St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-04-07
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday

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pointed U. S. minister to Japan
Yellow fever is claiming from 100 to
200 victims daily in Brazil.-Charitv
and religion will get $4,000 from
the will of the late D. P. Galloupe of
| Lowell, Mass.-Fourteen of the
crew of British bark drowned off
the Isle of Wight.-Ravacol, the
dynamiter who has been startling all
Paris by his outrages, has been ar
rested.-Arrest Of two dangerous
gangs of railroad thieves in New York
state.-Traffic on the Mississippi tied
up by strike for higher pay among
the rivermen.-An entire family OF
eight persons burned to death It Ber-
lin.-A Findlay (Ohio) man, who had
brutallv hacked his wife and daugh-
damaged to the extent of 100000
by cyclone.-The city of Mandalay,
India, almost wiped out by fire; a
disastrous blaze also in Rangoon.-
Colorado silver mines suspending
operations on account of the ap-
parent failure of the free silver BILL
Train and Geographic service in
in North Dakota and Montana
seriously impeded by foods-A terri
fic wind storm swept over southeast
ern Kansas, wiping the towns of
Towanda and Augusta out of exist
ence and causing widespread destruc-
ton of property and much loss of life !;
houses were carried bodily for con-
siderable distance in the air.
Friday.
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brated enthusia stically throughout
Germany.-A Wilkesbarre (Pa.)
woman burned to death in a vain
attempt to rescue her daughter
Chief Justice Drake of the U. S. court
of claims, found dead in bed, at
Washingt on.-Five lives have been
lost by the burning of the steamer
Golden Rule, at Cincinnati.-Six men
killed by an explosion at the Besse-
mer (Ala.) dynamite works.-A
woman and five children jump from
the fourth story window of burn
ing house a t Berlin and are killed
Several people killed and considera-
BILE property destroyed by a cloud
burst in Chicago.
Saturday.
The revolt in Venezuela is spread
ing and the government troops have
met with serious ton
Agent Barnes of Hanover, Mass, has
an encounter with a burglar and
gets a shot in the ribs.-T Thirty build
ings have been burned at Greenville,
Miss.-The British steamer Crimea,
burned at sea.-Incendiaries trying
to burn tenement housesin New York
city.-Another London society lady
accused of initiating Lady Osboln ne
and stealing jewelry.
Sunday.
Justice Lamar of the United States
other destructive blaze in New
Orleans, and four squares in the city
burned, at a loss of 100000.
Monday.
Brutal murder at Meredith, n. H.;
Geo. E. Wiggin attacked his wife in
the street and killed her.-Five per-
sons drowned near Greenfield, Mass,
by their boat being swept over the
dam-Montreal is excited over
attempts to burn the city Bonsecours
market was twice fired, and fremen
had a serious time in quelling the
fames.-An old man, his wife and
six daughters arrested in Idaho for
highway robbery; the six girls were
caught in male attire, holding up a
coach.
Fierce snow, wind and rain storms
again reported from the West;
portions of Nebraska, Minnesota,
IIIiroic or5 M;ceo,r; e,,aar o.,I
railroad washouts were numerous
Town and municipal elections in
Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana,
Kansas and North Dakota show
large republican gains.-Discovery of
a diaboical plot to blow up govern
ment buildings in Madrid, Spain
Gov. Albeit of New Jersey vetoes the
bill legalizing the big Reading rail
road combine, and questions its
onstitutionalitv.- Nine workmen
blown to pieces and considerable
damage done to property by the ex-
plosion of five tons of gun cotton at
St. Petersburg.
Wednesday.
Threats are made against the life of
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst of New York CITY
IL TIC pGISlSlS III HIS crusade against
evil there.-Seven persons were Gre
mated by the burning Of a dwelling
at Fort Madison, Wis.-Five men
were fatally hurt by a locomotive
boiler explosion at Long Island City
CIubbed to Death.
Charles Crowley was struck by
Henry Mcdowell with a club, in the
woods near South SALISBURY Mon
day night and died next morning.
Mcdowell has not been captured.
1t is thought that robbery was the
motive for the murder, as Crowley
was known to have $50, and but
forty cents was in his pockets when
found.