St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-11-01
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, worlds
secretary of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, died at her home in
Chicago.-Hog cholera reported in Il
1inois-John Boyer fatally injured by the
bursting of a large emery wheel in the
John E. Thropp machine works, in
Trenton, N. J.-Moses Rosenbaum aged
fifteen in New York, pushed a playmate
from the roof of house causing his
death.-Small-pox breaks out in different
parts of Washington.--New Jersey mill
superintendent plundered and roughly
treated.
Count Won Caprivi, the German chan
cellor, hands in his resignation, which IS
accepted by Emperor WiIliam.-United
States beef condemned at Hamburg
| An army of 10000 Chinese routed by
the Japanese. makes seven
different speeches in as many towns to
the citizens of New York.-A $3.50, 900
| fire in the Deering harvester works at
| Clyburne, Ill-Roof of mine falls at
Pewabic, Mich, killing one man and en-
tombing II others.
Saturday.
Sixteen persons burned to death in a
hotel fire at Seattle, Washington
Prairie fires in Nebraska sweep over
property.-Postal Clerk Lowrey of Som
erville, Mass, sentenced to states prison
for tampering with the mails.-Engineer
scalded to death at Atlanta, Ga.-Fire in
New York destroys 1865 900 worth of
property-Great earthquake in South
America, Chill and the Argentine Repub-
lie being the most affected.
Sunday.
The Standard Oil Companv's refinery
near Lima, O., the second largest refinery
in the world would have been entirely
destroyed by fire but for good work of
the fire companies-A large freight ware
house in East st. Louis destroyed by
fire with all its contents, including hay,
grain and cotton, besides many freight
cars. Loss nearly three-fourths of a
million dollars.-Fire at Rolla, No.
causes loss of $4,000 in the business
portion Of the city.-Great forest fires
raging in Tennessee, and Mississippi
| Incendiary fires reported at Newport
Ark.-Wholesale grocery house at Rock
ford, H., Quilted by fre.-Landborg
variety theatre destroyed by fire at st.
Louis, Moan American vessel reported
by British barque to be on fire at sea.
By the explosion of a shot gun at West
Newton, Mass, Philip Raynonds wife
killed, his son fatally injured and Ray
witch, Mass, nistook his wife for burg
lar when he shot her.-Five of a gang of
twenty burglars caught at Lewiston, Me.
Monday.
Detectives arrest 15-year-old Isaac
Steinberg at the home of his uncle in
Brooklyn. The lad is wanted in Chicago,
where he is said to be implicated in the
robbing of a safe of $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and 5000 in cash.-Commercia
Alliance Life Insurance Company Of New
York goes under, and is now in the hands
of a receiver.-Bailey becomes owner of
the P. T. Barnum show-An immense
gas we'll opened at Muncie, Indiana
Great earthquake destroyed the city of
La Liej "a in Argentina.-Thec corrected re-
turns from the districts in New York city
show decrease in the registration from
that of 1892.
Tuesday.
Fire caught in a tenement house in
New York and before it could be ex-
tinguished seven persons were suffocated.
Weston, the pedestrian, left Cortland,
n. Y, this morning for Binghamton.-
Over 200 cases of alleged fraudulent
reg stration unearthed in New York
Democratic Chairman Faulkner making
confident predictions of democratic
victories. Washington editor admits
that democrats will lose in Indiana.