St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

SCeDne1l d. E1k11S NOMINATED DIS
secretary of Wharf.-The poet Whittier
celebrates his S4th birthday.-Brutal
murder of Brussels society woman.
Members of the royal families at
Berlin and Vienna sick with influenza.
"A California Christian scientist to
be prosecuted for man-slaughter.-
End of the dangerous strike of coal
miners at Crested Butte, Montana.
-Bookkeeper Ferguson of the Ma
tional bank of Kansas City squan-
ders ,OOO-The millerS of North
Dakota have donat ted $4,000 worth
of flour to starving peasants in Rus
sia.-Three men killed and two fatal
ly hurt by a boiler explosion at
Ridgeville, Ind.-National prohibi-
tionists' convention to meet at ST.
Louis in June next.
Friday.
A brutal prize fight at San Fran
cisco-Edward M, son Of Cyrus w.
Field, indicted at New York for forg-
ery.-Wm. Huntley and his two sons
drowned near East Machias, Me.-A
new national base ball organization
formed, with Nicholas Young as
president.-Mosto of the large mills in
Manchester shut down by reason of
low water-Ten thousand dollars
worth of silks and satins stolen from
Baum2arten & Son, New York city.
Great political excitement in Que
bee over the dismissal of Premier
MERCER from the cabinet.-Death of
Rear Admiral Patterson.-A rupture
between France and Bulgaria .-Two
men killed and several badly hurt in
a railway collision near Shamokin,
Pa.-Geo. w. Childs of Philadelphia
gives 100000 collection Of rare
prints, manuscripts, autographs,
etc, to the Drexel institute.
Saturday.
Mills refuses a place on the ways
and means committee unless he can
80, a wealthy Connecticut oyster
man, wandered away from home,
was badly frozen, and will die from
exposure.-The United States getting
ready to accommodate Chill if the
latter wants war.-Joel Wilkins,
aged 60, frozen to death at Putnam
vile, Massachusetts. Assassinat-
ton of an important government
witness in moonshiner case at Bir-
mingham, Ala.-Hotel Wellesley, al
Needham, Mass, destroyed by fire
An Indian sepulchre found in Saugus,
Mass.-A San Francisco firm, indict-
ed for smuggling, pay the govern
ment $4,000.
Sunday.
Sudden death of Senator Plumb of
Kansas at Washington from apop-
lexy.
A rumOr that Premier Miercier and
and his cabinet are to be arrested on
the charge of defrauding the Provin-
cial government of Canada.-A Mexi-
can firm robbed of $13, 900 by tele-
graph operator in connivance with
chap named "Silverberg" Ola
monds valued at $4,000 snatched
from clerk by San Francisco thief,
but dropped again in his flight
Cold weather in England Several
thousand mill operatives idle in
Manchester.
The steamer Abyssinia of the Guion
line burned at sea her passengers
and crew were safely transferred in
mid-ocean; money loss very heavy.
"A crank demands $4,000 of a
Pennsylvania physician and islocked
up. B. Richardson, Chattanooga
millionaire, dies as the result of the
excessive use of cigarettes.-Two
hundred laborers on a railroad in
Italy were overtaken by terrific snow
storms and many of them persisted.
Russell Sage's house visited by a
crank. who demands of Mrs. Sage
$25OO; she pushes him down the
steps.-Mary L. Munson found
brutally murdered at Alabama with
a baby in her arms.-Death of Jerome
l. Case, owner of the famous horse
Jay-Eye-See-A California coast
steamer wrecked and nine of her
crew lost.
Wednesday.
Speaker Crisp announces his COM
mittees.-Four men killed by the ex-
plosion of an ammonia tank in Ar
mour's packing establishment at
Kansas City.-Yellow fever is said to
be epidemic in Brazil.-Fearful explo-
sion of dynamite on shipboard at
Antwerp; an entire ships crew and
others killed.
Sundry Fires.
The Fife Lumber company's large
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