St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-07-30
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

1nuTSQdy.
The defaulting treasurer of Frank
lin Co., Mass, sentenced to FIVE years
in the penitentiarv.-West Point,
Neb., suffers severely from a flood
Iowa's crops hurt byheavy storms
Two steamboats, coliided in He'll
Gate, East river, N. Y, but no lives
were lost.-A young boy killed by an
electric car in Boston,
Friday.
Advices received from Congo Free
State saying that cannibalism had
broken out and that so natives
friendly to the Europeans had been
returns to Russia for his family and
is arrested and sent to Siberia. He
had naturalization papers from this
country.-Campbell & Elliott's cot
ton and wooden mills at Philadelphia
burned. Loss $75O,OOO. : Three
Jersey City election officers sentenced
to IS months hard labor in the
states prison for participa ting in
fraudulent election cases.-Dr w. R.
Harper, president of the Unworthy
of Chicago, been appointed principal
of the entire Chautauquan system
John Caven, aged 1O5, died at
Springfield, Mass.
Saturday.
The watch belonging to Edward
Weiss, the musician who was lost
last summer while walking from the
Glen house to Mt. Washington,
found by two young men.-A Chica-
go man presented the Northwestern
University with $4,000 for a new
library building.-A plot to rob the
American Savings bank at Des
Moines, Ia, and to kill the cashier,
frustrated by the arrest of the gang.
Sunday.
Mary and Bertha Thompson of
Cedar Falls, Ia, drowned by their
boat upsetting.-A Brooklyn man
killed a woman and then committed
suicide at Corona, n. VA negro
murderer was taken from a jail at
Jackson, Tenn. and hanged to a
tree by a mob of about 500 men.
Secretary Blaine and his son rode
tendants.-A freight train near Gin
cinnati crashes into passenger
exclusion train and kills three.
Many others were wounded
Richard S. Newcomb, the eminent
lawyer, died at his home in New
York -Fortv-three persons killed in
a railroad accident at Vincennes,
France
Monday.
Rev. Wellington White of Elmira,
N. Y, and his three young daughters
instantly killed, and Mrs White and
child two years old perhaps fatally
hurt. their carriage being struck by
a passenger train.-Cleveland tells a
reporter that he will not stump Ohio.
"A Danbury Conn., boatman
body supposed to have sunk in a
bottomless cave.-Deputy Collector
Poor shot and killed near Seattle by
jealous customs inspectors. The
pope and cardinals at the Vatican
give up their vacations, for economi-
cal reasons.-The business portion of
Blair, Wis, burned.-Three persons
killed by lightning at Aylesburv, Eng.
Tuesday.
William J. Elliott, former editor of
the Columbus CO., Capital, found
guilty of murder in the second degree
for shooting a reporter in February
last.-Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon reported
much better-Dixon of Boston wins
the bantam light weight champion
ship at San Francisco, defeating Will
lis OF Australia.
Wednesday.
A cloud burst near Council Bluffs,
Ia, did great damage to that city.
The Moses bank at Montgomery,
Ala. failed. Liabilities 81 100000.
Low tariff and reciprocity was de-
feated in the Dominion parliament
by a vote of SO to 114.-The 5Oth |
performance of Niobe given at the
Boston museum.