Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-03-06
GENERAL NEWS.
Mrs Stanford Poisoned.

AFTER 6De was TAKEN Ill at the NOdAa
Hotel, Honolulu, under suspicious
circumstances, pointing, in the opin-
ion of the physician who attended her
in her dying hour and seemingly in
that of others, to poisoning by the
administration of strychnine in vial
of bi-carbonate of soda.
Fire Swept
Fire involving millions of dollars
loss in property, and striking a seri-
GUS, if temporary, blow at the i'm
mense export trade of New Orleans,
has swept the river front and wiped
out the freight terminals of the Illinois
Central, known as the Stuyvesant
docks. Nearly a dozen squares of
wharves and freight sheds, two grain
elevators, hundreds of loaded cars and
vast quantities of freight, including
20, 900 bales of cotton, were destroyed,
together with a large number of
small residences.
Russian rike.
The strike area in Moscow and
suburbs is extending. Sixty thou
sand men are now out. Disturbances
broke out in Warsaw recently in con-
nection with the strike of shoemak-
ers: The strikers attempted to COM
pei the owners to close their shoe
shops and paraded Lesgno st., where
they were met by patrol, which
fired upon the strikers without hurt
ing anyone. The soldiers then drew
their swords and dispersed the crowd,
three strikers being wounded.
Church Floor CoIlapses.
Thirteen persons were killed and
upwards of 80 injured, some probably
fatally, by the collapse of the flooring
of the Fleet Street Methodist Episco-
pal Zion Church, in Brooklyn, n. Y,
recently. OF those killed 10 were
women, two men and one child. The
building was an ancient ramshackle
frame structure erected so years ago
the heart of the colored section of
Brooklyn, in Fleet street, near. Myr-
tie avenue. The decayed condition
of the beams and supports of the
| flooring was the cause of the collapse.
Ex-Gov. Boutwell, Dead. -
Ex-Gov. George s. Boutwell, of
Massachusetts died at the age of 81
years Monday, Feb. 81, at his home
in Groton, Mass. He entered the
legislature at the age of twenty four
and at the age of thirty three was
elected governor. He served in con-
gress from 1862 to 1868 inclusive and
was appointed secretary of the treas
ury under President Grant. Was
elected to senate in 1878. The fu-
neral was held in Groton Thursday,
March 2. In the loss of Geo. s. Bout
well Massachusetts loses one of her
most able men.
| The War.
The Russian and Japanese armies
in Manchuria are again locked in a
| general and probably decisive en-
gagement. This time it is the Japa-
nese who are the principal agressors,
and so far they seem to have thu ad-
vantage in the fighting. Their plan
evidently is to roll back the Russian
left, which rested among the noun
tains and passes, and if possible tc
crush their enemy from that flank
The third section of the Pacific fee
has passed Cherburg, France, on it,
way to reinforce Rojestvensky's fee
off Madagascar. The Japanese nava
movements are yelled in mystery
Both the belligerents formally den,
that they are considering peace.
Nelson Defeats Young Corbett
= Battling Nelson of Chicago i
nine rounds defeated "Young Cor
bett," ex-champion featherweight @
, the world, at San Francisco Tuesda
y night, when they met for the secon
y time at Woodward's Pavilion in cor
test to determine which of the tW
shall meet Champion Britt in retur
+ match. Between 1900 and 5000 pei
= sons witnessed the spectacle and it
4 estimated that the receipts will al
i proximate $4,000. 1t was fast ar
q fair fight, but Nelson showed to ii
q best advantage throughout. In Il
. ninth round, Corbett received
straight right on the jaw which floore
= him. He took the count, got up, b.
was so groggy that his seconds thre
up the sponge.
Big Strike.
b Twelve hundred cutters in Il
= granite quarries of Quincy, Mass
Y struck recently for new wage sche'
r. ule providing for three dollars
l. day as the lowest rate. Hundre'
it of other workmen are also ldl
in and it is expected that within
~ short time nuIaSc q scF%lornanf