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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
WORD ABOUT SAMOA.

Private advices from Samoa show
that the recent reports of serious
trouble there were greatly exagger-
ated, and we are glad to CLEAN, from
a personal letter, some facts of in
terest to the public. The political
disturbances in Samoa have not
been of such a character as to cause
Chief Justice Ide any anxiety as to
the safety of himself and family, or
such as to place any of the white
people in peril. The stories of the
fight were grossly inaccurate; the
king has thus far been successful in
his encounters with the rebels, and
there had been no fighting at all for
two months prior to the date of the
letter-May 20. The presence of
English and German ships of war in
the harbor might have proved effec-
tive in settling the trouble, if these
forces had not been reluctant to act
in the absence of a United States
ship.
The statement that the difficulty
was caused by the chief justice com
polling one of the Samoan chiefs to
work on the road was maliciously
false-as was also the story of the
attempt to disarm the natives. The
sentencing of certain chiefs to hard
labor was done several months be-
fore the present chief justice assumed
his position; and whatever work
these prisoners did was under the
sole direction of the president, and
had nothing whatever to do with
the outbreak. The people have not
been disarmed, and probably will
not be unless the treaty powers de-
eide to so direct.
The foregoing facts are sufficient
to prove that the first reports of the
trouble in Samoa, limiting strongly
at the complete humiliation of all
the whites on the island, had little
or no truth in them. They sprang
doubtless from a source inimical to
United States interests in that region,
and the agitation thus stirred up
has been intensified by Secretary
Gresham's declaration in favor of
letting Samoa slip away into the
control of some other power, on the
ground that the game is not worth
the powder. 1t will be gratifying
to Vermont people to learn, from
several sources, that the new
chief justice was not responsible
in any degree for the late warfare on
those far-away islands, and that his
administration has been character
lied by leniency and friendliness
with which the natives had not up
to that time been any too familiar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
HOT AND COLD.

The weather for the past week or
two has attracted considerable at
tention, by reason of the long-con-
tinued hot wave, which was broken
on Sunday last by a genuine chill.
Not for several years has mercury
ranged so high for so many consecu-
tive days, and the people have
sweltered accordingly. The change
on Sunday was decidedly trying to
frail constitutions, and the some
what warmer wave which rolled in
by Monday afternoon was not
wholly unwelcome from a sanitary
point Of view.
Vegetation responded promptly to
the generous instalments of sunshine,
and gardens, fields and meadows
are now doing their best.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
THE AsSAsSIN'S KNIFE.

The devilish spirit Of anarchy made
itself felt to a marked degree in France
on Sunday evening last, and that re-
public now mourns the loss of her
president, Carnot, cut down by the
assassin's knife. The sad event oc-
Cured in Lyons, as the president sat
in his carriage, his assailant being
an Italian anarchist who fell upon
him without warning.
This blow at the head of the
French republic will be felt through
out the world, emphasizing as it
does the deadly peril which grows
out of the all too prevalent anarch-
list tendencies. The assassination of
Carnot has, it is said, stirred all
Europe to demand summary dealing
with the class which Santo, the 1tal-
ian assassin, represents. The life of
so prominent and useful a man as
the late president of France is a
heavy price to pay for the sappres-
exponent; but if this latest outrage
against civilization shall result in
combination of all the powers for
the stamping out of this hateful
excrescence which so seriously threat
ems the peace of the nations, who
shall say that something of value
has not been gained out of this great
loss?
President. Carnot was man who
ruled France well, and his death will
be deeply felt by that republic, and
deplored as well by civilization gen.
orally. Coming into prominence 1t
a time when his country needed wise
and discreet guidance, he admins
tered its affairs with moderation
and yet frmness, harmonizing an
tagonistic elements, and insisting
always on those things which made
for the peace and prosperity of the
nation
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
THE VILLAGE MEETING DATE.

