St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-05-05
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Fifty persons hurt at a fire in a Phila-
delphia theatre.-Republican conven-
tionS in New York, Ohio and New Jersey,
and democratic convention in Illinois,
Two persons burned to death in a New
York tenement house fire.-Lumb Der mills
at Lacrosse. Wis, shut down, and 1000
wOrk1nen out as a result OF labor
troubles.-T. ]. Coolidge of Massachu-
sets nominated as minister to France
to succeed Whitelaw Reid.-Severe wind
and snow storms in Manitoba Four
negroes lynched near Nashville, Tenn,
for brutally outraging two white girls.
Friday.
Starving people in Rio Grande City,
Mexico, being partially relieved by Texas
people.-Three children fatally hurt at
Brazil, Ind, in a runaway Accidental
fearful storm on the great lakes, and
several disasters to shipping
dynamite outrage reported from Rome,
Italy-Three counties in Tennessee have
been terrorized by White Caps.-Earth-
quake shocks felt again in portions of
California.-Rev. w. w. Downs of Bos-
ton gets a verdict of $4,000 against
three members of his church, for malicious
Islander.
Vim. Small. a town pauper at Laconia
N. H., was found dead on a farm in Gil
manton; he had been missing since Christ
mass, andis supposed to have persisted in
a snow storm.
Saturday.
At New Bedford, Mass, a laborer was
killed by the caving in of bank.-A con-
struction train on the Great Northern
was wrecked near Banner Ferry, Mont,
and four men killed.-Ex-Senator Ingalls,
of Kansas declares that he will not be a
candidate for congress.-Ferdinand
Ward released from Sing Sing prison
after serving an eight years sentence for
being concerned in the wreck Of the
Marine bank at New York-A large
amount of whalebone destroyed by a
fire in New Bedford, Mass-A district of
Vienna is threatened by huge landslide.
Six bodies have been recovered from
the ruins of the Central theatre at Phia-
delphia.-It is reported that the disas-
trous strike among English miners is
nearing close.-Fifteen hundred people
thrown out OF employment by the burn
ing of lace factories in Eng1and.-The
will of the late William Astor of New
York disposes of fortune of $7O,OOO,-
600, the bulk of it going to his son John
Jacob.
Sunday.
One man killed and 25 cars burned in
a wreck on the New York Centra1-Dis-
sas and Missouri Winnipeg, Manitoba,
has $4,000 fre.-Ten houses burned
at Mt. Sterling, Ky, at a loss ofS75 900.
The great Corliss engine in No 4 mill
of the Wilimantic Linen company was
destroyed by a clean fracture of the great
shaft; damage to the extent of $40, 900
was done in ten seconds.
Monday.
Deeming, the Australian wife murderer,
found guilty and sentenced to hang
Swarms of wild locusts ravaging South
Afica.-Two thousand granite cutters
on Cape Ann idle on account of strike.
-Creede, the new mining camp in Colo
RADIO in danger of humiliation by a
freshet.-Three train1nen killed bv the
wreck of freight on the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago road.-San Fran
cisco people agitated over dynamite
threats.-Gov. Albeit of New Jersey is
fighting hard to crush the big Reading
coal com bination, believing it to be aeon
spiracy against the peoples interests
Tuesday.
The Peoples party held a state con-