St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-22
General News.


ingtOn Saturday night was l7o and the
wind blew Mt the rate of los miles an
hour.
James III. Sherry of Troy shot him
self through the heart on Sunday. He
was thirty seven years old and leaves
a widow and child.
Hanlan has accepted Ross's challenge
to row for 81 800 and the champion
ship of the world, two weeks from
signing of the articles.
A hurricane passed over Winsted,
CT, the 18th, destroying ten houses
and five barns. Twenty persons were
hurt, most of them slightly.
William Wiley, son of Bishop Wiley
of the Methodist church ut Cincinnati,
was burned to death on Friday by the
explosion of II barrel of oil.
Judge Wylie has fixed the first Mon
day i'll December for the retrial of the
star route defendants. Miner and Rer-
dell were released on 80 900 bail each.
The La Prairie P. o. barracks,
which originally cost the government
half a million dollars, were burned to
the ground during Thursdays storm.
John II. Johnston, Mayor of Dan
vile, Va, who has been on trial for
the murder of John +. Hatcher, late
chief of police, has been honorably
discharged.
The British team won the long
range matches ut CreedmoOr Friday by
IL score of 9l3, leading the Americans
Isl. The grand total of both days
was British | ,975, Americans 1905, the
British winning by 40.
Richard Slowley of Lowell, Mass,
stabbed his wife in the eye and neck
Friday night because she would not
live with him. The scoundrcl escaped
and the officers are after him. Mrs.
Slowley will probably recover.
Hon. Samuel Purdy, editor of the
Tombstone, Arizona, Epitaph, and
Patrick Hamilton, editor of the indie
pendent, were to fight duel with re-
volvers at ten PAGES, but the hostile
meeting did not take place. The
trouble grew out of an article published
by Hamilton.
Two heavy freight trains collided
near West Canaan, n. H., Friday
night, badly smashing the engine and
several cars, and blocking up the track
so that no trains could pass for several
, hours. The engineers and firemen
jumped before the trains struck, and
escaped injury.
Barney Sweeney, train robber,
captured ut Vinta, proves to he Il mem
Der of the Jesse James gang. He told
an Adams express agent that the train
would he robbed and any amount of
blood shed. He then boarded an
armed passenger train with a tramp
named Wilson.
Official returns from sixty-One coun-
ties on the vote for governor in Arkan-
a sas, are Berry, Dem.,) 75,940; Slack
n (Rep.,) D,947 Garland, (Gr.,) SOL.
4 Berry's majority over Slack, $4,000
n over both, nearly 2S,0O0. The senate
will stand: Democrats, 26 out of 81,
n and the house, Democrats, 73 out of 81.
1t has been announced that Cover
0 nor COlquitt was to appoint b. IL. Hill,
Jr., to fill the uneXpircd term of his
father, Hon. b. ii. Hill, in the senate.
v Mr.. Hill has prepared IA letter to be
y sent to Gov. Colquitt declining the
V prospective appointment, stating that
y the Office is beyond his aspirations.
~ A large shoe factory in Elmira, n.
n Y, was entirely destroyed by fire Fri
n day night. Loss SG00,0O0. Three
M hundred hands are thrown ont of en-
:" plOyment. Several of the employees
~ barely escaped with their lives, and
= several had to jump from windows.
y One fireman was injured by falling
= wall.
s A piratical craft was captured at
: Hamesville, KY, by the sheriff of Han
= cock county after desperate fight and
a two men and one woman on board the
a vessel were made prisoners. Much of
N the material on board was identified a.
% stolen. Several thousand dollars
10 worth of jewelry found on board awaits
x identification.
3 Fire broke out in the large lumber
10 mill of Mitchell & Rowland ut Toledo,
3 o., early Friday morning, and burned
3 the structure to the ground. Soon
10 afterward flames burst out among the
10 timber and sawed stuff in the yard,
10 and before they could be checked had
10 destroyed l4,0O0,00 feet, worth 1925,
'e 900 total loss S:25,000.
s. A negro named Nathan Bonnet, sew
y enteen years old, who entered the
house of a white citizen of WillistOn,
S. c., at midnight and attempted to
10 outrage his daughter, was taken from
NJ the town Jail by "A body of lynchers
M who OverpOwered the .jailer. Bonnet,
NJ who had confessed his guilt, was
N hanged and riddled with bullets.
NJ Major F. J. McQuiddy, recently
10 nominated by the greenback cOnven-
~ ton for governor, was arrested on
30 Wednesday by the United States mar
10 shall on a charge of having conspired
80 to Obstruct United States marshal
3 Poole in the performance of his duties
. during the Mussel Slough troubles of
3 two years ago. McQuiddy gave bonds
p and was released from custody.
% Near Richmond, Va, on Saturday, an
engineer of a railroad train discovered
p a man walking on the track ahead. He
gave whistle and the man stepped
80 aside and continued walking along.
% When the train was within twenty five
% yards of him he stretched himself OH
% the ground with his body lying at an
50 angle from the track and his head over
% the rail- The whole train passed over
25 him and he was completely decapitat
81 ed. The body was lying on the ont.
25 side track and the head between the
50 rails The man was well dressed anC
p papers in his pockets indicated thai
% his name was George G.. Morse o
80 Michigan. He had photographs o