St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-10-15
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

democratic ratification meeting in
New York.-Allerton beats Nelson in
the great stallion race at Grand
Rapids, Mich, for a purse of $4,000.
Joint debate at Ada, O., between
Mckinley and Campbell.-Heavy
rains in North Dakota interfere with
the gathering of the wheat crop
Many Cinnamon arriving at Kings
ton, Ont, with : view to getting
over into the States.-Four persons
killed and 20 hurt in railroad col
lision in Brunswick The female
mayor OF Kiowa, Kan, asked to re-
sign because of her warfare on whis-
ky saloons.
Friday.
An effort being made to have the
Mckinley tariff bill declared void by
the supreme court.-Three men steal
$500 in broad daylight from an En-
terprise Washington bank.-Pen-
sions granted in September aggre-
gated 1854, the first payments
amounting to $4,O75, 476.-Seriou
rioting in Rio Janeiro, several killed
and wounded.-One Georgia farmer
dead and another dying as the result
of pistol duel in church at Saw
annah.-Ex-Senato Blair, appointed
as minister to China and rejected by
the Celestial government, resigns
Kate e. Norcross, married on her dy-
ing bed, makes a will leaving $780,
900 to her husband, E. P. Rollins of
Brooklyn, n. Y.-Indications of
settlement of the Searles-Hopkins
will contestants. Parnell, mother
of the late Irish leader, greatly
Frustrated at Bordentown, N. l.
Ninety postal employees arrested last
month for violations of the law
The great lumber strike at Ottawa
collapses.
Saturday.
A Kansas cashier robbed of $500
Cotton crop in Georgia will be
short about one-quarter of a CROP
A Montana girl assumes the role Of
highwayman and is arrested; she
confessed to the commission of sew
eral crimes.-Three men killed in a
smash-up on the Hudson river road
Reported shortage in Louisiana s sug-
arcrop, owing to the drouth in August
and September.-A summer residence
at Lexington, built in revolutionary
times, burned.-Norwalk Conn.,
has a seven-weeks-old baby weigh
ing less than pound.-At Garfield
plantation, Me, a boy accidentally
shot his sister dead.-One man killed
and two hurt in a wreck on the Erie
road.
Sunday.
Burial of Parnell, at Dublin; the
biggest funeral ever seen in that city.
Wheat shipments through the great
lakes blockaded by the wreck of a
steamer by collision in the canal
Reported burning of an American
mission in China.-Forty men dis
charged from the Wagner palace car
shops at East Buffalo the past week
for anarchist tendencies.-Prize fight |
at Chicago, the "World's fair city,
for $4,000 a side
Severe earthquakes at San Fran
cisco and Napa, Cal.-Rev. Vim.
Greer, an aged preacher at Raleigh,
N c., shot and killed by his drunken
son.-The religious press discussed
by the Methodist ecumenical council.
-Parnell's colleagues announce that
the designs of the dead leader shall |
be carried ut.-President Harrison's
secretary, Mr.. Halford, seriously ILL.,
Rain-maker Melbourne, in Kansas,
signs contract to furnish rain at
ten cents an acre of area watered.
Tuesday.
Five negroes badly hurt bv an ex-
plosion of giant powder at Birming-
ham, Ala.-President Hoey OF the
Adams Express company removed,
oh, --sre1 with a lfea nh
Rowland, a wavward Young man
of good parentage. shot himself fatal
lv in a Kansas CITY court room after
being sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary-Har accounts
of the Russian famine; peasants fall
dying by the roadside; pillage and
incendiarism on the increase.-Com-
plete failure of the revolutionary at
tempt in Uruguav.-An extensive
gang of robbers broken up in Rome.
Twelve persons badly hurt in a
collision on the Paris and Rouen
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. thriving
Hungarian village, destroyed by |
fire.-Expectation of another small
poX epidemic in MOntreal.-Organ-
ization of a protective associa ton in
Grand Forks, n. D., to look after the |
disposal of wheat.-Conductor To
bin of West Shore freight indicated |
for manslaughter as the result of an
accident in August bv which 1 3 /
Italians were killed.
Wednesday.
Consec rat ton Of Bishop Phillips |
Brooks at Boston.-From three to
five million bushels of wheat said to |
have been ruined by rain in the |
Northwest-Muchd damage by storm
along the New Jersey and Long ISL
and coasts; considerable damage
also in Great Britain from severe
gales.