It would seem advisable that there
be a change in the date of the annual
village meeting. The present method,
which involves the transaction of all
other business save the assessing of
a tax, and an adjournment to some
date in June after the grand list is
made up, is not satisfactory.
The adjourned meeting is duly ad-
vertised and held, but the attendance
is decidedly meagre. That has been
the experience for several years past,
and at the last adjourned meeting,
when a tax of seventy-hve cents was
voted, only seven persons parti-
cipated.
One of the seven argued strongly
in favor of holding the annual meet
ing at such time of the year that the
village may do its business all up in a
business-like way, and not leave so
important a matter as the assess
ment of tax to be attended to by
mere handful-as had regularly been
the case.
The seven persons above referred
to were good men and true" and
did their duty in voting the tax.
But it should not have devolved up
on so few to say how much or now
little the village tax should be; and
it may be remarked, incidentally,
that while the financial obligations of
the village would have warranted
the voting of even larger tax,
these few did not feel like assuming
the responsibility.
Let US have the finances of the vii
lage adjusted at the annual meeting,
when there are voters enough
present to attend to it. Let the
date be fixed at time when the tax
can be assessed on the current grand
list, and let Us do away with this
adjourned village meeting which
nearly everybody forgets and so very
few attend.
The time of holding the annual
meeting is fixed in the village by
laws, and a change can be affected
through an amendment of section
two of those bylaws.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
well, l got $3.50. Ny brother

well, L got $50. My brother
gave me 500 and S. NJ. Houghton
gave me the balance"
My brother, was then put on the
stand. He was John H. Robertson
and he said that Mr.. Chase, cashier
of the Guaranty Loan Company,
II given him the 500 which he
had paid to his brother. He didn't
know where Mr.. Chase had secured
the money. He was asked whom he
had talked with about the matter
and replied that it was Mr.. Menage
or Mr.. Houghton, he didn't know
which.
S. NJ. Houghton was called to the
stand late in the afternoon to testi-
fly regarding the notes turned by
Robertson.
Mr.. Houghton stated positively
that Mr.. Streeter was one in charge
of the misleading riders" attached
to the spurious notes.
Considerable interest was added
to the Streeter trial by the an
nouncement that S. NJ. Houghton,
whose name appears on a lot of
spurious notes, has been indicted.
He fed from the state when the trial
began, but was arrested at Hot
Springs, OAK, last week and is now
in jail at Minneapolis awaiting trial.
1t is understood that one indictment
charges him, with Menage and
Streeter, of the larceny of $4,000
from the concern. Houghton signed
the spurious notes as vice-president
of the company.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
Saturday,.

Brazil is said to be no longer in state
of siege-The Arkansas river has over
flowed its banks and caused damaging
floods in Kansas.-A Hartford lawyer
fined S400 for taking an excessive pen
sion fee.-St. Paul's College at Yokoha-
ma wrecked and native teacher killed
lost by an explosion in mine in Wales
on Thursday.
Sunday.
President Carnot of France was assas-
sinat ted at Lyons, while sitting in his
carriage. An Italian anarchist named
Santo sprang into the carriage, and
drawing a knife from a newspaper
which he held in hishand he plunged it into
his victim abdomen, making a wound
which caused death in a few hours. The
tragedy set the populace afire with in
dignation. Santo was arrested and it
was with difficulty that the authorities
prevented his being lynched. The presi-
dents family were summoned, and
everything possible done tor him, but he
sank rapidly.-A steam tug wrecked in a
heavy blow off the Highlands, near New
York city, and nearly fifty lives lost
A family of eight in Chicago poisoned by
eating ice cream or lemon plea small
boat capsized in the East river, at
Brooklyn, and five persons drowned
James Martins house, in Chaffrey town
ship, Ont, struck by lightning, his wife
and son killed and three other children
badly stunned.-Seven persons drowned
by the swapping of a cat-boat in Rock
away inlet, n. Y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Severe earthquake shocks in. Japan
Oran, Algeria, shaken up by an earth
quake.-Death and destruction caused
by South Dakota cyc1one.-Losses by
recent floods in Hungary will amount to
$4,000, OOO.-Emil c. Knappe, assistant
Teller of the Chicopee National Bank,
confesses to stealing many thousands OF
dollars from that institution-Fearful
storm reported at Lincoln, Neb., with
some loss Of e.-Whirlwinds demolish-
ed / houses at Bangor S. D., and killed
the child of John Samfelt, leaving the re-
mainder of the family in a severely in
jured and critical condition. John Long
was also killed.-Erastus Wiman Of New
York sentenced to five years and half
in prison for forgery, and petition is
already out asking for his pardon.-A
large business district in London, Eng,
cleaned out by fire, causing nearly a mil
lion dollars loss.-The hottest day of the
year in St. Louis.-Senators Hoar and
PETER have lively tilt over the income
tax.
Friday.
The Illinois miners have declared the
strike off.-A cyclone at Bonneville, Mo-,
did much damage people killed
by lightning in Illinois and Wisconsin,
Texas populists have dropped the wo-
man suffrage plank from their platform.
The extended drought in Illinois. Iowa
and Missouri has been broken.-The
anti-option bill was killed in the house
by vote of $50 to S7.-The Russian
police have discovered plot to kill the
car by exploding mine under the
tracks of the railroad on which he was
to make journey.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
loaded with apples as they are this

