St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-04-21

vention. The resolutions endorse the
Mckinley act and reciprocity and con-
denim the free wool bill.-About 400
veterans, who were among the minute
men of 1861, held their annual banquet
at Boston.
Saturday.
San Antonio, Texas, is the victim of in
cendiaries, and great excitement prevails.
Nightly blazes have occurred for weeks
Many citizens stand on guard at night
An agricultural implement factory at
Worcester, Mass, burned to the ground
Loss about $12 900; partly insured
Spain consents to the return of American
missionaries to the Caroline islands.-A
receiver asked for the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad.-Rear
Admiral George E. Belknap Of Washing
ton, D. c., appointed president of the
board of inspection and survey.
Sunday.
Extensive forest fires raging at Maiden.
Mass.-Miners employed in sinking a
shaft in the big Missouri mine at
Deadwood, s. D., broke through into the
underground workings of the Highland
mine 1t is believed that the latter has
been working on the Missouri ground
for the past three years and it is estimat-
ed that ore to the value of 81 500, 900
has been taken.-Sparks from an engine
set fire to the grass near Rotterdam, n.
Y, large tract of valuable farm land
being burned over and many acres of
wood DESTROYED.
Monday.
A Portland Me-, mother cuts the
throat of her babe and then attempts to
take her own life. She was inSane.-TwO
German laborers in Chicago entered into
an agreement on Saturday to commit
suicide and today they were found dead,
one with a bullet hole in his head, the
other with throat cut from ear to ear
Henri de Koch, the French playwright
and novelist died. He was born in Paris
in 1S21.-Gen. Brooks instructed by the
Secretary of War to deliver to Gov.
Barber the 40 odd cattlemen now at
Fort Mckinney.
Tuesday.
An unusually severe earthquake ex-
perienced in California, destroying the
towns OF Dixon, Winters and VaCavIlle.
The shock was from east to west and
lasted about six seconds.-Senator Nor
rill returned to the senate for the first
time since his recent illness.-A desperate
fight between United States officers and
moonshiners at Big Boy, Ark, in which
one OF the latter was killed. Two of the
gang were captured, together with a
large quantity of whisky and beer
Skeleton of man found in a gravel bank
near North Scituate, Mass, which meas
ured nearly seven feet in length.-Bob
Ford, the slayer of Jesse James. was or
dered to leave Crede, Col, and he obeyed
without a word. He and another man
walked through the streets with guns
and shot signs, window glass, lights, etc.
The authorities skipped, but a few citi-
zens met and decided that the bad men
must go, even at the cost of humane lite
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations
opened for settlement and $4,000 men
scrambled for quarter sections and town
lots.-Kinosha, Wis, visited by $780,
900 fire.
Wednesday,.
Massachusetts republicans meet in
state convention and choose delegates to
the Minneapolis convention. A sound
platform adopted. Grape, Crane, Cogswell
and Bracket were chosen delegates at
Aaron of Quincy, ILL.,,
murdered by a colOred physician who
was attending his mother.-Several
made to burn Louisville, KY,
in four hours 5 buildings being destroyed
The senate 1atifies the modus vivendi.