St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-06-01
RECORD OF THE WEEK.



Thursday.
A snowfall of several inches is re-
ported from Ishpeming, Marquette
and Red Jacket, Mich, where the
deep SHOWS and high water are un.
precedented. -Ex-secretary Charles
S. Foster, who has been an extern
sive dry goods merchant at Fostoria,
o., has ailed.-Cyclones at Moberly,
Mo-, and Garnet, Kan, leveled
many buildings, uprooted hundreds
OF trees and did much other damage.
Col. J. A. Mills OF the Eighth
Massachusetts regiment is under a
cloud, being charged with the
embezzlement OF funds while pay
master of the Victoria cotton mills.
"A Moravian village of $50 in.
habitants has been wiped out by
fire, and four persons lost their lives.
Davis Hotel and "a other buildings
in Rocklin, Cal, were burned, and
one girl persisted in the flames Dur
ing a cyclone at Sedalia, Mo-, a
circus tent fell upon 1000 people,
and panic ensued nobody serious
ly hurt.
The whisky trust, whose head
quarters are at Peoria, ILL.,, has
100000 gallons of unstable
spirits on hand, and will shut down
all it's distilleries Tune LIST. The
Michigan legislature has passed a
bill permitting women to vote at
municipal elections. The Aldine
Hotel Company's project for estab-
fishing an immense hosiery in the
Worlds Fair city has fallen through,
and subscribers will lose about $780,
900.
Saturday.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is in
quick consumption, and the Dutch
begin to fear for their existence as a
distinct nation.-The Mississippi
and Missouri valleys have been visit
ed by an extraordinary thunder
storm, and reports from the interior
localities indicate that much damage
has been done to property and there
has been some loss OF life.
Sunday.
Several woodworking establish
ments at New Bedford, Mass, were
burned, and for a time very serious
conAagration was threatened.
The Baltimore sugar refinery was
burned at a loss of one million
dollars.
DR.. Graves, the accused murderer
of Mrs. Barnby at Denver, has been
set free, the state having abandoned
its case against him.-There has
been a heavy rainfall throughout
Louisiana, a large section of the
state has been inundated, and
immense damage has been done to
planters and railroads there.
Tuesday.
Fall River, Mass, was the scene of
another horrible murder, the victim
being Miss Bertha Manchester,
whose people lived near the city, and
who was found by her father lying
in a pool of blood there is no clue as
yet to the perpetrator of the deed
Mains circus train was wrecked near
Tyrone, Pa, and FIVE persons were
killed and ten injured; the engineer
lost control of the train while going
down a mountain.-The French
senate has passed a bill to facilitate
civil actions against the Panama
canal swindlers.-Eighteen persons
at Seabrook, N. H., have been pois-
oned by eating cheese said to have
been received from a Vermont man
ufacturer; something akin to arsenic
was found in the cheese
Wednesday.
Sugar Hill, N. H., was visited by a
destructive fire; II houses were
burned and IA families made home
ess.-Floods are threatening the Vi
entity of Kansas City, and a cyclone
is reported from southwestern Kan
sas.
Mount St. Elias, which has hither.
to held the proud position of the
highest eminence on this continent,
has been superseded by Mount ORR.