Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-17
GENERAL NEWS.
Fatal Collision I'm Michigan.

sections of Wallace Brothers circus
train, stands at %, seven of whom
are In the morgue unidentified.
Railway Disaster at Paris.
In terrible underground railway
disaster Monday evening in Paris.
France over hundred lost their lives.
and many were injured. Eighty-fo
bodies have already been recovered.
some disfigured SO that Identification
is impossible. The accident was
caused by two trains catching fire on
the metropolitan electric railway. at
the Menilmontant station, in a poor
and populous part of the city. Some
OF the victims were trampled to death,
out most lost their lives through burn
Ing or suffocation.
Entire Eastern End of Jamaica Devastated
by Recent Hurricane
The effects of the hurricane upon
the island of Jamaica were greater
than at first believed. At Port An
tonic only six houses were left.
The United Fruit Company's wharves.
ofhces, hotel and plantations we're
demolished. Five of the company's
steamers. including the Simon Dumois
and Brighton, were driven ashore.
but are lying in easy positions. Port
Maria suffered similarly. The coast
Is strewn with local sailing vessels.
IL Is feared that the loss of life has
oeen heavy, 80 fatalities having
already been reported, principally
| among seamen. The entire eastern
end of the island has been devastated.
Villages have been wiped out and
public buildings and churches demol-
ished. Thousands of the peasantry.
rendered homeless and destitute, are
wandering about seeking for food
and shelter. The destruction of the
banana plantations has been complete
and the fruit trade is paralyzed for
| the next twelve months. Hundreds of
prosperous fruit growers have been
brought to bankruptcy and ruin.
The western end of the island, which
it was at first supposed had escaped,
also suffered considerably.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles Retires.
At IL O'Clock Aug. s, Lieut. Gen. s.
B. M. Young issued an order in &C
cordance with the order of the Pres
ident assuming command of the army
of the United States. Previously,
General Young had taken the oath of
office in the war department.. At
1870 under an order Used by Adjutant-
General Corbin, the officers of the
army in Washington, including also
those at Fort Myer, Va, assembled at
army headquarters and paid their res
poets to the retiring Lieut.. Gen. Nell
son A. Miles. General Miles appeared
in an undress coat with no emblems
showing rank, but with the coat of
arms on the shoulders, such as is now
prescribed to be worn by all officers.
General Young appeared with the
three stars of his rank of lieutenant
general, although he did not actually
become acknowledgement until noon.
Willard S. Allen, Defaulter.
In letter written from Montreal on
Sunday to the pastor of his church in
East Boston, Willard s. Allen, treas
urer of the Preachers Aid society of
the New England conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, con-
fessed that he was defaulter to the
amount of more than s75, 900 of the
society's funds. Allen has been
treasurer of the society for 12 years,
and for Is years prominent member
of the school committee of Boston.
He left home about a week ago. with
out announcing his destination, and
the first heard from him was the letter
to the East Boston clergyman. Allen
said that he had lost the money in
speculation. For more than forty
years Allen has been a prominent
citizen OF East Boston. In Methodist
church affairs, as lawyer and in pol
ltical and social life he has been we'll
known. Twenty-Five years ago he
became member of the corporation
known in the Methodist church as the
Preachers Aid society, the object of
which is to aid and relieve the sick,
infirm and aged ministers of the de-
nomination, and in 1891 was elected
treasurer. Year after year his re-
ports were presented to the confer
ence and accepted without question,
and he was re elected annually to the
office which controlled the finances of
the society. IL was learned that the
$4,000 which Allen had embezzled
when he left Boston was not all the
money he had gathered to himself be-
fore his departure. A man who
knows as much about the matter as