St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-07-26

Reports indicate that cruel atrocities
have been committed by the rebel and
loyal troops in Brazil, including the
slaughtering of many prisoners.-Fire
wiped out nine-tenths of the business
portion of Ell Paso, ILL.,, involving loss OF
$25O,O0O. The fire was caused by too
warm curling iron falling into pan of
gasolene-The Central Market and sew
eral other buildings III Minneapolis burn
ed, loss $500, 900.
Friday.
Newtown, a saw-rnill village in Wis
cousin, destroyed by fire.-The potato
crop at Rockville, Conn, is nearly ruin
ed.-North Dakota republicans nomi-
nate Roger AIlin for governor-The des-
titutiOn caused by the earthquakes in
Turkey is more widespread than at first
reported. fourth annual interna-
tiOnal convention of the Baptist Young
Peoples Union of America opens at To-
rontO, Ont.-An explosion of4OO pounds of
loose powder at Fort Pulaski, near Saw
annah, fatally wounded Ordi-
nance Sergeant William Chinn,
seriously injured Mary Washing
ton, his mother-in-law, and set
fire to the fort, causing intermittent ex-
blossoms OF ammunition and doing much
damage to the fort-Joachmowitz S hat
factory and nine tenements at New
ark, \. J., were burned, loss $4,000.
Saturday.
All dangerous anarchists have been ar
rested in Italy.-A hotel and other build
ings burned at Vassalboro, Me.-A de-
crease of over nine thousand in immi-
grafton at Philadelphia for the year end
ing June 3O.-Eight persons killed during
a severe hail and lightning storm near
St. Petersburg, Russia.-The fly wheel in
the Seely brass foundry at Ogdensburg,
\. Y, burst and injured several men
badly; it took both legs off Supt. Foot
hill and wrecked portion of the build
ing.-A cyclone half a mile wide near
Ransomville, N. Y, did 100000 dam
age.-The cholera epidemic is rapidly
spreading in St. Petersburg gets
100000 from W. W. Phillips will for
a building on the campus.-Outlaws set
fires at Perry, o. T., and release prison
ers from the county jail.-The barn of J.
B. Graybil in Woodbury. Township, Pa,
was struck by lightning and burned.
Thomas Noel and William Barkman,
who were in the barn, were killed by the
lightning.
Sunday.
Twenty persons suspected of being i'm
plicated III plot to kill the car of Rus
STA arrested Sunday at St. Petersburg.
Several buildings in Alton, Ill., burned,
causing d loss Oi 9OO,OOO.
Monday.
Another revolution said to be im1ni-
nent in Hayti.-West Superior, Wis,
threatened by forest hres.-Striking min
erS threaten to burn and pillage Bir-
ningham, Ala, and citizens are CARRYING
arms.-Ten houses were destroyed by
fire in Chicago; four children were killed
and a number of people injured. -Britan-
MIA beats the Vigilant after the latter's
lead of over seven minutes.-A drought
OF FIVE years duration in Mexico has been
broken by heavy rainfall.-Fifteen men
drowned by a cloudburst in the noun
tains of the Prieta district, MeX.-Amer-
lean fishing schooner seized without st at
ed cause by Canadian revenue cutter
on Lake Erie.-The trial of Santo Case
rio, the murderer of President Carnot of
France, will be attended by unusual mil
itary precautions.-Three men killed in
railroad collision at Griffiths, Ohio, and
several passengers bruised by a derail-
ment at La Otto, Ind. F. Nelson, the
oldest conductor on the Brunswick and
Western road, in Georgia, was shot
through the heart and Instantly killed
on his train while trying to stop
crowd OF drunken negroes from fighting
Tuesday.
The business portion of Great Bend
Pa, destroyed by fre.-Athens n. Y,
threatened with destruction by fire
San Salvador's provisional govern
ment at the point of being overthrown.
-Four women drowned while bathing
near Portland, Wash.-The house pas
ses bill directing the unemployment of
postal clerks recently dismissed-The
impeachment of two United States sena-
tors may follow the disclosure of evil
dence received by the senate investigat-
ommittee.-Twenty six houses burned
in st. Jean Baptist village, in Montreal,
and two lives reported lost.-The people
OF Boston voted upon the Meigs elevated
railroad bill as passed by the last Legis-
lature. result being IL, 492 votes in favor
and IA pa in opposition-a very small
vote