Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

New York Monday morning.
The Empress of Russia, after long ill
ness, died on Thursday.
A boiler exlosion in London, Eng, on
Wednesday, killed eight persons.
Great damage was caused to crops,
railroads, mills and other property in
Wisconsin by recent heavy rains.
1t is rumored in Montreal that Cuban
fillibustering expedition, composed of
Americans has left that port.
Charles w. Schofield, of New York, a
heavy operator in iron, has failed with
liabilities estimated at over s., OO0,O
A gale near Mount Carey, Ohio, on
Sunday, blew down a church, twenty per-
sons were injured by the falling roof,
three fatally.
Over 1000 immigrants, mostly Ger
mans, arrived at Castle Garden on Friday
| morning and left for the West in the
evening.
More than two hundred men, women
| and children were killed by Victoria's
| band of Indians in their recent raid in
| New Mexico.
The Chinese are said to be massing
troops on the Russian frontier, and an at
tack is anticipated without the formality
of declaration Of war.
| Ephraim Holland, who gained great
notoriety through his connection with
| the election frauds in 1876, was shot by
Cincinnati gambler Monday night.
| Intelligence is received in England Of
! the defeat of the British forces near
| Minhia, in Burmah, the commander of the
royal troops being captured and decapi-
tated.
Anthony Flaherty, sixty years of age,
walked deliberately upon the track in the
face of an approaching train, at West
Quincy, Saturday night, and was instantly
killed.
The Greek Government is reported to
be collecting war material and making
active preparations to occupy new terri
tory claimed by Greece when the right
moment arrives.
Harriet Beecher Stoves orange planta-
ton at Mandarin, Fla, is said to have
yielded her profit Of $4,000 per acre the
past year. She has just returned to Hart
ford from her Florida home.
A new repeating gun, the Gardner,
was tested at Washington, last week, by
the board of naval offiders, and over 5000
shots were fired in ID minutes, three mer
relieving each other at the crank.
During the Bowdoin College boat races
at Brunswick, Me-, on Friday morning, ;
theft entered the boat house and stol,
two valuable gold watches and $4150 il
money from the clothing of the students.
Iron Mountain, Missouri, is all that it,
name implies, Being seven-tenths pur
iron. 1t is nearly a mile long, half a
broad, and several hundred feet high. I
4 is being carried away at the rate of So
8 tons day.
f A ship sailing from Montreal suppose
a to be loaded with grain, was stopped b.
, the authorities and the Spanish Consul
Thursday night, on suspicion that beneat
the grain were arms and ammunition 70
the Cuban insurgents.
Congressman were in no mood to Civ
q attention to matters of routine legislatio
: while the balloting was in progress in tn
O convention. Interest conferred in tn
a bulletins, and the only business Of impo,
in either house was the passage of til
Ute settlement bill.
: A duel was fought early Sunday morl
ing near Richmond Va, between Willial
~ G. Elan, editor of the Wing, and Thoms
n Smith, son of Ex-Governor William Smitl
a the quarrel growing out Of an offensi1
It article of the Wing. Elan was shot
>. the face. His injury was serious.
% A firm which employed gang of cho
pers at Bethlehem N, H., last winter h;
shipped 20 teams, with men, to Minnesot
10 where they own 1000 acres of railros
st land, which they will sow with wheat
~ VIC ldl' 1Hey-WuI ISbuIH W NcN 11dHl
he shire when snow flies, and will alterna
~ western farming and eastern numbering.
al The features of the bill to be reportt
\ by the foreign affairs committee of Il
national House of Representatives on Il
;" Fortune Bay controversy are as follow
ne The bill virtually provides for suspe
I'd sion of the treaty until the two Cover
ut ments come to some agreement in t
of matter, and for the indemnification of t.
bo fishermen who have suffered by the int
ruption of their business on this accouI