Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
General News Items.

ed Adowa in Abyssinia to Ras Man.
gascia and the Abyssinian forces.
A despatch from Algiers says that
the small French steamer Bellero-
phon was wrecked and 80 passengers
were drowned.
The Hamburg American Steamship
company have definitely adopted Ply
mouth, Eng, as port of call, instead
of Southampton.
The twenty eighth annual conven-
ton of National Womans' Suffrage
Association assemblies at Washington,
D. c., January 1928.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Berlin over the crisis in the Transvaal,
and the attitude of Great Britain is
denounced upon all sides.
Yellow fever is raging at Santiago,
Cuba. Officers and privates in the
army are dying so rapidly that the
government has forbidden the publ
cation Of the death rate.
Twenty one locomotives were start
ed for Russia from the Baldwin Loco
motive Works, Philadelphia, Monday.
the first consignment of engines from
the United States to that country.
The Cologne Gazette says that Ger
many has sent an official inquiry to
Great Britain as to what steps are to
be taken by the British government
in regard to the invasion of the Trans
vaal by the British South Africa COM
pany.
One of the richest heiresses in the
world is Lady Mary Hamilton Dou-
glass, the eleven year old daughter
of the late Duke of Hamilton, whose
income is now about f160,000 a year,
and will be we'll above f200,0 by the
time she is of age.
Advices have been received from
Pretoria that 800 more armed men of
the British South African company
have crossed the Transvaal frontier.
The government, the dispatches
say, is resolved to drive back the
intruders by force.
The London Standard says in con-
nectiOn with the new American loan:
'SThe loan is a mere raising of money
to enable the United States to main
tain an appearance of sOlvency. AS it
prolongs the present financial system
it must end in debasing the currency.
L
agantly cheap at par"
Gladstone celebrated his seth birth
day last Sunday. Many of the Liber-
al clubs throughout the United King
dom telegraphed congratulations to
sidence in Chester, from which place
the messages were forwarded to Bia-
ritz, France, where Mr.. Gladstone has
gone for the benefit of his health.
Two survivors of the Crimean war
have recently died one, William Drake
Colson, in London, the other, William
Light Brigade during it's historic
charge and earned various medals for
bravery. Colson had two horses shot
from under him, but escaped without
scratch. Bennett had been a cap
tain on the Great Lakes for the last
sixteen years.
The most interesting school boy in
San Francisco in all probability is the
little grandson of the late King Grieg,
of Washington Islands. King Grieg |
used to make frequent visits to San
Francisco and Honolulu. But on his |
island home, which was his by right of |
he spent his life manufac-
turing copra. His son, George B.
Grieg, is the present ruler.
On Saturday evening at Old Front
street theater, Baltimore, $500 He
brews were assembled, when the cry
Of fire rang out, and the panic striken
crowd started for the exits, rushing.
jamming and crushing each other.
to death a score of people.
Not since the awful Tivoli disaster in
1888 has Baltimore bad such a hor-
rible tragedy. The fire was discover
ed to be nothing except leak in one
Of the gas pipes which caught afire
out was Immediately extinguished,
however too late to check the panic
stricken mob in its terrible destruc-
lion.
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