St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-31
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Thursday.
King TOmbr1nO wants the United
States to establish a protectorate
over the Gilbert Islauds.-China has
been busy Furnishing rebels, and some
bloody election fights have occurred
in Japan.-The silver bill failed to
reach q vote as expected, and now
goes on to the house calendar to
come up later for consideration
Death oil DR.. Hayes Agnew Of Phila-
delphia, who became famous by rea-
son of his attendance on President
Garfield.
Friday.
The bodies of $50 of the miners
who met their doom by the explosion
in the Hill Farm mine, in Penn
svlvania, June 16, 1890. have been
found, and brought to the surface
Five bodies are still in the mine and
cannot be recovered until all the
water is pumped out.-The city of
Northampton will realize $43O,O14
from the estate of the late Judge
Forbes.-The liabilities of a recently
failed bank in gainesville, O., are
figured at 5000, OOO.-Lord Salisbury
has lost the support of the liberals
on the Boring sea question.-The
Springfield (Mass.) Shoe company's
factory burned, with all its tools
and Notwithstanding among the
Russian Jews is increasing.-C
of cannibalism have been discovered
in New South Wales.
Saturday.
Texas is said to have a wild
woman, who had not slept under
roof for six years, living in the woods
all that time.-Death of Walt Whit
man, the famous poet, at Philadel-
phia.-A disastrous cyclone occurred
in portions of Colorado, Illinois, Ken
lucky and Missouri, during which
considerable property was destroyed
and few lives lost.
Sunday.
In the harbor of Barcelona, during
the transfer of an American cargo of
petroleum, the oil was accidentally
set afre; it escaped into the sea,
and the harbor became a sheet of
flames; seven ships were burned,
causing enormous loss.
An excited meeting of colored
people at Chicago, to denounce the
lynching of negroes at the South the
audience refuses to sing the national
hymn.
Monday.
Jeremiah Cotto, an Italian muir
derer, was electrocuted at Sing Sing
Two brothers in Russia have been
arrested on a charge of decoying and
nearly forty emigrants
on the Russian frontier; the wife of
one of them is also under arrest for
completely in the crime.-Four San
Francisco men who stole a boat
were drowned by its capsizing.-
Three Chicago children are in criti-
cal condition from eating poisoned
candy.-Crofut & Whites large hat
factory at Danbury, Conn, has been
burned.-The Swiss village of Leve-
len was almost entirely wiped out
by fire.
Tuesday.
Considerable alarm is felt in France
over dynamiting outrages, involving
attempts to blow up many private
dwellings. high Afghan dignitary
has been put to death for imparting
state secrets to the Bristish agent at
Cabul-Chili has decided to vote in
demnity for the death of the Ameri-
can sailors.-A disastrous prairie fire
has been raging near Julesburg, Col.
-Pitiful tales of suffering from hunger
among the children continue to come
in from Russian districts.
Wednesday.
Clark's hotel, in Boston, was the
scene of a fire and panic, and terri
bic disaster was narrowly averted.-
Heavy rains in the Northwest have
caused great loss to farmers.-Two
were burned to death at
Columbus, Ind, in the absence of