Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-07-01
General News items.

ACIICG dE aNCWS ElSIlSs
The sultan of Turkey has contributed
f2OO to the Johnstown relief fund.
The President has appointed William
Walter Phelps minister to Germany.
Forty-one houses were burned recently
in the town of Grinnell, Iowa, which was
entirely destroyed seven years ago by a
tornado.
The king of Holland, who had recover
ed sufficiently from his recent illness to
resume the reins of government, has had
a serious relapse.
The machinery hall of the Paris expo
sition is sufficiently capacious for a cav
airy regiment to be handled by the most
expert tactician.
There was q disastrous cave-out in
Pennsylvania coal mines near Wilkesbarre
recently. No lives were lost, but the
damage to property was great.
At the meeting OF the national demo-
cratic committee in New York, recently,
Calvin S. Brice was elected chairman, to
succeed the late William H. Barnum.
The Hamburg Correspondent asserts
that the relations of Germany with the
French government under President Car
not are better and more cordial than they
have been with any previous government
of France.
Commissioner of Pensions Tanner says
he has directed all pension agents to sup
ply him with list of all pensioners get
ting less than 81 per month. The com-
missio2er proposes to order all of those
named on the lists before a medical board
for examination.
Mr.. Pannell's appeal against the post
ponement of his libel suit against the
Times has been dismissed with costs.
The court decided that the delay in the
trial had not damaged Mr.. Parnell's char
acter, the Times having admitted the libel
and paid the money into court.
One-half of the city of Lachan, China,
was recently destroyed by fire. The con-
Migration ragged four days. 1t is estima-
ted that 200 persons were killed, most
of them being crushed to death in trying
to escape from the narrow streets. Ten
thousand persons are homeless and Il
fund has been started for the relief of the
sufferers.
Fifty persons have been poisoned at
WestZona, near Woodstock, p. O., at 4
picnic. A druggist had sold sugar of
lead instead of tartaric acid for making
lemonade. Fifteen are reported to be
dying. The others are considered out of
danger. A warrant has been issued for
the arrest of druggist, but he has taken
to the woods and is still at large.
The coroner's jury in the Cronin case de-
cided to hold Alexander Sullivan and the
three prisoners arrested for completely in
| the murder OF the doctor. Charles Nc.
Donald and John J. Moroney of New
York were arrested by Inspector Byrnes
on orders from Chicago, on charges of
completely in the murder. Both prison
ers acknowledge they are Clan-na-Gael
men. Sullivan has been released on $50,
900 bail.
L lie - trenton anu " aDudlld WHICH
were wrecked at Samoa last March, have
been abandoned by the government, and
their names will be stricken from the navy
list. All the valuables, including the bat
teries, have been recovered and now en-
route to San Francisco on the steamship
''Alameda" Admiral Kimberly and the re-
naming survivors are on board, and eX-
pect to reach this country about July 8.
The robbery of the First National Bank
of Atchlson, Kan, which occurred last
September, was disclosed last week. A
man entered the bank about noon, and tell
ing the cashier, who was alone, that some
one wanted te see him outside, went be-
hind the counter and helped himself to
$23, 900 in bonds and money. The matter
was kept quiet, and last March the secur-
tiles were recovered being handed over
in Denver by a go-between on terms not
disclosed.