St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-07-21
Thursday.

A cyclone at Springfield, O., has wreck
ed churches and houses and fatally hurt
two persons.-War has broken out be-
tween Indians and white men in Alaska
and the former fired on a fishing steamer
with fatal effect; rum at the bottom of it
all.-Several Americans are supposed to
have persisted in the great flood in
Chamounix Valley.-Fourteen lives lost
by the wreck OF an excursion steamer at
Peoria, Ill.-A Missouri, Kansas and
Texas express train held up by robbers
near Adams. l. T, and between 1000
and SIS, 900 secured.
Friday.
Nine active openings have developed
on Mt. -Etna, and much alarm is felt by
the people in that vicinity. of
ficers at New York seized 100000 from
a Venezuelan assenger.-Destructiv
gale on Lake Ontario.-Seven workmen
frightfully hurt by collision at gravel
pit on the Cotton Belt road in-Texas.
Saturday.
Thousands of beautiful elms at Nor
walk, Conn, have been stripped of their
foliage by wormS.-Four persons drown
ed by the upsetting of a boat at a
Dublin regatta.-Four brothers drowned
at Princess Anne, Nd, while swimming
The island of Sangir, in the Malay
Archipelago, said to have been destroy
ed by volcanic eruption, with 10000
persons.-A heavy passenger train wreck
ed by washout near Florence, n. c.,
and several lives lost.
Monday.
steamboat express train on the
Grand Trunk road collided with a local
train near Merriton station, in Canada
and two coaches were hurled over the
bank into a stream; several lives were
lost and three or four trainmen were
hurt.-Seth H. Butler, the wealthy ex-
insurance man of Middletown, Conn,
has given his check for $40, 900 to Pres
ident Mech of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association for the new building
fund.-Accounts of terrible foundations
come from the Fukushima prefecture in
Japan. Incessant rain from the 25th to
the 2Sth of June has resulted in the
flooding of ten districts. Thirty-four
people were killed and many wounded.
Over 1000 houses were inundated, 43
houses destroyed and many damaged.
Nearly 700 bridges were swept away,
and 1000 acres of rich land are under
water.
Disastrous forest fires have been rag
ing in the vicinity of Plymouth, Mass
100000 fire at Montreal.
Tuesday.
NO1IneIn Italy mas Deen visited Dy
terrific cyclone; the results in the
province of Ravigno was especially dis
astrous. and one village was almost
Observation-Disclosures, r. l., had a
$125, 900 fire.-Chili is to pay SIS, 900 to
the victims of the assault at Valparaiso
The fund for the relief of the fire sufferers
at St. Johns, n. F., has reached $500
1t is announced that President Girls
com of the International Navigation
Company has completed negotiations
with the British government for the
formal transfer of the steamships City of
Paris and City of New York from
English registry to American registry
These steamships will hereafter fly the
Stars and Stripes.
Wednesday.
The militia have been ordered to
remain at Homestead until all dam
ger is over, and the strikers are very
much displeased.- Georgia school
house set on fire by lightning; two
persons killed and three fatally hurt
The Boston and Maine bridge and
trestle work over the Saco, near No.
Conway, burned.