St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-02-25
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.


A disastrous fire on New Orleans
principal thoroughfare; several large
retail dry goods establishments de-
stroyed, entailing a loss of $2,O0O,-
OOO.-Russia has begun the expul-
sion of all Mennonites from her terri
tory, and will get rid of all the Ger
mans.-Trafic almost entirely sus-
pended in Paris, France, by heavy
snow iall.-A $25O,OOO fire occurred
in Cleveland, O.-Small pox epidemic
at Bombay.-Mrs. Chippewa, of
Doglake, Indian, reserve, Manitoba,
is dead; she was 46 years old, six
feet high. weighed $50 pounds and
was said to be the largest woman in
the world.-Over thousand New
York carpenters are on strike.-The
American colony in Paris startled by
the shooting of his wite's lover by E.
| P. Deacon at Cannes; M. Emile
Abeille, the victim, had been intimate
with Mrs. Deacon and was discover
ed in her room.-Twentv-hve horses
and two COWS persisted in a fire at
! Bethlehem, n H.
Friday.
The New York assembly passed
bill directing that all the New York
state exhibits at the Worlds fair be
closed on Sundav.-Advices from
/ China and Japan report that 60
| houses were destroyed by earthquake
shocks at Nanetau, Japan 424 lives
were lost by the wreck of Hong
Kong steamer; that fire a Sondal,
| Japan. DESTROYED 80 houses and
caused the death of five persons and
the in jury of several others; and that
small pox is still raging at Yokohama
and Tokio.-The alumni of the Uni
versity of Vermont held a meeting a t
acknowledgment of the entire
t French ministry. Hundreds of fami-
lies in the state of Durango, Mexico,
| are starving-A dozen families III a
| Boston tenement house narrowly
escaped asphvxiation by gas.-A
score OF persons at Mount Chase,
, Me, poisoned by eating bread made
with soda that had been kept in
boxes previously used for. other
purposes.
The wool clip in New South Wales
this year is estimated to amount
to about 100000, OOO.-A brutal
negro who had assaulted a white
woman near Texarkana, Ark,
was burned at the stake by a mob
Ex-senator Blair of New Hampshire
has announced himself as a presiden-
tial candidate.-Albert Marie and
Charles Camp, aged Z, 5 and 2 years,
persisted in the flames of a burning
dwelling at Ironwood, Mich.-One
hundred negro families, on their way
fr,o hnc CO. Io6 Nov
York city.
Sunday.
A daring attempt at train robbery
was committed on Central Hudson
train near Weedsport, N. Y. by cow
boy who claims to have come from
Mexico; he shot and seriously wound
ed Express Messenger Cross, and
when attacked by the train hands
climbed into the cab OF another loco
motive, drove the fireman and engi-
neer out and started the engine; he
was finally captured, having secured
no booty so far as can be learned
Michael Lynch, a Pittsburg fire.
man, was badly injured and two of
his children burned to death at fire
in his own house.
Hills snapshot democratic con-
vention was held at Albany .-Wreck
of a train on a Mississippi road,
causing the death of two men and
fatal injury of four others.-The
greatest labor convention ever held
in this country was called together in
st. Washington's birthday
celebrated in patriotic style in many
localities.-Five thousand people
Joined in a wolf hunt in Kansas and
secured 800 scalps.-The street car
tie-up in Indianapolis is complete,
and long and bitter fight is expect
ed.-Much damage is feared from
floods in many parts of Spain.
Tuesday.
Consul McCreerv and Lieut.. Har-
low said to be involved IN bust
ness scandal at Valparaiso.-A line
man at Pittsield, Mass, grasped a
wire carrying 1OOOvolts, but escaped
death negotiations for reciprocity
with Austria said to have been
begun.-The Louisiana lottery has
been granted a perpetual charter in
Nicaragua.-Gen. Enriquez, a polit
ical rival of President Barilllas of
Guatemala, has been murdered by
a company of soldiers.
Wednesday.
San Diego, Cal, was quite severely
shaken upby an earthquake.-A shot
fired into the train carrying the con-
gressional delegation from the
worlds fair ground Inspection
Springer declares that Hill must be
taken as the standard bearer of de-
mocracy.-Presiden Harrison urges
congress to appropriate largely for