St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-09-17
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Place disaster found that the iron
columns were not strong enough to
support the weight.-A general cleo
ton will be held in Chill Oct 10 and
the new president will take his office
Dec. pa dispatch from San Saliva
dor says that that republic was Wis
tied by a severe earthquake which
destroyed two entire towns and
drove thousands of people into the
hills.-The gravity of the situation
in China increases and the war ships
Charleston and Petrol are on their
way to the celestial empire to pro-
tect American interests.
Friday.
Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review says
trade is brisk and all business looks
better.-Almy is believed to be trying
to escape from Manchester jail
President again tries his luck at gun
ming, killing 16 birds.-Two steam
ships collided in the Mediterranean
sea and 100 people were drowned
A San Francisco actor shoots a
policeman dead for trying to arrest
him.-The International Electrical
convention, now in session at Mont
real, held a banquet, and the flags of
England. Canada and the United
States foated side by side.-The
Derby Rubber Co. s mill at Bir1ning-
ham. Conn, burned; loss $5O,OOO.-
Eleven sophomores of La Fayette col
lege, Easton, Pa, suspended for haz
ing.
Saturday.
A passenger train near Denver
wrecked and % people hurt, five of
whom will die. S. Fassett, col
lector of the port of New York, re-
signs to become the republican candi-
date for governor.-Two men at
bingham, ILL.,, attempted to rob
bank in broad daylight. The cashier,
while under cover of their revolvers,
lodged into the safe and yelled for
and ran, but were captured by the
citizens.
A church at Dalton, Mass, is
greatly annoyed by one of its mem
bers, man 70 years old, who per-
sists in talking during the entire SER
vice, even while the rest are singing.
He will be turned out of the church.
The divorced wife of Senator James
6. Fair died at San Francisco.-A
Kansas farmer shoots his seven,
year-old daughter and then suicides.
Over 40 people were killed in the
San Salvador earthquake.
Monday.
Farmers of the Northwest making
an attempt to corner wheat.-A mil
lion dollar fire reported in the Sal
wages, a group of islands near the
Canaries.-A that although
President Fitzgerald of the Irish
Land League of America may sur
vive his attack of congestion of the
brain he will never be himself again.
Two thousand employees of Otta-
wa saw mills, working 1112 hours a
dav, for six to eight dollars q week,
struck for less hours and more pay.
Fifteen hundred people said to have
persisted by floods in Spain.-Bellig-
erent action of British marines near
the Dardanelles.
Tuesday. |
The defalcation of Albertson, the |
al sconding secretary of the Fidelity /
Trust Bank at Tacoma, proves to /
aggregate pSOO,OOO-1ISct ulSlISSS
in the Volga provinces, Russia, from
ack of food between two
steamers on the Mediterranean, and
So lives reported lost.-Big riot at
ky Jail over the at
tempt to recapture an escaped pr1s-
er-Ex-President Kennedy OF the
1efunct Spring Garden National Bank
n Philadelphia, and his brother, the
x-cashier, each sentenced to ten years
n the penitentiary for bank wrecking.
fires devastating portions
IF Dakota.-President Balmaceda
escapes from Valparaiso in the guise
IF a drunken American seaman.
Wednesday.
Loss of life by floods in Spain now
et at 5000; an enormous number of
houses wrecke Massachusetts re-
,ublicans and New York democrats
lold their respective conventions;
has H. Allen nominated by the
ormer and K. p. Flower by the latter
or governor.
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