St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-03-01
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
ThurSday.


A turbulent session of the house of re-
-Washington's farewell
address read to a small audience in the
Senate.-Paris is said to be panic-strick-
en- on the question of dynamite bombs
Portrait of the late Mrs. Harrison I'M
yelled at the White House.-Five men
killed by a boiler explosion at Compile,
La.-Further cases of smallpox discov-
cred in New York city.-Thirteen formal
charges preferred by the London News
against the house of lords, and it's
adjustment urged. shington's Birth
day celebrated more or less throughout
the country.-A bill introduced in con-
gress to make Lincolns birthday a legal
hOliday.-Brazilian insurgents said to
have won two victories, killing four
hundred government trOops.-Six per-
sons killed in an explosion in mine near
Blossburg, n. MA blizzard sweeping
over Mississippi did much damage to
the fruit crop.
Friday.
Several business buildings burned at
Fort Wayne, Ind.-Severe sand storm re-
ported from Calilorna.-Wm Astor
gives $4,000 TO New York's unemploy-
ed.-Sixty Chinese robbers steal $780,
900 from the village OF ku Laiua.-Opera
House at Laconia, n. H., burned-All but
one vessel of PeiXotOs feet said to have
gone over to the insurgents.-Five con-
victs escape from a Georgia Jail, after
numbering the jailer.-An old man and
his housekeeper killed at Monticello, N
Y, presumably for the purpose of rob-
bery.-An attempt will be made to save
the old government corvette Kearsarge,
recently wrecked.-Three Bradford Acad-
envy girls, at Haverhill, Mass, have been
expelled, and IA others suspended. hav-
ing been caught dancing with COM
pany OF Tufts College boys at unseason-
able hours of the night.
Saturday.
Prendergast, the assassin of the late
Mayor Harrison of Chicago. refused
new trial and sentenced to be hanged
March 23.-Incendiary fires among the
Worlds Fair buildings.-The Indian
mission school al Neah Bay, B. c., burn
ed, and several children perished.-A
frightful cyclone reported at Port Louis,
| Mauritius a train was blown from the
track and so persons killed.-Tuft's Col
| 1ege gets $25, 900 from the estate of the
! late Willard Goldthwaite of Salem,
Mass.-Alabama steel mills are starting
up.-A ball player at Wesleyan Univer-
sity ruptured blood vessel while prac-
ticing and died soon after.-Gus Ebb and
three others were found dead in the
woods in the Seminole Reservation, o.
T, where they were caught in the recent
blizzard while hunting.
men killed and ten fatally injured in a
boiler explosion in an iron foundry at
Alexandrovsky, Russia.
Sunday.
Three-fOurths of the business portion
of the town ofMcDonald, Pa. is burned
loss 500, OO0.-An immense warehouse
at Rotherhite, a suburb of London, was
burned. Thousands of tons of grain
poured from the store rooms into the
Thame Earthquake shock at Arcadia
Neb.
Monday.
Fatal fire in an orphan asylum al
Albany, n. Y.-Boss McKane is denied q
stage proceedings and must go to Sing
Sing.-The reports of the foreign rela
tions committee, on the Hawaiian ques
ton, submitted to the senate-Gov
Greenhalge tells Swift and his fellow so
cialists that they cannot again march
en- masse to the Massachusetts state
house.
Tuesday.
Two negroes fearfully beaten by two
white women whom they assailed on thu
outskirts of Texas town.-A 100000
fire in Boston.-The crisis in ex-Ministe
Phelps illness said to be passed and h
, will recover.-The rumor of Gladstone
resignation again revived; his eyesigh
and hearing said to be failing fast.