St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24


In Berlin.-Four persons were burned
to death at fire in London butch
er shop.-There is great financial I'M
easiness at ST. Petersburg on &C
count of recent heavy failures which
grew out of the persecution of the
Jews.-Van Caprivi, the German
with several of the ministry, and the
Kasier is greatly disturbed.-Thir-
teen workmen were killed by the col
lapse Of b,lilding at St. Petersburg.
Another revolution is imminent in
Chili.-The national convention of
the prohibitionists will be held at
Cincinnati.-A big tobacco factory
at St. Louis was burned.-At Rio
Janeiro there were IT'S deaths from
yellow fever in two weeks.
Saturday.
The offices and depot of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road at New Haven burned. Many
books and records destroyed. Loss
$50, OOO.-TwO new comets and one
asteroid discovered.-Big strike on
the western division Of the Canadian
Pacifc.-Bradford Mass, academy
closed on account of typhoid fever
President Greenhut of the Whiskey
trust files a motion to quash the
indictment found against him
Failure of Paris bank for $5,OOO,-
900 and suicide of M. Dugoureau.
its direct on the eve of
revolution.-Queen Victoria leaves
Windsor castle for visit to southern
France.-Eight persons terribly burn
ed. one fatally, by an explosion of
lamp at Lynn. Mass.-As signment
of the Phoenix Iron Co. of Trent on,
N. :, and the Saugatuck Iron Co. of
of Saugatuck, Conn.-Cases against
the Chicago doodle" aldermen be-
ing investigated by the grand jury.
Sunday.
Bad freight wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania road. Four hundred hogs and
two carloads of cattle killed.-Resig
nation of Chancellor Won Caprivi
given a farewell dinner at Paris
Senator Hill returned to Washing
ton. A tour through the West and
Southwest is now proposed.-Con-
ductOr's strike on the Canadian Pa
cific growing more serious. Many of
the trainmen joining the strikers.
Monday.
A Chicago book-keeper and cashier
sink 100000 of their employers
money in specula ting on wheat.-Dis-
solution of the great Standard Oil
trust.-George Myers struck by a
snow plow and fatally injured at
Malone, N. Y.-Venezuela' minister
leaves Washington in disgust because
of his governments course in recip-
rocal trade relations with the United
States.-The Chinese minister writ
ing a letter to Secretary Blaine re-
garding restrictions on emigrants
from China. He intimates that
China NAV close her doors to Ameri-
cans.-Senator Sherman announces
that he is not a presidential candi-
date.-Claus Spreckels finally joins
the sugar trust.
Tuesday.
A Dorchester, Mass, lad died from
the effects of being struck with a
piece of ice in a snow ball fight
Chairman Bland of free silver fame
opens the debate on the silver ques-
ton in the House of Representatives.
Mills of Texas the only candidate i'll
the senatorial fight and he will be
elected senator.-Senor Montt, the
Gillian minister, visiting New Eng
land to obtain informal ton upon
industrial matters.-New York APP
propriates 100000 for the Worlds
fair, with an amendment to the bill
to close the state exhibit on Sunday.
Henderson Bros. carriage factory
at North Cambridge, Mass, burned.
Loss 500, OOO.-European war talk
beginning to be heard again and
Russia is menacing Austria and
Germany.
The latest political rumor is that
candidate New York city bar
association petition the legislature
to remove Judge Maynard for his
fraudulent conduct in the Duchess
county election case Representative
Mills elected senator unanimously
by the Texas legislature.-Canadian
Pacific trains stopped by torpedoes.
The Canadian government contem-
plates passing a bill prohibiting
Chinese immigra tion.-A 5000
fire in the house of representatives
destroys lots of public documents
Senator Morrill, steadily improving.
Wednesday.
An e1ghteen-year-Old Boston stu
dent has died from in jurieS received
in a school rush.-The president has
sent an ul TINA tum to Great Britain
Frank Williams of Ludlow, VT,
crushed al Boston between a wagon
top and an archway.-Six persons
killed and II injured by an explosion
of benziline at Amsterdam Q.
Mills has been unanimously elected
United States senator from Texas.
In Congress.
After almost continuous sessions
for more than two months, the House
committee on rivers and harbors
completed consideration of the