St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-11-12

posts, and was supposed to be per-
fectly sound.-The explosion of a
gasoline tank at Orange. Mass,
causes 100000 fire.-War ships a t
the Brooklyn navy yard being I'm
ished and made ready for business
A number of lives lost by the founder
ing of a brig near Alicante, Spain
The failure of the Sommerelds bank
in Berlin causes a sensation.-Several
persons hurt by the collapse of two
buildings. at Akron, O.-New York
threatened with a water famine.
Sunday.
California republicans want the
next national convention of that
party held at San Francisco.-A coal
train on the Lehigh Valley road runs
away and goes down the mountain
at the rate OF 70 miles an hour; the
engineer buried in the wreck a the
foot of the mountain, but is taken
out unhurt Chill seeking a friendly
solution of the difficulty with
the United States-Terrible ex-
plosion of gas in Nanticoke,
(Pa.) mine, by which six miners
were killed and several badly hurt
Five cottages burned at the Chau
tauqua grounds, Frveburg, Me.
Monday.
John Hartman of Brooklyn, who
is partially blind, was sandbagged
and robbed of $685. in gold, $500 in
bank notes and four bank books
representing several thousand dol
lars: his daughter. who is totally
blind, was with him, and she too
was assaulted.-Four men lost their
lives by the burning of a livery stable
at Denver, Col.-Two frenen killed
and four badly hurt at a fire in Gin
cinnati.-John Rogers, section
hand, killed by train at Mansfield,
Mass.-The river Neva, in Russia,
blocked with ice, and navigation sus-
Wreckers derail passenger
train near Atlanta, and several of
the trainmen were hurt.-The Strik-
ing miners in Tennessee openly defy
the law, and threa ten to kill the con-
victS one by one if they are sent back
to work.-Unusually heavy grain
shipments being made from Balti-
more to Europe this season.-The
Indian steamer Enterprise founders
in the Bay of Bengal, and II men are
drowned.-TheC Cars silver wedding
is being celebrated, but a dispatch
characterizes it as little more than a
family party.-The long drouth in
Illinois terminated by heavy rains
L. P Brandon and wife of Orange
vile. Cal, mistook arsenic for bak
ing powder, and are dead-The
Prince of Wales is fifty years old
Fifty thousand men in revolt in
Brazil.-Prof. Goodwin Smith of Can
ada predicts annexation to the Uni
ted States.-Rev. Samuel Cotton of
Dublin arrested for causing the death
of child by putting it into sack
and leaving it out all night in the
open air.-At Chieti, Italy, snow
crushed a house and killed seven of
the occupants.-Five persons near
Dunmanway, Ireland, had their
skulls fractured in a row over a piece
of land, and they will all probably
die
Tuesday.
Deadly cyclone in the Andaman Is
lands, a British convict settlement
in the Bay of Bengal; nearly 200
lives lost and $50 people injured
One thousand dollars in bills and
notes snatched from money lenders
office in Acknowledgements Sniffen
robbed of $4,000 at Fort Clark.-The
loss to the Maverick National bank
will reach one million dollars.-A
gang Of successful letter thieves
Gagged in New York city after re-
markedly profitable career. "A
hundred people seriously hurt by the
falling of a stand at a bull fight in
Naples.-Six men hurt at Hayward,
Wis, by an explosion Of dynamite
Marauding Russian peasants, driven
to desperation by hunger, are
plundering freight trains and sack
ing farms and residences.
Wednesday,.
Another gale devasting the British
coast; many wrecks and much loss
of life reported.-Property of the
Cordage Trust company at Boston
mortgaged for six millions.-Civil
war tendency in China.-Knights of
Labor convention at Toledo; mem
bership of 100000 eported.-Four
warships to sail towards South
America shortly.-A gripsack con-
tanning $4,000 worth of diamonds
stolen at Dayton, O.