Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-09-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The receipts of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way for the week ending Aug. %, were
S342, 432 as against S375,667 in the CORE
spending week last year, decrease of
1913, 235.
The cholera is at present doing more
deadly work in Italy than in France, al
though the deaths in the southern depart
ments of France appear to number about
twenty to thirty a day.
A dangerous counterfeit silver dollar
has made it's appearance in different parts
of New England. 1t is very neatly exc
cuted, has good ring and appearance,
but can easily be detected by weighing,
as it is flfty-four grains lighter than the
standard.
Saratoga hotels are over-run with peo-
pie who board at the dollar-a-day houses
and pick their teeth on the piazzas of the
big hotels. A very strict system of in
spection to keep those 'sguests" out of
the piaZzas and grounds has been adopt
ed but the annoyance is only partly over
come.
Monday, Aug IL, was the hottest day
experienced in London, England, for
twenty years. At the Crystal Palace the
thermometer registered 971a degrees in
the shade. In the city it was so. Fatal
cases of sunstroke occurred in many
parts of the country, and the heavy thun-
der storms proved very destructive
BY tornado near Sioux Falls, Dakota,
on Thursday last, a farmer named Briggs
lost thirty cattle, three horses and his
house and out-buildings. A man named
McKillay and a span of mules which he
was driving were killed a few miles far
ther north Near Diana four dwellings
and several other buildings were wreck
ed and several other persons are report
ed to have been killed.
No part of the tidings of extreme heat
in Canada and northern New England APP
peals more strongly to the mind than the
statement of infant mortality in Montreal.
Crops may wither, brooks dry away,
trees die and strong men fall under the
SUMS power without affecting some peo-
pies sympathies, but it is q hard heart
| that is unmoved by the report that out OF
12e deaths in Montreal in week, 81 were
of children under five years of age.
Judge Jacob H. Ella, fifth auditor Of
of the treasury, or postal auditor, died a
| Washington Thursday of last week O
| erysipelas. His home is in Rochester, N
H., where he was born in 1920. He snc
cessively edited the Statesman the Heralt
| Of Freedom, and the INDEPENDENT Demo
scaa5, was appointed United States marsh
al of the state by Mr.. Lincoln, and was ;
member of the fortieth and forty first con
crosses. He was appointed to his pres
ent office in 1872.
Mrs. Celia Victor, an aged widow, re
siding several miles east of Shelby vile
Ind, her daughter, Mrs. Trees, and two
/ year-old granddaughter were discovers
in the most terrible agony by a passin
stranger recently and, on medical aid be
ing summoned, it was found that the
were suffering from arsenical poisoning
An investigation revealed the awful blul
der made by Mrs. Trees in preparln
breakfast by using two spoonfuls of Al
senic in the biscuits thinking it was bal
ing powder, the arsenic used for poison
ing rats having been put in baking pow
der box and placed with the other article
used in cooking. The child died ten mil
utes after the physician arrived. Antidott
were administered to the others, but
was too late. 81s 9a8
Governor Crosby, of Montana, says Il
special agent sent to inquire into the CO.
dition of the Piegan Indians, found tn
+, these Indians, about two thousand
I number, are dying from starvation at Il
. rate of one a day. The men and wom'
are gaunt and spnitless and the childr,
are emaciated. They are all so weaken
: by the lack of Sufficient food for the la
D two years that dreadful suffering a
: many deaths, must occur shortly. L
: appropriations for this year only perm
o the agents 30 issue. weekly two pounds
beef and tlFee pounds of -four, the lat
of bad qpaity entirely inadequate
= lowaAee. The governor calls upon
Il secretary OF the interior to assume the
n sponsibility Of issuing full rations III
= congress saeasss in December.