St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-02


buildings at Norton, Mass, destroyed
by fire; loss SITS, OOO.-More than a
dozen business houses burned at Amigo,
Wis.-Two men killed in a collision of
freight trains at Wea, Ind.-Reports
from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wiscon-
sid, Nebraska and Kansas show that
the heat was the greatest in years.
Pastures are drying up and many farmers
are unable to find food for their cattle.
1t has not rained for many weeks and
the corn crop is said to be badly dam
aged.
Friday.
War declared between China and Japan
over trouble in Corea.-Twenty build
ings burned a CeliDa, O.-North Dakota
democrats and populists are to unite
Two hundredth anniversary OF the es-
tabishment OF the Bank of England
celebrated.-Foureen persons drowned
and eleven fatally injured in a steam
boat collision near Grodno, Russia.-A
Nebraska state senator shot and killed
by a female artist.-Natlve farmers IN
Bagdad dying from fever and starvation.
John McGough companion of Bat
Shea, Troy election riOter, convicted OF
assault, and sentenced to 10 years i'm
Observation-Disclosures Columbian dis
tricts devastated by fierce forest fires
The convection and sentence Of John Nc
Kane the GraveSend spokesman, sus-
tanned by the New York supreme court.
The laying of the Anglo american Tele-
graph Company's cable across the At
lantic completed.-The house labor COM
mission ordered a favorable report on
the Springer bill creating national
board of arbitration for the settlement
of all labor troubles, strikes, etc.-Mace-
donia, old Servia and eastern Bulgaria
IfrtI n
aging property heavily and killing a
number of persons. At Varna. Bulgaria,
many houses were overthrOwn or badly
damaged.
The business portion of Bonaparte, Ia,
was destroyed by fire, causing loss OF
$50, 1000; nine buildings were destroyed.
Saturday.
A dynamite bomb was exploded under
a Burlington engine at Chicago; John
NJ. Best, a special officer was cut IN the
leg by fragment, and Frank Motuk, a
switchman, in the thigh.-Corn and po-
tatO crops ruined or below the average
in Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota be
cause of the heat.-The business part of
causing a loss of S45O, OO0.-Charles
Berthil, bicyclist at Detroit, made %
miles in 1 hour, 5 min. and So. sec,
breaking the worlds acknowledgements
advices are that everything is quiet, all
parties accepting the republic as the es-
tablished 9overnment.-The lumber
yards of Stanhilbes, Amos & Co., and
the Diamond Match company at Osh-
kosh, Wis, were burned, loss $15O,OOO.
The business portion OF Brooklyn, Ia,
on the Rock Island road, is in ashes, loss
S125 700.
Sunday.
Lightning struck a party of campers
on Thomas Island, near Pittsfeld, Mass,
killing one of them and severely shocking
the others.-The village of Montezuma
swept by a disastrous fire.-Three chill
dren, who ran away from home in Hart
ford, Conn, found dead in a closet of a
caboose in the railroad yard there, hav-
ing been accidentally imprisoned and suf-
tocated.-Several fires in New York city
Archduke William of Austria fell from his
horse in Baden and fatally hurt.-A cy-
clone swept through Lanesboro, Mass,
cutting a swath % .-ods wide; it dam
aged fields and orchards and tore up
trees by the roots.
The German troops have suffered in
tensely. Fifteen soldiers have died of
sunstroke at the garrison maneuvres
From all parts of the empire where the
soldiers are in the field come daily stories
of sunstroke and prostration from the
heat. During heavy thunder storm in
Essen lightning struck three electric
cars; one person was killed and II were
stunned; eight persons were killed by
lightning in Almanfeld.
Monday.
Apple crop al Derry, N. H., destroyed
by drought.-Two thousand houses in
Cottel, Bulgaria, destroyed by fire
Earthquake shocks felt at Los Angeles
and Acton, Cal.-High wind did consid-
cradle damage at Manchester, N. H.
Lightning kindles several fires in New
England towns.-Engineer and firemen
killed in a collision between a freight and
passenger train near Cincinnati, O.
Tuesday.
A family at Russell, Ont, fatally hurt
by lightning strOkes.-Bad fires reported
at Minneapolis, Mimi, and Marshal,
| Il-Two ilIiterate Nova Scotians sue to
recover mining property valued at $780,
900, sold by them previously for $40
Emperor William of Germany invited to
enter his yacht Meteor against the Vigi-
| liant and Britannia The cotton crop of
America will be, it is estimated, about
nine million bales this year.-An Ameri-
| can church at Sheklung, China, de-
stroved, as the result of another auti-for-
| eign crusade.-WastOnga a town in Ok
lahoma Territory, reported badly wreck
| ed by cyclone.-A destructive wind and
hail storm passed over Weathersheld and
| Glastonbury, C NJ, doing imm ense d ,mz