And so little Essex got there !!
Well Well And how she has grown
since then
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
Probate of Will.

THOMAS McKINDLEY'S ESTATE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District S.
In Probate court, held at the Probate office
in st. Johnsbury. within and for said district
on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1894.
An instrument purporting to be the last
will and testament of Thomas McKindley,
late of Barnet. in said district, deceased,
being presented to court by Andrew c.
Richie, the executor therein named, for pro-
bate.
1t is ordered by said court that all
persons concerned therein be notified to
appear at session of said court, to be held
at the Probate office in St. Johnsbury on the
cause. if any they NAV have. AGAINST the nTo-
bate of said will; for which purpose it is fur
Their ordered that copy of the record of this
order be published three weeks successfully
in the Caledonian. printed at St. Johnsbury,
previous to said time appointed for hearing.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
true copy of Record, Attest:
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28
Monday.

The mills at Lawrence, Mass, are to
close for the summer-Detroit, Mich,
Brazil, Ind, and other Western cities
damaged by cyclones.-Three tramps
killed and three fatally injured in a
wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road ait Walnut Creek, Ohio.
Tuesday.
Republican National League conven-
ton opened at Denver, Col, with every
state and territory represented The
village of Keighly, Kansas, devastated
by a cyclone.-A Florida train held up,
and the express safe blown open and
robbed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28

The deficit in the government
treasury, as between the receipts and
disbursements for the year ending
June 80, will amount to seventy
eight millions, according to Secre-
tary Carlisle's last figures. This is
altogether too large an amount to
loom up on the wrong side of the
ledger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28

The New York Sun tells the party
in power that an income tax passed
at this session of congress will dye
the democratic party deeper
populist hue than can be rubbed out
in ten years of honest political effort.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28

The belief that President CARROTS
assassin is insane should not inter
fere with his swift and certain
punishment. That species of ''in-
sanity" deserves no leniency at the
hands of the court.
From Grand Isle county, in Lake
Champlain, one of the fruit centers
of the state, comes the pleasing
news that "our trees never were so
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-06-28

The Philadelphia Press thinks that
Vermont will have to hustle this
year if she is to maintain her old-time
lead in republican majorities.
Well, we shall do the hest we can,
and indications point to Heading"
figures.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
PRETTY AND PERHAPS PRISONERS.

