St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-11-05

ed these officers: President, William
B. Washburn of Massachusetts vice
Rev. DR.. c. l.. Goodell of
Missouri, Rev. DR.. A. j. F. Behrends
of New York, Rev. DR.. F. A. Noble of
Rev. DR.. Alexander Mckenzie
of Massachusetts, and Rev. ID. 0. Mears
of Massachusetts corresponding sec
rotary, Rev. NJ. E. Strictly of New
York treasurer, H. w. Hubbard of
New York executive committee, John
ii. Washburn chairman, A. p. Foster
secretary members for three years, j.
E. Rankin, William H. Ward, J. L.
John H. Washburn and Ed
mund l.. Champlin; for two years,
Lyman Abbott, A. S. Barns, j. r. Dan
forth, Clinton B. Fisk and A. p. FOs-
ter for one year, B. Halliday, Samuel
Holmes, Samuel S. MARBLES, Charles l..
Mead and Ebert B. Monroe.
A SchoOI-Boy's Suicide.
Loring l.. Lord, the To- years old son
of Charles A. Lord of Pride's Bridge at
WestbrOOk, Me-, committed suicide
Friday afternoon. The school teacher
had accused him of breaking win
dow. He went directly home, took a
gun into the yard to clean it, loaded it
and fired it into the air /; then put in "a
tremendous charge of powder and a
large quantity of shot, took the gun in
to the shed and dashed it to a saw
horse, tied a string to the trigger and
the end of the ramrod to the string,
knelt down with his ear close to the
muzzle and exploded the charge, which
made a clean hole through his head,
an inch in diameter.
Found Dead i'm a Barouche.
The escapOde of the Harvard boys
who engaged barouche to accompa-
ny their classmate Tyler in his walk
from Cambridge to Worcester Thurs
day had a tragic ending. Patrick Lar
kin drove the party and started from
Worcester Friday with the empty car
r .ge for Boston. Saturday morning
the team was found on the old WOrces-
ter turnpike with Larkin dead on the
seat with Il broken neck. How he
came by his death is not known, but it
is believed he was struck in the dark
ness by limb of tree. Several bot
ties of liquor were found in the vehicle.
Quarantine on the Border.
The smallpox quarantine on the
northern border is to be strengthened.
The sanitary inspectors of the United
States marine hospital service at ST.
Adams, ROuse's Point, Newport, Rich
ford and Island Pond have been in
structed to detain all Montreal bag
gage for disinfectiOn and vaccinate all
persons from that city who fail to pos
sess certificates from physicians known
to the inspectors. No person will be
permitted to leave the places designat-
ed without IA certificate from the Unit
ed States inspector.
Pres. Porter of Yale college has re-
signed.
Maine lumbermen will refuse to en-
plOy any workmen this winter who
have not been recently vaccinated.
OF the 81 candidates for office in New
York city and county the past cam
paign, 10 are rumsellers and Z have no
business but politics.
The severest storm in a long while
ragged along the coast Thursday night.
A schooner was driven ashore off
Portsmouth and went to pieces, the
crew barely escaping with their lives.
Robbers entered sleeping car near
Indianapolis last week, chlOrOformed
the passengers and secured 800. One
invalid passenger sank under the drug
and died soon after reaching his desti-
nation.
A portion of a bridge on which a
large number of people had congregat-
ed to look at a fire in East Saginaw
Mich, gave way Wednesday evening,
precipitating about sixty persons into
the swift stream. Six dead bodies
have been recovered and others are
missing.
Cardinal Manning and fourteen Brit
ish Catholic bishops have issued a
manifesto denOuncing mixed educa-
ton. 1t is impossible, the manifesto
says, for Catholics to accept education
when it is divorced from religion.
Senator Leland Stanford has given
orders to deed in trust his three i'm
mense ranches in California known as
Vina, Gridley and Palo Alta for the
endowment of university and schools
about to be erected at PalO Alta. The
three ranches comprise about $4,000
acres, and together represent IA value
of SO, 10000
The explosion of a boiler on a steam
dredge at New London, Conn, Sun
day night, cost six men their lives. No
trace of the dredge or her crew could
be found after the accident. A dyna-
mite cartridge exploded in New York
Monday morning at the new CrOton
acqueduct. Two men, both aged about
%, were instantly killed.
The glOries of the horse race took on
an added luster last week at jerome
park. Thirteen horses were in the
race and the track is not wide enough
for ten. At dangerous bend near the
another making confused heap of
themselves and their riders. One Sl5,-
600 horse was killed outright, one
jockey fatally injured and the other
horses and men were seriously injured.