St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-05-11
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
ThurSdaY.

by the severe storm the heavy rams
made rivers rise rapidly and land
slides and washouts were numerous,
public travel being greatly delayed.
The high wind blew down trees,
wrecked fences and partially de-
molished number of buildings. At
Bellefontaine, O., big break oc-
Cured in the reservoir and the
adjacent country was flooded, caus-
ing much alarm; the loss to farmers
will be enormo us.-The British
steamer Khiva has been lost off the
Arabian coast, with a large number
OF lives. Flower has denied ex-
ecutive clemency to Carlyle Harris,
the convicted wife murderer. Viii
liam Lawrence, S. T. D., was elected
Bishop of Massachusetts to succeed
the late Phillips Brooks.-J. W.
Coveney has been nominated as
postmaster of Boston.-More than
100000 worth of damage was done
to property at Oxford, N. c., by
cyclone; houses were demolished and
many people hurt.-A water famine
exists in several states of Mexico
along the line of the Mexican Central
road,-Sudden death of ex-senator
Patterson while at prayer meeting
in Hanover, N. H-Four bad wash
outs and eleven landslides occurred
on the Fitchburg railroad, between
Bardwcll's and Shelburne Falls;
some of the slides were 80 feet long
and the mud on the tracks was 10
feet deep in some places.
Friday.
BY confagration in the town OF
Kowal in Poland, 80 persons were
burned to death.--A vessel and her
crew were lost off Deer Island, Me-
Big drops in the price of certain
stocks caused a panic on the New
York and Boston exchanges, and
two heavy failures were announced.
The State Investment and Insur-
ance Company of San Francisco is
financially embarrassed by claims
against it for 100000, it's assets
being about $60,OO0.-End of the
great relay bicycle ride from Boston
to Chicago, the trip being made
in 112 hours and 48 minutes.-A
pontoon collapsed near Santa Eu-
lalla, Spain, while a procession was
crossing, and 20 perished.-The Six
Chinese Companies have instructed
Cinnamon in all the principal cities
not to register according to law
New Hampshire is to place statues
OF Stark and Webster in the national
statuary hall at Washington.-Pre-
parations for the hanging ofAlmy on
the 10th inst. are going rapidly for
ward.-A Salvation Army captain
was murdered at San Francisco bv
her lover, who Immediately killed
hlmself.-A tornado at Wilmington,
ohio, caused losses estimated at
800, 900; every church spire in the
'lty was blown down except that of
the Catholic church, and nearly sll
tine churches were unroofed; several |
persons were injured.
Saturday.
In a rear end collision between
Two freights on the Dayton and
Michigan road, near Dayton, O.,
I've tramps were killed.-A Denver
and Rio Grande train ran into a
-ock near Salida, Mo-, killing one
nan and injnring several ladies'
gainesville, Texas, and vicinity suf-
cred heavily from a cyclone; many
'esldences were unroofed, a train
vas blown from the track, and sew
,ral houses demolished.-A passen-
ger train on the Big Four road got
away from the engineer, and the en-
s'ne, baggage, mail and express cars
we're demolished; six persons were
lilled.
Sunday.
BY the bursting of steamers Aue
1ear Bellemont, O., "a men were
'caded, six of them dying before
hey reached hospital.-Thc up-
setting of a lamp caused $40 900
ire at Rowland's machine shop in
Brooklyn.-Mrs. Chauncey M. De-
pew died quite suddenly at her New
\ ork residence.-Gates ofthe Worlds
Fair closed against all save a favor
I'd few who held passes; threats are
made that the courts will be appeal
I'd to for Sunday opening of the
air
Monday.
Carlyle w. Harris was electrocuted
n Sing Sing prison for the murder ,f
MS wife, Helen Potts, in 1891. the
execution was successful, death be-
ing instantaneous; Harris died pro.
testing his innocence.-Lizzie Borden
was formally arraigned at New Bed.
lord on the charge of murder and
pleaded not guilty.-A protracted
arouth in Austria has been broken
by copious rains.-A tornado in Ok.
Iahoma has killed three persons and
wrecked 20 houses .-Passengers on
the Santa Fe road are now riding
300 miles for 20 cents, the result Of
a rate war.-A Lynn dentist. DR.
Burpee, wound up two months
debauch by taking laudanum and
DYING in his operating chair.-Fort
Hill Square, Boston, was visited Inv
a 100000 blaze.