Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-10-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS,
The wholesale dry goods firm of D.
Morrice & Co., at Montreal, P. O., has
failed for $4,000, 900, about $4,000, 900 be-
ing direct liabilities.
A horse from Boston, named Crank"
hitherto unknown to fame, recently trot-
ted mile with running mate at Fleet
wood Park, New York, in 2:11, which
time has only once been equaled.
Carl Werbech, of New York, was re-
Gently shot through the mouth at Altoona,
Pa, by travelling companion named
Burns, who robbed him of $3.50 in cash.
The would-be-murderer escaped.
The east-bound Salt Lake express on
the Denver and Rio Grande road ran into
a landslide near Delta, COL, recently,
wrecking the locomotive, killing the en-
gineer, E. A. Godfrey, and seriously in
juring the fireman and mail agent.
The director of the Mint reports the
total circulation of the United States on
October 1st at 81, ,697, 1923, of which
S544 ,512, 800 was in gold coin, and $780,
291, 1928 in silver The total circulation
increased $40, 115, 635 since Oct. 1st, 1882.
New York is wondering how long it
will be before her population equals that
of London. At the beginning of the Gen.
bn Of
10000, of London 1000; now New
York boasts 800, 900 and London $780,
900.
The grand worthy secretary reports
the Good Templars in Maine in a flour
ishing condition. The order now has in
the state about 1000 live members and
over 10000 on it's records in 305 lodges
The next annual session will be held at
Bangor in April, 1884.
An explosion occurred at midnighs,'
last Friday, in the Wharnchffe- Carlton
colliery, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, Eng
land. There were twenty-five men in the
pit at the time, five of whom rushed to
drawn up alive, though they were injured.
Those remaining were lost.
John Edwin Palmer, aged SO years, a
Vermonter employed by the Western I'm
ion company at Pittsburg, Pa, the Super
intendent of the Methodist Sunday-school
at Mansfield, a suburb of Pittsburg, and
.i<nI h,c ala xx,if Ca11 s4
Rimmel, aged 16 years, an employee of a
telephone company and a member of
Palmer's Bible class.
The November number of the North
american ReUiea1 will contain contribu-
ton from DR.. Norvin Green, president of
the Western Union company, in opposi-
ton to the proposed government manage
ment Of the telegraph; also, an article on
John Brown, by the Rev. David N. Utter,
which is calculated to seriously affect the
popular estimate of the hero of Osawato-
ME-
Captain Mayne Reid died at his resi-
dence in London, England, on Sunday
night. The deceased's father was
Presbyterian minister who claimed de-
scent from the Royal Stuart family of
Scotland. Had the fathers wishes been
carried out the son would have been a
minister also, but his love of adventure
prevented. He travelled considerably,
especially in America, and wrote many
works for boys which are as familiar in
this land as in his own country.
The train from Albany, n. Y, due at
Glens Falls at O'Clock last Friday went
through the bridge over the Glens Falls
feeder to the Champlain canal, eighty
rods north of Fort Edward. The engine
passed over, but the baggage and passen-
ger cars went down into the water a to-
tai wreck. About 20 passengers were
aboard. The killed are Dallas Crippen
and Mrs. Michael Monahin, of Glens
Falls, and Mr.. Wincop, of Gloversville.
Fifteen other passengers were more or
less injured, some seriously. Every per-
son on the train was injured except Ed
die White, of Lake George, the newsboy.