St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-02-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Famine i'm Turkey.

Rev. DR.. Judson Smith, foreign sec
rotary of the American board of com :
missiOners for foreign missions, receiv-
ed on Monday the following dispatch
from the famine relief committee at
Constantinople:
"Adana people dying from hunger.
Money exhausted. Shall we stop2"
DIR. Smith explains that the famine
in Central Turkey resulting from the
drouth, and in Eastern Turkey from
devastation of 10000 square miles by
lOcusts, is now eliminating in utter
restitution and death. No relief can
come from the ground until about June
1. In January only $500 was sent us
for the sufferers and four times that
amount was needed. For the four
months to come $25, 200, ut least, are
necessary in Central Turkey alone.
Immediate and liberal contributions
are urgently solicited. If sent to Lang
don S. Ward, the treasurer, No. l Som
erset street, Boston, they will be for
warded promptly to the committee of
missionaries and others for distribu-
ton among sufferers of all races and
creeds.
The Deadly Electric Light Wire.
IA broken telephone wire fell across
the street at Buffalo, N. Y, Sunday
night, one end lodging on a Brush cleo
trio light wire. A grocer's horse ran
against it and fell dead. Immediately
afterward Isaac Morton of Detroit, a
cOlored sleeping Car porter, came up,
touched the wire and was instantly
killed. Will Summerville, Is, was
killed at Memphis, Tenn, Sunday night
by contact with an electric light wire.
One of the Brush lights was on the
ground, and lot of boys were having
fun with it and being shocked. Sum
merville touched it with piece of
hoop iron, and was killed almost in
stantly by the shock.
Gen. Phil Sheridan i'm Boston.
Gen. Phil Sheridan was given Il hear
ty welcome in Boston last week where
he was handsomely entertained by the
city and at banquet of the military
order of the Loyal Legion, all Organi
cation of which Gen. Sheridan is the
national head.
j. C. Cowley, held in high esteem at
Boston, has defaulted for $4,000,
mostly trust funds.
Col. j. H. George, prominent New
Hampshire lawyer, died at his resi-
dence in Concord, N. H., Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, wife
of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, died
Monday morning in the Goth year of
her age.
Shenandoah, Penn, is in a perfect
uproar, caused by a serious riot in the
mining districts. The men are mad
with passion and drink, and no one ap-
pears to have any power to quell them.
The greatest landslide ever known
in California has taken place on the
line of the California and Oregon rail-
road The road is a new one, and the
recent heavy rains thoroughly soaked
the fresh roadbed, so that the whole
country let go and came down on the
track. About 100 miles of track are
covered with debris.
Freight train 3d." bound south over
the Northern railroad, due at Concord,
n. H., last Saturday afternoon, broke
apart on a grade, and ran together
again at about three-quarters of mile
above North Boscawen. Three of the
cars were telescoped and six or seven
smashed. A Tiffany refrigerator car,
loaded with dressed beef, was nearly
split i'm two. A brakeman named
Clough was injured.