St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-10
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

A freight car famine threatens to
result seriously as to Eastern ship
ments from the West.-Gov. Camp
bell of Ohio quite i'll with la grippe
Three women perish In a burning
drink shop at Sunderland, Eng
Low water at Chicago is causing
trouble in the unloading of grain
vessels. Five men killed and several
hurt by the explosion of eight kilns
in a Germany town.-SiX persons
said to have been killed by collision
on the Bound Brook route, in New
Jersey.-A traveller reports that FIVE
thousand people have recently died
from starvation in portions of
Mexico and Guatemala.-A shipload
of flour is to be sent to the starving
peasants in Russia, from Minneapolis
"A Spanish priest frightfully tortur-
ed by bandits, who rob him of fifty
dollars-A 100000 fire at Plain
field, N. ].
An attempt was made to murder
Russell Sage at his New York office;
stranger, being denied admission
to the millionaire's private room,
dropped a valise containing explosive
material; the building was wrecked;
two persons killed, and Mr. Sage
and several others badly hurt.-A
bad frog caused collision on the
New England road at East Thomp-
son, Conn; four trains piled in
heap, an engineer and fireman killed
and an unknown man cremated in
the sleeper.-Heavy rains, snow and
cold weather reported from the
North west.-Pennsylvania railroad
depot at Jersey City partially burn
ed.-A Boston woman instantly killed
by an electric CARA man found a
Manchester N. H., coated with tar
and at the point of death.-The
Dominion steamer Oregon breaks her
crank pin and lies helpless off the
coast of Maine
Saturday.
At the speakership caucus the
democrat failed to nominate candi-
date; the republicans re-nominated
Reed by acclamation.-A German
threaten to blow up a New York
wine merchant unless he hands over
$780, Terrible explosion in coal
pit at St. Ettiene, France; IS lives
lost.-One hundred and eighty per-
sons reported killed by an explosion
offre damp at Nifka, Russian Poland.
Death of Dom Pedro, ex-emperor
of Brazil.-Hiram Sawtell's head
found in the Maine woods
Monday.
Loppy, the New York wife muir
derer, electrocuted at Sing Sing
Opening of the Fifty-second congress.
Crisp of Georgia nominated for
speaker on the 3Oth ballot-Isaac
Sawtelle makes another confession.
this time a full one, telling how he
murdered his brother. A society of
bomb throwers unearthed in New
York citv.-Nine men killed in a rail
road accident in Mississippi-John
Barry of Newport. R. l., fatally shot
by companion while duck hunting
Sixteen passengers hurt in a train
wreck at Bobo, Miss.-A prohibition
bill passed by the South Carolina
house of representatives.
storm raging on the English channel
Tuesday.
Death of Col VIM. L. Clapp, who
was for % years editor of the Boston
Journal.-Dunlap silk mills at Pater-
son, n. J., burned; loss 100000
Ex-Gov. Stearns of Florida died sud-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Murphy of Troy
assaulted by a man recently released
from an insane asylum. mil
lion people said to have been left
homeless by the recent earthquake in
Japan.
Wednesday.
Not weeks supply of soft coal
| said to be in the hands of dealers in
Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois,
Kansas or Nebraska.-Preside
Harrison's message delivered to con-
gress. Explosion in Boston fire
works factory; one man said to have
been killed.