St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-10
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
ThUESdaY.


The severeSt storm OF the season
in many parts of New England and
other sections of the country; con-
siderable damage along the coast,
and heavy fall of snow in many
places-The threatened extensive
strike of coal miners in England
makes a coal panic imminent there
Domestic infelicity results in murders
at Detroit, Mich, Camden, N. J.,
and Birmingham, Ala.-Almost an
entire family murdered by a negro
near Sherman, Tex.-Three hundred
miners said to have been drowned by
the flooding of pit at St. Etienne,
France.-The American Strawboard
company's mills at Chestertown,
Ind, destroyed by FIRE, at a loss
of S17O,OOO.-The large printing
esta blishment of Philips & Casey, at
Rouses Point, N. Y, burned, with
an estimated loss of $4,000; $50
hands thrown out of employment.
Friday.
1t is reported that military execu-
tions are taking place in Guatemala,
that San Salvador is preparing for
war with Qua temala.-A church at
Valencia has been partially wrecked
by a dynamite bomb thrown by
anarchists.-A Texas man has been
swindled out of $4,000 by New
York thieves.-A $4,000 fire has
occurred at Hyannis, Mass.-About
thirty families in Trinity, N. F.,
made desolate by the recent calamity
in Trinity bay and the loss Of many
sealers.-As a result of the fight be-
tween the Alabama and Pennsylvania
iron product, the iron market in that
locality has gone to pieces, which
means a great deal to those de-
pendent on that industrv.-The SO
women made widows by the recent
gales off the coast of Portugal have
233 children.-Tuberculo said to
be widespread among the cattle of
Massachusetts.-D tn Eof ex-Presi-
dent Porter of Yale college at New
Haven, Conn.-The reduction of the
public debt for February was 81
497,149.
Saturday.
Canada and Newfoundland are
taking measures to adjust the I'M
pleasantness that has existed between
them.-H. J. Darrell, bookkeeper in
an Omaha grocery house, has de-
camped, being short $4,000 in his
accounts.-Russia has adopted severe
methods to cure the Poles of dis
afection.-Five men fatally burned
by an explosion of fire damp in a
mine at Mahoney City, Pa.-The
British house of commons has voted
100000 for survey for a railway
in East Africa-The famous Hop
kins-Searles will case has been settled
by the payment of $3,OOO,OOO to
Timothy Hopkins and satisfactory
sums to other relatives.-A United
States marshal and his guard have
been overpowered and shot by
Tennessee moonshiners.-A ticket
agent at Guilford, Conn, was cover
ed by pistol in the hands of a daring
thief and made to give up SIS in
Cash.-TwO deputy marshals killed
and two seriously wounded by a
gang of negroes near Memphis,
Tenn.-The heating apparatus in
Santa Fe train exploded; two
passengers were mortally hurt and
FIVE others painfully injured-A $7O,-
900 fire al Dexter, Mo-, destroyed 1 3
of the leading business houses and
large depot.-Fifteen officers and
employees of the Louisiana Lottery
company of New Orleans have been
indicted for breaking the laws.
The English elections have result
ed in decided gains for the liberal
party.
Sunday.
Eleven deaths from typhus had &C.
CURED in New York up to date, and
the disease was still cropping out in
different sections of the city.-Two
cold-blooded murders were COM
mitted an actor in Boston shot a
fellow-actor dead on account of
jealousy, and in Lowell Edward 6.
Drew killed his young wife and then
tried to take his own life-What APP
peared to be bomb was thrown at
the carriage of the czarina in St.
Petersburg, but failed to harm her.
Monday.
Municipal elections held in Maine,
with results fairly favorable to the