Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-17
General News Items.

The gold reserve at Washington,
July II increased $500, 1898, the total
amount being $97, 1886, 575.
The storm of July at Madison, Wis,
played havoc with the railroads in
that vicinity. 1t caused washout on
the Northwestern road and the trains
Of Madison were tied up all day.
There are other washouts in several
sec tions, bridges and culverts being
gone, and traffic is suspended.
The Troy Steel and Iron Company's
big plant at Beaker Island, just above
Albany, n. Twas shut down Monday
for an indefinite period. One thous-
and men were thrown out of work.
The company also controls the Albany
Iron W orks, the Bessemer Steel Works,
the Rensselaer, Rail Mill and the Mer-
chant Mill, all of which will be shut
down Monday.
The impressions in Paris, derived
! from the questions put from time to
time by the Behring sea arbitrators
during the course of the long argu-
ment, is that the arbitration will re-
suit in a decision recognizing the
property right of the United States
in the seals to a more Or less limited
degree, and recommending some in
dSIO0u1OuU IOr U00 DTOU0C-
ton of seal life.
The Chamberlin Investment COM
pany, the largest in the West, closed
its doors July 10. Liabilities, direct
and contingent, So, 1862, lis; assets, 49,,
100000. The failure was brought
about by an attachment sworn out by
the president of the Denver Savings
bank for $1,000 on which he held Sc
curities greatly in excess of the
amount. The vice president of the
company is located in London, where
three quarters of the liabilities will
fall. The company has other fixed
offices in New York, Fort Worth, and
San Antonio, Tex.
Mail advices received recently at
OaXaca, Mexico, from the state of
Chiapas state that pre- historic city
has been discovered in the dense for
ests near the line of Guatemala. A
party of men were engaged in MAX
ing excavations when they first came
upon the ruins. A great many queer
looking utensils, weapons and stone
ornaments have already been un
earthed in the city. In one of the
buildings have been found the skele
tons of several human beings. The |
skeletons measure from feet to
8 feet in height. No sign of metal of |
any kind has yet been discovered.
Oakah E. Netteton, living in Brook
line, Mass. and doing business in Bos-
in insolvency July IL. His liabilities
amount to $41 900 and his assets are
certain shares of stock pledged as
collateral to notes of SIG, 0OOsin Wells
River (Vt.) bank and an interest in
the syndicate controlling So lots of
land at Cardiff. Tenn. Among the
creditors are @. G. Bingham of ST.
Johnsbury, VT, $1,000; S. A. Nelson,
ST. Johnsbury, $2450; William M Nor
gan, Wheelock, $1544s Frank Palmer,
Peacham, $3.50; DR.. Perkins, St.Johns
bury, s725; George @. Leslie, cashier
Wells River, $1S, 900, DIR. Warren, ST. /
Johnsbury, 1915; Flint Brothers, st. /
Johnsbury, $500; Walter P. Smith,
st. Johnsbury, $500. ~
Further details have been received /
at Cando, N. D., of the murder near
there. The community was startled |
July by the arrival of Miss Anna /
Kreider, whose father resided on /
farm one and a half miles from Can
do, but partially dressed and almost I
frantic, with the startling announce
ment that her fathers family had
been butchered by the hired man.
Citizens who hurried to the home
stead found an awful spectacle of |
wholesale butchery The father, lying
in his bed, the mother in the kitchen
where she had been preparing break
fast, three girls, aged RESPECTIVELY
thirteen, eleven and nine years, and
one seven-year- old boy lying stiff and
stark where they had fallen from the
wounds inflicted by double barrel
ed shotgun in the hands of Albert |
Bomberger a farm hand. Bomber
ger was a distant relative of the fami-
ly, who had been in Kreider's employ
about nine months.