St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
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fered with.
Thursday.
The most famous ship in the naval
service, the old corvette kearsarge, lost
on the rocks while on her way from
Port au Prince to Nicaragua, but no
lives lost.-W. A. Wetherbee elected COM
mander of the Massachusetts @. A. r.
Plans are being made by the Metho-
| dist missionary society for a vigorous
religious campaign in Rome.-RiOts be-
| tween HindoOs and Mohammedans near
| Massick, India, and several temples and
mosques destroyed. The late Geo. w
/ Childs, the Philadelphia philanthropist
| leaves his entire estate to his wife.-The
Cooley Publishing Company has assign
| ed, and Bellamy's paper, the New Ma
| ton, has also suspended publication
Prominent New England railway stocks
show an average decline of over $50 per
share, compared with a year ago.-A
passenger train was ditched by wreckers
at White Oak Bayou, Texas, a brake
man shot and several others badly hurt
Discovery of a plot to murder Presi-
dent Peixoto of Brazil, and several of
Ballantyne, the celebrated writer OF
stories of adventure, at Rome.-Louisia-
ma and Northwestern Mississippi report
fierce cyclones, by which much property
was destroyed and several lives lost
Friday.
The Indian school at Pine Ridge
Agency and business block at Spencer,
Mass, destroyed by fre.-It is estimated
that the English coal strike cost the
Midland railroad $3 900, OOO.-The re-
markable sagacity of a dog saves a
| Woburn (Mass) family from being
burned to death.-The captain of an
Allan line steamer tells of a remarkable
electric phenomenon during the voyage
across. For nine nights IN succession,
and during the height of the hurricane,
the steamer was illuminated with balls
OF fire at the mastheads and on the
stays, looking as if the whole ship were
trimmed with Chinese lanterns.-The
| Cumberland river is rising and threatens
much damage on the lowlands near
| Nashville, Tenn.-COngressm Houk of
! Ohio dropped dead at Washington
! James Clayton, a Kentucky farmer, was
! brutally tortured by robbers, who want
| ed $1,000 he had concealed in the house
| his feet were burned to a crisp and he
will probably die.-Su9ar bounties
amounting to 81, 500, 900 are now be-
ing paid out by the treasury depart
ment at the rate of $1OO,O a day
Irregularities have been discovered
among the conductors of the New York
division of the n. Y, n. II. & Hartford
road, and a general overhauling is
| pronised.-Many towns in Indiana
swept by a fearful wind, resulting in the
destruction of much property.
Saturday.
Six Amherst students fined for forgery.
-Lobengula, king of the Matabeles, re-
ported dead.-A Gloucester fishing crew
has a terrible experience off the banks,
struggling for life for nearly a week be-
fore rescued.-HorribIe stories of famine,
murder and cannibalism come from the
Russian convict station at Onor-A
financial crisis reported in India.-Spot-
ted fever is prevalent in Iron county,
| Texas.
Sunday.
Rev. W. ]. Hill, pastor of St. Paul's
Catholic church in New York city,
brutally assaulted in the chancel during
service, by his assistant, Rev. DIR. P. V.
McDonald.-Colt's firearms manufacto-
ry at Hartford, Conn, partially de-
stroyed bv fire; loss over 5000, O0O.-
The careless handling of candle start
ed fire in a Paris seed and oil store
an explosion wrecked the building and
caused severe injury and some loss of
life.
Monday.
Two locked-in children burned to
death near Bonnie Terre, Mo.-Three
persons reported killed in a freight wreck
near Bellevue, GA disastrous storm
prevailing throughout all England.-A
bomb was thrown in a cafe a Paris
railway station, resulting in the injury
| of 20 or more persons; the anarchist is
captured and boasts of his deed.-Chica-
go, New London, Conn, Fort Wayne,
Ind, Newport, R. l., Salem and New
Bedford, Mass, report heavy storms
and much damage done.-Five handsome
residences in Tuckahoe, n. Y, burned
Ex-Minster Stevens hauled over the
Goals by Senator Gray,-Death of the
eminent pianist Hans Won Bulow, at
Cairo, Egypt.
Tuesday.
Bath (Me.) iron works damaged $780,
600 by fire.-Half of the business part
of Genoa, O., destroyed by fre.-Thirteen
miners entombed in a colliery at Ply
mouth, Pa.-Ex-President Harrison de-
clines an invitation to preside at a con-
gress to be held in connection with the
mid-winter exposition at San Fran
| cisco.