Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-08-05
General News Items.

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A coal-mine in the Togoma district
Japan, was flooded last week, and for
ty-seven miners were drowned.
Preparations have been completed
to place 600 Russian troops in two
| army corps on the frontiers of Man
| churia and Corea, besides sending 12,
600 men by transport service to Vlai-
vostook. West Siberian and Turkestan
divisions will be ready within month
to operate on the frontier of Man
churia.
Owing to the drouth and drying up
of pastures and the running of the hay
crop in the northern counties of the
Province of Ontario, many farmers
are feeding leaves of trees to cattle,
while others are obliged to shoot their
cattle to prevent starvation. The
farmers will petition the Dominion
government to bring hay from the
northwest, as without government aid
it will be impossible to keep their
stock during the winter.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in
the Craig Road collision on the Grand
Trunk railroad, by which Is persons
were killed and 20 others injured, has
been rendered. The jury is of the OPP
inion that the collision was due to
carelessness and incompetency on the
part of the employees. The fact was
brought out during the investigation
that Engineer Mcleod of the fatal
train had supplied himself literally
with beer at Athabraska station be-
fore taking charge of his engine.
During violent thunder storm at
Westphalia, Germany last Friday, an
explosion of fire. damp and coal dust
occurred in the PrinZ Won Preussen
mine, which is $50 metres in depth. 30
dead and II I'M ured men were found
in the pit, but the total number of
deaths is not yet known, as the pit has
not been fully explored. Hundreds of
the wives, children and other relatives
of the dead, injured and missing men
congregated about the mouth of the
pit, and their cries and lamentations
were most heartrending.
A railroad accident, by which II
persons lost their lives and % were
red last week near st. Brieuc, depart
ment of Cotes Du Nord, France. A
train heavily laden with pilgrims who
were returning from the shrine of st.
Dauray was in some manner, unex-
planned, thrown from the track and
several cars were wrecked. Assistance
was speedily sent to the scene and
verifying possible was done to re
lieve the sufferings of the injured. The
dead were taken to St. Brieuc.
An accident in which 40 soldiers
were killed occurred recently on the
road running from Kobe to Osaka,
Japan. A train of % cars was convey
ing to Kobe 400 Japanese soldiers who |
were returning from China, where |
they had taken part in the military
operations. A heavy storm was rag
ing, and as the train was running |
along the sea wall, on which the |
tracks, as they approach the city, are |
laid. an immense sea leaped over the
wall, separating the train and derail-
ing the engine and IL cars, which /
off the wall into the bay.
Most of the men in the derailed cars
were drowned like rats in trap.
Silver City, New Mexico, was visit
ed recently by the most destructive
washout in it's history The loss is es-
timated at S15O,OO0. The town is To-
Gated on the side of a hill and in
gulch A cloud burst above it, and,
almost without warning, a tremen-
dous avalanche Of water swept over
the town from several points. Pro-
badly half the business part was wash
ed away, and in the main street the
sand and debris were piled up to the
windows of the houses. The post-of
fee building was destroyed, and the
fremont, Thinner and Broadway Ho-
tells were wrecked. In fact, houses
tumbled down all over town. Gillette
& Son lost $4,000 worth of stock.
Bridges were washed away, and five
miles of Santa Fe track was torn up.
The convention of the representa-
tives of the boards of agriculture and
cattle commissioners of the several
New England States states held an
other meeting last Friday in Boston,
and perfected permanent organiza-
ton by electing the following officers:
President, DR.. F. Ell. Osgood, Boston;
secretary and treasurer, @. M. Wins
low, Brandon, Vt. executive COM
mittee, John M. Deering, Sacome,
V. I. Spear, Braintree, VT, @. A. Den
men, Massachusetts, N. j. Batchelder,
New Hampshire, Obadiah Town,
Rhode Island, Clifton Peck, Connect
cut. The purpose of this organization
is to arrive at some definite under
in regard to handling bovine
and, to do this to the
best advantage, united action was
advisable.