Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Moscow, July ID. A train with 217 |
persons on board ran off the rails between |
Tcherny and those who were saved were |
more or less injured.
The official returns of the election in |
Oregon show Republican majorities on |
the state ticket ranging from 1,4O1 for |
Lord for Supreme Judge, to 1866 for |
George for congressman.
A fire last week in Mitchell & Co.'s par
affine candle factory, at Fourth street and
First avenue, New York, caused loss
estimated at 100000. The fire is attrib-
uted to an explosion Of vitriol.
The German army are to maneuvre
this fall with eight army corps, or $780,
900 men, if the corps are brought out at
war strength. Moreover many thous-
ands of the reserve are to be called out to
drill.
The Secretary of the Board of Agricul-
ture, of Kansas, reports the harvesting
of the largest wheat crop ever gathered
in that state. The area planted was 1852,
1856 acres, and the product is 30,263,711
bushels.
Thomas Carrigan, about so years old,
was instantly killed last week at the Vine
street crossing of the Nashua and Woes
ter Railroad Nashua, NH. He was struck
by the locomotive OF the incoming SIS
passenger train.
In a railway collision at Cork, Ireland,
on Saturday, thirty persons were injured,
twelve of them, it is believed, fatally. A
farmers herd named Deloughty was shot
and mortally wounded at Ennis, in the
County Clare on the same day.
About 400 Of the striking Erie railway
employees made a murderous assault
Tuesday in Jersey City on lot of unof-
Tending Italians who had taken the places
of the strikers. During the melee one
man was drowned and several were badly
injured.
General Skobeleff of the Russian army,
who won considerable renown at Plevna,
died suddenly at Moscow, on Friday.
There were at first reports of foul play,
but curSory examination showed that
death was caused by rupture of the YES
sells of the heart.
LONDON, July IA dispatch from
Paris to the STANDARD says the explosion
in the Rue Louis Philippe was the result
of fire, nobody having thought at the
outbreak of the fire to cut off the gas.
Twelve houses were destroyed; twenty
persons were killed and forty injured.
One hundred are rendered homeless
Peter Cooper, the New York millionaire,
now sturdy and vigorous man, at the
| great age of 81 years, put the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad on its revolving feet
| March 10, 1880, and constructed with his
own hands tbs first locomotive on the
continent, made it drag the first train of
cars and opened the first road to passen-
ger travel.
Henry Leichsinger, a twelve-year- old
boy, died recently in Brooklyn from the
excessive smoking of cigarettes. He had
been subject to fits, produced his physi-
clan says, by the over-indulgence of Gig
arettes, and his parents compelled him to
cease smoking them. He was recovering,
when he smoked again while concealed in
a closet. He was seized with fit, which
ended in his death.
William Richards, a prisoner in the
Sweetsburg (P. O. Jail for the murder
of Joseph Jackson in Sutton year ago
has been making threats against the jail
or's life. Richards cell was searched
and heavy club found concealed beneath
the bed. 1t is thought he intended to TT.
to escape if the keeper entered the ware
without securing the door. A stric
watch will be kept over him. His tria
takes place September 80.
Mrs. Elizabeth Treadwell Weston, VIII,
died at Greenfield, N. H., Wednesda,
morning of last week, was it is said, tn
oldest person in New Hampshire. Sh
, was born in Peterboro', N. H., Februar
1o3 no, tihb COllSOioChbiy wa LUZ yCSi1
months and Is days old. Her fathe
was a soldier of the Revolution. OF he
. twelve children, four survive her. U
to within a few days of her death sh
was active and cheerful as usual
The Memphis Avalanche, having b.
come impatient and hopeless in its effort
to bring about reform, charges that til
failure of Tennessee to pay its debts
> due to whiskey and dogs. The two t,
gether keep the State poor and dishones
L The AUdlanche also insists that the nom
u nation of Bate for Governor at Nashvill
as the prohibitionists say, was due to I'll
o whiskey element in the Democratic part
;, They intend to vigorously oppose h
1t election.
= Two young lads were target shootil
/ with pistol in the barn of the Rev. Jol
B Richmond, at Dover, n. H., Thursd
Is afternoon, when Miss Annie, daughter
I the clergyman, came out of the hou
re into the yard near the barn during a IL
10 in the firing. A few minutes later S
n started for the barn, and when at t
door shot was fired by one one Of t
H. boys, Edward Frost. Tae ball stru
2. the girl in the neck, severing the jugui
lie vein, from which she bled to death in lie
Id than ten minutes.
s. The transactions of the Money ORD
Division of the New York Post Office /
n the year ending June 80, represent t
IL amount of 1858, 057 ,953. 10, an increase
n 81 1926, 2O4,O6 over the previous We;
MT while the additional cost of the Cover
rs ment was only $1,000. The number
r. domestic and foreign orders Issued W
,ol TIA, $3.50, of the value of $3,057 ,449.
ON The domestic and foreign orders pa
ay 963, 500 in number representing S9,S2
a 2OO.96. The amount paid in settlem'