St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-13

tornado is badly wrecked. Groves OF
immense trees were twisted out by the
roots; houses and barns were blown
away. Fields of corn were destroyed
and many persons were killed Every
where is evidence of the havoc wrought
by the hurricane. Droves of cattle have
been slaughtered and carcasses dot the
fields on the way from Cherokee county
to Pomeroy. 1t seems that the storm
started about one mile west of Cherokee
and followed closely the Illinois Central
railroad cutting a swath from one
fourth to one-half mile wide and COM
pletely demolishng everything in its
path for distance Of sixty miles.
over Thirty Firemen Burned.
A horrible affair occurred at the
Worlds Fair on Monday afternoon in
connection with the burning of the large
cold storage building, which took fire in
the cupola, 200 feet from the ground.
The firemen had climbed to a landing 30
feet below the flames and were preparing
70 throw water on the fire, when the
flames broke out Just below them and
the unfortunate men were roasted alive
in full view of the horror-stricken crowd
Several of the flremen attempted to
escape by jumping and by sliding down
ropes. but were killed. The property
loss will be $650,000, and many other
of the Worlds Fair buildings were saved
from destruction only by the greatest
exertion on the part of the fremen.
Thursday.
New York Chamber of Commerce call
upon congress to repeal the Sherman law.
President Cleveland suffering from rheu-
matism at his summer cottage in Buz-
yards Bay.-Death of S. S. Houghton,
senior member of the Boston dry goods
house of Houghton & Dutton. He was
a native of Fairee, VT, and had a sum-
mer residence at Oxford, N. H.-The
home rule bill forced through the COM
mittee in the house of commons. Mr..
Gladstone succeeded in getting page
and one-half of the bill pushed
through the communicable George
of Wales married to the Princess Victoria
Mary of Teck. The Princess of Wales
gave the bride jewelry valued at 81 $50
0OO.-American capitalists to reimburse
the Duke Of Veragua, whose financial at
fairs in Spain are in a serious condition.
Friday.
Death of Associate Justice Blatchford
of the L. S. supreme urt.-Arrival OF
the Spanish caravels at Jackson Park
Chicago.-Dun' Weekly Trade Review
shows 324 failures in the United States
as against 15S for the same period ii
1S92.-A farm hand employed near
Cando, n. D., is reported to have murder
ed six members of family, ASSAULTED
one daughter, whose life he spared, rob
bed the house of fifty dollars and some
vauables, and then fled. A posse start
ed in Observation-Disclosures city treasury
is said to be practically bankrupt
through the failure OF New York brokers
to take 100000 of the citys retundins
bonds as they agreed to do.
SATURDAY..
1t now turns out that Miller, tn
Bardwell Ky negro who was hanget
and burned by a mad mob for murder
ing the two Ray sisters, was an in
nocent man; a statement made by hin
to show an alibi has since been found tt
be true.-The convicts in the prison a
Chlpancingo, Mexico, made break TO
liberty; in the fight that ensued on
guard was severely wounded and thre
convicts klled-There was a terrih
rain and lightning storm in the vicinit..
of LYONS, N. Y, rain falling faster thai
ever known before incalculable damag
was done, especially to the crops.
Sunday.
Twentv-seven pleasure seekers wer
drowned near London by the capsizin
of a Yacht the party consisted OF raj
way builders and their wives.-Nort
Attleboro, Mass, is excited over tn
finding of Patrick McCarty's body terri
bly, mangled.
Monday.
Augustus Hemenway of Cantor
Mass, has given the school teacher
there. 26 in number, ten days trip
the Worlds Fair at his expense.-Tf
cashier of the Commercial Nation;
Bank at Ogden, Utah, has been specul
ting and is short in his accounts son
$4,000, and the bank has closed i
doors. -Incendiarism is said to be +
sponsible for the loss of large barn I
Woburn, Mass, with Is horses al
other live stock and valuable property.
Tuesday.
Floods have caused a great loss of Ii
and proper ty in Vienna districts.-A &c
= eral shutdown of the Fall River mills
feared owing to the dizziness and u
:, certainty of the cloth market.-Yello
fever has carried off thousands of peoI
: at Santos, Brazil and it is reported tn
Y 800 deaths have occurred there daily f
. come time mast