St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-05-16
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Seventy families were burned out
| last week in the village of Moreland,
ILL.,, suburb of Chicago.
The net earnings of the Canadian
Pacific railroad for the past year
were $3,S7O,774; deducting fixed
charges accruing during the year,
3,544, 351; surplus, $326,423.
Larger profits were anticipated.
A seven-year-old boy of Springfield,
Mass, has been awarden verdict
of 500, 500 for a leg which he lost
through an accident on the Boston
and Albany railroad. The verdict
gives great satisfaction i'll Springfield.
A shocking accident occurred at
through criminal carelessness. A
street-car was run into by a rapidly
moving switching engine, killing six
people and badly wounding three
others.
The Bellaire goblet works at Find
lay, Ohio, were burned last Thursday
morning; loss $115,OOO; insurance
$65, 900. About 1900 barrels of
goblets, already packed, were burned
and 800 men were thrown out of
employment. The works are the
largest of their kind in the world.
They will be rebuilt at once.
All horsemen will regret to learn
that the stables of Capt. Thomas E.
Moore, at "The Cedars," Shawhan,
KY, were burned last week, and
with them thirteen head of very fine
trotting stock The loss was $50
600 with no insurance. Kentucky
Hambletonian, worth $4,000, and
Won Wilkes, valued at $15, 900, per-
ished in the flames.
John S. Holden of Palmer, Mass,
has purchased the Bennington wool
en- mills and will start them at once.
This plant cost nearly 81 100000
and is the finest in Vermont 1t is
said the purchase price was eight per
cent. of the original cost. The mills
have been idle three years, the former
owners having gone through bank
ruptcy. The shut down caused de-
crease of 1900 in the population.
The idleness at the Pennsylvania
mines has caused much suffering
among the poor of the coal fields, and
hundreds of families are destitute
Strong, able-bodied men with large
families to support are in sore need.
For the past six months many of
them have not averaged over $40
a month, and under the grabbing
policy of the coal monopoly, they
have been reduced to the verge of
starvation.
An immense globe has been made
and will be shown at the Paris ex-
hibition, representing the earth on
scale of one-1nillionth. The globe is
about 100 feet in diameter All the
great lines of communication are
shown and details are given in true
proportions. The earth's daily ro-
tation will be precisely initiated by
clock-work, a point on the globes
equator moving an eighteenth of an
inch per second.
One of Edison's workmen has re-
turned from South America after an
absence of year and a half with a
large stock of fibrous bamboo which
it is hoped can be used in the electric
light in place of carbon points The
explorer assembled the Amazon $500
miles, went 90 days without remov-
ing his clothes and 116 days without
eating meat, and during all of this
time he was dependent upon the ser
vices of friendly savages, with whom
he could not converse, or even make
his wants known, except by the sign
language.
The new Inman line steamship
City of Paris has made the quickest
passage ever made across the Allan
tic ocean. Her time was five DAYS
twenty-three hours and seven min
utes, beating the Etruria's best rec
ord of six days one hour and fifty-five
minutes by two hours and forty-eight
minutes. The City of Paris also
beat the best days run of any ship
ahoat. On May 5 she ran 5O4 miles:
Mayo, sos miles, and on May 7. 511
miles, the last two days through
shifting fogs under adverse circum-
stances. Her entire run was made
at a speed of a fraction less than
twenty nautical miles an hour.