Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-22
General News Items.


General News Items.
Mr.. Lincoln, the United States minister,
and his wife are the guests of the Queen
at Windsor.
John L. Sullivan is said to have been
seen last Tuesday night in West Superior, |
where he was waiting an opportunity to
get into Canada.
Arrangements have been completed at
Chicago for the expectation of an unusu-
ally large number of cattle within the
next three or four months.
Claus Spreckles announces that he will
open his mammoth sugar refinery in Phil
adelphia, September l, with capacity OF
1000, 900 pounds Of sugar day.
A shock of earthquake was felt last
week on the island of Arran and the main
land of Scotland. The shock was so Sc
we're that houses were violently shaken.
A collision occurred at Grenoble, near
Paris, last Monday between passenger
train and goods train on the Paris, Ly-
ons & Mediterranean railroad. Twenty
persons were killed or wounded.
The engagement of Mr.. Emmons Blaine
and Miss Anita Mccormick, the second
daughter of the late c. II. Mccormick, OF
reaper fame, is announced. Miss Nc
Cormick is a beautiful and accomplished
girl of twenty-three, and has been a great
favorite in Chicago society. She will
have a fortune of $4,000, 900 or more in
her own right.
The Emperor of Brazil attended the
atrical performance at Rio Janeiro last
week. As His Majesty was leaving the
theatre at the conclusion of the perform
ance a Portuguese fired shot from re-
volver at him. The bullet, however,
missed the Emperor and he sustained no
injury whatever. The woud-be assassin
was taken into custody.
London has been greatly startled by
another horrible murder, thought to be
committed by the butcher of fallen wom-
en-, known as "Jack, the Ripper" The
BODY of a woman mutilated In the usual
Il
in Castle Alley in the Whitechapel dis
trict Though the police have used every
means to apprehend the murderer no trace
of him has yet been found.
Arrivals at Wellington, Kan, last Tues
dav from the Cherokee strip reported
that Texas fever is playing havoc with
cattle there. Forty head were seen dead
in one pasture the day before, and in 9TH
ers from to 20 carcasses were lying
around. Hundreds of cattle, they say,
are diving in Oklahoma, and they predict
that not a hoof will be taken from there
to the North for some months.
The extensive French brewery at Fort
Wayne was burned Tuesday night. The
fire started in the bottling works. and be-
fore the fire department could reach the
brewery, which is located two miles be-
yond the city limits, the whole structure
was in flames. The total loss is estimated
at $3.50, 900, with only $4,000 insurance.
The day before an English syndicate tried
to get an option on the brewery for $4OO,
600. The establishment was the property
OF &. Il. CentlleVre
A sensational statement was made at
Johnstown last Monday by gentleman
who said that the diver who had eNamin-
ed the foundations of the stone bridge for
the Pennsylvania Railroad company had
made some startling discoveries. The
story is that the bottom of the Conemaugh
river near the bridge is full of dead bod
les and that probably hundreds are lying
there, one upon another, held down by
tons of wire that has been wrapped and
twisted into perfect mass of unknown
proportions.
The large stable of the Lowell Street
Railroad, In East Merrimack St., was
burned Wednesday night, with l2O horses,
about 80 cars, four carloads of hay and
one carload of straw 400 bushels Of oats,
besides tools and other material. The
Hotel Belmont, on one side of the stable,
was damaged somewhat, and boarding
house over the stable was gutted. Be-
sides this several families in Howe and
Davidson Sts., back of the stable, were
burned out. The loss to the car company
Will be from SlOU,OUO W @INoSOOO'
The big bridge over the Thames river
at New London, Conn, will swing open
IN the shipping Of the world next month.
The new bridge is of steel, and, although
less than eight months ago the first blow
was struck for it, in a few weeks travel
, ers between New York and Boston will
; he whirled over it as fast as the Shore
Line trains can carry them, and New
London's Objectionable ferry transit VIII
be done away with. There are four spans
to the bridge, extending over a distance
of 400 feet on either side of the river
The great swing draw, which exceeds In
size any ever built, is now being com
pleted. 1t is 5O2 feet in length, with O
clear water way of 225 feet on either side
of the water pier when thrown open.
Atlanta, the Queen City of Georgia
will celebrate for a week, in October th'
25th anniversary of its rise from Its fall
1t will be u unique celebration, c"mmec
inc Oct. 81. The rival generals Sherman
and Johnston will be there, and so will
. the President. who was with the Uniol
!, army when Atlanta fell. Speaking OF tn
proposed celebration, ex-Gov. Bullock O
a Georgia SAYS "The blue and the gra
n will shake hands and discuss In friendll
r ness the mighty deeds of the past. Their
4 will be floats in the procession represent
ing the battle OF Peach Tree Creek, IN
| death of Gems. Mcpherson and Walker
+ and many Incidents of the siege OF Altar
J. ia. People from all parts OF the state,th
'. South and the North are expected to a
rs tend.