St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-24
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.


Barrett Scott, treasurer of Hall coun-
ty Iowa, has disappeared, and is $780,
900 short in his accounts.-Five thou
sand idle men in New York indulge in a
riot.-Gen. ]. H. Roberts of Massachu-
sets elected commander of the Union
Veterans Union in session at Boston,
The Waban paper mills at Charles River
village, Mass, burned, presumably by
an incendiary; loss $40, O00.-Religious
fanatics in India have been rioting
among themselves and many lives have
been lost, mosques destroyed and other
property wrecked.
Friday.
Two British and two American sealing
vessels have been seized by the Russians
for alleged violation of agreement.-Re-
bellion breaks out among the convicts
on Deer Island, near Boston, over din
ner, and dozen ugly leaders are
arrested.
Aterrible cyclone swept part of Som
erset county, N. J., unroohng buildings,
uprooting trees and dwelling the crops.
"A mob on the outskirts of Brooklyn
wrecked saloon whose proprietor had
refused shelter to women and children
turned out of their homes by fire.
An attempt was made to burn all the
churches at Dover, n. H., but failed
through timely discovery of the incen-
diaries work.
Sunday.
A light day at the Worlds Fair, build
ings open but nearly all exhibits cover
ed.-Five people run into and killed by
fast express at Leroy, N. Y.-The trades
unions of New York city held meeting
and discussed the financial situation,
socialistic ideas were sat upon, and con-
tidence in government and obedience to
law were counselled.
four-years-o boy of Lockport, N.
Y, was urged on by playmates to at
tack a wasp's nest, and was terribly
stung.-A negro mother and two child
rem burned to death in a cabin near
Charleston, Mo.
Monday.
Halifax, N. S., had a disastrous fire,
by which several business establishments
were burned, entailing heavy losses
Two men killed by an explosion in a
boiler room at Joliet, Ill.-The treas
urer of the Choctaw Nation is said to
have failed, owing the Indians 81 ,OOO,-
000.-France and Italy are in a quarrel
over the massacre of number of Italian
laborersb by Frenchmen at Aigues Mortes.
The Havemeyer sugar refineries at
New York, employing 5000 men, have
Unexpectedly started operations again
after few days shutdown.
Tuesday.
miniature war occurred at Gilberton,
Pa, over the attempt to lay rails for a
new road; rifles and rocks were used
and three men were killed.-A New York
man who was accidentally locked up in
an ice house narrowly escaped freezing
to death.-A case of yellow fever has de.
veloped at Brunswick, Ca, and people
are rapidly leaving the city.-Teaousv
induced Ed Naltes of Palo Pinto, Texas,
to shoot a young woman and her male
companion and then kill himself,-Spin.
ners in the New Bedford Mass. mills
are making trouble over too low wages,
and threaten to strike.
Lucius futile, vice president of the N,
Y, n. H. & H., has been unanimously
decided on by the directors as the presi-
dent Of the Boston & Maine. Mr.. Tut
tie has succeeded William c. Whitney on
the directorate.-The Cherokee strip is
to be opened up to settlers Sept. 16.
Wednesday.
New Haven, Conn, slightly victimized
by hotel beat" who called him
self "Col. E. B. Fairbanks of Boston, and
represented he was at the head of the
Fairbanks Scale Company-Gov. Boies
renominated for governor by the Iowa
democrats.-A lineman at Concord, N. H.
killed by touching a live trolley wire.