St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-15
News Of the Week.
a Novel Smuggling Device.

A novel device i'll smuggling has
recently come to the notice of Col.
Alexander, the fifth auditor of the
treasury. Some time ago Il vessel la
den with lumber, somewhere III Texas,
was dispatched to one of the Mexican
gulf ports, but for some reason she
could not make her destination, and
discharged her cargo upon the beach,
some sixteen miles distant. After Il
time the American OF some one acting
for him, evidently not well informed of
the vessels owners. sold the lumber
on their account and sent the money to
the treasury department. The lumber
was sent by its purchaser to saw mill
and the first log was placed in position
to be cut into boards. The saw had
penetrated but few inches when there
began to appear upon its teeth shrcds
of clothing, and finally it became fast
and refused to move further. hives
tigation disclosed the fact that the log
had been made hollow by boring, and
had been filled with clothing and other
dutiable material, and then plugged
up. The vessel was seized by the
Mexican government, but being worm
eaten and worthless, was abandoned,
the captain making his escape. The
question before the treasury is in re-
gard to the disposition of the proceeds
of the sale of lumber.
Results of a Hot Sunday
The United States signal service
thermometer at Cincinnati registered
1913 at 3.l5 p. m. Sunday. The heat
was the greatest on record there. The
coroner was called to I3 cases of
deaths, all of congestion of the brain
supposed to have been supcrinduccd
from excessive heat.
The thermometer at indianapolis on
Sunday stood at lOl' in the shade.
Several snstrokes occurred, three fatal.
At Hanover, n. H., the thermometer
stood at 1902 in the shade at Bcnning-
ton go ; at Pittsburg, Pa, ut l02',
with eight fatal cases of sunstrOllc ut
Wheeling, w. VA, 1919 at noon ut
Dayton, O., l06' and ut Manchester,
n. H., 1917.
In General.
BY the explosion of II portable en-
CINE for thrcshing wheat, i'll Maryland,
the other day, four men were killed
and five others wounded.
A log drive comprising about % ,O00,-
600 feet is now on its way down the
Connecticut river.
Cincinnati, o., had disastrous fire
on the 9TH inst, by which four manu-
factories were burned, entailing Il loss
of nearly S70O,00
A party of surveyors were attacked
by Indians in Colorado few DAYS ago,
and several of them were killed. On
Sunday the Goth ult., Il stage coach
from Ell Paso to chihuahua was at
tackled by Indians who were concealed
i'll sand holes, and fired IA vOlley as the
coach approached. The driver was
killed, and Mr.. Pugh, son of ex-Sena-
tor Pugh, and sOn-in-law of ex-GOver-
nor Hendricks Of Indiana, was captur-
ed. The passengers climbed out of
the coach on the opposite side and all
escaped except Pugh, who was the last
to leave and was captured while en-
deavOring to get u pistol out of the
coach. He was afterward tortured and
killed.
The roof of church in Sanmatto,
Mexico, fell recently, killing fifty peo-
pie.
Iowa was on Saturday night and
Sunday visited by terrific storm, or
water spout, as the dispatches aver.
The streams rose rapidly, carrying
off bridges and houses, washing the
railways and highways and damaging
the crops. Several persons were
drowned.
Griscom, the Chicago faster, finished
his task Tuesday noon, having re
Trained from food forty-fve days.
The Dartmouth College investiga-
ton was resumed Tuesday.
About $50 masOns struck at New
Brunswick, \. j., Monday for $3.50 a
day instead of -. The contractors
granted the demand in an hour.
Judge Lnzenberg Of New Orleans
pronounces licensed gambling in that
city "a crime.