St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-07-19
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

George Gould's yacht Vigilant loses the
sixth and last race with the Prince OF
Wales Britannia in Scotland.-The Unit
ted States cruiser Chicago struck at
Antwerp by a tank steamer and damag-
ed to the extent of S450O.-The bill to
admit Utah as a state, sent to Presi-
didn't Cleveland for his ignature.-Speak-
er Crisp re-nominated for congress by
the Georgia democrats.-Fatal railroad
collision in Chicago in which two men
were killed and others badly injured
Robert J., the Baffalo gelding trots a
mile in POT, at Saginaw. Mich, the fast
est in a race this year.-Frank Dame
attempted to murder his sweetheart at
New Haven and then committed sui
eide.
Friday.
An anarchist tried to burn up the new
French cruiser just as the boat was be-
ing launched. The fire was quickly eX-
Observation-Disclosures conspiracy to kill
the Gar discovered in Russsia.-Con-
stantinople and vicinity visited by an
other earthquake. Damage to property
very great and about 200 killed.-Ex-
President White of Cornell University re-
signs as minister to Observation-Disclosures
the murderer OF Mayor Harrison, hung
at Chicago. Express train on the Great
Northern railroad robbed at Nickes,
Mont-Erasutus Niman, the New York
fnancier, released from custody after
furnishing $50, 900 bail.-Murcury went
to 81 degree in Boston and that city had
the highest temperature III the United
States.
Saturday.
The new United States cruiser Minnea-
polls proved herself to be the fastest
cruiser a1oat by making % knots in an
he
earned for her builders, the Cramps of
Philadelphia, $4O2 500 bonus, the larg-
premium yet won in our new navy
Newport, R. l., visited by severe hail
storm, doing thousands of dollars dam
age-Mary Rice of Langdon, n. H.,
killed in the dooryard by a vicious ram.
p. T. Bliss of Chicogo rides a mile in
1:54 4-5 seconds from a standing start
at Waltham, Mass, and now holds the
worlds Revolutionary at Hamilton
o., burned, loss $780, OO.-More troub-
lie in the Bluefelds at Nicaragua, many
soldiers being killed in an uprising.
Monday.
The athletes of the universities at Ok
ford, England, defeat the Yale athletes
in an international contest by a close
margin.-Several New York policemen
arrested by Supt. Byrnes on charges
made at the Lexow investigating COM
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the umbrella
trust after two years of unsuccessful
business.-By an explosion of a caissOn
attached to a Hotchkiss gun at Chicago
six soldiers were killed, a dozen more
were badly injured and $4,000 worth
of property was destroyed.-In a battle
between sherifs and miners near Bir
mingham, Ala, six were killed and a
score or more wounded.-E. c. Knappe
sentenced to five years in the Barnstable
county jail for speculations committed
at the Chicopee National Bank at
Springfield Mass.
Tuesday.
Two hundred sticks of dynamite ex-
plode in a mine at Hazelton, Penn, kill
ing about a dozen miners and doing an
immense amount of damage.-Belief that
the tariff conference committee cannot
agree on the Wilson tariff bill.-George
Gould's yacht Vigilant finally wins
race. The Britannia's forestry gave
way and she did not finish the race.-St.
Petersburg, Russia, visited by a severe
cholera plague.