Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.
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Chicago Strike Continues
The effort to settle the teamsters'
strike in Chicago by conference
between union representatives and
employing firms failed. The unions
demanded the einslatement OF all
the strikers except those guilty of
violence, while the employers would
not agree to take back at all, except
az individuals, and as needed. The
strike is expected to spread, but so
far as the teaming is concerned it is
recognized as failure.
Loss to Crops by Insects.
Some amazing facts regarding the
annual losses sustained by farm crops
as a result of the depredations of
beetles, borers, plant lice, Hessian
flies, billbugs, wireworms, grasshop-
pers, and other insect pests have been
gathered by @. L. Marlatt, an ento-
mologist in the department of agri-
culture, says Washington CORES
pondent of The Eagle. He declares
that the destruction is 500, 900 900 a
year, or more than the entire annual
expenditures of the government, in
Guiding the pension roll and the cost
of maintaining the army and navy.
Fireworks Explode.
Shrieking in terror, and with the
fr1ghtful Brockton disaster fresh in
mind, the So men and women en-
ployes of the National Fireworks
Company, West Hanover, Mass, fed
to places of safety as the first of a
series of terrific explosions rent the
air Wednesday afternoon. Three ex-
plosions followed, one close upon
another, and for fully half an hour
thereafter the snap snap of exploding
frecrackers added their chaos to the
noise of the flames and the clamor of
the employees and the fast forming
crowds of sightseers. Ten buildings
of the company on King street were
destroyed but happily only few
people sustained any hurt, and only
one of those is deemed permanently
injured.
The War.
The Russian fleet has apparently
left the Indo Chinese coast on seri
GUS attempt TO engage the Japanese
or by avoiding them TO reach Vladi-
vostok Nothing has been heard
from the Russians for several days
and their course is unknown, though
it is supposed they are now moving
by the passage northward of the Phil
| ippines out into the Pacific. Rojest-
vensky is reported in very poor,
health, and his successor has left Rus
STA for Vladivostok to take COMMAND.
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Things are shaping for another great
land battle. Oyama and Linevitch
both report movements of detached
forces under their command that are
working for position. 1t is noticeable
that what each reports as a success
the other fails TO mention at all.
Threats to Kill rockefeller.
Nailed to trees in his magnificent
/ Adirondack estate near Malone, n. Y,
and along the line of the New York
and Ottawa Railroad, are ominous
threats against the life Of William
Rockefeller. The Standard Oil mag
nate is warned that he will be shot il
he attempts to set foot on his pre-
serves at Bay Pond. The notices read
IS follows: ga $4,000 dollar bullet
will stop William Rockefeller the
minute he sets foot on this property
Because of the purchase by Mr.,
Rockefeller of miles of superb hunt
ing and fishing ground, and the
practical humiliation of the town OF
Brandon, N. Y, he has incurred the
intense hatred of the mountaineers oil
the district. 1t is also known that
this hatred has been increased be-
cause of Mr.. Rockfeller's attempts tc
run to cover the murderers of Orlando
Dexter, the New York capitalist who
was mysteriously murdered on his
preserves not far from the Rockefeller
estate in February, 1903.
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