St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-15
NEWS IN GENERAL.

A feeble attempt was made by a
small body of conspirators on July
80 to overthrow the Sandwich Is
land government. Several persons
were killed.
The state department intends to
make serious efforts to secure a re-
peal of the stringent French and Ger
hog products.
Ex-Governor Robinson will preside
at the Massachusetts republican
state convention Sept. 25th. Hon
Henry Cabot Lodge will be chair
man of the committee on resolutions.
The original deed of the island of
Manhattan, now the site of New
York city, to the Dutch West India
company in 1926 for $24, was found
recently in Holland amid the papers
of an old Dutch family.
A little boy of only nine years ar
rived in Pomona, Cal, a few days
ago, after having made a journey of
over 5000 miles from Lincolnshire,
Eng, entirely alone. He had a tag
fastened to his clothes and 5000 in
his pockets.
The boiler Of a naptha launch
owned by L. B. Crocker, superintend-
ent of the New York Central stock
yards, exploded at Buffalo last week
Wednesday, killing three of Crocker's
children and a workman, and severe
ly burning three other persons.
Jonathan Bourne of New Bedford
died last week Wednesday in his 10th
year. He was one of the political
leaders of the Cape district, philan-
throphist as well as capitalist and
at one time he had a larger interest
i'll the whale fishery than any other
person in the world.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says
that Stanley is coming down the
coast with Emin Pasha, 5000 men
and an enormous quantity of ivory.
The exact date of their arrival is un-
certain The Germans are doing
their utmost to create a disturbance
here, and a rising against all Eu-
ropeans is not only possible, but
highly probable.
The Chippewa commission have
been very successful in their negotia-
tions for land among the Indians
and they have coded between 3,OOO,-
900 and 100000 acres, containing
the most valuable and extensive pine
forest in the Northwest. The COM
missioners also secured for the lum-
ber1nen the free use of all streams
running through the diminished res
ervatlon.
A terrible epidemic has appeared at
Warsaw, Ill. 1t came on last month
in light form, and resembled dysen-
terry, but on Wednesday last it as
sumed a more serious phase, and
now Is people have died. One hun
dred and eighty cases are now re-
ported. Many of them, it is feared,
will result fatally. The people are
terror stricken. Funerals are being
held daily and a gloom has fallen
over the city.
William D. Harris, a Marblehead
shoemaker, died Friday after two
days of suffering. He had been in the
habit of taking a jug of drinking
water to his shop every day and on
Tuesday he carried, by mistake, a
jug of washing fluid. He drank of
the contents and was Immediately
taken with severe pains, and al
though emetics were freely admins
tered, the poison did its work.
The French Chamber of Deputies
have method of voting by electric
lty to save time. On every desk is
small box fitted with two handles,
which the member works when regis
tering his vote. The right handle
registers AYE" the left no" and
both moved simultaneously indicate
his abstention from voting. The re-
suits are printed by means of electro
magnets in a receiver, and are visible
at glance. Provision is made for
member TO recall and correct his vote
during the time allowed for the pur-
pose