St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-01
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.

The courts refuse to give Valiant, the
Paris bomb tbrower, another trial, and
he must die.-An Attleboro Mass. }
man savagely assaulted by tramps.-Fif-
teen persons killed in reiroad accident
in RuSsia.-An attempt to assassinate
President Hippolyte of Hayti.-The
great Corbett-Mitchell prize fight occur
red a Jacksonville, Fla, and the pugil-
lists were subsequently arrested for breach
of the peace.-Carlisle talks about the
bond issue and says he hesitated long be-
fore deciding to take the sponsibility.-
Four girls killed by snow slide in Ida
ho.-Onc boy killed and two others dan
gerousiy hurt in a coaSting accident at
Greene, Me.-The Cauca valley in South
America has been inundated and crops
swept away.
Friday.
At the execution of murderer in Chi
cago the rope broke and the body fell to
the floor, but was picked up and hanged
over again before death nsued.-Nine
hundred hands thrown out of work by
the shutting down OF worsted mills al
Fitchburg - Kaiser William receives
Prince Bismarck with open arms, and
the reconciliation marks great day for
Germany.-Reports from recent blizzards
in Oklahoma Territory show a consid-
cradle loss of life; seven persons are
known to have perished-Two children
in a house at Oxbow burned to DEATH
Thirty four cases of cholera, and %
deaths, reported at Namur, Belgium
Corbett has been offered $4,000 to act
as the drawing card on the Baltimore
base ball team next eason.-Permanen
receivers have been appointed for the
New York and New England road.
Saturday.
The new u S. minister to Hayti has
been meddling too freely In that repub-
lies affairs, and his recall has been asked
for by President Hippolvte .-Riot ting
battle with sheriff's deputies, and great
excitement prevails.-Another socialistic
uproar in the French chamber of
deputies.-The American Bell Telephone
Company will ask the Massachusetts
legislature for an increase of capital
stock to the tune of $3O,OO0,OOO, max
ing a total of $50, ,00O.-St artling
charges of brutality to a boy are made
against a Gambia, N. H., wOman.-Three
Illinois train robbers get 10 years apiece
in the penitentiary. The midwinter Ex-
severe storm in portions of Massachu-
sets, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
trains delayed and shipping roughly
Manifestations trouble reported at
Nicaragua endangering the Nicaragua
Canal; u S. cruiser ordered to proceed
to that locality.-Wheat fell to the low
est figure ever touched, in California, and
operators claim the bottom has not yet
been reached.
Sunday.
A large part of the village of Bath,
Me-, destroyed by fire; loss nearly half
a milion.-Holden's Opera House block,
in Farmer, Mass, burned, at a loss OF
$50, OOO-Cholera is said to be spread
ing rapidly in the frontier districts
of Russian Poland.-Twenty-si lives
lost by the wreck of British bark off
the Irish coast.-A big storm reported
in Colorado and trains badly blocked.
Monday.
The unemployed of New York city are
to be given employment at whitewash-
ing.-A destructive fire has occurred at
Jeremie. Hayti.-The Massachusetts
legislative committee on woman's suf-
frage has voted leave to withdraw the
petition for municipal suffrage for
women.-Small-pox is still raging in New
York and the health authorities are
alarmed at the outbreak of the con-