Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-01-02
General News Items.

John D. Rockefeller has made an
other big gift to the University of
Chicago. The sum is understood to
be about 81, 600, 900.
Dartmouth college has just received
the largest individual bequest, with
one exception,in its history. 1t comes
from the late Ralph Butterfield, NJ.
D., Of Kansas City. His estate is
worth $500, 900, all of which goes to
Dartmouth, excepting $4,000 which
is given to relatives and friends.
AT Long Island City, N. Y, Dec. IS,
a box of dynamite exploded in the
shaft sunk by the Long Island Tunnel
company for the new East river tun-
mel near the junction of Jackson and
Vernon avenues in that city. Three
persons were killed outright and.
three others have since died of inju-
ries, while 80 or 40 others are serious
" injured. Fire broke out in the ruins
at once and was still burning at 5
O'Clock this afternoon.
A horrible double murder and sui
eide was discovered at Worcester,
Mass, Dec. &c, about noon, in the up
per tenement of the building at 81
Taintor street. Henry G.. Varnum and
his little adopted daughter Florence
were found dead, his wife was nearly
dead when discovered and died on the
way to the hospital, and Mrs. Wright,
the mother of Mrs Varnum, now lies
at the hospital in critical condition,
unable to talk or indicate in any way
the story of the crime.
ssMr. Blaine still shows improve
ment' said DR.. Johnson, Dec. 2Sth, as
he left the bedside of Mr.. Blame. The
doctor has not yet admitted that Mr..
Blaine is affected with any specific
disease, nor will he talk about the
probability Of Mr.. Blaine's recovery.
There we're several callers at the
Blaine home Dec. %, as the interest
in Mr. Blaine's condition does not di
minish Notwithstanding the reassur-
ing tone Of the family bulletins. For
the past few days matters in the
household have resumed their normal
state AS long as Mr.. Blaine holds his
own the family are hopeful that his
life may be spared a long time.
The young men and young women
who aspire to obtain Academic or
College educations, and whose parents
cannot well afford them that expense,
will be in the work of The COsn1opol6-
ton Magazine, which has offered for
the year 1898 one thousand scholar
ships at any Of the leading colleges or
schools of the United States, upon the
condition Of introducing the maya
zines into certain neighborhoods.
Yale, Vassar, Harvard, Ann Arbor,
Chicago, the southern colleges, the
great schools of art and medicine, all
are alike open to the ambitious boy or
girl who is not afraid of a little earn
no
from it's New York Office handsome
ly printed pamphlet to any applicant,
telling just what is necessary in order
10 secure one of these scholarships.
! The scholarship itself includes board.
odging, laundry and tuition-all free.
New. York, Dec. 28.-W. r. Allen,
owner of the great trotter Kremlin,
has been nettled by the many state
record in the American Register the
two 2:O71a performances of STEAMBOAT,
because Of the fact that his
own stallion Kremlin has record of |
2:0734, which would be blotted out.
Allen now says that his horse Krem-
lin will be prepared next season to |
meet any trotting stallion on the /
earth, and, as Allen is man of bust |
ness, this is an excellent opportunity
for Hartman, owner of STEAMBOAT. |
and for the owners of other trotting
stations to come to the front. Tt is
quite likely, too, that they will. and
race with Kremlin, Nelson and Siam
ooul as the performers is not unlike
y. This race would settle the stallion
for year at any rate.
and it is likely that the contest. if ar,
will take place at Charter Oak
bark, Hartford.