St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

The Waumbeck mills at Milton Mills,
N. H., are to be shut down for three
ths.-Benjamin Johnson, Kansas
CITY lawyer, shot and killed in brutal
manner by Cashier Little of the First
National Bank.-Cropprospects in Texas
are discouraging, the dry weather hav-
ing greatly reduced the yield of corn.--
Cholera is rampant among the poorer
classes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the acting
president of Honduras, is confscating the
property and taking the lives of those
who have been opposed to nina Con-
necticut school fund suffers shortage OF
$4,000 by the absconding of financial
agent.-The water in the Connecticut
river is so low that many mills along its
course have had to shut down.-The
Westbrook mills at Portland, Me-, hav-
ing a pay roll of $40, 900 monthly, have
shut down till September.-It is es-
timated that there are 10000 men in
Denver unable to find employment.-T
st. Louis Journal Of Agriculture calcu-
lates that there will be a deficiency in
the worlds crop Of wheat this year
of 100,000,000 Notwithstanding
tramps captured freight train at
Hastings, Neb., and whole train-load
of citizens went in pursuit of them.
Friday.
Two blocks of buildings in Long Island
City, N. Y, were burned, including new
Catholic church; loss about $400,00O;-
France has made extraordinary demands
upon Siam, including territorial conces-
sions and large indemnity, and the
Siamese king and the people are greatly
alarmed thereat.-Three men were burn
ed to death and five others badly injured
by the ignition of an oil well near Free
port, Ohio.-Weir, Kansas, is the scene
of extensive mining troubles and des-
perate conflict between strikers and men
who have been engaged to take their
places.-The will of Anthony J. Drexel of
Philadelphia leaves $30,0O0,O00, most
OF which was given to his family, though
there are some requests to charity
Four miners probably fatally hurt by an
explosion of gas in mine at Edwards
vile, Pa.
Saturday.
Cholera infantum is raging at Buffalo,
N. Y, 81 deaths thereirom occurring
within a week .-Secretary-o -the-navy
Herbert visits Boston and is duly honor
ed.-McLeod, McDonough and 7. c.
Platt become the incorporators of new
railroad called the New York, New Eng
land and Northern, with a capital of
$50, 900, 000.-A Memphis Tenn. negro,
who had assaulted white woman, was
fendishly lynched by mad crowd, who
knocked the sheriff senseless and then
dragged the negro from the Jail and mu-
tilated and hanged him.-The hottest
weather recorded for eight years past
has been experienced in sections of Wy
omng this summer; mercury has stood
at about 112, and forest fires have pre-
vailed extensively Rum bred race war
between Poles and Huns, in Pennsylva-
MIA mining town, and several were bad
ly hurt.-A Guion line steamer arrived at |
New York reports a narrow escape from
collision with Red Star line steamer in
mid-ocean.-Two persons were killed and |
three injured by the fall of the wall of a
New York tenement.-Lightning struck
a pile of rubbish in the rear of Keiffer |
Bros. shoe store, New Orleans, and start
ed most disastrous fire. The total loss |
was $3.50 900.
Sunday.
The Worlds Fair gates were closed,
and the white city" was quiet local
ity-Four persons were seriously hurt in
an electric car accident at New Bedford,
Mass.-Severe wind storms are reported
from Dover and Laconia, N. H., doing
great damage to crops, trees and build
ings.
Monday.
Col. Ainsworth, Contractor Dant, Sup
erintendent Covert and Engineer Sasse
have been indicted by the grand jury as
responsible for the collapse of Ford's
Theatre building at Washington, by
which so many lives were lost,-Jacob
Strout, a RAYMOND (Me.) farmer, was
found with his skull crushed, and murder
is suspected. France has begun her CO.
ercion of Siam.-Three were drowned
from an overturned boat in Boston har-
BORA leaky boat on a pond near
Egremont, Mass, swamped with five
persons init, three of whom were brown
ed.-Gaudaur defeated Harlem in the boat
race at Orilla, Ont, by seven lengths
Two men were blown to pieces by an
explosion in a powder house at Hunt
ington, Ind.-The Laconia National
Bank one of the strongest in the North
west, has suspended.-Thirty or forty
buildings in Pauldng o., have been
burned The Canadian Pacific has dis
charged 800 employees.
Tuesday.
Nicaragua rebels have attacked the
CITY of Managua, and U. S. Minister
Baker had a narrow escape.-A Balti-
more & Ohio express train was wrecked
near Munroe Falls, o., and 80 persons
were hurt.-A diphtheria epidemic pre-
walls at Heightstown, N. j., as the result
of sprinkling the streets with polluted
water.-A church and seven houses in
Gale, l. T., destroyed by cyclone.-Idle
and hungry men are being publicly fed
at Denver.-Two men killed and several
Others badly hurt in bad wreck on the
Old Colony, at Dodgeville, Mass.-A
schoolgirl found dead in a vacant lot
in Buffalo, N. Y, where thousands had
passed without observing her.-Business
failures continue to be reported from
Manchester, N. H., Indianapolis and
Louisville; several more Western and
Southern banks have succumbed.-Glad-
stone and Chamberlain have tilt in
parliament over the collection OF Irish
taxes
Wednesday.
Firemen find three dead bodies at q