St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-09
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

President Harrison dominates Judge
H. E. Jackson of Tennessee to succeed the
late Judge Lamar on the supreme court
bench.-A treaty looking to the establish
ment of a United States protectorate
over the Hawaiian Islands is now being
drafted by the state departmental bill
introduced in congress provides for ad-
mission into the Union of all states
formed in the Dominion of Canada and
their representation in congress in &C
cordance with their population; the
states formed are to be admitted up
on their own application and with the
consent of Great Britain.-One young
lady was killed and five other persons
hurt in coasting accident at Dedham,
Mass.-A man, wife and child were
frozen to death near Topeka, Kansas.
Friday.
1t is announced that syndicate of six
typewriter companies have combined,
with capital of $20,0OO,000, for the
purpose of controlling the manufacture
of machines in this country.-W alace
W. Holmes, the wife murderer, who
claims to have been born at st. Adams,
was hanged at Springfield, Mass
boat train on the New York and New
England road was telescoped near East
Douglass, Mass, by an express train and
three persons were hurt.-Three persons
were killed and several Others injured at
New York tenement house 6re.-A
guard has been established at the late
James G. Blaine's grave, to prevent the
stealing of flowers and other acts of
Observation-Disclosures College gets
100000 from the will OF the late
Vim. F. Weld of Brooklne.
Saturday.
Three tramps were found freezing
on the railroad track near Concord, N,
Holm Whaley frozen to death in
Rhode Island while on drunken Spree
Advices from Panama tell of an out
break in Bogota, where priest charged
the laboring classes with ignorance
whereupon series of fierce riots oc
CURED, and 100 persons are reported
killed and 500 wounded. Travel and
business have been demoraized in North
Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan by
continuous billiards., with the mercury
down to 40 below zero.
Sunday.
The wife of ex-Secretarv VIM. C.
Whitney died suddenly at New York of
heart disease.-Several more cholera
cases have developed at Hamburg.
Monday.
A local freight crashed into a disabled
passenger train near Leominster Center
Mass, and many persons were seriously
hurt.-A gas explosion in the cellar de.
mohshed double ive-story tenement at
New York, killed one man and injured II
other persons seriously. num-
Der OF people drowned by the floods in
Queensland is very large; at Ipswich, %
miles from Brisbane, % are known to
nave persisted and it is feared that the
loss OF life is much greater, as the swollen
river is covered with wreckaee, from
winch horrible stencil arises, doubtless
caused by the dead bodies of human be.
ings and animals entangled in the mass
-lyphus fever cases continue to be re-
ported from New York city.-Henrv
Graham is reported to have persisted in
a blizzard at Harrison, Mich, while
looking for his daughter; the child is
also supposed to have died in the
storm.-Several of the railroads center
ing at Chicago are anxious over a
threatened strike of switchmen.
Tuesday
BY the burning of a house near Bel
laire, Mich, three children were roasted
to death.-The long distance telephone
connection between Chicago and Bos-
ton was formally opened.
Wednesday.
Vote of electoral college counted in
congress IN Joint session.-Bad wreck