St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-07-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

IhurSQay.
Opening of the great Christian En-
deavor convention at Minneapolis.
Another set of election officials SEN
fenced to prison for fraud at Jersey
City.-Negro lynched at Little Rock,
Ark, for criminal ault-Fresh
revolutionary disturbances in Argen-
tine Republic. storm, par
taking of the nature of cloudburst,
at Helena, Mont, three houses struck
by lightning James Moser, a con-
fectioner at Paterson, N J., killed by
the bursting of soda fountain.
Friday
Bessie Steadman, 16 years old,
dressed in boys clothes and elopes
with her 1S-years-old lover.-Falls
City bank at Louisville closed, also
the Citizens bank at Nevada, Mo-
Several settlers arrested in the
Chickasaw country for intruding on
Indian lands.
Saturday.
A locomotive crashed into the
rear of a passenger train at Aspen,
Col. Six people were killed outright,
burned by the scalding steam, and
13 others are injured 1.-Two young
ladies drowned while fording a
swollen steam at Cedar Vale, Kan.
Henry Bagley, while fishing at
Peabody, Mass, fell out of his boat
and was drowned.-Thoma Roche,
the railroad builder and capitalist of
Fort Worth, Tex, shot himself dead
Friday. Grief over the death of his
wife caused him to take his life. He
Loo ta OF SEO0
-Grasshoppers doing great damage
in Arizona and New MeXico.-State
treasurer holland of Missouri found
guilty for ENLIGHTENMENT and sentenced
for two years.-Steamer Neustria
landed 492 emigrants at the barge
office in New York There were 1876
Italians who were placed in the
detention pen.
Sunday.
News received at Nanimo, B. c.,
of land slide at the North Pacific
cannery on the Skena river, by which
one white woman and 40 Indians
were killed outright. Nine houses
were swept away.-Fred ]. Haddock
of Portsmouth, n. H, came home
after an all nights drunk and brutal
" pounded his wife with fiat iron.
He was arrested.-An entire family
of six found dead in their home at
Ellis, Neb. A bullet hole was in the
head of each. No clue to the murder
er.-Carl H. Peiler, German must
clan aged so, committed suicide at
Providence. A cancer in the throat
impaired his speech and led to a mel
ancholy state of mind, which caused
the act.-A serious cave-in occurred
in mine near Larksville, Pa,
though no one was hurt.-Christian
Endeavorers fill many of the pulpits
of Minneapolis and St. Paul.-Ed-
ward Burgess, designer of America S
victorious yachts, dies at Boston of
typhoid fever.-Hard showers check
ed the forest fires in northern Michi-
gan and the inhabitants are saved.
Monday.
William Hanlon, famous trapeze
performer connected with Fore
paugh's circus, was killed at Lyons,
Ia, by his trapeze breaking when he
capped lunatic fires at President Car
not of Paris, but misses his aim. He
narrowly escapes death at the hands
of the infuria ted citizens.-The Prince
and Princess of Wales accept an in
vitation to visit Germany.-An Irish
man at Dedham, Mass, named Ma
gle, brutallv murders his wife with
an axe-The B. & NJ railroad set
tied with Mrs. E. F. Thompson by
paying $4,000 for the death of her
husband at Dover, n H., year ago
The committee counting Uncle
Sans money on the transfer of the
treasurership from Mr. Huston to
Mr.. Nebecker, completed its work
and the account was correct to a
cent. The total was $614, 511 $50
32.-Work on the Nicaragua canal is
at a Standstill because of the scarcity
of help.
Tuesday.
Montreal had a $4,000 fre-The
Leary raft reach Newton Greek, Long
Island, safelv.-Sound steamer Nara
gansett of the Stonington line collid-
ed with smaller boat in New York
harbor. Her hull was smashed but
no one hurt.-A man run over in
tunnel on the New York Central
road near Croton and killed.-Two
robbers at Joshua, Texas, brutally
murder a woman and her three child
ren-Fall Of the Bastile at Paris 100
years ago was tittinglv celebrated in
that city.-A man and his wife shot
dead by policeman in New York
for assaulting him while attempting
to arrest lawbreaker.
Wednesday,.
Gov. Campbell Of Ohio was renom
mated by the democracy of that
state-New York parties lay claim
to large portion Of Augusta, Me.
Disastrous storms reported in New
York state and Missouri.