Some years ago Ballston had muir
der case that excited a deep interest
over the whole country and occasioned
what grew into n fierce social war in
the town and county.
Now comes another alleged crime that
promises to be of II similar exciting
character. Catharlne and Elizabeth
Nolan, two young girls, the one twenty
two and the other nineteen years old.
were placed at the bar of the Supreme
Court. charged with the murder Of their
brother. John. by poison.
John was twenty-four years OF age
and died very suddenly last June, after
eating his dinner at home. There had
the family. Catharlne was engaged to
be married, but her intended declined
to carry out his promise until after her
mothers death. Then the mother died
after a very short Illness, but the mar
riage did not take place. The fathers
life was insured for one thousand dol
lars. and he, too. died. So did sister
who was sickly. These circumstances
led to talk when John died, especially
as his life was insured for small
sum. and it is alleged that an autopsy
showed the presence of arsenic in the
body.
The accused girls are very handsome,
Catharine having Elittering black eyes.
black hair, fine features and an oval
face. The case recalls to mind the
Borden murders. and will be watched
with interest.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
DID HE FALL OR WAS HE PUSHED

a gentleman seems to have walked off
n Williamsburg pier into the river and
forgotten his shoes and gold headed
cane The statement has been given out
in consequence that somebody must have
committed suicide. The facts don't point
that way. What gentleman would think
of landing in the other world without
his gold-headed cane? lie could get
along well enough without shoes-but
without his cane? Never.
No, the person who walked off the
eminence must have been statesman,
And from the circumstances he must
have no intention OF abandoning by
accident or design the exalted place
upon which he stood. He either grew
dizzy over his new and sudden dignity
or was pushed off. If the latter. his
name must be Johnny" Simpson and
his political address in the Ninth Con-
greseional District will be found embroid-
cred on hrs socks.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
THE ELEVATOR STILL WAITS.

"The Evening World" artist yesterday
prepared for Mr.. COTS use an elevator
by means of which he could ascend to
the top of the investigation building,
and an office directory, giving iniorma-
ton as to the occupation of each floor
The contribution was timely mas
much AZ Mt yesterdays session of the
Committee some of It's members eN-
pressed the opinion that the time had
arrived for going higher. and seemed
DESTROYS that their counsel should take
the elevator and start for the top
story When Mr.. Con- reached the Com
mittee-room he expressed his condemna-
tion Of the Ego higher" policy Of the
Senators, and Justified the course taken
by the counsel
But the reasons given by Mr. Con- for
his dissent from the Committees views
are not wholly satisfactory. lie says
the Investigation began Mt the head
and was confronted by a brazen WALL"
that the Committees witnesses Were
taken from them in the dead Of night,
although watched up to the time Of
going to bed, and he believes that the
exposure of the heads of the Depart
ment would have been known to very
few, while the unearthlnE of the lower
strata of corruption reaches the masses
OF the people.
observation-disclosures McClave's arralgn-
mcnt led to his prompt resignation, and
the presence of his successor In the
Police Board has certainly been IL help
to the Investigators. If all the Com
missioners had been driven out, would
not the stealing of witnesses from under
the very nose OF the Committee have
ceased?
The work done by Mr.. Goff has been
admirable. 1t has furnished popular
proof that the vilest corruption prevails
among the lower members of the force,
and that terrorism and blackmail have
been more general than people believed
But ought not the inquiry to go
higher" now that this fact has been
clearly established?
Is there not danger the people will
suspect that the higher officers, the
Inspectors and Commissioners, are to
he allowed to escape? Is 1t not to be
feared that some evil-minded and de-
signing persons may spread abroad the
lie that the tenderness towards the
heads of the Department has some re-
lation to the approaching election?
Mr.. COTS work has been too valuable,
too earnest and too effective to he
subjected to detractlon. But 1t would
surely be improved now by going higher
and would be more certain to secure
that thorough cleaning out OF the sys-
TEN impossible of accomplishment until
the chief offenders have been reached,
and in comparison with which as Il
means of reform the Indictment and
punishment of few subOrdinates
would be Il bagatelle.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
BY NEW YORK EDITORS.

