St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-08-27


breacll-loading gun belonging to her
took this down to carry it to a safer
feet away when there was a sudden
discharge and the cartridge tore
through her brain. When the SER
wants rushed in they found her lying
dead with her face to the floor.
SMALL POX SPREADING.
The smallpox has broken ont III
Farnham, just over the Canada line.
and all the Vermont towns along the
border are stirring themselves to ward
off the plague. The railroads leading
south from Montreal including the
Central Vermont are ordering cars
disinfected, employees yaccinated and
enforcing generally strict sanitary
rules to prevent the transportation OF
| the disease from the infected districts.
Orders have been given on the Grand
Trunk road instantly to discharge any
employee who refuses to be vaccinated
Tuesday was the first rainy day in
Boston since June % and the most
prOtracted storm since June 3.
Gov. Robinson and wife of Massa-
chusetts, are at the Memphremagog
house, Newport.
Evangelist Moody preached two ser
mons Sunday to large congregations al
the Fabyan house.
A severe frost was experienced at the
Northwest Monday night. The mer-
curry fell to % in the night.
William Il. Stead, the editor of the
Pail Mall Gazette, is about 40 years OF
age and the son of q Congregations
minister.
All except about twenty of the men
employed at ROach's yard, Chester
Pa, were laid off Saturday night and
the yard is practically closed.
An extensive series of thunder storms
passed north and east of Hartford,
Conn, Monday afternoon and did great
damage to the tobacco crop.
At Harrisburg, Pa, Paul Suslieskie,
a workman at the Pennsylvania steel
works, fell into furnace full of molten
metal and was entirely consumed in a
twinkling.
The telephone subscribers in Gardi-
ner, Maine, have met the company's
advanced rates by ordering the instru-
ments removed from their officers. A
! lively war is now going on.
Work in the No mills of the Great
Falls manufacturing company at Do
yer, n. H., which was suspended sew
eral months ago, was resumed Monday
500 hands being employed. ..
Capt. Seth Eastman, well-knOwn
oit - .,f 10
at the age of 81. He was a son OF
Capt. Nathaniel Eastman, revolu-
tiOnary soldier.
The reports of the murder of three
Americans and eight MeXicans at
Basachuca, Ariz., 10y Apaches has been
confirmed by Agapilo Franco WHO al
rived at Nogales Monday from the
scene of the massacre.
DR.. Douglass, Il wellknOwn EpiscO-
pal minister at Plymouth, Mass,
walked across the incIOsed grounds of
the Pilgrim society Saturday and was
arrested for trespass, causing much in
dignation.
At Rockland, Me-, hotel proprietor
was shot and severely wounded by a
liquor detective, and there is some
y
keeper assaulted the detective, who re-
piled with Il revolver.
Hon. Reuben f. Fenton, ex- United
States senator and ex-governor of New
York, died suddenly in his bank
in jamestown, n. Y, Tuesday af-
ternOon. Gov. Fenton was born
at Carroll, Chautauqua county, and
was 66 wears of age.
A wind storm, widespread and de-
structive to property, visited some
portions of the South Tuesday. Its
force was particularly heavy in
Charleston, S. c., and vicinity, where
the loss is estimated at one million
dollars.
Oil has been struck at the Gordon
well two miles from Washington,
Penn, at a depth of 24O0 feet, and
flowed twenty-five barrels an hour uu
til the well was shut down for tank
age. The strike has caused great ex-
element.
A terrible thunder storm broke over
Erie, Pa, Wednesday night. 1t came
like a cyclone, and swept through the
country, doing incalculable damage.
Hail accompanying the storm cut and
siashed the crops, orchards and vine
yards in serious manner along the
lake shore.
Holein-tbe Day, the noted Chippe-
wa chief, while en- route to st. Paul
Tuesday night, was taken from a
Northern Pacific train at way sta
ton, dragged into the woods and so
brutality beaten that he is not expected
to recover. 1t is supposed to have
been the work of whisky men, against
whom he was going to testify in the
Federal court.
AT Detroit, Mich, the other morning
the infant child OF Charles Sullivan APP
parently died and was prepared for
burial: Fifteen hours after the sup
posed death, while the family and
friends were gathered about the cas-
ket, the baby began to cry, fIigirten
ing nearly every one from the house.
The father quickly recovered from his
and took the child from
the coffin, and it las been iD better
health than for some time.
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