St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-09-10
News of the Week.


Evangelist Moody goes to Lynn
Sept. %.
Dartmouth college opened Thurs
day, using the new Rollins chapel for
the first time. E. E. Rollins of Phila-
delphia, the giver of the chapel, was
present. The entering academic class
numbers 20, Chandler scientific school
Is, and agricultural college II. The
sOphOmOres gain five additional mem
bers and the Juniors one.
The Allan line mail steamer HanO-
verian went ashore Wednesday morn
ing at Portugal Cove, IA miles north
west of Cape Race, and will probably
be total loss. The passengers and
crew are believed to be safe.
Oshkosh, Wis, was the scene of a
sad drowning accident Friday morning
by which six people lost their lives. 1t
was at 8 Il. M, when labOrers were on
their way to work. The draw to the
St. Paul railroad bridge was open and
nine girls and two men, nearly all en-
plOyed in the Diamond match works,
tried to cross the open channel in a
boat. They were caught in the swell
of tug which had passed through just
before, and their boat was upset. Only
five of them were rescued. The girls
clung to a man who tried to rescue
them and pulled him down to a watery
grave with them. 1t was charged that
the day bridge tender kept the draw
open on purpose to collect the pit
lance for ferrying passengers across,
and threats of lynching him became so
frequent that he hid.
The strike on the part of the union
mOlders at the stove works of Rath-
bone, Sard 81 Co., Albany, n. Y, is
filed the places of so large n number
At the beginning the strikers endeav-
Ored to prevent nOn-uniOn mOulders
from entering the foundry, but the po-
lice force put stop to this. Two OF
their fOundries are now in operation,
and the firm declare that with thirty
more nOnuniOn men they will have all
the mOlders they will require at pres
ent.
THE DEADLY REVOLVER.
At Greenfield, Mass, Rev. Mr.
Scharf's little girl, aged four years, ac-
cidentally shot her twO-year- old broth
er with a revolver, which had been left
in the chamber by guest. The ser
want bad gone into Il room to do some
work when one of the children came to
her saying, "baby is hurt" The girl
ran up the stairs and found the child
on the floor, the ball having passed
through his forehead.
AN HEROIC ENGINEER.
Bob HaylOr, the train engineer who
stuck to his position last Wednesday
in the accident on the Indiana, Bloom
ingtOn and Western railroad, to save
the lives of passengers died Sunday
from the results of his injuries. He
braved certain death to save the
lives of the passengers, many of whom
would have been killed had he desert
ed his post.
CHINESE MASSACRE.
The white miners in the Union Pa
citic railroad company's coal pits at
Rock Springs, Wy, rose last week and
with pistols and guns drove all the
Chinese, numbering 500, from the
camp into the mountains. Fifty houses
belonging to the railroad company and
80 more owned by the Cinnamon were
burned to the ground. The outbreak
was a preconcerted one. 1t had been
arranged that the first attack upon the
Chinese was to be made in Carbon, a
mining town about $50 miles east of
Rock Springs, to be followed by like
movement in the latter place and
Evanston. The Rock Springs miners,
however, took the initiative, and the
result there has been ANNOUNCED. The
mob at that place looted the houses of
the Chinese before setting them on fire.
The Outrages began in mine No. 8,
where three Chinese miners were at
tackled and killed. Then the riot
spread all over the town. The $50
white miners charged on the Celestials
in body. Even women Joined in
with loaded shOtguns in their hands.
Meantime all was excitement i'm China
town. The flag was hoisted as n warn
ing, and the Chinese working in diff
ferent parts of the camp fled to their
quarters. About 100 miners armed
with guns, revolvers, hatchets and
knives gathered in the front street and
proceeded toward Chinatown. They
sent committee of three warning the
Cinnamon to leave in an hour. This
w hO, anu OCu pdCh
up, but in half an hour the white men
grew impatient and advanced upon the
Chinese quarters, shouting and firing
their guns into the air. Without offer
ing resistance, the Chinese fled with
whatever they could snatch up. They
fed to the hills about a mile east of
town, the miners firing at them as they
fed. The miners then set fire to some
of the houses, and soon or 10 of the
largest were in flames. Half chOked
with fire and smoke, numbers of Chi
namen came rushing from the burning
buildings, and with blankets and bed
quilts over their heads followed their
retreating brothers into the hills. 1t
is known that many of the fugitives
have persisted on the bleak hills, to
which they were driven for refuge, and
when the worst is told, it is believed
that no less than 100 names will be
found upon the death-roll.