Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-08
General News Items.

CHdrloy MlUcHou HAS cHdIloHSou
John Sullivan, and offers to bet ST, 900
that he will thrash the big brute
Baby Mckee, by Electioneer, Sena
tor Stanrord's two-year- old, was sold
at New York last week to j. S. Fer
guson of that city for $25, 900.
The large oil works of Borne,
j., we're burned last week. It was a
magnificent sight, but cost about
100000.
The debt statement issued at Wash
ington D. @. Feb. 1, shows decrease
during January in the interest and
non-interest bearing debt of 81, $685.
652, so. Cash balance in the treasury
January 81, 1892, $131, 1865, Ass, "a. De-
crease during the month, S3,205, $685.
rs.
A severe earthquake shock occur
red at $3.50 p. m. in Portland, Ore,
Feb. 4. Brick buildings shook and
windows ratified, terrifying the in
mates. The shock lasted about 80
done. The shock was also felt at As
tOria. et
The Richmond and Danville Off
cials are happy over the arrest of a
man who has confessed that he threw
the heavily laden passenger train off
the track of the Western railwaycof
North Carolina in September last,
near Statesville. Twenty lives were
lost in the wreck. ~
Dartmouth students have been
searching the famous Warden barns
at Hanover, N. H., with some ex-
pectation of finding man, believed
by the Wardens to be lurking about
Whereabouts with evil intent. The
family have received many threaten
ing anonymous letters.
Twenty-Five Hungarians sat eating
their lunch in a shanty at Honey
Brook, Pa, last Thursday. Near the
stove lay several sticks of the explo
sive known as daulin. Suddenly the
stuff exploded, manning all the men
and killing two outright. Two are
missing, and half dozen of the in
jured may live.
The United States Supreme Court,
at Washington, Feb. 1, upheld the
constitutionality of the recent anti
lottery act of the last Congress, af-
firming the decision in the case of
Deyne and Rapier, the publishers of
the New Orleans States and Mobile
Register, who were indicted on charg
es of sending through the mails news
papers containing lottery advertise
ments. By common consent the
cases were made test suits as to the
constitutionality of the law.
Charles w. Harris, young student
in New York, who had been charged
with having poisoned his wife, Helen
Potts, was Feb. 2 found guilty of muir
der in the first degree, after trial
lasting two weeks. On February 1,
1891, Helen Potts, daughter of veal
thy railroad contractor of Asbury
Park, who was in attendance at
fashionable boarding school in that
city, died after brief sickness. An
autopsy held on the body of the
young woman resulted in the discov-
cry that death was due to morphine
poisoning. Harris and Miss Potts
were secretly married, and the prose-
cution claimed that Harris feared the
fact would become known.
The excitement at Creole, COL, new
mining camp on the Rio Grand Rail
way is intense. People are focking
in from all parts of the country and
large city Of rough board houses has
sprung up in a short time. David FL.
Moffat, Feb. 2 was offered 81, 100000
by an English company to bond the
Holy Moses mine at Creole, but he
refused to do SO. Since the first pros
pect hole at Creole was started, nine
months ago, there has been $5,OOO,-
600 worth of ore taken from the min
es there, although everything is yet
undeveloped.