St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-03-14

| A boilerex exploded Monday at Cleve-
land, killing two and wounding four
teen persons.
Admiral Porter and his wife cele-
brated their golden wedding Monday
at Washington.
A. ]. Drexel, the banker, Is about
to establish in Philadelphia an in
dustrial school for women.
Ex-President Cleveland was elected
an active member of the New York
bar association Tuesday night.
Mr. Wanamaker will, it is said,
continue as superintendent of his
great Sunday-schoOl OF 5000 MEM
bers at Philadelphia.
Six thousand weavers struck for
higher pay in Fall River Nj onday and
the weaving department of the 80
mills are practically idle.
On the ODD of April, when the peo-
pie of Massachusetts will vote on the
question of prohibition, the Austria
liam ballot system will come into OPP
Grafton for the first time.
Representative Townshend of Hi
nois died in Washington Saturday.
Mrs. Harrison on receipt of the news
sent a beautiful note of sympathy to
Mrs. Townhend
Sidney Bartlett, the Nestor of the
Massachusetts bar, is dead at the
age of 90 He was the attorney of
the Union Pacific railroad and had
an income of 100000.
The West Virginia supreme court,
in the mandamus case ofGoff against
Wilson, gubernatorial fight, have de-
cided that Golf is not entitled to the
seat, as he was not declared elected
by the legislature in opening and
publishing the returns.
A passenger train on the Trans
Caspian railway in Russia ran off the
track down an embankment Mon
dav and the killed and wounded were
robbed. Over so are supposed to be
killed. The band of robbers who tore
up the track have been captured.
President Harrison has nominated
Albert G. Porter of Indiana, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States
to Italy, and ] A. Enander of Illinois,
to be miniSter-preSident and consul
general of the United States to Den
mark
The following nominations were
made Monday by President Harri-
son: Thomas w. Palmer of Michigan
to be minister to Spain; John F.
Swift of California, to be minister to
Japan; j Ohm d. Washburn of Massa-
chuSetts, minister to Switzerland;
Geo. Tichenor of Illinois, to be assist
ant secretary of the treasury. Pal
mer and Swift were unsuccessful can
didates for cabinet offices.
The Chinese have DESTROYED the
British consulate and a Baptist
church in Chin kiang. Gen. Jones,
American consul, and the British con-
sui remained at Chin Kiang under
the protection of British gunboat,
but sent their families to Shanghai.
The United States consulate and the
Methodist chapel were not burned.
The wife of the American consul had
to run for her life, accompanied by
her children, being pursued to the
river by the rioters.
The prohibition amendment was
defeated in New Hampshire Tuesday
by large majority. Returns from
50 towns and cities, including Dover,
keene, Concord, Nashua, Manchester
and Portsmouth, indicate majority
in opposition of from 5000 to 5000.
The unexpectedly large vote in oppO-
sition to the amendment warrants
the belief that a license law will be
enacted by the next legislature, es-
pecially as both the political parties
are DESTROYS of excluding this trouble
some issue from party politics.