St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-15
General News.

Walter Malley and Blanche Douglas
have been visiting Washington to-
gether.
A hotel and boarding house at
Swampscott, Mass, were burned last
week. The guests escaped with all
their effects.
A fire at Port au Prince, Aug. IL,
destroyed eighty seven houses, render
ing one hundred and fifty families
homeless. Loss S5OO,OOO.
George Mallory, aged about seventy,
an inmate of the Norwich almshOuse,
was committed to Jail on Friday for
placing instructions on the track OF
the New London Northern railroad.
The large barn burned on the
Sprague estate last week was doubt
less the work of an incendiary and is
the fifth piece of Sprague property de-
strOyed by incendiary fires within a
few weeks.
John ii. Johnston, mayor of Dan
vile, Va, shot and MORALLY wounded
ex-chief of police John E. Hatcher on
Saturday because the latter refused to
apologize for an insult he had offered
to the mayor.
Rev. H. H. Kelsey, graduate OF
Amherst college and for the past three
years tutor in the Hartford theOlOgi-
cal seminary, has been engaged as as
sistant to Rev. DR.. Webb of the Shaw
nut Congregational church.
William Dwyer, an insane inmate OF
the almshOuse at Georgetown, Mass,
and an eX-state prison convict, was ar
rested at Newburyport on Friday
charged with an attempt at rape, and
assault on the almshOuse keeper with
knife.
During a thunder storm at Yantic
Conn, Saturday morning, six laborers
took refuge in an icehOuse, which was
struck by lightning, and all the men
were FRUSTRATED, one being killed, three
badly burned and two seriously in
jured. A horse, COW and pig were
also killed.
1t is said that the great organ is to
be removed from BOstOn's Music hall
and new one up to the utmost re-
quirements will be put in its place,
taking up less room and allowing the
front of the platform to be moved back
so as to give room for nearly three
hundred more seats in the auditory.
The feat of sliding down the Mount
Washington railroad on a board, a
dangerous feat even for experts, was
performed successfully the other day
by Miss Z. F. Coleman of New York.
She made the three mile slide in thir-
teen minutes, escorted by two old slid
ers, and was perfectly delighted with
the trip.
As Jobn and Harry Rerdor onad
seven and eIayap vaaIS ronnoati, s. s.
ottemnteJ to bniId a fire. Inv nS;nG cog
oil at Cleveland. O.. Sunday morninp
the can exploded. covering the two
Youngsters with the burning find.
They were so horribly burned that one
of them died before noon and the other
a few hours later.
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view. He WAS not conscious after the
injury. The affair has created great
Indignation.
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away In the streets OF Troy, n. Y, on
August =, died on Friday. Patrick