Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-20
General News Items.

| The general missionary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal church, at
| it's annual session last week in Mime
apolis, appropriated 81, $50, 900 for do
nestle and foreign missions for the
ensuing fiscal year.
John 3. Drake, treasurer of the In
| diana Illinois and Iowa railroad, was
| sandbagged and robbed OF $40, 900 in
his office on the ninth floor Of the
Rookery building, in Chicago, at Z
O'Clock, on the morning of Nov. Is.
| The thieves escaped.
4 hunting party from Spokane,
Wash, is showed in at the head of
Clearwater river, IN the Bitter Root
mountains, and it is feared they have
persisted. There is fully six feet Of
snow in that region at the present
time, and the relief party that has
been sent out can make but little pro-
gress.
It is reported from Madrid that FL
nance Minister Gamazaho has return
ed from Santander. He says that
among the buildings wrecked by the
explosion aboard the steamer Cabo
Machicaco were the governors Offices,
the custom house, the courts Of JUS
tice, the mining department and the
prisons, besides private property val
ued at u, 800, 900. Eighty persons are
still missing. About 250 were killed
and 400 were wounded.
AT II O'Clock Saturday night, Nov.
10, the home Of Phil Evans, the CON
victed negro rapist of Bardstown, KY,
two miles in the woods back of Sam
uel Station, was blown up with dyna-
mite. The aged mother of Evans, his
wife and daughter, though known to
have retired Saturday night, are no
where to be found, and there is every
reason to believe that they are blown
to atoms. The better element Of the
county denounce the action as an out
rage, and they threaten to mob the
perpetrators, even if the family es-
capped. Evans said yesterday that he
did not want another trial, because he
was afraid they would mob him.
The Iron Trade ReU6eaU says there is
an improved conditionin the iron and
steel market in consequence of the
election results.
Since the repeal of the Sherman sill
yer bill, not less than five OF the larg-
est iron mines in Lake Superior range
have resumed operations or given no
tice Of their intentions to do so.
Claims aggregating 81, 900, 900 have
been forwarded to Ottawa By Collect
or Of Customs Milne on behalf of Brit
ish Columbia sealers to be presented
against the Unit q States under arbi
tration arrangements.
Greenlander beat the worlds stallion
record to q wagon at Terre Haute, In
diana, Friday by going mile in 2: AL.
The record was made by Alierton in
2:15. Allerton trotted the mile liz an
old fashioned wagon. Greenlander
drew a four wheeled wagon.
Tho rarYe o7.Iy bJa Of cb
if selling nearly an entire city for
debt was presented in Charleston, w.
Virginia, Wednesday, when 5000 lots
in KanaWha City were sold for taxes.
The president has appointed JScott
Harrison, brother of ex President
Harrison, surveyor Of customs for the
port Of Kansas City, Mo.
The president has made another
sudden and unexpected change in his
plans, having abandoned "Woodley''
and resumed the occupation of the
White House. 1t is said that he is
now permanently installed in the ex
ecutive mansion for the winter.
The new United States gun beat Co
lunbia in a recent trial test made over
% knots an hour and is one of the
fastest vessels afoat. She will be
armed for commerce destroying pur-
poses By the burning of a school
house in Cooperville, n. Y. the teach
e er and two boys were burned to death.
The teacher could have saved herself,
but lost her life in trying to save the
children Louis F. Menage, the
wrecker of the Northwestern Guaran-
ty Loan Co. is said to be in Guatama-
Ia, and steps are being taken to obtain
his extradition. His stealings prove
to have been about 81, 100000.