St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-05-03
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

by flre.-The safe in the Weymouth
almshouse robbed of 5000, and summer
residences of Boston people in bingham
have also been burglarized.-Three chill
dren burned to death in a house at
South Scranton, Pa.-Two hundred and
ffty-two people were killed and one hun
dred and fifty severely injured by recent
earthquakes in Greece.-The Massachu-
sets Episcopal diocese is to be divided
into two sections.-Over 800 of the
Coxey army captured by United States
troops after stealing a freight train, but
one hundred Others got away. Several
leaders of the army are held under close
guard.-President Mcbride of the United
Mine Workers received an Internal ma
chine in his mail.-The approach of May
Day feared at Rome, on account OF ex-
pected socialistic troubles.
Friday.
Seven horse thieves have been killed by
settlers in Oklahoma.-Death of ex-Gov.
Berry of New Hampshire, at Bristol in
his 9Sth year.-Emperor William declares
that Germany's interests in Samoa must
not be abandoned.-Forty thousand
workmen on a strike in Vienna-An-
other heavy earthquake shock felt In por-
tions Of Greece. Terror reigns on the
Isles of Syria and Zante. Repeated
shocks have been felt there in the last
two days. Small villages have been half
ruined and hundreds of families have
been driven to live in the fields, unshel-
tered and under fed.-Four Louisiana ne
groes hanged by a mob in Madison
parish.
A large tract of land in the village of
St. Alban, on the St. Anne river, some
As miles from Quebec slid into the
stream, sweeping away whole farms and
causing the loss of four lives. An area
of six acres had been steadily under
mined by the river.
Saturday.
Seventeen buildings burned at Cadiz,
Ind-Fifteen buildings burned at Table
quah, I. T.-Cholerine is developing at
Lisbon.-Thirteen miners killed by the
falling of cage at Bots du Lac, France.
Winnipeg natives object to the American
flag, and it is said that the only way it
can be kept flying is by the use of British
troops to protect it.-Striking miners at
Toluca, H., attack and injure men who
refuse to step work.-The Ohio militia
ordered out to take captured train
away from Coxeyites. The tramps sur
render at the mazzle of Gatling gums
In view of numerous atrocious 1ynchings
there, the London Chronicle thinks the
Southern states untitled for selfgovern-
meat.-Sitting Bulls old tribe is to be
moved back to the United States from
Canada, where it fled after the Custer
massacre. The Indians object to the
removal and trouble is feared.-The New
South Wales cabinet proposes a direct
British protectorate for Samoa.-1t is
probable that the Nicaragua Canal pro-
ject will be sold at auction.-It is expect
ed that the great coal strike viii die
young, as operators have already taken
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strikers.-A gang of tramps captured
freight train on the Concord and Mon
treal road.-News has been received of
great fire in Shanghai, which destroyed
500 houses.-Every knight of Labor on
the Great Northern railroad has been
called out. The strike is very likely to
extend to every system west of Chicago.
Monday.
Sixteen new cases of small pox re-
ported in Chicago.-A ten per cent divi-
dend will be paid the Worlds Fair bond
holders.-Many persons drowned in the
Danube River at Brahilon, Roumania, by
the cola pse of bridge.-The American
Tobacco Company declared to be an
illegal com ination.-Gov. O'Ferral of
Virginia has called out a portion of the
militia to deal with large body of lynch
ers.-United States Senator Stock
Dllus5S VI NhlSHiS5dI diIO III SHlSdSO MOu-
day night. His death was caused by
angina pectoris.-Death of Frank Hat
ton, editor of the Washington Post
Forest fire near Bristol n. H, has done
much damage; and fires near New Mar
ket have also destroyed a good deal of
timber.-Thirty thousand masons and
bricklayers are on a strike in Vienna and
vicinity, and they have been joined by
the carpenters.
Tuesday.
Coxey's army" enters Washington.
He is prevented from making a speech
and two of his marshals are arrested
May Day ushers in lively condition of
things in different sections of Europe.
Dynamite bombs and labor riots claim
the close attention of the authorities.
Much property damaged.-The business
part of Davidson, Mich, destroyed by
hre.-Ex-Senator Dawes and wife Of
Massachusetts celebrate their golden
wedding.-Fifty people drowned by the
collapse of a pier in Roumania. Greece
again visited by severe earthquake
shocks.