Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-04-16
General News Items.

Many fields of sugar-cane in Cuba were
burned recently, and large number of
cattle persisted in the flames.
One of three large buildings occupied
by the Walter Haywood chair factory at
Fitchburg, Mass, burned last Friday
night, causing loss of about $150,000.
As number of children were trying
to pump water from a well on the out
skirts of Palmyra, O.. the planks on which
they stood gave way, Is of the children
fell into the well, containing five feet of
water, and one of them was drowned.
The total debt of the United States at
the present time is 81 ,202, 454, 714.S2. If
any one will be generous enough to wipe
OF the first figure, we pledge ourselves to
remove the last two. We are anxious to
see the national debt paid.-LOaoeH Mail.
John A. Logan, son of the late senator,
recently shot riotous italian striker at
the Carbon limestone quarries, of which
he is the superintendent, was arrested
and taken before a magistrate at New
castle, Pa. The bullet from Logan's re-
volver carried away one of the Italians
knee caps.
Heavy thunder showers in Pennsylva-
mia recently sent the Susquehanna river
over it's banks. Fifty timber RATS broke
loose at Lock Haven and drifted down
the river, causing widespread damage.
Lightning struck and destroyed several
houses and barns and killed considerable
stock.
From the edition of Geo. P. Rowell &
Co.'S american Newspaper Directory"
published April I'd (its twentieth year,,
it appears that the newspapers and peri
odicals of all kinds issued in the United
States and Canada, now number 1870
showing gain of $50 during the last II
months and of 7,136 in 10 years.
Senator and Mrs. Morrill, issued
cards for an at home Saturday evening.
The annual reception in honor of the
birthday of the senior senator of the SEN
ate is one of the pleasantest events of the
year. says a Washington correspondent.
Senator Morrill, celebrated his seventy
eighth birthday on Saturday. He has
been in the senate about 81 years.
In consequence of the uncertainty as to
the duration of the steadily spreading
railroad strike in the North Central
states, it has been decided to postpone
the meeting of the Anti-Saloon Republic
an National Conference two weeks. The
new date is Wednesday, May 2, at IL a.
M, and the sessions, which will continue
through two days, will be held in Cooper
Institute in New York City.
Gen. Quincy A. Gilmore, who COM
manded the tenth army corps in the re-
bellion, died in Brooklyn Saturday morn
ing. He was a native of. Ohio and grad
uate of West Point. His chief military
achievements during the war were the in
vestment and reduction of Fort Pulaski,
and he erection of the Notifications in
Charleston harbor for the reduction of
Forts Wagner and Sumpter and the bonn
bardment of Charleston.
Over a score of persons were killed
and upward of hundred seriously injur-
ed during the burning of a plaza at Celaya
Mexico, on a recent Sunday. The fire
was set by one of number of prisoners
who had obtained permission from the
authorities to attend a bull fight which
was in progress. During the panic many
people were knocked down, gored and
trampled on by the bulls, which broke |
from their stalls, and ran amuck through |
the crowd.