St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-16
News and Other Items.

1t is expected that an effort will be
made to fix the final adjournment of
Congress July I.
A bridge crowded with people watch
ing military parade broke at Natchez,
Miss, letting them all fall 20 feet, and
several were seriously hurt.
1t is rumored that the locomotive en-
gineers throughout the country are con
sidering the propriety of striking for
more pay.
DIR. p. l.. Schenck of Brooklyn was
shot in the right arm and leg by Fran
els S. Thomas, once an inmate of the
FIatbush mad house, Thursday night.
Dennis Sullivan has recovered Il YER
dict of $4,000 against William Tracy
for gouging out his eye with Il slung-
shot at COney island. Tracy not long
since was acquitted of shooting Chas.
P. Tyler, a well-known gambler.
Michael Scanlon was seriously stab
bed twice and his wife slightly cut
Sunday morning i'll Il desperate fight
with burglars who had entered his
house. The thieves escaped.
Several immigrant children brought
over by the Surry and the Nemesis hav-
ing died at Castle Garden, an investi-
CATION by the emigration commissioner
has resulted in "A report that the food
/ and thASa NrnGS.lS lnI
the ships overcrowded, the surgeon
neglectful and the officers Indifferent.
In Chicago, Mrs. Seybolt gave her
four children strychnine, took some
herself and all are dead. She was de
mented.
Martin Donelan and Joseph McKen-
Ma were arrested at Boston Friday, for
breaking into Il tomb in the South Gem
etery to steal jewelry from Il corpse.
The wife of George Rotchford of
Springfield, Mass, took her three
months-old infant into the woods and
left it to die, but the act being observ-
ed, the child was rescued. No motive
is known for the act. She was arrested.
At Lawrence, Kansas, Peter Vine
gar, Geo. Robinson and Ike King, the
negroes who murdered David Baus-
man, farmer from Ohio, were taken
from jail early Saturday morning, by Il
hundred masked men, and hanged to
the Kaw river bridge.
The steam lumber mills belonging to
White, ClarksOn x Co. were burned
near Richford, the other day with the
machinery and about 100000 feet of
lumber; loss $4,000.
William Milliken of Boston was kill
ed by two bears while hunting at Lake
Pizeo in the AdirOndacks Saturday, and
his guide was fatally hurt. The bears
were killed and their cubs captured.
The Chicago Advance, religious jour
nal, has been bought out by Boston
parties, and Rev. Robert West of Bos-
ton is to be its editor.
The balloon which assembled from
Maldon, Eng, Saturday, landed near
Arras in France, traversing a distance
of 40 miles. Sir Claude de Crespigny,
who fell out of the ear and broke his
leg when the balloon was released at
MaldOn, is recovering.
As the steamer ''Star of the Coast
was leaving her wharf at Bath, Me-,
she ran afoul of the boom of IA vessel,
which struck Mrs. Lizzie Parritt of Ca
naan, crushing her against the side OF
the cabin and injuring her so she died
in great agony. Mrs. Parritt was on
her way home from Washington, ID. c.
| Ia Wakefield, X. l., DIR. Hitchcock of
New York left his horses in the care of
his wife, when they ran away and dash
ed the carriage to pieces. Mrs. Hitch -
cock was picked up insensible and
badly hurt and two other ladies and a
child less seriously.
Edward Hurd, fish merchant of
Susquehanna, Pa, was stopped by "A
tramp in Wayne county, who demand
ed his money or his life. Hurd jump
ed from his wagon and ran, when the
tramp shot him dead and robbed the