St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-01

Antioch, Ind, while drunk, broke into +
a saloon. The proprietOrs fired on the |
strikers, wOunding three fatally, and |
severely injured four. In an effort to |
quell the mob Justice Dawson was
Killed and his body fairly riddled with
buckshot. The mob threatened to
burn the town.
Fall River weavers are plotting to
force big strike in New England, and
have voted assistance to the strikers at
Biddeford Me- mills.
On the War Path.
An Indian fight occurred at Grand
Valley, Col, ON the 22d ult., in which !
the number of whites engaged was L. !
Eight of these were missing on the
seven were probably killed, although
they may have escaped to the Mormon
fort in Grand Valley. The Indians
have received reinfOrcements and have
several hundred warriors in the field.
A battalion of one hundred and fifty
men have left Rico with the avOwed
determination to rescue the survivors
and avenge the death of those killed
The Stewart bOdy-snatching case
has been revived, and it is now stated
that S25, 200 secured the restoration of
the remains.
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich
Islands, will visit this country in 0cto-
Der.
More than eleven millions of passen-
gers were carried last wear, without ac-
cident, by pleasure harbOr boats in Mas
sachusetts and New Hampshire.
The Chicago Life Insurance Com
pany is pronounced insolvent.
A whole train of cars on the Morcles
railroad ran into the river San AntO-
Mo, near Cuantla, Mexico, on the Oath
ult., owing to the downfall of stone
bridge. Nearly 200 people have been
taken out dead, and IL great many were
wounded, mostly soldiers. The cause
of the disaster was an unsafe bridge.
The last TichbOrne claimant is now
declared a fraud.
The monster steamship, ''Great East
ern," is to be sold at public auction.
Thomas Butler, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
accidently upset Il hive of bees, on his
wedding day, and was stung nearly to
death.
The man who laid out Henry Clay
has just died at Franklin Falls, n. ii.
frankie BOesch, Burlington Qa.)
yOungster, was wounded i'll the hand
the other day by Il piece of cap from
toy pistol, and he has since died of
lock-iaw.
A boat race between Harvard and
Columbia crews at New London, Conn,
on the 9th ult., was won by Harvard
by five lengths.
A fire at Tombstone, Arizona, the
other night left eight hundred people
homeless and destroyed about $250, 900
worth of property. Whisky was the
cause.
New York city has had boy of IA
who died from cerebrO-spinal menin-
gifts brought on by ovcr-study, and a
young girl who tried to commit suicide
after failing to pass an examination at
the city normal school.
Tramps poisoned several wells of
water near Elmora, n. j., last week,
in revenge for not being fed, and II
number of people narrowly escaped
death.
Henry Daniels of Troy n. Y, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for six
months for cruelty to a l4-year-old
child
An uncle of President Garfield was
killed at Meadville, Pa, last week by
the cars, while driving with niece
across the railroad track.
Homer Wellington, of Boston, who
is alleged to have poisoned his child and
attempted to kill his wife, has been
sent to prison for Is years.
Some 1850 acres of wheat and other
grain, with many farm houses and
machinery, have just been burned in
California.
A remarkably heavy rain and hail
storm swept over section of Kansas
last Friday, destroying young fruit and
thousands of acres of grain.
Alfred Watson, living alone near
Parlman Corner, Me, was found dead
on Tuesday with tifty-two wounds on
his body. Samuel Chadburn, deaf
mute confesses the crime.
Small pox is raging at Holmdel and
Atlantic township, n. j., and the ply
sicians are unable to cope with the dis
ease. Many deaths have occurred,
and many other people are still sick
and likely to die.
A railway is to be built at once to
the summit of Mt. Lafayette, New
Hampshire.
Chicagoans claim to have seen two
comets on Monday night.
Rev Edward Crowley, of New York,
who was imprisoned for cruelty to
children under his care, is not to have
an ecclesiastical trial, but will he al
lowed good standing as member of
the Episcopal church.
The, steamer PhTton, while racing
with the steamer Handy, at Cincinnati,
on the 20th ult., exploded her boiler,
and the boat was torn to pieces. The
chimneys of the Handy were blown off.
The accident happened four miles up
the river. Both boats were filed with
passengers, and several lives were lost
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