St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09

The sophomore and freshmen classes
of the Troy On. " polytechnic insti
tute were suspended Friday for de-
stroying 5000 worth of the schools
property in a rush.
The Dartmouth secret societies will
initiate the pledged freshmen just be-
fore the Thanksgiving recess this year,
the freshman societies having been
abolished.
The Kerr heirs have won their suit
against Chicago. 1t has been in the
courts for thirteen years and they will
recover over 5000, 900 for Ill acres of
land in the heart of one of the city
parks.
The leading hotel of New Bedford
has had but two colOred guests in its
history until since the civil rights de
cision. Now its doors are freely
opened to them. Legal suasion is not
always the most powerful.
Frank E. Bronson, a druggist of
Oberlin, O., has sued Rev. James
Brand, the Congregational minister,
for $4,000 on account of the latter's
use of some very lurid crusade rhetoric
nearly TWO years ago.
The ten-mile bicycle race on Hamp-
den park, Springfield, Saturday after
noon, between George NJ. Hendee of
Springfield, the amateur ten-mile
champion, and a. ii. Robinson of Lon
don, Eng, was won by Hendee in 39m.
! lbs.
The firing up of stoves brings to the
! front the fool who hides his money in
that convenient receptacle. Jacob
Seib of Erie, Pa, farmer, had IA safe,
but was afraid of burglars and put
$4,000 in ''the sitting-room stove"
1t was total loss.
Burglars broke into the carpenter
shop of George Larkins on River
street, Danbury, Conn, Friday night,
and succeeded in striking the combina-
ton lock to the safe in the shop. They
stole about $4,000 in money.
BY direction of the city council OF
Sioux Falls, Dakota, the telephone
poles and wires on the principal streets
were cut Saturday by policemen, the
order for the removal of the poles hav-
ing been disregarded by the company.
The governor of the great state of
Missouri is charged by st. Louis
grand jury with helping protect
gamblers in the.city from the operation
of the law and censured without stint,
and several of the men most intimately
concerned with him in the business
are indicted.
About 325 houses were destroyed 10y
the fire in Savannah, and the property
loss will, it is estimated, exceed 81,
100000 The insurance will not cover
more than one-third the loss. Nine
persons are known to have persisted in
the flames.
The house of Mary Welch, an old
lady of sixty years, in Cumminsville, Il
suburb near Cincinnati, took fire. The
old lady tried to save her grandson
Charles Skillman, aged nine, but was
overcome by the flames and both were
burned to death.
A confagratiOn occurred at Will
lOughby, Ohio, IL small town east OF
Cleveland. The high wind increased
the force of the flames which consumed
about twenty stores, dwellings, sheds
and barns. The aggregate loss i,
100000 and the insurance half that
amount.
The monopoly wins: At Des Moines
Iowa, the farmers protective society
organized to fight the barb-wire mo-
nOpOly, have resolved to let the fight &c
by default after sixty days, unless the
farmers and others interested raise the
money needed to keep up the war
The society is in debt $1,000
A prize fight for 81 1000 "A side, be
tween McFadden of Winnipeg and
MARYLAND of st. Louis, took place a
Caldwell, Idaho, the 3lst. The fight
) was ended in the 18th round, MARYLAND
receiving punishment from which it is
thought he cannot recover.
Gov. Cleveland is trying to stay tn,
tide of political corruption in YorL
state by issuing a proclamation calling
upon all prosecuting attorneys ano
other officers to be diligent in the dis
cOvery and punishment Of corruption
ut the polls.
The girl Mary Churchill whose mys
teriOus disappea rance from st. LOui
caused so much excitement has been
discovered in an insane asylum three
miles from indianapolis, where she ha,
been working in the laundry sine,
Sept. /, under the name of Jenni,
Lockwood. Her father has tallen he