St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-24


burned. with loss of 100000
Memphis theatre, one of the oldest
in the South, burned.-General Sec
rotary Pollard of the Greenfield,
Mass, Y. NJ. c. A. drowned while
ton of Rochester (seedsmen) an
Sherman talks to 10000 people at
the state fair in Columbus, Ohio
The stea mer Fuerst Bismarck arrives
at Southampton after a voyage of
days II hours and SO minutes, the
fastest time on record for that dis
} lance.
Five men killed, including four
Indians, and others badly injured
in a collision on the Union Pacific in
Idaho. Air brakes failed to work
Nelson, the fastest stallion in the
world, lowered his record at Grand
Rapids, Mich, to 2.1O. Each quar-
ter was made in 321a seconds.-Hot
wave in the Northwest. Prairie fires
in some localities. Mercury 1O3 at
Eau Claire, Wis.-Terrible accident
at a crossing on the Connecticut
river road at North Hatfield, Mass,
William Morton, II, Charles Atkins
of New York, 5, killed, and Morton's
father seriously injured.-A family of
seven smothered to death by a fire in
a Chicago tenement ding.-Three
men and two girls killed by an ex-
plosion in jelly factory at Chardon,
! O.-Treasurer OStrander OF the
Ulster county savings institution at
Kingston, N. Y, removed on &C
count of a defalcation aggregating
$50, OOO.-Two balloonists probably
fatally hurt at Connecticut state
fair.-William Devlin, ten years old, of
New Haven, Conn, fell from a grape
arbor and ran pair of scissors into
his heart with fatal effect.-At Wood
land, Cal, ]. Montgomery shot his
intended and then himself, because
parents objected to their marriage.
Saturday.
Destructive thunder storm at Lam
caster, n. H.; many buildings I'M
rooted and trees blown down.-Ty-
phoid fever prevailing to consider
able extent in New York city.-Thir
teen persons reported as drowned in
a gale off the Labrador coast on the
15th.-Intense heat, strong winds
and prairie fires in the Northwest;
thousands of bushels of wheat de-
stroved; parts of Wisconsin and
Michigan also report the hottest
weath for several years.-A whole
family of seven persons smothered to
death in a burning building in Chi
cago.-Phylloxera said to be devast-
ating the vineyards in South Russia.
Died at Newport, r. l., Exon
gresham W. L. Scott of Pennsvl
vania.-Died, at sea, Gen. Joseph F.
Knapp of New York, ex-president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Sunday.
A Boston woman went to early
mass, locked her FIVE children in the
house, which caught fire, the little
ones being rescued in a half-suffo-
Gated condition.-Deatho of Ira Berry,
grand secretary of the Maine Ma
sons.-Jacques, the French faster,
completes a fifty days fast.
Monday.
Portions of Spain being devastated
by hurricane and influenza. Serious
riot at bull fight in Marseilles.-
Eleven Cinnamon arrested at De-
troit for sneaking across the line
Meeting of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, I. o. o. F., at St. Louis.-fve
persons drowned by the upsetting
of a rowboat.-A. c. Bailey, aged 70,
a Great Darlington (Mass.) tailor,
coaXed into a saloon by three Bos-
ton drummers and piled with liquor
till he fell insensible, dying soon after.
Ex-President Balmaceda of Chill |
suicided by shooting in his room at
the Argentine legation in Santiago
"A story of cannibalism in Russia a |
starving family said to have disin-
tered the body of a newly-buried
woman and eaten it.-Opening of the
tunnel under the ST. Clair river at
Port Huron.-Death of exCongress
man Scott of Pennsylvania.
Tuesday.
The Sioux reservation swept by
fre.-Three men buried by a cave-in
at the Republic mine, near Marquette,
Mich.-A portion of Duel county, S.
D., struck by tOrnado.-St. Paul
schools closed on account of intense
heat.-Remarkable floods in Great
Britain.-At Berlin Baroness Won
Kreisewitz shot herself because dis
carded by her lover.-Dr. w. F. Gal
breath Of Lexington, Ky, has been
offered $4,000 for his two-year-old
colt, Ralph Wilkes, who trotted a
mile few days ago in 2.2112.-Sub-
terranean fires believed to be raging
under the section of country around
Tacoma.-Advices from Portuguese
Guinea saws that a French mission
stationin that region has suffered an
attack from natives, who killed 10
attaches of the mission.
Wednesday.
Russian troops moving steadily
forward at Odessa, and indica lions
of trouble with Germany.-Knights
of Pythias' field day at Portland,
Me.-Report that Estee of California