St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-29
NEWS IN GENERAL.

L. P. Thayer has begun at Barre
"The Green Mountain State" new
monthly paper devoted to booming
Vermont.
Two large cotton mills and a wool
en- mill at Providence, r. l., suspend
ed last week as a result of the recent
Lewis Bros. failure.
Lack of funds has compelled re-
trenchment in the pension Office, and
Commissioner Tanners daughter
was one of the first clerks to be re-
moved.
An Ohio private has recently got
the largest pension payment on rec
ord. The amount of arrears allowed
was $15, 2S9, his disability dating
back to Nov. IA, 1862.
Eben S. Allen, the defaulting ex-
president of the 42d street railroad
company, New York, has been SEN
fenced to IA years in prison, and has
been taken to Sing Sing.
Considerable excitement prevails
at Albany, Wis, over the finding of
pearls in clam shells in the Sugar riv-
err Some have been sold as high as
SIS, and 500 have been refused for
others.
No fewer than eighteen contested
election cases will await decision
when the coming Congress meets.
The testimony in seventeen of these
has already been taken, and is vol
luminous.
The Danvers, Mass, selectmen
have ordered that all dogs in that
town be securely muzzled or restrain
ed from going at large until Sept. %.
The police are instructed to kill all
dogs where these rules are violated.
The Virginia republican state con-
vention at Norfolk has nominated
Gen. William Malone for governor
and Col. Campbell c. Slemp for lieu
tenant governor. The convention
was called to order with Gen. Ma
hone in the chair.
At the sham battle fought by the
German troops for the amusement of
Emperor Francis Joseph, one division
used the new smokeless powder, the
effect being that no smoke was visi-
BILE at a distance of three hundred
yards, and no sound was heard be-
yond a slight tapping.
A peculiar accident happened dur
ing a game of ball at Brownsville,
Me. Edgar Howard, IA years old,
went to the bat, and the first ball
pitched struck a dynamite cap which
he had picked up on the railroad
track and put in his pocket. His
right arm and side were fearfully
lacerated by the explosion, and he
died shortly after.
There is prospect of a big legal
fight over land on the summit of
Mount Washington. The portion in
disputeis about five acres, and it has
been used for some time by the rail-
way company for terminal facilities.
1t belongs to the Pingree heirs of
Salem, and they demand the modest
sum of $25O,OOO for it. The railway
company justly regard this demand
as exorbitant, and have appealed to
the railway commissioners to have
it forfeited, and then allow the courts
to settle the compensation. Both
parties have engaged eminent coun-
sci and long fight is probable.
A horrible wreck occurred at Flat
Cap creek, % miles from Knoxville,
ILL.,, last week Thursday. The train
was the first to go over the new road
and carried a select excursion of city
councillors, the board of public
works, representatives of the cham
Der of commerce and the very flower
of the business and professional men
of Knoxville The train of two cars
left the track at crossing and the
rear car went down a trestle. The
injured-and of Sc persons on the
train Al were injured-include the
most prominent men of Knoxville.
Three men died from their injuries
and others cannot live