St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-07-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday,.

commencement at the New Eng
land colleges. Two hundred and
eighty-six were graduated from Har-
ward; SO from Williams; % from
University of Vermont; 81 from
Observation-Disclosures Freshmen win
the boat race over Harvard and
Yale at New London, Conn.-Gov.
Boies re-nominated by reclamation
at Iowa state democratic conven-
ton Heavy floods in Iowa. Seven
ty-hve houses destroyed in Cherokee.
Railroads badly crippled by wash
outs.-Bronze statue of Henry Ward
Beecher unveiled in Brooklyn. Ora
ton delivered by President Seth Low
of Columbia college All the direc-
tors of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad acquitted for
misdemeanor in heating cars by
stoves. President Clark alone stood
trial and was also acquitted.
Thursday.
Cornell beats the University of
Pennsylvania and Columbia in the
three mile race. Time, IA minutes,
2612 seconds, the best record on the
course,-Parnell, the Irish home-rule
leader, secretly married to Mrs.
O'Shea.- Amherst graduated II
young men, Bowdoin 81, University
of Michigan 1872, Bates 35, Trinity
23.-Loss from Iowa floods estimat-
ed at $2,OOO,OOO.
Friday.
Harvard college crew win the four
mile boat race at New London beat
ing the Yale crew by II lengths
Spain's commercial treaty with the
United States signed, going into
operation Sept 1.-Work upon the
first Worlds fair building begun
Cyclone in Natalie, Iowa, destroys
coal breaker and six persons killed.
Lightning strikes powder house in
Galveston, Tex; one person killed
and $4,000 worth of property de-
stroyed. - Increased damage from
floods in Iowa and Nebraska
Death at Fall River of Foster H.
Stafford, 76. the oldest cotton manu-
facturer in continuous service in the
United States
Saturday.
The portrait of Christopher Col
umbus painted by Antonio Moro
was purchased by a curio collector
at Chicago for $40, OOO.-Canfeld
oil works at Cleveland, O., burned.
Loss $50 OO.-Propertyo of the New
buryport and Amesbury, Mass,
Street Railway company to the
amount of nearly 100000 was de-
stroyed by fire.
Sunday.
commencement week began at
Middlebury College with the baca-
laureate sermon by President Brain
erd.-A four story coffee mill at Balti-
more burned to the ground. Loss
100000.
First Lieut.. B. S. Weaver of the
U. S. A. stationed at Benicia, Cal,
started for Chill. He leaves a wife
Greece arrived at Chicago and was
given royal welcome.-Severe
earthquake shocks were felt at San
Jose, Cal.-Five prisoners escaped
from the Charlestown States prison
at Boston and three are still at large.
Col. Clapp resigned as manager of
the Boston Journal after % years
service. Is succeeded by Stephen
O'meara of Boston.
Tuesday.
Weather bureau transferred to the
agricultural northumberland
Myers lost in the woods near Saranac,
Inn.-Prince George of Greece ar
rived in New York. -Four men killed
at Mauch Chunk, Pa. by boiler
explosion.-Series Of earthquakes at
Verona, Italy.
Wednesday.
Iowa republican state convention
began.-New York Times sued for IL
bel, to extent of 81 100000, bv the
New York Life Insurance Company.
epidemic of typhoid fever spread
ing at Providence, R. 1.
Births.