Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


One hundred mills employing 10000
hands at Oldham. England, have stop
ped, owing to strike of the operatives
against reduction of pay.
The ten-mile trotting match at Oak
land, Cal, on Saturday between Con-
troller and Red Gross. was won by the
former in 1928 IA, the best ten mile
time on record.
The Legislature has appropriated
$500 to assist Miss Hemenway to
complete her Historical Gazetteer. We
believe this to be money we'll appropri-
ated.
Charles W. Angel, the defaulting
secretary of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, hoe boon arrested in-Iishnn
Portugal, and $4,000 of the money
taken by him was found on his person.
Two trains collided on the Great
Western railroad in Canada. Saturday
morning, wrecking an engine and two
cars. The driver, fireman and seven
emigrants were injured.
The Steamship Pomerania from New
York for Hamburg, was sunk on the
Oath inst. near Plymouth, England, by
a collision with Welsh bark. Of her
passengers So were lost, and 1872 were
saved
A little girl in Newark, N. j., four
years of age. while playing with rope
fastened to the fanlight of a bedroom
door ON Thursday. twisted the rope
around her neck in such way that she
was strangled to death.
When Passanante, the would-be assas-
sin of the King of Italy, was arrested
ten years ago for posting revolutionary
placards, he told the police that he was
studying French for the purprse of 60
ing to Paris to kill Napoleon the Third.
The Portugal authorities, as an act
of courtesy to the United States, and
without the existence of an extradition
treaty, have arrested Angel, the Pull
man car defaulter, and he is now in the
custody of the United States consul at
Lisbon.
| Judge Hilton has raised the reward
for the capture Of the decorators of A
T. Stewards tomb from $4,000 tc
$4,000 and offers $40, 1000 for the cap
ture of any one of the criminals. Moth
ing is offered for the recovery of tht
body.
Colonel George H. Butler, nephew O.
General Butler and former Consul Gen
eral to Egypt, is undergoing sentence
of thirty days in the Washington Work
house in lieu of fine which he wa
unable to pay in the police court. HI
was arrested for intoxication.
Intense excitement prevails in fnan
cial and business circles in this section
of the State, over the announcement
this morning of the failure of D. Arthu
Brown & Francis, Brown we'll know
and large cotton manufacturers an
iron founders. of Baskerville, n. H.
The restitution among the mechanic
and laborers of Sheffield, England.
reported to be appalling. Hundred
have been obliged to sell their furni
ture, and even their clothing. to pre-
,, cure food for their families. A publ
meeting has been called to devise mean
of relief
The lowest price at which cotton ha
| sold in this country during the last 5
t years was in the spring of 1915, whe
only cents pound could be got fc
it. The highest price paid for it du
ing the same period was l.90, in 1861
e although it sold for 81 cents in goo
e money in 1866.
d A great sensation was created ;
f Dundee Scotland, few days ago. b
the escape of full grown polar bea
> while it was being taken from VIVA
: ing vessel that had captured it. 1t "a
It through several crowded streets an
finally took refuge in clothier's sho
where it was secured. Several person
narrowly escaped being injured or xii
ed by the beast.
,, It is reported that the "ghost"
IS sswild man" who has created such
IS sensation in the south part of Skowh
gan, Me-, has been caught alive.
:, appears that he is an insane person wi
If says he died in the army in 1864
Is carries two guns without locks and
d dark lantern. 1t could not be deinit
ly learned from him who he is or whe
he came from.
!, The Via Sacra of ancient Rome h
p been uncovered from the arch of Tit
- to the Temple of Romulus. Sever
" structures have come to light, some
: which are of the old Roman period a
some of the medieval epoch, but all
= intense interest to historians and arch
e ologists. Besides these, there are fra
:. ments of architecture and marble de-
s rations, some of which are dated A.
: 500 and 341.
r John Taylor, and his wife and t
ne children and Miss Clutz, left Sprir
n field, Missouri, in wagon for Colora
he some two months ago. Nothing "
bt heard from them until few days al
when letter received from Miss Gu
stated that Indians had captured
". party and murdered them all exc,
ct herself. She was afterwards rescu
on by United States troops. The let
ce graphically describes the fight with
90 Indians, about twenty of whom W
er killed and wounded before capturi
Taylor.
ne The New Orleans Times asserted
x. September that the yellow fever epide
10 ic began it malignant course in
J front part of the city, where "four tn
I'D sand loads of kitchen garbage, VIII
to had been hauled to the dumping groul
by the city carts, had been brought b;
IN, by the contractors and used to Gil
i'll, the Streets" A committee of citlze