St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-04-13


thc Rcadinr company.-A snoT storm
prevailed il ,rtions of c. u'ec cut and
New York i V. w. ]. k p, " tthodist
bishop Ca fornia, is deao Thirty
Montreal street car conductors have
been discharged for dishonesty, and
others are t. foil w Mn. men were
killed and FIVE voui 1cI at Romeo, Ill.,,
by a huge contil yer machine which
crashed into an engine house where the
non had sought shelter from storm
ur.I %. George l. Schel, iaan@er anu
phlanthropist Of New York city, who
had givcn lar"e SUNS for charitable
purposes.
Saturday.
Joseph S. Harris has been elected presi-
dent Of the Re"ding rcad.-Newspaper
men at Pittsburg, Pa, are being ylgor-
ously secuted for doing Sunday work,
Eleven hundred machine shop en- ployees
ON the Atchison railroad quit work in
sympathy with fellow workmen along
tic entire line severe earthquake Was
felt II many parts OF Servla, the village
of Veliki Popovitch was tumbled into
ruins and observation-disclosures were killed !;
deaths in wrecked houses are reported
from other villages in the kingdom.-An
aerolite fell near Osawatome, Kan,
striking the monument to ohm Brown,
erected by subscription originated by
Horace Greeley in 1868; the meteor
broke off the left arm of the statue and
passed through the dome and nave and
through six feet of clay south of the
crypt, stopping only at the bed rock
The Goth anniversary of theintroductlon
of the printing press into the city of New
York was celebrated at the building OF
the New York cotton exchange.-By the
burning of stables at Warsaw, Ind, %
valuable horses persisted. Among them
were several stations recently imported
from England, and two trotting horses
with records of 2:10A and PIP.
Sunday.
A fine business block in Waterbury,
Conn, was burned, at a loss of $780,
O00.-Mrs. Albert Barker, the English
reader gave recital at telephone in
Boston, for the benefit of bevy OF news
paper men in Chicago.
An Italian aeronaut at Arezzo, Tus-
cany, fell 80 feet from a balloon and was
killed.
Monday.
The will of the late Mary P. Chase OF
Salem, Mass, leaves $4,000 to be used
for the benefit of number of churches OF
the New Hampshire Conlerence.-An I'M
successful attempt was made to shoot
King Carlos OF Portugal while he was
driving -The refusal of a demand for an
increase OF wages has resulted in 1000
workmen on Worlds Fair buildings
quitting work, at specially critical
time-Postmaster Barrett of Keene, n.
H., has suddenly disappeared, and is
thought to have wandered away while
temporarily insane.
Tuesday.
The will of the late Col. Shepard,
editor and proprietor Of the New York
Mail and Express, leaves $250,000 to
churches in America and abroad.-By an
explosion in Wales, three hundred miners
were entombed, and it is feared that the
loss Of life will be heavy.-A whaling
schooner has been wrecked on one OF
the Cape de Verde islands, and eleven
men were drowned.-Japan has seized
the Pelew islands, in the North Pacific
and Spain is greatly excited thereat.-
Hundreds are still dying of famine il
Russia Christians are being outrageous
ly prosecuted in Turkey, and the British
government is to interfere in their be
half.-It is now said that Cashier Flood
arrested for crookedness in connection
with San Francisco bank, took $194,
00O.-California people have beer
frightened the past few days by severa
earthquake shocks.
Destructive Winds.
On Thursday and Friday last most de
structive winds prevailed in portions o
the West. A tidal wave on Lake Mich
gan moved with crushing force on ship
ping at Chicago, and led some of the ole
settlers to declare there had been ;
volcanic disturbance in the lake
The Plymouth Hotel, Worlds Fai
hosiery at Chicago, which cost sos, 200
was blown down and it wrecked anoth
er building in it's fall. The Panorama
building, just outside the Exposition
grounds, also collapsed.
Several buildings at Rockford, Ill
we're tipped over by the wind. A
Spring Valley, ILL.,, brick building wa
demolished and a box car was blow
from the track,
At South Haven, Mich, great dam
age was done to farm buildings and
school house was wrecked. At Lacoti
several barns were blown down, house
were blown from their foundations
great damage done to orchards, an
outbuildings, fences and trees were lev
eled generally.
In Western New York many farr
buildings were leveled to the ground b
the gale, several persons were killed an
cattle crushed to death.
A fearful wind storm swept owe
Southern Kansas and Northern Iowa O
Monday, doing an immense amount c
damage. Hundreds of windows wer
broken by hail, houses and barns wer
demolished, many persons hurt an
numbers of cattle killed
Swept by Flames.
Portions of Kansas and Nebrask
were terribly ravaged by prairie fire
last week, and a large amount {
damage was done A fire that starte
near Hutchinson, Kan, destroyed fari
houses and stock to the amount of Sc,
eral thousand dollars, and two youn
1900, x,are burned tn daotl,
Much property was destroyed i
Graham and Phillips counties, Kan, il
Guiding great deal of hay, several hea
of horses and about so sheep. Mr.
Bowen and three children were caugl
in the flames and so badly burned ths
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