St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-17
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.


ty; in some quarters the storm ragged
for 80 hours.-Mercier has resigned
his seat in the Canadian legislature
and will retire to private life. w.
Mabee, Tarrytown IN. W bank
cashier, confesses to having stolen
! $4,000 and makes rest1tut1on.-
| Thirty cases of trichinOsis have been
discovered in two Massachusetts,
factory tOwnS.-A retaliatOry meas
ure has been introduced in the Do
minion parliament, prohibiting the
Importation of immigrants from the
United States under agreement to
perform labor.-A bill abolishing
electrocution and providing for CAPT
tai punishment by hanging has been
introduced in the New York assembly
West Point gets $25O,OOO for
memorial hall from the will OF the
late Cen Cullum-The Indiana re-
publican state convention instructs
it's delegates for Harrison.
Friday.
Three hundred miners were i'm
prisoned in a colliery near Charlerol,
Belgium, by an explosion of fire
damp, and it is estimated that 200
lives were lost.-Nearlv 400, 900 Eng
lish miners are idle, having struck
against a reduction of wages.-Rail-
roads in Central New York blocked by
great snow drifts, and general biz
card prevailing in that section.-
Chas. Wilson of Aver, Mass, is sup
posed to have poisoned his aged
parents, for the sake of getting less
than $5OO.-The Opera house and
many fine stores at Bloomfield, Iowa,
were destroyed by fire, with a loss of
$2OO,OOO
A sensa ton has been crea ted in the
Mormon church by the arrest of ]. P.
Freese, a high councillor. for poly
gamv-The Tennessee coal and iron
company and the Debardelban iron
company have combined, with a
capital of $4,000, OOO.-Disastrou
prairie fires have occurred in Okla
homa territory and South Dakota,
and much property is destroyed, with
some loss of life-Four citizens of
penitentiarv for illegally obtaining
bounties on wolf and coyote scalps.
"A reciprocity treaty with Nicaragua
has been completed.
Sunday.
Death of the Grand Duke of Hesse.-
Congressman Springer is improving,
but will not resume his congressional
duties for three or four weeks.
Fifty people narrowly escaped
death in a fire in a New York hotel
Rev. Geo. Sweet, a young Methodist
minister of Russell, ILL.,, was struck
blind while preaching.
Monday.
The anti-free pass bill has been
signed by Gov. Russell of Massa-
chusetts-Four hundred hands are
idle at Pepperell, Mass, on account
of a strike among the shoe shop
torce-Five lives were lost by the
fall of an elevator at st. Louis
Senator Morrill, of Vermont reported
to be seriously ill.-There is renewed
activity in United Sta ties naval circles
on account of developments in the
Bering Sea matter-Grover Cleve-
land has come out with letter de-
Ginning to put himself in the field as a
candidate-It is said that Roger 0.
Mills is likely to secure an election
as United States Senator from Texas.
The federal grand jury has report
ed indictments against Asa. P. Pot
ter, Col Jonas French and Thos.
Dana of Maverick national bank
The damage by floods in Southern
Spain proves to be much greater
that at first Ought.-Yelow fever
is virulent in parts of Brazil, and a
portion of Mexico is being desolated
by typhoid fever.
Tuesday.
Danbury, Con-, visited by a $780,
900 fre-The Chicago Dressed Beef
Trust has burned its books. fearing
an investigation by federal officials,
and its officers fled to parts unknown.
Walter A. Snyder of Tiffin, O.,
shoots three men in the street, one of
whom will die, and then kills himself.
Insanity the cause.-An English Sc
curity and trust company formed in
this country, aided by American cap
italists, with capital stock of So
OOO, OOO-The barracks of the Repub-
lican Guard at Paris blown up by
dynamite by the anarchists. No
lives lost, but great damage to prop
erty.-President Carnot of France
signed the commercial reciprocity
convention with the United States
The republic of Uruguay too poor to
participate in the worlds fair.-D.
Russell Brown of Providence unani-
mously nominated for governor at
the Rhode Island republican conven-
ton.
Wednesday.
Ten men have been drowned by the
wreck of a British brig off the Isle of
Wight.-At a circus in England a
lion tanner was killed by the wild
beasts he had intended to subdue.-
The president has issued procla ma
ton liberalization against Colombia,
Hayti and Venezula.
PRESS COMMENTS.