St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-08-16
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Wednesday,.

A water famine is feared in Norfolk,
Conn. Wells have dried up and water
for drinking purposes is carried in bar
rels a distance of two miles. Crops are
practically ruined.-Sicily has been great
~ shaken up by earthquakes. Three
towns were destroyed and great dam
age lone in three others. Fifty people
jured.-Several strikers badly injured
while attacking workmen in the Omaha
stock yards.
The Mississippi river is very low and
navigation has been seriously interefered
with. The river has fallen three-tenths
of an inch below the mark of 1864
Burglars scared off by a parrot at Dan
vers, Mass.-A railroad employee at
Charlton, Ia, while intoxicated, shot his
his betrothed, her sister, her mother and
himself last.-Eighty-eight members of
Coxey's army sent to jail at Hyattsville,
Md.-A Kansas City bank cashier sent
to prison for receiving deposits fraudu-
lently.-The grand lodge of the American
Protective association, consisting of
representatives from all lodges through
out the United States, assembled in an
nual convention at Wilkesbarre, Pa; the
deliberations are secret.
TI1Udys
Three earthquake shocks felt at Mem
phis, Tenn.-The packing houses at
Omaha, Neb., demand the protection of
state troops against the strikers.-The
anti-smallpox riots in Milwaukee, Wis,
lead to Observation-Disclosures persons killed
in a railway catastrophe caused by
wreckers lee Lincoln, Neb.-Three
children dead near Oelwein, Ia, after
drinking tartaric acid.-President Rein
hart of the Atchison road has resigned,
owing to adverse criticism and poor
health.
Y%erinton, Neb., destroyed by fire
Eight persons poisoned by eat
ing dried beef at Muncie, Ind.-The dem
ocratic majority in Tennessee is said to
be 16, OOO.-It is now claimed that
Breckenridge's defeat, in Kentucky, is
very certain.-Several hundred miners
reported entombed in burning coal mines
near ~Dombrowa, Poland-Mrs. Alice S..
Eavey, Cora Johnson and Grace Lowell
of Auburn, Cal, aged 10, IS and II re-
spectively, were drowned in the American
river.-The business part of Watersmeet,
Mich, was burned ky a forest fire, loss
SIS, OOO.-Brigands attacked the village
P~ukeravatz,. Belgrade, a few days ago,
killed many inhabitants, pillaged houses
and bound and carried away women n
girls.-It is said that Pullman will evict
all the strikers who are his tenants.
This would turn 5000 men, women and
children into the street.
Monday.
Forest fires have been raging again in
Michigan.-The house caucus decides to
accept the senate tariff bill.-Twenty
excursionists drowned at Tenby, Eng
Zimmerman, the famous bicyclist, thrown
at Herne Hill, Eng, and painfully hurt.
The FIJI Island natives, while in revolt,
have revived cannibalistic customs.
Tuesday.
Five buildings burnedin Chicago.-The
cotton crop in Texas is the best it has
been for years.-The Michigan corn crop
has been damaged beyond recovery
Four workmen crushed to death near
Sheridan, Wyo.-Warehouses at Vienna
burned, loss 81 800, O0O.-Burglars get
$4OO from the Fort Fairfield, Me, post
omce.-The stampede of Pullman strikers
still continues and fully 1000 persons
have applied for their former positions
in the works.