Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Orson Butler, the Plymouth fat boy
weighed 245 lbs, Nov. 18th, the day he
was II years old.
The price paid for 40 Spanish merino
lambs sold by f. D. Barton of Waltham
to an Australian party was 1000.
The two ends of the new Michigan
Central Cantilever bridge across Niagara
river, below the falls, have been perma-
nently connected.
The San Tornado cotton factory in
Mexico, was destroyed by fire on the
18th inst. Five operatives were burned
to death. The loss is 100000.
At Scranton, o., Monday Sam. Henry
shot and killed his wife and tried to kill
her daughter, Mrs. Liba. He then shot him
year.
Two thousand men on Monday, added
to the army of idlers at Pittsburgh, max
ing ten thousand in all who have, within
a week, been thrown out of employment
by the shutting down of the iron mills.
Suit has been brought in the United
States circuit court by the New Hamp-
shire Land Company, a Connecticut cor
poration, to obtain possession of $4,000
acres of valuable timber land in New
Hampshire.
Jacob Crouch, 20 years of age and con-
sidered the wealthiest farmer in Jackson,
Mich, his daughter and her husband,
Henry White, and a visitor, named Moses
Hally of Transfer, Mich, were all found
dead in bed recently, evidently hav-
| ing been murdered.
Forty survivors of the two New York
| regiments which took part in the MeXi-
can war have decided to participate in the
| parade on Evacuation day and have invit
| ed all Mexican veterans of other states
now at New York to join them. It is ex-
pected that so survivors of the war will
be in the column.
The trotting horse Crank owned by
| James keenan,, of Boston, recently trotted
with running mate at Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, n. Y, one mile in 2:814 the
fastest time on record. The horse ''H
X. Winship" also with running mate,
made mile in 2l014. The ground was
frozen and the track is VIGOROUSLY slow,
so the performance is all the more ex-
traordinary.
A party of 35S Mormons arrived at New
York a few days since on the Guon
steamship Wisconsin. There were on
board also twenty returning Mormon
missionaries who have been laboring
abroad during the past two years. This
is the fifth party which has landed here
this year, making the total Mormon i'm
migration since last january 1900. OF
the last arrivals 12O are Scandinavians
while the others came from England
} Ireland and Wales. The majority are
5 males. There are about 100 children ii
theparty.
Heavy rains have swollen all the streams
in the vicinity of Indianapolis, and mos
of the northeastern part of the city is un
der water, covering the first floors ii
| VI Siiioil 1ni
e lumber-yards suffer heavily. The los
D will probably reach $3.50 ,000 The D. m
train was unable to reach the depot.
bridge at Cartersburg, Ind, on the Van
dalia railroad, has been washed away
The track of the Jeffersonville Madison
Il and indianapolis railroad is covered witt
water near Franklin, Ind, and train
t. cannot pass. Telegraphic communicable
/ south and west is seriously interrupted
The first reports of damage by the II
IS cent gale in Maine, gave but slight ide
W of the havoc wrought Many localitie
are yet unheard from, but enough ]
IS known to show that the calamity was {
d great magnitude. The greatest damaa
appeared to have been within belt som
If miles wide across Piscataquis county an
n northern Penobscot into Aroostook
Shirley it was very severe. 1t followe
down the Piscataqua valley, crossed I
!, the Katahdiniron works, through tt
:, gulf across Tonga and Indian township
III to the lower lakes, and thence to poll
near Patten. The loss is estimated
several hundred thousand dollars.
at CONSUMPTION CURED.