St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Two thousand out OF the 5000
census clerks discharged at Washing
ton as their work was completed
Two Chinese steamers collided in
the China sea and over 200 laborers
drowned. Two collisions on the
Cincinnati Southern road. Engines
and cars demolished in both wrecks
and one fireman killed.-Russian
police arrest 26 nihilists for connec
ton with conspiracy to kill the Gar.
Nihilists resisted capture and seven
killed in fight with police.-Will of
Mrs. Hopkins Searles probated in
Salem, Mass, and entire estate,
$40, 100000, bequeathed to her
husband Her adopted son inten
tionally left out.-O' Brien and Dillon,
Irish members of Parliament, re-
leased from Tipperary jail having
served out their six months sentence.
i. Sloat Fassett of Elmira, n. Y,
appointed collector OF the port of
New York, vice J. B. Erhardt, re-
signed.-Two wOrkmen at the state
farm in Bridgewater, Mass, die
from the effects of drinking wood al
cOhOl.
Supreme court of New Hampshire
denies the motion for a new trial of
Isaac Sawtelle.-P assenger train on
the Bellaire, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati
narrow gauge road derailed near
Bellaire, o. Seventy passengers on
the train. Two cars overturned into
a ditch Fourteen people injured,
four seriously, one fatally.-Spanish
reciprocity treaty made public at
Neutrality-suspicious. of Great South
ern railroad at Birmingham, Ala,
completely demolished by explosion
of so kegs Of powder.
Saturday.
Omaha Job printers locked out
their employees on account of the
eight hourlaw which took effect to-
dav.-A saw mill at Muskegon,
Mich, burned. Loss S5O,OOO.-A
Montana boy, aged four years, and
his sister, aged three, drank so much
whiskey that they died.-Death of
Hon. Bayless Hanna, United States
minister to Argentine under Cleve-
land, at his home in Indiana,-Death
at his home in Worcester of Judge H.
D.
Massachusetts,. He was a man OF
scholarly attainments, strong liter
ary tastes and marked ability. He
has been connected with the superior
bench since 1881.
Sunday.
Grand Army men reach Niagara
Falls on their way to Detroit.-In a
collision near Charleston, S. c., an
engineer and fireman were instantly
killed-A young man drowned while
bathing in the Merrimac at Law
renee, 'Mass.,-A barn burned near
Fitchburg. Mass, and a man was
burned while rescuing his horses.
Monday.
The Home Fascinator Company"
of Montreal shut out of the mails as
fraud by the U. S. government
l. Newton Baker, private secretary
of Bob Ingersoll, perhaps fatally
shot in a senseless quarrel with a
neighbor over family troubles.-The
6. A. R. encampment at Detroit
formally opened.-Lumber interests
of PENNSYLVANIA threa tened with
destruction by reason of the devasta-
l1OIl Ol uSullOSh llSSS DS WI his
Richmond Electric Light Company S
big plant on State Island burned !;
loss 5000, OOO.-Weeks house at
Palmer, Mass, burned.-Small poX
spreading in Lima and Calloa.
Tuesday.
The big strike of PAYERS, hammer
men, cartmen, clippers, stone hand
lers, laborers and helpers at NewYork,
settled in favor of the men.-Three
men found dead in the Meyer mine,
Scottdale, Pal. B. Young, dem,
elected governor of Kentucky by a
reduced majority. Democratic vic
tory in Utah state election.
Wednesday.
Fourth annual convention of the
republican league of New York state
at Syracuse-Four careless employ
ees of the New York. New Haven and
Hartford road discharged for caus-
ing an accident.-The people OF
Wolfboro, N. H, discover a lonely
grave near that place. 1t is believed
to be that of a Massachusetts, girl
and foul play is suspected.-
wealthy Kansas farmer kills his wife
| aud child and then suicides