Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-04-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Grand Jury to-day, April 21st, re-
turned true bills against Cunningham and
Burton for treason-felony. In these re-
turns the Grand Jury commended the po
lice management of the case against the |
prisoners. These were London dynamiters. |
Government dispatches confirm the re-
port of Fort Pitt having fallen into the |
hands of the Indians under Big Bear and |
the killing of two mounted policemen.
1t if said tina. over 200 persons occupied
the fort, most of the number having gone
there for protection.
The latest returns of the national banks
show that the specie holdings thereof
have increased nearly 100000, 900 in eight
cen months. During the same period
the circulation of the banks has fallen off
$3.50, 900, OOO-the circulation now out
standing being only $275,000,000.
| Dispatches received at London on the
| afternoon of April % state that a terrible
volcanic eruption has occurred at Passar-
vean, province on the east end of the
island of Java. A number of plantations
| have been devastated, and it is feared
that fully hundred persons have been
killed.
terrible tragedy took place at Green
witch, Ct, recently Barclay Johnson,
SOD of prominent railroad lawyer, j.
Augustus Johnson, while walking in the
woods with his mother and sister, shot
and killed them both and then killed him
self Mrs. johnson was shot in the back
of the head, the sister in the mouth after
an apparent struggle and again in the eye.
After the double tragedy johnson placed
the revolver to his right eye and sent q
bullet through his brain. He was insane.
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man, April
%, says: can Indian, who arrived at
Glechen yesterday, and who left Fort Pitt
week ago, gives an account of the cap
ture of the fort and the fight between the
Indians and the police which bears MARKS
, OF truthfulness. The Indians, he says,
, surrounded Fort Pitt two weeks ago and
tried to burn the fort in which the police
, and a few residents were intrenched. The
police fired upon them from loopholes in
the fort This infatuated the redskins,
who tore down the palisade and fired
upon the fort in return, with what result
! they could not tell. Four Indians had
been killed by bullets from the police,
a and as there appeared little prospect of
capturing the fort the Indians retired, de-
| +orr,;,oJ upop uanUaapon Durip0 tbo
t following night, when all was quiet, they
surrounded the fort, and creeping stealth
: lily up to it, suddenly burst open the doors
;, and rushed in. the fort was found to be
empty, and just then several members oil
the band ran up and told them that the
= police and the inhabitants had embarked
y on the post boat, which is always kept al
the fort The Indians then ran down to
the river and at once attacked the police
. yho fought we'll number of then
;, were killed, hut the Indian could not say
how many The rest escaped in the boa
and started down the river, but the Indiar
IL feels sure they must have been all killed
L as the band pursued them along the rive
o bank, firing at them at every opportuni
al ty. The police were unable to return tn,
le fire, as their ammunition had given out
The Indian further stated that in the fgh
~ on the river bank eight Indians had Leel
II killed and four wounded. He could nc
!. say how many of the police were killed
, as those who escaped in the boat took tn
Is bodies of their comrades, either alive O
dead, with them.