St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-05-17
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday,.

wednesday.
The town of Norway, Me-, almost
wiped out by fire; two-thirds of the
place in ashes; over 20 buildings burned,
including business blocks, church, an
academy and dwellings; loss 1898, 900,
insurance $4,000 many people made
homeless.-Union City, Tenn. has been
visited by terrible wind and rain
! storm and the loss will be heavy. Con-
siderable stock was killed by lightning.
Thursday.
| Berlin editors have been sentenced for
! libelling the police, and the German min
lister of finance is accused of peri ury.-
The city treasurer of Middleton, Ohio, is
reported $50, 900 short in his accounts
Boss Croker resigns as Tammanv's
chieftain and his resi- gpation is accepted,
SO to 1.-Dedication of monument to
/ Mary Washington at Fredericksburg,
Va, with an address by President
! Observation-Disclosures from Venezuela tell
of an awful earthquake which destroyed
several cities, and the loss of life is esti-
mated at O,0O0.-Great preparations
are being made for the Y. M. c. A. jubi-
lee to be held in London in about three
weeks.-A 100000 fire in Syracuse, N.
Y, and a SIS, 900 blaze in Morristown,
N. J., with loss of life in both Places
Death of Congressman Brattan of Mary
| land, after a short term in congress-
A cyclone at Quanan, Tex, wrecked
nearly 20 buildings and injured several
persons.-Fire in Columbus, O., destroy
ed the freight depot of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, 10 cars and all the
freight contained in the depot. Loss
$50, 1000.
Friday.
Other disastrous fires raging in South
ern New Jersey, and much valuable tim
nd cd l.,
wife and four children found murdered
near Milan, Mo.-German warships have
been ordered to Samoa.-Seven armed
men robbed bank at Southwest City,
Mo-, securing about $4OOO.-Two thou
sand Pullman Company's employees go
on strike.-The telephone exchange in
Toledo O., was burned; several of the
girls had narrow escapes for their lives.
"A fire that originated in the woods
near Bridgewater Center Me, destroyed
every building in that village, causing a
loss of $25 ,O0O-President Cleveland is
said to be in favor of abandoning the
Samoan agreement with Germany and
England.-The great floods continue in
Queensland. Whole townships are in
undated, and thousands of sheep and
cattle have been drowned.
Saturday.
The Lucania has crossed the ocean in
five days, 10 hours and % minutes
Many public officials among those ar
rested in Russia in connection with the
recent Nihilist plot.-The Slavs, Poles
and Bohemians of the United States are
raising subscriptions to secure justice for
their kinsmen now involved in the Con
nellsyille coke region trOubles.-Cholera
is raging at KoOIIo, Russia, and the |
frontier is said to be dangerous on ac-
count of the plague.-Nine Coxeyites are
reported to have been drowned while
crossing the Yakima river in Washing
ton.-Coxeyites seized an engine and four
cars at Provo, Utah, but fed before two
companies of regulars.
Sunday.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which |
DR.. Talmage is pastor, again burned |
about noon, with a neighboring hotel, |
causing a loss of 100000. The fire
men had an unusually hard fight, and DR.. |
Talmage himself had a narrow escape |
from death. Had the fire occurred a
half hour sooner there would have been |
a heavy loss of life. Four memorial |
stones which DR.. Talmage brought from
the East were among the highly-prized |
things lost. The Tabernacle will prob
ably be rebuilt.
Four Harvard students drowned |
while boating in Boston harbor
Monday.
An unusual mortality rate reported |
from Chile.-The Samoan question is
still causing much discussion in Ger |
many.-Thirty persons hurt by an ex- |
plosion at Bradford, Pa.-Forest fires |
raging in Pennsylvania and New Hamp-
shire, destroying valuable timber.-The |
German Colonial Society has petitioned |
for the annexation of Samoa.-Brazil |
and Portugal are IN trouble over the |
latter's conduct in connection with the |
surrender of Da Cana; the Portuguese
minister has been given the cold shoulder |
at Rio Manifestations of Massachu- |
setts and Maine are suffering greatly |
from forest fres.-Miners in Indian Ter |
ritory are uneasy and a riotous strike |
is imminent.-Strikers attempt to blow
up tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio |
road and thus stop the shipment of coal. |
Tuesday.
Small boys in Roxbury district, Bos- |
ton, started blaze that made the big |
gest fire the city has known since Thanks |
giving, 1889, and which covered great
er area than the memorable blaze of 1872. |
In less than three hours some Is acres of
territory were burned over. The base
ball grand stand and bleachers, large |
school house, an engine house, 164 wood |
en- buildings and 13 brick buildings were |
burned and some 1000 families rendered |
homeless. The loss is conservatively es
timated a t from $3OO,O 900 to 100000, |
although one authority puts it at ST., |
600, OOO-Smallpox is raging in Mexi- |
can cities.-Cholera is reported in seven |
governments in Russ1a.-Six excursion |
lists drowned near Ipswich, Eng.-Two |
Euglish prospectors died of thirst in the |
deserts of Arizona.