Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-11
ALL AROUND TIE WORLD.
THURSDAY. SEPT. 80.

Peg Falls, the worst white woman in
the Virginia mountains. has been
| lynched.
James B. Juvenal rode with his fiancee
on a tandem from Philadelphia to New
! York and was married.
The president is not only anxious not
TO disturb the existing relations with
/ Spain but is extremely DESTROYS that
no war scares shall agitate the country
or, at least not until after the fall eIec-
/ tons.
Chief McCullagh of New York will re-
duce 100 precinct detectives to patrol
duty in a few days. Nearly all these
men were selected by Commissioner
Parker and detailed by former Chief
/ Conlin.
FRIDAY. OCT. 1.
Yellow fever is spreading slowly in
New Orleans.
Half a dozen persons were hurt in a
collision of electric cars at Toledo.
F. D. Warneck, bank president at
/ Kfngfisher, Okla. hanged himself, sup
posedly on account of i'll health.
Mrs Bennett balloonist, in trying to
/ avoid a fence released her hold on a
j parachute at Malone, N. Y, and IN
! jured herself severely by dropping upon
! rocks.
!
81 want to say that 7 never asserted that
| I would find the north pole, CT die in the
attempt, but shall make determined
/ effort to find it, and I shall have prac-
ticaIly unlimited funds at my command
and five years time"
| SATURDAY, OCT. 2.
Worlds record for pacing was lowered
to 2:O01b by Star Pointer in a race with
Joe Patchen at Springfield, Ills.
Henry George accepts the nomination
Of the labor men and the Democratic
alliance for mayor of Greater New York.
The value of the Fair estate. at San
Francisco has been very much over
rated Instead of being valued a from
100000, 900 to $50, 100000, the appraisers
say the official figures will be about
SIP 1000, 900, and certainly not more than
$751; 900.
Chicago will probably take possession
OF the streets in Pullman. The corpora
ton counsel has decided that the public
has the same right in, on and under these
streets that it has with the other public
thorou ghfares in the city. This decis-
ion is expected to give Chicago possess
sion Of between 10 and Is miles of i'm
proved streets in Pullman.
SUNDAY, OCT. 8.
Choice cuts of beef bring 81. so pound
and soup bones so cents at Dawson City,
Alaska.
TWO burglars used nitro glycerine
upon the safe of the bank at Hume, Mo.
but did not succeed in getting the $4,000
that it contained.
Colored convict pardoned by the gov
ernor of Georgia has seen the sunlight
for the first time in IS years. He.worked
and lived in coal mine.
Body eff a woman was found in the
river at New York. There is a deep
incision in the windpipe. one ear is gone,
both eyes are b1ackened and a gaping
wound disfigures the nose.
DIR. J. M. Guiteras, employed by the
government as an expert on yellow
fever, says: II have visited Biloxi,
Ocean Springs, Scranton, Cairo, Vicks-
burg, Mobile, Memphis. the northern
parishes of Louisiana and New Orleans.
and I can say that the present yellow
fever epidemic is of avera ge severity"
MONDAY, OCT. T.
Two were killed and a dozen persons
hurt by the derailing of five cars on
railroad in Colorado.
In a freight collision at Willoughby,
O., Engineer Brown lost his life and
seven cars We're wrecked.
Mae Gleason, % years, swallowed car
bolic acid at Glenham, n. Y, for un-
known reason and died in five minutes
A census shows there are 10, 855 foreign
residents in the treaty ports of China
There was an increase of So business
houses.
Leading Cubans who have been inter
viewed in New York express their will
ingness to buy the independence of their
country if Spain would entertain the
proposition.
TUESDAY, OCT 5.
Troops have been withdrawn from
HazIeton, Pa.
Lily Langtrys husband has been sent /
to an insane asylum.
First game in the Temple cup series |
was won by the Bostons
Two men were stabbed by a tramp in a |
barroom at New Egypt, N. j., one of |
whom will die.
Referee gave the decision to Solly |
Smith CT Los Angeles, Cal, in 20-round |
contest with George Dixon of Boston.
Hundreds of tons of hay and grain
were destroyed by a prairie fire in South
Dakota, and s~Vera1 persons were
burned.
Fire destroyed 100 buildings valued at
$3.50, 900 at Austin, Pa. It was caused
by load of hay coming in contact with
a gas jet.
Warning signals were disregarded by
seven occupants of a wagon which was
approaching a crossing near Willow
Springs, Mo, and all were killed by a
locomotive.
Chairman Dahlman Of the Democratic
committee Of Nebraska protests against
placing national Democratic nominees
on the official ballot in that state. He
states that there is no such party in
Nebraska, and that the law regarding
the formation of a new party has, not
been complied with
WEDNESDAY,, OCT. 6.
Three men were killed by explosion of
gas in a mine at Plymouth, Pa.