St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-10-21
News Of the Week.
washington Matters.

Washington Matters.
| First Assistant Postmaster General
| Tyner has resigned and Frank HoltOn
of the Burlington Hawkeye, it is be-
| lieved, will secure the place. The
President called for Tyner's resigna-
/ ton.
A crank made his appearance in the
court room ut Washington, during
Guiteau's arraignment, and wanted to
borrow ''bull dog" pistol for the pur-
pose of shooting the assassin.
President Arthur sent to the Senate
/ on Friday large batch of nominations,
including those of Hannibal Hamlin
as Minister to Spain, and Walker
Blaine as Third Assistant Secretary of
State. Mr. Hamlin's nomination was
at once confirmed.
Friends of Attorney General Me-
Veagh say that he does not intend to
remain in the Cabinet later than the
last of next week, and that he has on
! ly refIained from insisting upon the
acceptance of his resignation because
the President had requested that all
the Cabinet should remain until after
the Yorktown Centennial.
The Republicans do not intend to
press the election of Secretary of the
Senate at this session, and will not re-
sist any effort on the part of the Dem
Ocrats to fill the office other than to
cast their votes against such candi-
dates.
Drs. Gum and Andrews of Chicago,
whom Guiteau's counsel includes in
] - ,,f,
expected to criticise the treatment of
President Garfield, say they know of
no reason why they should be sum-
mOned, except to secure delay in the
| trial.
The Senate has confirmed Walker
| Blaine as Third Assistant Secretary of
| State.
| 1t is expected that the name of Sec
rotary WINDOWS successor will be sent
to the Senate Friday of this week.
Secretary Window says that the re-
cent impOrtatiOns of gold, with three
millions more now on the way, will re-
| lieve the pressure on the money mar
ket caused by the grain blockade. His
advices from all parts of the country
show a fall trade which indicates gen
eral prosperity.
The Philadelphia Fire-ThriIling Scenes.
| At the burning of the mill at Phila-
delphia last week there were many
heartrending scenes. On the second
| floor, where the fire originated, about
ID of the hands, II of whom were girls,
were ut work, but the majority were
engaged on the upper floors. They
rushed to the windows, crying franti-
cally to the crowd below to save them.
1t was proposed by the crowd to form
square in the street and catch the
men and girls as they leaped out, but,
before anything could he done, Il young
woman leaped from the fifth story. 1t
seemed that every bone i'll her body
was broken, for she never breathed
again. After this the imprisoned peo-
pie seemed to become frenzied, and,
though the crowd outside sought to
encourage them by shouting that help
would speedily be there, they began
Jumping from the windows like sheep.
A man apparently bereft of reason
! flung himself, headlong into the street,
and, while his body was still i'll the air,
others followed now il man, then Il
woman or half-grown girl, until i'll Il
| few minutes | human beings. one and
all unconscious, with fractured skulls
and broken limbs. were being carried
| by tender hands to the neighboring
saloon, on the floor of which body after
body was laid i'll il row until vehicles
were procured to convey them to the
hospitals. BY this time the relatives
of the victims began to gather outside
the building, and the cries of mothers
outside to their children still in the
| burning rooms, and their lamentations
over those who had jumped and been
| literally dashed to pieces, were heart
rending to hear. When the firemen
were able to enter the building, they
found on the third floor the bodies of
two females burned to il crisp, and II
man badly scorched and dead, but be
fourth floor, with its heavy machinery,
came crashing through, and they bare
ly escaped with their lives.
In General.
Several New York banks have been
victimized 10y forgeries, which are said
to amount to S!l2, 900.
An attempt was made i'll New York
Sunday night to burn the Cunard
steamer BOthnia; but little damage
WAS done.
One hundred and thirty British and
| foreign vessels were wrecked last week
during terrific gale on the coasts of
Great Britain and Germany, and one
hundred and thirty-eight persons are
reported lost OF missing.
At the request of the citizens resid-
ing thereon, Guiteau street in Cleve-
land, Ohio, has had its name changed
to Abram street.
The Franklin street Congregational
church of Manchester, n. H., wiped
ont its debt on Sunday.
Boston will hold Worlds fair, pro-
vided five million dollars can be raised
A collision occurred recently at
Hyde Park, Mass, on the New York
and New England Railway, between a
freight and a gravel train. Two men
were killed.
The business portion of Humboldt,
Tenn, was burned on Saturday.
The estimated cost of the proposed
monument to Garfield in Lakeview
| cemetery is not less than S20O,000.
The committee believe that this can he
raised in three weeks. Cleveland is
expected to give S5O,000.
A Cincinnati man mistOOk his wife
for a burglar the other night and NOR
tally wounded her.
A funeral service over the remains
of the late DIR. Holland was held at his
late residence in New York and in ac-
cOrdance with an expressed wish of
deceased the service was as simple as