Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-31

duction in freight rates on corn, for the
benefit of Nebraska farmers.
The stuffed body of Jumbo, Barnum's
famous elephant, was received at Tufts
College, Medford, Mass, last week, and
was placed in the Barnum museum.
The legislative committee appointed
to examine the accounts of eX-State
Treasurer Hemingway of Mississippi re-
ports that the treasurer has not account
ed for 1851 ,612.
The court of appeals of New York has
affirmed the judgement of the court be-
low in the Kemmler murder case, declar-
ING that the electrical execution act is
constitutional and holding that no error
was committed in the trial of the accus-
ed.
Fire at Meredith, N. H., last week
Thursday, destroyed the "Old Hotel"
building, A. B. Chette's store building,
occupied by Moulton&Roberts, general
merchandise, and partially burned the
Congregational church. j. Q. Duncan's
dwelling and the Sherman House were
slightly damaged.
Mrs. Margaret Shepherd of Boston lect-
ured at York, Penn, last week Tuesday
night, on ''The Romish priesthood expos
ed-shall they control our public schoolsF
On leaving the hall, accompanied by her
husband, she was hit by stone thrown
by Victor Segnor. An officer shot at Seq
nor, who started to run, the ball hitting
him in the left side and coming out near
| the heart.
| Laconia, n. H., March 27.-The effects
| of Gov. Goodell's temperance proclama-
tion were shown here today in the report
of the grand jury TO the Supreme Court
! of IO5 liquor indictments, found mostly
against Laconia druggists and saloon
keepers This is the largest number OF
indictments ever returned here in crimi-
nal cases. a few of the indicted parties
are reported o be leaving town to night.
General George Crook died suddenly,
of heart disease, at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago, on Friday morning of
last week, at the age of sixty-one years.
At the time of his death he was in COM
mand of the department of the Missouri.
The funeral services were held at Chicago
on Sunday. FX-Presdent Hayes and Judge
Gresham represented the Loyal Legion.
Over five thousand persons viewed the
remains previously to the services. The
interment was at Oakland Maryland.
Memphis, Tenn, March 27. The low
lands of Mississippi and Arkansas seem
to be doomed. Levees are continually
breaking, and the floods are practically
beyond control. Work on the crevasse at
Arkansas City has been suspended, which
means devastation for that section. Soon
after the breaking of the levee at Skip
with, yesterday, a leading citizen, stand
ing in four feet of water, and holding his
child on his shoulders, telephoned an ap-
peal for a skiff and boats to rescue the
drowning people. He had seen two of his
neighbors drown close to him, and eX'
pected that many more would suffer the
same fate. He claims that the people liv-
ing in the country cannot escape. Repeat
ed warnings have had no effect on them,
htsh thslXe 6flt secGIe gre behind S their big leyee
melting like a snow bank. Rescuing part
les in boats and skifs have been organic
ed at various points. The negroes in the
bottoms are panic Sticken and many oi
them will be drowned Live stock will b'
drowned by the thousand, rs no provision
has been made for removing them, an'
the Government boats patrollng tn
banks can do no more than rescue tn
human lives.