Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-05-11

passed. ll6 6lAIH W0Sh' IL 10 OStAhIooCN
that wages to the amount of nearly
$500 900 have been lost this far by the
operatives, but there are no figures to
determine the exact amount lost by
the mill.
British Monroe Doctrine.
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne has
proclaimed British Monroe Doctrine
in the Persian gulf, and has practi-
cally notified competing powers that
any attempt on their part to establish
naval base or fortified post in those
waters means war with Great Britain.
Landslide Kills 100 People.
One of the worst disasters ever
experienced in British Columbia oc-
Cured Friday, Apr. q, when the little
mining town of Frank, Alberta, was
plunged into abject terror by a mighty
rock slide which carried the top of
Turtle mountain into the valley below,
destroying many houses and killing
over one hundred Inhabitants. At
the base of the mountain is a coal
mine and the slide came at four
O'Clock just as the night shift was
preparing to come from work. The
mine entrances were buried under
mass of rocks hundreds of feet deep.
Eighteen men working outside the
mine were insta ntly killed.
Collision at Sea.
A collision at sea that cost the lives
of 20 or more people and the sinking
of the Clyde steamship Saginaw by
| the Old Dominion steamship COM
pany's liner Hamilton occurred be-
tween Winter Quarter lightship and
Fenwick Island lightship on the Vir-
ginia coast at 4:40 O'Clock Tuesday
morning. A dense fog settled along
the coast shortly after nightfall, and
while going through this fog at re-
duced speed the Hamilton crashed
into the Saginaw's side about twenty
| feet from the stern. The scene of the
collision is about Is or IA miles off the
shore and between $50 and 200 miles
south of New York and between 125
and 140 miles north of Norfolk. The
fog whistles of both vessels were dis
tinctly heard by each other for several
minutes before the collision occurred.
Russia and Japan Said to Be Preparing
| for War.
Alarming advices have been re-
ceived from the Orient by the steamer
Orient, that both Japan and Russia
are rushing warlike preparations on a
large scale. Warships at Vladivostock
and Yokohama are being held in read
mess for hostilities in Manchuria. A
military officer just returned from
New Chwang says that to all appear
ances Russia is preparing for war in
Manchuria and great alarm is felt in
New Chwang. The Japanese papers
print dispatches saying that state OF
siege has been instituted by Russia al
Talien, Kinchow, and thence on the
Yalu river. Russians assert that the
movement is attributable to strained
relations. The famine is spreading
alarmingly in the province of Kwang
81, China. Gable advices to the state
department say that 10000 Chinese
are starving in that district and the
situation is growing more serioni
daily.
Rocks Still Falling at Frank.
Loud reports caused by the lime
stone crumbling and falling down the
mountain echo dolefully through tn.
town of Frank. There is almost NJ
sign of life in the place, as the poles
maintain rigid guard and permit q,
person to enter the town except thos,
having property to look after. An
other party has assembled the noun
tain to observe the progress of disin
tegration going on in the danger zone
1t was found that the break or crevic,
had widened greatly since the observ
alton of the day before. This discov
cry has created fears of second slide
The Canadian Pacific railway official
take so serious a view of the situation
that Superintendent Taylor ha
stopped the work of RECONSTRUCTED
! and withdrawn his entire force. A
J soon as all personal property is re
. moved it is proposed to experiment
, with powder and try to blow out a
loose rock. The attempt to put tn
] mountain in a safe condition will b
male by the government.