St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-08-24
General News.

that he is alive.
New Hampshire has one divorce for
every ten marriages.
The trial of Frank James, the noted
outlaw, is progressing at Galletin, Mo.
A Galveston, Texas, man was blown
two hundred feet by a cyclone on
Thursday.
Old Orchard is to have grand
carnival and illumination Friday even
ing, Aug. 81.
There were eight more failures in
the United States last week than the
week preceding.
X. McCready Il Co.'S shoe manufac-
tory mt Montreal was burned on Sun
day. Loss, 100000.
The section of the Northern Pacific
railroad uniting the two ends near
MILAN tunnel has been completed.
The cost of construction of the
Florida ship canal will be S46.0OO, 900
and the length of the canal l37! miles
A considerable number of st. Louis
cigar makers and dealers have decided
to keep their shops open on Sundays
| hereafter.
The Northern Pacific Express COM
pany has been formed to do an express
business over the lines of the Northern
Pacific railway.
AT Richmond, Me-, the Lincoln house
was totally destroyed by fire. The
guest and other inmates narrowly es-
capped. Loss $4,000.
The Georgia legislature has appro-
priated 81 .000,000 for the building of
a new capitol. 1t will take five or six
years to complete the work.
Harper & Brothers of New York
have purchased a site in Cincinnati,
paying 100000, on which they will
erect branch publishing house.
Geo. w. Bromley, a soldier of the
Mexican war, and who, it is claimed,
killed the Seminole chief OsceOla in
the Florida Indian war, is dead.
Over $4,000 worth of silks were
stolen from the ware-rOOms of w
Dazian on Union square, New York
Thursday morning, by expert burglars
The National Telegraph company
has been incorporated. The capita
: stock is S25,OOO, with the provision
| that it may be increased to $1,000.
600.
John Dewey, editor of the Irish Ma
. ton, who was convicted for libelins
: August Belmont, was released from
, Jail Friday and rendered reception
by his friends.
The Methodist ministers of New
England receive an average salary o
$500 year, the Baptists tritle more
the Presbyterians $40, and the Epis
I cOpalians 5000.
q Arthur II. Blaney, late cashier of tn,
. American loan and trust company, wa
sentenced to seven years in the state
prison ut Boston for the embezzlemen
of S44 900 from that concern.
The Land National bank of Warren
f Ohio, has closed its doors by reason o
= the defalcatiOn of its cashier, X. NJ
t Fitch, to the tune of go, 900 or $50, 200
5 Fitch has been arrested ut Detroit.
The reorganization of the First Ma
= tional bank of Indianapolis was com
pleted Thursday evening. The stool
= of the bank has been increased from
e 100000 to 5000 paid in capital.
E Mary Lamb, an English woman
70 died at Plainsvillc, Penn, on Saturday
Had she lived until September sh,
would have been one hundred years old
II Her husband died recently at the ag
of ninety-nine.
- The water board of Boston has de
p. cided on the adoption of Il measure
+ mcnt system by meters for the use u
that city, believing that by the use o
t meters a great saving in the waite
- rates will he obtained.
t John w. Mackey has been formal
2, made the trustee of 2,000,0 of tn
Il S24 ,0O0,OO0 of capital stock of tn
!. Postal Telegraph company. This give
= him complete control of the company
He will not talk about his plans in re
!. gard To the system.
Il At Cobleskill, n. Y, Thursday
e Frank Blood, aged twenty six, wa
Il bitten on the wrist by dog. Tn
Il wound was tritling, but Blood asserte,
e that he would die from it. He died il
e the evening, showing none of the usua
signs of hydrophobia.
t Recently the telephone operator i
= Augusta, Me-, cOnversed over til
:. wires with the operator in Boston. Al
If though the distance is Ia miles, We
|
II tinctly heard and conversation wa
8 carried on with ease.
a little Cambridge girl has recent
h made Il great sacrifice in order to hel
;, poor people to 90 on excursions. Sh
:, has risen rather earlier than usual fO
;. Il few mornings on the promise of tw
h cents per morning, and has contribute
l, that sum to the fresh-air fund.
e The current statement that Charlie
l.. Colby, son of the late Gardne
c Colby of Newton, had given $1,000,
e 600 to establish Il new university l
Is Wisconsin, is denied by the member
e of the family, who state that there is II
o foundation whatever for the story.
l. Mrs. Samuel Scheibler went to
II dentist office at Memphis to have som
; teeth extracted. She desired to hav
chlorOform administered, which wa
= accordingly done. After the teet
r, were extracted all efforts to resuscitat
v her failed, and she died in the chair.
e Hanlan won the race at Lake Wa
u snacum, Mass, Friday, in thrice
= minutes and forty seconds. Hosme
y was second in 1913 and Lee third i
I3.45I The course was about tw
miles. There were 5000 spectator
= Plaisted and Hamm entered, but faile
a to appear.
II Edmund Woods, prominent cit
y zen, who was shot by some unknow
Us person while riding in his carriag
;, from Hillsboro to Deering, n. II
!. Saturday, died at his residence in Dee
y ing Monday, having remained uncOr
scious from the time he was found ii
Of his death. No clue to the perpetratoI
re of the crime has been discovered.
Is The city of Galveston, Texas, is o
l. the verge of a water famine, the CT.