Consolidation and rapid transit should go to-
Rehcr brooklyn people have more to gain by
tho former, but New York people care more for
growth OF tho metropolis, which is now severed
into parts and crnmpod and congested in It's main
body.-The Times,
The people OF this city have now entered upon
q local campaign such New York has not seen
before In twenty years, For tho frat time since
the overthrow of the Tweed regime, but one Issue
vital and supreme Ia presented and but line
divides the opposing forceA The simple question
Ia whether tho Government OF Now York =
shall be Government OF Its citizens by its cltl-
zens and FOR Its citizens, or machine run by "a
political ring for the seizure and disposition Of
spoils-Tho Herald.
1t ia perfectly fair to say that the man who
indorscl Paddy Diver ms a police Justice for
New York city, and who publicly champions the
cause OF Tammany Hall In tho midst OF tho
present revolving revelations OF Its nefarious
methods and Infamous practices. cannot reason
ably claim, much less secure. the SURFACES OF
our Citzens,-Mall and Express
An organization which has survived 30 many
defeats AZ have befalen the Democrats during
the past generation will not be killed this year.
Az matter OF fact, the party has always been
strongest after it has been deservedly beaten
The Evening Post.
George Washington might conceIvably come TO
life, but he couldn't conceivably become a candi-
date for Tammany. Some few things are not only
beyond the range OF tho miraculous, but are alb
solutcly unthnkable-The Telegram.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Theodore Wagner and John Mueller are the
newly elected Trustees OF Iron Moulders' Union
No. 2lS
Henry Buehrlg is the newly elected Secretary
Vt Branch ~ II the Workmcns General Benefit
Union.
August Dcer has been elected manager OF the
employment bureau OF Branch OF the Independent
Bakers Union
Samuel Baines has been elected Master OF New
y0mOtiNe Firemen. The other new officers
!. J. IOyett. Secretary. G. W, Smith, Collector;
Theodore Fry. Receiver, W, Z. ODOnuell 235
West one Hundred and Forty second street. Agent
Henry Gossner has been elected delegate TO the
Central Labor Federation by Branch l, OF the
manager is j. Schiefer, Members failing to pay
their arrears by Sunday, Nov I. will be hned IS
each, New members viii be required TO pay six
months dues in advance.
The new officers OF the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum
Association are: George Bauer. Treasurer; J,
Straden, Auditor, The receipts dur,ng the last
eleven months were SIS SOL. 81 and SIS 1855 rs was
dsbursed. The assets are 1iSsS2. -. liabilities.
S27, G6j Al
To the Editor:
Two weeks ago the operative plasterers OF this
locked out BY the refusal OF the wealthy bosses
10 comply with their demands on several OF the
large buildings in this city. including the addI-
tion to the Museum OF Natural History, a city
not regularly employed and the weekly payment
would be OF great benefit to them, Under the
f5rtpIghtly system when man who has been idle
for two weeks obtains employment It may be two
weeks more before he gets cent OF his wages
Your paper has been champion Of weekly pay
ments and | hone you will advocate our cause as
we ali believe 1t 10 nothing more than right.
(lgued) OPERATIVE PLASTERER.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
II embarrass the Senatorial commlttee,s

or embarrass the Senatorial Committees
work.
Surely there can be no embarrassment
of the Committee in driving an unfaith-
full officer out OF the force. Would 1t be
just to the citizens and just to the cause
of reform to allow Capt Schmittbcrger
TO continue to prey upon the people?
Knowing the positive proof against him
would he not be likely TO make hay
while the sun Shines" and do as much
crooked work as possible during the re-
spite allotted to him? II he oNtortcd
other five hundred dollar gifts, he could
not be any worse off than he Is now.
If burglar should he practically
proved guilty OF breaking into and rob
bling n house. and told by tho authorities
he might 20 free for two or three months,
to be tried and sent to jail Mt the end OF
that time, would housekeepers be safe
during the interim?
IL II likely that the Lexow Committee
will extend protection over Schmltt-
berger?