St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-03
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
ThurSday,

1HuISOdy.
A dispatch was received at Wash
ington dated Valparaiso, Aug. &c,
stating that on the day before Bal
army was completely sur
rounded and compelled to surrender
Internationally, and that it was
thought to be the end of the rebel
lion-The financial condition of
Guatemala is announced deplorable.
Neither army nor federal employees
have been paid for three months.
The minister OF finance has issued a
circular letter saying that the tax
levied on coffee about to be exported
would pay off the debts-A fright
full accident occurred on the Western
North Carolina railroad, passen-
ger train dashing through a bridge
into a roaring torrent 65 feet below.
Twenty were killed outright, nine
were seriously injured and 20 others
more or less hurt
Friday.
A dispatch from Melbourne states
that the steamer Gambler was run
down by steamer Eastby just off
that city and sunk with 26 persons.
She was bound for Melbourne from
Sydney and was just entering the
harbor.-A Boston assembly of
Knights of Labor endorse Powder
ly.-An effort was made at New
Bedford, Mass, to form.a whalebone
syndicate.-A large number of Wam-
panoag weavers at Fall River, Mass.
went out on a strike, alleging a
scarcity Of warps.-Manitoba visited
by severe frosts, damaging wheat
onsiderably.-A New York man
kills his wife and two children and
then shoots himself.-A washout 10
miles south Of Albany stopped traf-
hc on the New York Central road a
short time.
President Harrison and party ar
rived at Cape May.-U. S. Marshal
Walker arrested six illicit distillers
in an old house near Desoto, Mich.
He had traced them all the way
from Alabama.-Jay Gould released
control of the Union Pacific road. 1t
is thought that the Vanderbilts have
a controlling share in the road.-San
Francisco had a 100000 hre.-Dis-
patch received from Chill stating
that Balmaceda was overthrown
and the state in the power of the in
surgent forces. After a desperate
battle of five hours, in which over
5000 men were killed, Balmaceda
was defeated and fled for his life to
the mountains.
Sunday.
A Binghamton, n. Y, woman
burned to death by an overturned
lamp setting fire to her clothes.-F.G G.
Tucker, proprietor of the Lake house
on Lake George, was found dead in
his bed. Heart disease was thecause;
aged 65.-The engine and one car on
derailed and rolled into the river.
Some villain had cut the ties and the
rails spread. The fireman and
engineer were badly hurt The
train was heavily loaded and it is
wonder that no one was hurt
James 6. Blaine, Jr. will make his
actress wife prove her allega tions Of
desertion.-Mrs. Julia Fillmore Har-
ris, sister of Pres. Fillmore, died at
San Francisco.
Monday.
A Kansas City bank was very
boldly robbed by two armed men
who entered and covered the cashier
with revolvers while the safe was
rihed. Only small amount was
taken.-An accident on an Indiana
railroad at Evansville killed four
persons, badly hurt 13 and slightly
injured 10 others. A broken hange
was the cause.-Private advices
from the City Of Mexico say the out
come of the war in Chill will tend
to hasten the revolution now
smouldering in Mexico. President
Diaz is said to be the Balmaceda of
Mexico and is charged with the
same offences on human liberty as is
Balmaceda in furthering his personal
interests.-The steamer Empress
from Japan, brings the news of a
typhoon in Japan sea that caused the
loss of about $50 lives. The victims
were mostly japanese and Chinese
sailors.
Tuesday.
1t is reported that Theodore Roose-
welt, chairman of the civil service
C o1nmission, has resigned.-Willard
A. Smith of the Railway Review APP
pointed chief of the department of
transportation for the Worlds fair.
"A New York city policeman stabbed
in throat by colored man who re-
sisted arrest.-A Norwalk, Conn,
man got his beard caught in some
moving machinery and had it torn
out by the roots.