St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-11
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Names Election.

Monday was election day in Maine
and the republicans have elected the
entire state ticket. Edwin c. Bur
leigh of Augusta received over 49,
600 majority for governor. Con
gressmen Dingley, Boutelle and
Milliken were reelected by majorities
ranging from 5000 to 5000 and
Speaker Thomas B. Reed received a
plurality of almost 5000 The fol-
lowing dispatch sent a t midnight by
]. H. Manley, chairman of the state
republican committee, to President
Harrison, tells the whole story
Maine gives the largest republican
majority thrown in an off year since
1866 and a larger majority than
given in presidential contest since
1868 with the single exceptions of
1884 and 1888. Gov. Burleigh is
elected by a majority exceeding 49,
600. Speaker Reed is reelected by
the largest majority he ever received,
exceeding 1900. Representatives
Dingley, Boutelle and Milliken are re-
elected by majorities ranging from
5000 to 5000. The Pine Tree state
endorses your administra ton and
remains firm in its advocacy of pro-
lection to American industries and
American labor"
Five labOrers were killed and 81
wounded in a collision on the Rio
Grande near Florence, Col, on Sat
urday.
September Is and 16 will be
observed by the Jews throughout
the world as the 5621st anniversary
of their new year.
Isaac Sawtell has been indicted by
the grand jury at Dover, N. H., for
the murder of his brother, Hiram, at
Rochester last winter.
Bohemia has just passed through
a very disastrous flood which has to
a large degree destroyed the crops,
and in Prague $4,000 people have
been reduced in circumstances.
Maximillian Fleischman, the great
yeast cake manufacturer of New
York and Cincinnati died Sept. 1.
He came to this country in 1866 and
two years later established the yeast
business. He leaves over 81 100000.
Some workmen engaged in blast
ing a cut at SpakOne Falls accident
ally set off blast of 200 pounds of
giant powder and that exploded
another blast. Eighteen men have
been taken out dead and 81 more
are unaccOunted for.
Horace W. Wilder, proprietor and
founder of the Centennial House at
Bethlehem. N. H., died Sept. 3 in his
5Sth year. He was one of the best
known men in the White Mountains
and his ancestors were among the
first settlers in town
The House, by a vote of 1O5 to 60,
has declared vacant the seat con-
tested for by Breckenridge and Clay
ton of Arkansas, and summarily
ushered out Mr.. Breckenridge, who
gained brief resting place in the
chair made vacant by political
murder.
The stallion Nelson, owned by c.
H. Nelson, made mile at Bangor,
Me-, Saturday, in PISA, a quarter
of second better than his previous
record A French syndicate have
offered $5S,OOO for the horse The
offer was refused by his owner, who
says lDe HOISe VIII ICiIlStlli III Ma111e.
A train on the New York & New
England road met with 3 accidents
during a trip from Boston to New
York on Saturday. Just below
Hartford a woman who was cross
ing the track was struck and killed,
and just below Meriden two men
who were walking on the track were
struck and fatally injured. At South
Norwalk the locomotive of the train
was struck by a freight train and
wrecked.
Within the past 10 days number
of heavy failures have been reported
The first announced was that of
Potter, Lowell & Co. of Boston with
liabilities of $5,OOO,OOO Their fail
ure caused the embarrassment of the
Worcester Steel works. In few
DAYS came the announcement of the
Boston silk firm of Seavey, Foster &
Bowman, followed a day or two
later by the assignment of Sawyer,
Wallace & CO., New York commits
sion merchants. The losses of the
latter firm reach into the millions.