St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-31
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

A young lady and curling iron caused
a fire in the residence portion OF South
Chicago, which involved loss of about
$1,O00,000, and the injury of several
persons; the lamp used in the curling
process was overturned and started the
blaze; tie homes of 1000 poor people
were burned.-News has been received of
the loss of steamer and a coal barge,
near Halifax, N S., in heavy gale, and
% persons were drowned.-A fierce
storm ragged along the Atlantic coast,
causing much delay to travel and COM
muncation and great damage to ship
ping. 1t was regular West Indian
tornado, whose approach up the coast
had been noted. The rainfall in New
York city was the heaviest known for
many years, while the wind blew furious
ly and wrecked plate glass windows,
trees and wires The coast was strewn
with demolished sailing craft, and wash
outs resulted seriously to railroad trains.
One fishing schooner with crew of ten
and another with crew of eight went
down on the New Jersey coast. At Prov
idence, Hartford, Springfield and other
SllSo SlSdt udiHdSS was uOlC W snip
ping and crops and telegraph wires. At
New Haven the oyster beds suffered
great injury from the storm. Big build
ings at Rockaway Beach, Coney Island
and Asbury Park were destroyed 1.-The
fund for the reliefof sufferers by the Vic
toria catastrophe has now reached
total of $350,000 and spasmodic contri-
buttons are still coming in.-Several
girls badly scalded by the explosion of a
steam cylinder at New York city laun-
dry.-The city of Moscow, Russia, re-
ports nearly 200 new cases of cholera in
three days.-Illinois day grandly cele-
brated at the Worlds Fair.
Friday.
Thomas Wall, a roofer of Boston,
burned to death by an electric current.
Nancy Hanks trotted in 20S on an
unfavorabe track at Springfield
Mass, making the fastest time on record
in New England races.-Anger towards
France has caused several days of mob
violence at Naples, Italy, and the excited
populace clashed with police and SOL
diery.-Failures recorded for the week
past number 40, of which 149 were in
the Eastern states.-A member of par
lament pulls the ear of d Punch artist in
revenge for caricature, and causes
scene. THE loss of life by the storm on
the coast will reach, it is thought, at
least 100,-Forest fires have done an
immense amount of damage in France
France and Siam are threatened by an
other war cloud over an attempt to dis
organize the latters army and navy
Forty-tive men here have been killed in
fight between political parties near
Nadadores, Mexico.
Two vessels, bark and schooner,
crashed together off Barnegat light, and
the schooner is believed to have gone
down with all on board
Saturday.
Fall River was the scene of another
double tragedy; Andrew Gibson, crazed
with liquor, attacked his wife, and when
{. H. Connors came to her rescue Gibson
cut Connors' throat and then killed him
self.-The Turkish. government has
promised to protect our missionaries
here.-Sallie Foster, nurse at Clare
mont IN. H. hospital, met burglar
gnu SuNNNSoiuliS lSSiStSu llllll,
he escaped from her clutches.-It is now
thought that the damage to Connect
cut oyster beds by the recent storm will
amount to millions of dollars.-Five per-
sons killed and several badly hurt bv a
collision on the N. Y and Harlem road
due to misunderstanding of orders.
Sunday.
One excursion train on the Long
Island railroad plunged into another,
near Berlin, L, l., resulting in the death
of 10 passengers and the injury of many
Others, The cause of the accident re-
mains mystery, but it is thought to
have been a misunderstanding of the
signal by the engineer. Rome, n. Y,
visited by a terrific electric and hail storm
by which several buildings and much
other property in and around the city
were badly damaged,
Monday.
The new ambassador from China to
this country says China does not ex-
pect the enforcement of the Geary exclu-