Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-12-25
THE WEEKS NEWS
Wednesday, Dec. 20.

Russia is on the eve of a great
struggle for mastery between the gov
eminent and the proletarat. Both
sides have lined up for battle.
Railroad trains and electric cars
v.ore the cause of the deaths of four
,,ersons and the fatal injury of another
in and about Boston.
William G.. Crawford, former deputy
auditor for the postoffice department,
was convicted Of charge of conspiracy
n defraud the United States.
bomb was thrown through a Win
dow of the Allied Iron association at
Now York. wrecking part Of an Office
which has been used as q bureau for the
employment Of non union men.
Tpon the testimony Of monographs,
.,,botonleters and oscillometers verdict
" s5e. 1871 was returned by jury at
pastou in the case of trustees of the
Albany building, against the Boston
Elevated Railway company.
The special election held for the
purnose of deciding the question of an
nexing South Portland to Portland
Me. was defeated by about 375 votes.
District Attorney Moran has notified
tbe Boston police commission that four
of the leading hotels of the city have
been guilty of violations of the liquor
laws. and demands that the commits
sion see to it that the sale of liquor IN
the hotels mentioned cease immedi
ately.
Herbert III. Asquith, the new British
chancellor of the eXchequer, announces
that the main issue of the campaign
will be free trade against protection.
Governor La Toilette has sent thu
Wisconsin legislature his resignation
as governor, to take effect on the frs
Monday in January, to enable him t
take his seat in the United States sen
ate. to which he was elected.
Tuesday, Dec. 19.
TUESDAY DEC 10 :.
Rioting broke out in Shanghai, tn
American and German cOnsuls Wer
stoned. two foreigners were slain ant
many others wounded. 1t is gathered
that the moving causes for the riot
| were the anti-American boycott and
| general feeling of hostility toward fol
| eigners.
Three of the largest financial inst
| tutions in the west, the Chicago Nationa
| bank, the Home savings bank and tn
Equitable Trust company all of >theI
controlled by John r. Walsh of Chicago
nave suspended operations. Their al
fairs will be liquidated as rapidly a
possible and they will go out of bus
ness.
The Russian workmen's council, III
der the very noses of the police, ha
succeeded in printing 100000 copies
its paper announcing that the govern
ment has declared civil war on IN
proletariat and saying that the chal
lenge must be accepted.
A Dutch CONVOY Was amhuscaded il
| Achin ISLAND of Sumatra, Dutch Eas
| Indies). Twelve men were killed anC
eight wounded. The Achinese lost 81.
men killed.
Evangelist William Sunday ha
closed nVe weeks reVlfdI at During
ton, Ia. He is credited with havin
made $500 converts. The residents dc
mated $4,000 to him.
About 100000 people from ever
state in the union and foreign coul
tries have visited the frigate Constltl
ton, at the Boston navy yard, in tn
past three years.
j. A Dowie has turned over the col
1 troll of Zion City to triumylrate, an
: will seek health in the south.
/ The report of Colonel Gorgas inc
7 Gates that the sanitary problem on Il
i Isthmus of Panama has been settled.
; The senate committee is not rushlT
r on the railroad rate law, but measul
: satisfactory to the president will
passed.
Monday, Dec. ia.
After binding a railroad watchms
: and his 12-year-old son to chairs in Il
r railroad station at Suffield, Conn.,, fl
> bank robbers pried their way into Il
= Suffield savings bank, blew open t
, safe after the fourth attempt, al