Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-08
General News items.

Over $4,000 women have registered on
the Boston check lists.
Russell Sage has bought another rail
road the Arkansas & Texas.
Five men of Ogdensburg, N. Y, were
drowned in the st. Lawrence river, Sep
TENDER %, by the sinking of a sailboat.
An abandoned part of the Washington
coal mine at Plymouth, Penn, caved in
recently, carrying down five acres of land.
The Canadian government is taking
measures to protect its whale fisheries
from the depredations of New England
whalers.
Pitcher, the bank defaulter of Provi-
dence. R. l., was sentenced, Saturday, by
the court of the queens bench at Montreal
to seven years Imprisonment.
Two more women have been murdered
near the scene of the former butcheries
at Whtechapel, England. This makes
six persons who have recently been muir
dered in that locality.
A conflict has taken place between Guy
Chickasaws in Indian Territory. Guy
was counted out, but took posses sion of
the capital by force.
Trouble is brewing among the knights
of Labor in Chicago, over the election of
! George Schilling, socialist as delegate
to the national assembly at indianapolis
this month
w. r. Foster, Jr., counsel for the New
York produce exchange, has disappeared,
having defrauded the gratuity fund Of the
exchange out of Sl6S, 900 or more by
means of forged mortgages.
A United States revenue officer shot
Mexican editor, CARA, at Rio Grande,
Texas, and mob of MeXicans took pos
session of the place, but was suppressed
by a sherif"s posse.
Prairie fires have ragged of late in Da-
kota Between Lamoure and jamestown
strip fifty miles wide was burned over.
Hundreds of small farmers sustained loss
es ranging from 500 to $1,000.
The notorious lone highwayman" of
Texas, who has terrorized the region
about Kenville for the past two years, has
been shot and killed in Bandero county
by a woman, Mrs. Lizzie Hay, whose
house he had entered.
At a conference of the miners at Man
chester, $50, 900 miners represented, it
was decided to strike Oct. 20, unless the
demand for advance of ten per cent is ac-
coded to. 1t was also decided not to ac
cept the advance unless it was general
w. Taylor and S. w. Armistead, grad
yates of the United States naval academy,
who were admitted as private students of
marine engineering at the Royal naval
college at Greenwich, have acquitted
themselves with great credit, Taylor tax
ing first place and Armistead fifth.
The National W. C. T. Union will hold
its annual meeting in New York, Oct. -
%. Among the most noted persons eX-
pected to be present are Mrs. Frances h.
Willard Mrs Mary \. Livermore, Mrs.
Mary H. Hunt, Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop,
Gen. Clinton b. Fisk and Il great many
other prominent persons. The conven-
ton is sure to possess features of inter
est TO the puDllc greater Glldu eNel ooAOiS'
The post-ofiice department is soon to
have a new style of postal cards. 1t is
very much like a double card of the pres
ent pattern. The back folds are split dl-
agonally aud open out like a four-pointed
star. The four corners are folded and
Joined in the center, when the card is
ready for mailing, with piece of gum
med paper. The card weighs less than
half an ounce, and will contain no more
writing than the present card, the only
advantage being greater privacy.
Neglect kills injuries; revenge increas-
es them. A neglected cold increases Its
injurious effects on the system till con-
sumption finally kills, unless cured by
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