St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-03-29
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

Arkansas has suffered from a great
food, which devastated the central part
of the state.-Lightning caused an $780,
900 fire in St. Louis.-Heaviest fall of
snow since 1878 reported in Nebraska,
and cattle and sheep will suffer greatly.
Rev. Thomas Sturgeon succeeds his
father as pastor of the London Tab
ernacle.-The four appropriation bills
passed by the house make an aggregate
reduction of $24, 100000 over previous
yearS.-Through trains on the Union Pa
cifc have been DELAYED for over week
by heavy storms.-A discarded lover in
Mexico kills his sweetheart, her father
and himself, Three thousand negroes in
in Alabama want to emigrate to Africa
and think the whites ought to pay their
expenses persons I'M ured by
bomb explosion in church al Grenoble,
France.-Peixoto proclaims death to all
rebels in Brazil and proposes to follow
that programme rigidly.
Friday.
Chicago has formed an anti-lynching
eague.-Mormon miss. onarieS have been
expelled from Prussia.-A Saugus (Mass.)
veteran coughs up bullet that has been
in his lungs since 1S63.-Five persons
killed by the blowing up of dynamite
works near Verona, PA mob at the
/ Hungarian capital over resolution con-
corning the dead patriot Kossuth.-
Thirty persons killed by the recent ex
plosion at Santander, Spain.-Seven
! bodies have been recovered from the Cay
lord (Pa.) mine disaster.
Saturday.
The Mexican minister of public works
has been stricken blind.-The Erie rail-
road is laying off men on account of
poor traffic. = Outbreak threatened
among the Chippewa Indians.-An al
legged discrepancy of million and a half
| in the accounts of the comptroller of
New York.-A fast freight wrecked and
burned on the Lehigh Valley road.-A
New York paper claims to have discover
ed men there and in Kings county who
make business of buying and selling
/ citizenship papers. The alleged chief
offender is an Italian saloonkeeper.-
! There are substantial grounds for believ-
| ing that the new moduS vlvend1 covering
the sealing season in Bering sea will be
agreed upon by the United States and
| Great Britain within the next ten days.
Monday.
Death of Senator Colquitt of Georgia
Small pox cases reported in South Bos-
ton.-Constable Jameson of Gravesend.
N. Y, gets Is months in Jail tor perjury
in election case trials.-Great loss of
live stock in Wyoming as the result of
| recent bizzardS.-The u. S. steam sloop
| of war Marion reports an ugly experience
with monsoon off the coast of Japan
! The sugar trust wins again in the appeal
of the government from the decision in
! favor of the trust made recently in Phila-
| de1phia. Newfoundland seal hunters
| caught on an ice foe and two are frozen
to death and others badly frost-bitten.
Tuesday.
The mails robbed of $4,000 at South
Bend, Ind.-Sixt teen Gravesend election
inspectors sent to jail.-Two thousand
men likely to strike in Chicago.-Death
of Joseph Cox, the oldest officer in the
U. S. navy-Reports received from
many points in the wheat-growing
regions of the west and northwest are
such as to justify the statement that
winter wheat has been seriously
damaged by the recent cold snap. Fruit
in Virginia and Missouri is said to have
been hurt by the cold snap.-A coal oil
lamp fell to the floor in the drug store at
Canton, Miss, and ignited two kegs
of powder, which exploded and tore the
building into atoms. Mr.. Alexander,
one of the proprietors, was fatally
injured.