St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-11-16
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.
Nov. is, 1898.

Thursday.
The native population in India is said
to be FESTIVE under British control;
military stores have been destroyed by
fire, and riots and increase of crime have
caused much alai MIN fight in South
Africa the British troops slew 1000
natives and captured Lobengula's
kraal.-A fast express mail was wrecked
near Austin, Tex, and 1000 letters de-
stroyed.-Mrs. Hannah Toole, her
husband and her daughter poisoned at
Boston by cyanide of potassium put into
their food.-Fourteen barges loaded with
coal were sunk in Long Island sound.
Friday.
Steam whalers arrived at San Fran
cisco from the Arctic report phenomen-
al enthusiastically Gresham makes a
report to the president on the Hawaiian
matter and recommends the restoration
Of the monarchy effective hunt of
anarchists has been instituted by the
Spanish government.-Th work of de-
stroying the buildings at the Worlds
Fair has actively begun; an attempt will
be made to have the big buildings left as
they are until May, 1S95.-Col M. T.
Herrick, savings bank officer at Cleve-
land, o., visited by crank who demands
$4,000 and threatens to shoot and use
dynamite if the money is not handed
over. The crank is promptly knocked
down, but escapes after trying to shoot
Herrick.
Saturday.
President Dean of the Exeter IN.
H. National Granite Bank has been
arrested on the charge of embezzling
$50, 00O.-Phenix block in Concord, N.
H., burned and several business houses
suffer Neutrality-suspicious. Havtian re-
belion is announced.-Sixteen freight
cars wrecked on the Boston and Maine,
at Greenfield, by trains breaking in
two.-A terrific explosion is reported
from chemists shop in Russian Poland
by which several houses were shattered
81 persons killed outright and many
Others injured. of ex-Gov. Bell OF
New Hampshire, at Exeter.
A mob, incensed against Phil Evans, a
negro, for felonious assault, blew up his
cabin near Samuel Station, Ky.
Monday.
From Japan comes news of two severe
calamities. One was food at Otia, in
which 800 people were drowned and
over 1000 houses were DESTROYED and
the other was the laundering of A fish.
ing boats off the western coast during a
typhoon and the loss Of all their oc.
cupants, numbering '142 men,-Three
boys confess to setting fires at Maiden
Mass, for the sake of seeing the engines
come out.-Late reports from the explo.
sion at Santander, Spain, say that $50
persons were killed and 400 hurt eighty
are still missing.
Monson, Mass, has a $4,000 fire.
Brooklyn, N. Y, has another scandal or
hand involving a steal of some $4,000.
900 from the city by corrupt officials.
Memphis has $500, 900 fire and quite
number OF people are believed to have
persisted in the flames.
Tuesday.
There is said to be no doubt that the
house ways and means committee will
put wool on the free list.-The village
school at Coopersville, N. Y, caught fire
shortly after recess and was entirely
burned; Miss Porter, the teacher, and
two little boys were burned to DEATH
Boss McKane of Gravesend, N. Y, who
committed fragrant election outrapes ir
open defiance OF supreme court iniunc
tions, is to be prosecuted to the full
extent of the lava negro murderer
was horribly lynched at Warner, Ark.