St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-06-15
RECORD OF THE WEEK.


Gov. Mckinley OF ONO, was re-
nominated by the republicans in SEES
sion at Columbus, amid wild enthu-
siasm.-Sixteen persons were hurt
BY an explosion of gasoline gas at
ST. ouis.-The beautiful Vile Marie
convent, two miles north of Mon
treal, was destroyed by fire at loss
Of more than two million dollars
The loss by the destruction OF the
business portion ofFargo, N. D., will
amount to three million dollars. -
Mrs. President Cleveland pressed a
button at Washington, opening a
crucible at the Meneely foundry in
Troy, N. Y, and the Columbian
liberty bell was ast.-James Gordon
Bennett, of the New York Herald fell
from carriage in Paris and was
dangerously hurt.-SiX bandits cap
tured an express train in Illinois and
secured $4,000 in cash, besides
many other valuables.
Friday.
New Bedford contributes to the
murder column in the shooting o. a
Portuguese girl by her jealous lover
1t is now officially announced that
the Chinese government will strong
~ protest against the Geary exclu-
sion act.-The Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company has been for
hidden to do business longer, being
charged with insolvency and fraud.
The old Ford Theatre building in
Washington collapsed; the upper
floor seems to have fallen in first,
carrying the other floors with it.
About $50 clerks were at work in
the building, and "a lives were lost,
besides the many persons who were
badly crushed but were taken out
alive. The building had been con-
demned some time ago, but the gov
eminent neglected tc repair it or de-
molish it, and kept large force Of
clerks at work there.-Josiah B.
Kendall, a Boston real estate dealer,
has failed, with liabilities amount
ing to nearly S4SO,000.-The Le-
high Valley coal trestles and coal
storage house at Buffalo, containing
10000 tons of anthra cite, coal were
burned; loss $500,000.
Saturday.
An early fire in the Bay State
House at Worcester, Mass, created
a panic among the guests, and al
though no lives were lost there were
several narrow escapes. Fifty
prisoners in an Illinois institution
mutined and terrible fight ensued,
in which two of the prison guards
and 80 of the convcts were killed
The big battleship Massachusetts
was successfully launched at Phila-
delphia.
Sunday.
Mrs. Clara Weaver, an insane
woman living near Fultonham,
Ohio, drowned her two young chill
dren and then herself.
Monday.
Osmond the wife murderer, was
eectrocuted at Sing Sing.-A big
strike is on at the Pepperell and
Laconia mills at Biddeford, Me.-A
violent storm has destroyed the
town of Puachmetta, Mexico, and
1000 people are homeless.
Tuesday.
Three persons lost their lives in
rushing from a burning building in
New York citv.-A police officer at
Bow, N. H., was murderously as
saulted on the highway and may
die.-A dining car on a Worlds Fair
special train took fire and created
quite panic.-Ten buildings were
burned at Waldoboro, Me-, causing
loss of from $4,000 to $4,000.
Wednesday.
Business failures continue to be
reported from various sections of the
country, and some of them heavy
ones.-The salary list of the
Worlds Fair management and
working force for May is said to
have been $S5O,000. Expenses are
to be cut down.-Three trainmen
killed and more THAI a score of pas
sengers hurt in a collision near But
Ter, |. ia Virginia woman muir
dered her four children and then
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