St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-07-24
General News.

Cowboys in the Judith district in
Montana have hanged thirteen horse
thieves in three weeks.
Caroline E. Browne, well known as
the mother of the celebrated humorist.
Artemus Ward, died at Waterford,
Me-, the l4th.
The national association of school
teachers is i'll session ut Madison, Wis,
and 6OOO persons were present at the
opening exercises.
Montana cowboys hung five horse
thieves in one bunch on Friday, stolen
horses being found in their possession.
This makes l3 horse thieves lynched in
the same region i'll three weeks.
Roger Amero has obtained S4OO
damages against the constable who ar
rested him in Nova Scotia some time
since on charge of murder, of which he
was aquitted after extradition to Bos-
ton.
The first feeling, after that of thank
fitness, for the rescue of Lieut.. Greedy
and the remnent of his party was, with
large majority of people, 'I hope
this will be the last of the Arctic ex-
plOratiOns."
After ten days of the prohibition law
in Iowa, about eight-tenths of the
saloons are still open, dispensing
''mum," ''refOrm pop" and other non
Intoxicating beverages. One-tenth are
closed, and the remainder are selling
in defiance of the law. The latter
state of affairs exists in the river
towns, where the temperance workers
are obliged to combat public senti-
ment.
A well which was being dug at the
factory of Duke & Sons at Durham, n.
c., caved in, burying seven men, three
of whom were taken out, one of them
badly injured. The bodies of the
other four remain in the well.
All the business portion of Cedar
Springs, Mich, excepting two stores
and Il newspaper office, together with
two-thirds of the residences, were des-
trOyed by fire. Three men and a boy
were burned to death. The property
loss is estimated at from SI50,000 to
S200,OO0.
Still another wholesale cattle-raising
scheme is reported. A company has
been organized in New York, with
Gen. Mcclellan as II member, with
'ranch" measuring 40 by 90 miles and
containing 800, 900 acres in the south
west corner of New Mexico. The con-
Germ starts with 10000 cattle and $50
horses.
There are now % saw-mills in opera
ton between Lynchburg and Danville,
Va, on the Midland railroad, which
will cut 81 100000 feet of lumber in a
year, worth on the spot S3,250, 900.
This lumber region was opened by the
railroad only 10 years ago.
The English court of queens bench
decides that schOOl-master has no
right to give pupil lessons to learn
at home, and that man who did so
and then kept child after school as
punishment for failure to study is
guilty of an assault.
Henry Burk (colored), charged with
attempting to outrage a little white
girl, was lynched at Tuscaloosa, Ia, |
Friday night. The mob hanged him
to a tree in the street and then shot
five bullets into the body.
The Empire State steamer, which
has several years been used as an ex-
cursiOn boat out of Boston, stove in 30 |
feet of her bottom within few rods of |
the shore off Cape Ann, Sunday, with |
700 people aboard. She was sailed |
four miles to Gloucester, the passen-
gers unloaded, and then beached Just
as she has ready to 90 down. A mar
row escape from an awful disaster.