Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-15
ALL AROUND The WORLD.
THURSDAY, NOV. 4.

from a balloon by means of a parachute.
Murtrie 1IcIkenna. widow, &C years of
age was found dead in bed at Sloats-
burg, y. Y, with her throat cut from
ear to ear
Edward S. Barker has been removed
from the agency Of the State Mutual
Life Assurance association because of
an alleged shortage in his accounts.
Kentucky's new legislature will ask
Senator Lindsay to resign, as he has said
il public he would not care to represent
g constituency with whose views on
finance he could not agree.
FRIDAY, NOV. 5.
Captain Briggs. prominent resident OF
Emroria, Va. SHOT himself dead.
TIE business part of Liberal, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire, entaiing a loss OF
$4,000.
-Four persons were killed and II injured
in q railroad disaster near Old Shad-
well, Va.
Georgia's legislature is considering
bill to make the birthday OF Jefferson
Davis a holiday.
John Mcintosh revenged himself for
being elected from a saloon at Logans-
port, Ind. by killing the proprietor and
wounding three others.
Republicans control the Ohio legisla-
ture, but it may not return Hanna to the
senate, as there are a number whose
nomination he bitterly opposed, and it
is said now that they viii oppose him.
Policeman Roy Swartout, Niagara
Falls, N. Y, was stabbed by Butch"
Mahoney and will probably die of the
wound. Mahoney resisted arrest and
plunged knife into Swartout's body
near the heart
SATURDAY, NOV. 6.
President Moraes of Brazil narrowly
escaped assassination at the hands of a
soldier at Rio Janeiro.
Three daughters and a son of Michael
McNulty, Rawdon, Que, were murdered
supposedly by a tramp, while the par
ents were absent.
'Idlers and brutes must quit Office
the governor of Illinois says in a circu-
lar to the trustees and superintendent
of state institutions.
On an outlay of Sass for tools, seed and
the salary Of a superintendent Kansas
City benefited the poor to the amount of
$3.50 by turning vacant lots into-gardens.
After four years of conflict in the
courts, Serena M. Martin of Chicago
has gained a fortune of 5000, 600, the gift
of her uncle, whom she served as COM
panion and maid of all work for 40 years.
Thomas F. Brynes, the former super
intendent Of police in New York, it is
claimed, will be chosen by the Demo
Gratis of the boroughs of Manhattan and
Kings for the position of chief Of police
SUNDAY, NOV. T.
Thomas Nulty, 20 years, has confessed
to the murder of his three sisters and a
brother at Rawdon, Que.
Mrs. Rudolph Vessels and five-year-
old boy lost their lives by the explosion
of a lamp in San Francisco
Chicago police have captured six
robbers and secured jewelry, clothing
and furnishings worth $4,000.
At Pine Fork, w. Va, tro-glycer-
inc magazine exploded, killing William
Connard and two other men. Four
horses were also killed.
The Western Transfer company's
steamer Idaho, which left Buffalo for
Chicago, with package freight, found
cred off Long Point on Lake Erie during
a furious gale, and only two of a crew of
II were rescued.
A colony for negroes, founded by a
wealthy woman, Mrs. Lillian K. Ray.
at Cedar Lake, Ala, has been inaugu-
rated The object is to determine how
far the negro may be trusted to govern
himself and a municipality.
At TeXarkana, Ark, fire destroyed
four steam dry lxilns five lumber sheds
and over 100000 feet of lumber the
property of the Central Coal, Coke and
Lumber company. The roof of one of
the sheds fell in while about 40 men were
under it, and it is believed that several
bodies will be found in the ruins.
MONDAY. NOV. s.
Chicago highwayman fired a revolver
at the throat of William Kastner and
destroyed his power of speech.
Three clerks of the United States court
at Philadelphia have been arrested for
completely in naturalization frauds.
Robbers blew open a safe in an eX-
press car of a Santa Fe train in New
Mexico and secured considerable booty.
Brakeman Grover, q years, was
caught between a car and a building
and crushed to death at Cherry Creek,
N
DR.. H. B. Wray was killed and r. J.
Bickwell was injured fatally in a smash
up on the Grand Trunk road at Brock
vile, Ont.
Wife of Charles Pinkerton is accused of
furnishing him with the knife with which
he killed himself while undergoing life
Imprisonment for murder at Laporte,
Ind.
TUESDAY, NOV. 9.
Three persons were burned to death at
Hot Springs, Ark
By a boiler explosion at Stoneboro,
Pa, one man was killed two were fatally
injured and two seriously hurt.
w. E. Ward, counsel for Mrs. Angel in
the suit against the Gould heirs, aban-
doned the case. He was satisfied that
there was no foundation for the action
of the supposed widow.
philadelphia council chamber was
the scene of great confusion. Members
were called ''thieves," "bribe takers and
.'perjurers'' the names being occasioned
by a vote on the disposition of the gas
works.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10.