ever made for the nav.
30 1t also embraces the greatest pre-
gramme for the construction of ne
ships that congress has ever place
Nj in one measure. Three bait eships {
Sc. 16. 900 tons each, to cost $4,212 on
each and two OF 1900 tons each,
cost SO, SOC, 900 each, are added to IL
nations feet of fighters, and in add
ton two steel training ships and Oh
n, wooden brig are provided for the ed
er cation of landsmen. Discretion
h also given the secretary of the ma,
in to contract for or purchase subsurfa
no or submarine torpedo boats at ;
'e- expense not exceeding $4,000
OF The battleships are to be construct
by contract or at government yarC
as the secretary of the navy may d
@. eide, with special provision against
'ch combination by the bidders. To ke
EN- pace with the increase in the nav
her the bill makes substantial addition
oss the personnel, increasing the numb
OF of heutenant-commande by 80, t
,rn lieutenants by so, the junior lieute
me ants and ensigns by such number
for shall qualify, the surgeons by 35, t
his assistant surgeons by 100, the pay
he'd spectors by 2, the paymasters by
the assistant and passed assists
paymasters by IS, the naval &C
NJ structors by %, the civil engine'
ice by u, the assistant civil engineers
= nrd tho ,,nr,nhar Of raidn hi nnnan