Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-01-18
General News Items.

President Harrison's daughter, Mrs.
Mckee, has written her first article
1t, treats of ssThe Training of Chill
dren," and will be printed in the Feb
uary issue of The LADIES' Home Journal.
Judge Rising has denied Dr. Graves
motion for an arrest Of Judgment in
his case, and has sentenced him to be
hanged during the two weeks begin
ming on January 81.
A dispatch from Chicago, Jan, IL,
says: AS a terrific snow storm has
been raging for the past twelve hours
throughout the Northwest, all trains
to this city are greatly delayed.
Tewfik Pasha, khedive Of Egypt. is
dead at Cairo. The eldest son. born
| in 1874, succeeds him. The khedive
died from an overdose of morphine,
administered by a native physician
A paper srom San Francisco states
that j. Malcolm Forbes of Boston, has
agreed to pay Senator Stanford $780,,
600 for AriOn, the tWo-year- old Elec-
tioneer colt, who made the worlds
record of :1034 on the Stockton kite
track few months ago.
An eminent Russian officer said last
week in relation to the starvation in
Russia: "The present famine is the
natural consequence Of thirty years.
bad management and will become
chronic. Sixteen or seventeen prov
inces are now suffering from want,
but next spring fifty provinces will be
in a state of starvation. The peasant
ry are PROSTATE in the face of this
terrible calamity that has befallen
them. But their apathy cannot last.
Risings may be expected. They
believe it to be the czar's duty to feed
them. [ heard them say: The czar
must feed us, and if he does not we
must choose another" Here is a
rather serious state of affairs.
An explosion occurred in the Krebs |
mine near McAllister, I. t., last Thurs
day. There were $50 men in the shaft |
the old entry, and forty-two were
saved by the shaft. At last report
223 of the miners were unaccouted for
A relief party worked all Friday to
make an opening in the mass of debris
that closed the shaft, but there was
little hope of saving the entombed.
The scenes about the mouth Of the
shaft were fearful. Weeping wives,
mothers and sisters focked to the
scene from the villages, their faces
blanched with dread, and many of
them hysterical to the point of insan-
ity.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American National Red Gross Society,
has issued statement to the Ameri
can people, calling attention to the
failure of the House to concur in the
Senate bill appropriating 100000 for
donations of grain and
other food from the Western states to
5he starving peasantry in Russia, de-
,laring that the contributions are to
De distributed among the sufferers by
jhe Red Cross branch of Russia, and
that the people of the East
contribute money to pay for trans
porting to Russia the gifts of the West.
Miss Barton estimates that 10000, 900
people are facing starvation in Russia.
4 letter from the Russian Charge
PAffaires appended to the statement
says that the Red Cross Society is re-
by the Russian Government
Is an acceptable medium for the dis
ribution Of the donations referred to.
A dispatch from London, Jan. IA,
ays: Cardinal Henry Edward Man
ling died this morning. His condi-
ion had been hopeless for many hours,
md it was hardly supposed thatuhe
would live through the night. He
continued, however to show signs of
and death came gradually.
Carly this morning he began to fail
apidly, but he was able to join de-
7outly in the prayers offered at his
'edside. At twenty minutes past sew
It eight o'clock. His death was calm
nd painless, and appeared like gen
lie sinking to sleep.