Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-11-26
General News items.

Exte nsive prairie fires are raging in
Dakota, but as the wind has gone down
they will be kept under control.
There are ugly rumors from Chicago
and other western cities that anarchism
is reviying. SO it seems the ''snake was
only scotched, not killed"
Twenty-Five hundred iron workers at
Pttsburg have struck against the change
in the hours of labor, made .necrssary by
the scarcity of natural gas during the day
time.
A train of seven coaches on the Rich
mond and Danville railway jumped the
track caught fire from the car stove and
totally consumed. Eight passengers were
injured.
r. S. Knight of Milton Falls, n. H, be-
came missing November 6, aud Tuesday
his body was found in the river at Great
Falls. 1t is supposed be was accidental
ly drowned
The London chief of police, General
Warren, offers free pardon to the accom-
plices of the Whltcchapel murderer if
they will furnish evidence which will. lead
to his conviction.
On the 9th inst a seven-story factory
in Rochester was burned, and fifteen lives
were lost, most of the victims jumped from
the third and fourth stories. The pecun-
larry loss was $3.50, 900; insurance, $780,
900.
A cattle train of twenty-five cars went
through bridge on the Missouri Pacific
railway. The engine and ten cars were
completely wrecked, one hundred cattle
killed, many crippled, and the engineer
fatally hurt.
The yellow fever scOurge in the South
is nearing its end. The quarantine against
Jacksonville and other cities has been
raised and physicians think it safe for
citizens to return For the first time in
three months passenger train left Jack
sonvile, Thursday, but the passengers
were locked in anu not allowed to leave
until reaching Macon.
Oscar Huffman, a timer working on
the roof of an ice house at Sycamore and
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the hatchway, a distance of ten feet, and
was instantly killed. Two hours later
Adolph Nishaus, another timer, went in
search of Huffman, not knowing he was
dead and fell through the same hatchway
and received fatal injuries
The census of Bulgaria and eastern
Roumelia, just taken, gives the popula-
ton of the two principalities as being
3,154,375. Bulgarian proper 2,326, 25O:
Turkey, 607,O0O; Greeks, IS 900; Gyp-
sizes with no fixed residence, $4,000; and
Jews, %. 400 There has been considera-
BILE increase in the population the last ten
years.
W w. Drummoud, who dropped dead
in Chicago, in a low west side groggery,
rece ntly, was Supreme Judge of the Ter
ritory of Utah during Pierce's admins
tration. Pleasant Edgerton, dissolute
woman, caused his ruin. He became es-
tranged from his family and an outcast
from society, and fell to the lowest grade
of human existence
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