St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-28

A cyclone in Switzerland caused the
loss of $50 lives and much property
last week Wednesday.
Boston's tax rate is $780,, forty
cents higher than last year The val
uation is $500, O26, 100, gain
of 500, 500, 400.
A quarter inch of snow fell at Mil
ton, Pa, Monday. The thermometer
stood at 80 degrees in the shade the
day before.
Robert F. Lincoln, minister to
Great Britain, emphatically denies
the report to the effect that he will
soon resign.
Stanley's agent writes to friends of
the explorer in London that Mr.
Stanley is very far from being restor-
ed to perfect health.
A row boat containing two I'M
| known men drifted over Niagara
Falls Aug IA. Neither men or boat
have since been seen.
The black gelding, Guy, was driven
a mile at Hartford, Conn, last Sun
day in 2.11H, last half in .O5, last
quarter in 81 seconds.
a Boston newspaper has figured
out that the national G. A. X. en-
campment cost the city 100000,
and assumes that the veterans spent
over 100000.
A runaway car on the Mount Penn
| sylvania gravity railroad, which as
cendS the mountain near Reading,
dashed down a five mile declivity
Friday morning, killing six persons
and lnJuring many others.
BY the death of Prof Frederic H.
| Hedge, Francis Oliver Dorr of Troy,
N. Y, is left sole survivor of the class
of 1925 at Harvard college. Mr..
Dorr is a native of Boston, where he
was born in the year 1905.
The members of the British Iron
and Steel Institute, with their fami-
lies, sailed from Liverpool Saturday.
| The passenger list of the Servia will
number quite 300. They are to visit
the United States for instructions
| and amusement.
Charles Spauld1ng, acting agent of
the American Express at Weirs, was
caught by an iron mail hook on the
afternoon mail train at Laconia Sat
probably fatally injured. He is %
years old, and his home is at Bridge
| water, Vt.
The great Sunol trotted mile at
Chicago Saturday in 2.1Oh, break
ing her own record by three-quarters
of second. She attempted to break
Maud SIS record of 2.OSa4 but could
not. Sunol's first quarter was made
in 80 seconds, the second in 1914, the
third in 1884 and the fourth in 311a.
The steam yacht Veto of New York
ran into and cut in two fishing
boat owned and sailed by John Har-
ris of Pigeon Cove, Mass, on Sunday
morning. The owner of the yacht
asked Harris what the damage was
Harris replied, $50. The owner
then gave Harris 5000 and landed
him at Pigeon Cove.
The biggest illicit distillery in Ar
kansas, located in Pike county, has
been destroyed by United States Off
GERS. The distillery was located in a
deep mountain gulch and hemmed in
on all sides by rugged hills. The dis
tillers were discovered in the noun
tains near by, and were shot at by
the officers but escaped.
The Governor of South Carolina
has refused to appoint republican
Worlds Fair commissioner, saving
that no republican in that state was
qualified to serve. The law is very
emphatic in saying that of the two
commissioners and two alternates
from each state, one shall be chosen
from each of the two leading politi-
cal parties.
The North American Volapuk asso-
citation is holding its first annual con-
vention in Boston this week. room
at 20, $50 Washington street, con-
tains many interesting things, among
which are the following, all in Vola-
puk: collection of envelopes from diff
ferent countries, copies of magazines,
copy of a humorous magazine pub
lished at Munich. copy of a Chinese
Volapuk paper, postal cards from
different countries, the different
books. pamphlets. hymns, written
letters and badges of the associa-
| tions.