St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-09-14
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Death Of Hamilton Fish, who was
Grants secretary of state.-A man, his
wife and one child, in Newark, N. J., died
of eating toadstools in mistake for
mushrooms.-John Ryan of Sixteen
Acres, Mass, dropped dead while
wrestling.-At Indianapolis Nancy Hanks
trotted mile in 2. 04s4.-Two fast trains
on the Pennsylvania railroad crashed in
to each other near Colehour, a small
town near the Indiana state line, and
twelve persons were killed and score
of Others manned and mangled.- Cholera
has taken firm hold on Europe, and is
now epidemic in Russia.-One hundred
and thirty-6ve cases of dysentery are re-
ported from one locality in East Prussia,
and 10 deaths.-Mrs. Halliday, living in
an out-of-the way locality near Middle
town, N. Y, is suspected of the murder
of her husband and two women, whose
bodies 'were found on the premises she
feigns insanity.-The scarcity of coal on
account of the miners strike is resulting
seriously to English train service.-The
Dozewalips Valley, in Washington, has
suffered heavily from forest fires; several
thousand acres have been burned over
and many ranches will lose greatly
The town of Lockport, La, wrecked by
a cyclone; five persons were killed and
many Others badly hurt.-Several per-
sons were hurt and much property de-
stroyed by thunderstorm at Port
Jervis, N. Y.-Baldwin, Wis, nearly
wiped out by fire, only three or four
store buildings and a few of the resi-
dences being left.
Rioting strikers are making havoc
with English mines; several colleries
have been wrecked and fired, and some
of the rioters have been shot dead bv
the militia.-An American sailor has been
killed by mob in China, Josiah Quincy
has resigned as assistant secretary of
state and will go back to Massachusetts
to manage the democratic campaign.-
Thousands OF South Carolina people are
starving as the result Of the recent dis
astrous storm, and Gov. Tilman has
issued call for $4,000 with which to
buy food for the sufferers.-The home rule
bill defeated in the house of lords by a
vote of 419 to 41.-Milan, ex-king of
Servia, has been stricken with apoplexy.
The proposed underground and via
duct railway for New York city is said
to be certainty now and work thereon
will be pushed forward.
Saturday.
A ten million dollar mortgage has been
placed on the property of the Peoria,
Decatur & Evansville road to secure the
Central Trust Company for bonds is
sued Burglars made rich hauls from
saloon and a grocery at Manchester, N.
H.-A serious aftermath of the great
storm at the South has made itself mani
fest in the form of disease; many cases
of disease have occurred and hospital aid
has been asked from the governmental
second daughter was born to President
and Mrs. Cleveland, at the White House.
Sunday.
Two freight trains on the Nickel Plate
road crashed into each other near Leip-
sic Junction. Both engines were wrecked,
forty cars piled up and two men and
fifty head of cattle killed.-A company of
anarchists in Santander, Spain, INDUCED
in mob-violence, attacking some of the
municipal buildings.-Since July there
have been 1915 cases of cholera in
Roumania, and 594 deaths.
Monday.
Seven buildings at Rockland, Mass,
destroyed by fire at a loss of over
$50, 000.-A seventeen-day parliament of
religions begun at the Worlds Fair
Hotel and several cottages burned at
Bath, Me.-Second trial of Asa Potter,
president OF the Maverick Bank, begun
at DISQUALIFICATION building at
Spokane, Wash, burned; it cost $780,
000.-All but % of the 67 mills in Fail
River are now rnnning.-An incendiary
set fire to Montreal college in which
200 boys were asleep, but all escaped.
Tuesday.
A train on the Lake Shore road was
held up by robbers, 40 miles from Chica-