St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-02-01

cash from the banks and skipped thecity.
Carpet weavers in Philadelphia 60 out
on a strike.-Report comes that corrup'
ton prevails in all the city departments
in NiagarasFalls, N. Y. The officials are
resigning.
Walter c. Wright Of Lawrence, Mass.
shoots his wife and then shoots himself.
Senator d. B. Hill and Theodore Roose-
welt deliver addresses at a banquet by
the Democratic Club in New Yorkshire
trolley strike in Brooklyn marked by but
few riotous demonstrations. Car service
greatly crippled by the cutting OF wires
by the strikers .-Guests at the Vendome,
New York city, relieved of their jcwelry
while they sleep.-Five children found al
most dead from starvation and cold on
a mountain near Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Mex-
leo making active preparations for war
with Gautemala.-Thc President APP
proves the urgency deficiency bill, which
includes the income tax appropriation
The wife of Hugh Whitehead, the famous
wrestler at Pawtucket, K. l., gives birth
to triplets. All are well.
Sunday.
Gold payments can be maintained by
the United States treasury for only a few
days longer unless immediate action is
taken by congress or the administration
looking to the replenishment OF the gold
reserve by the issue Of more bonds
Fire partially burns Castle Hotel in New
York making a loss of 500, 000.-Two
more lines on the trolley system in Brook
lyn start. Strikers hold a big meeting
and pass a benefit act.-Main building OF
the Rhode Island College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts at Kingston burned.
Loss nearly $4,000. No insurance
The preachers in New York and Brooklyn
express their views in their churches OF
the trolley strike in Brooklyn.
Monday.
Strikers ask for their old places on the
trolley roads in Brooklyn but are refused
by the management.-Track spreads
near indianapolis, Ind, and the cars roll
down an embankm ent killing two per-
sons and badly injuring thirty Others
Armenian hearing commenced. The first
act is a proposal by the delegates that
Tashin Pasha, the governor-general OF
Bills be suspected to await the result OF
the investigation.-Boy at Sandwich,
Mass, saves himself from drowning by
freezing his gloves to the ice.-Nail mills
in Ohio that have been closed for some
time start up giving employment to 5000
men.-President Faure's message read in
the French Senate and Chamber of Depu-
ties and loudly %applauded; chamber
voted confidence in the new government.
Tuesday.
Cadets in military school in Rio Jan
GIRO in open revolt'-Three thousand per-
sons in St. Johns, N. F., now receiving
relief from friends in Liverpool.-Pro-
posed electric line from Massachusetts
through the White Mountains to Quebec.
Senate finance committee cannot agree
on any measure.-The Cunard, White
Star, and American lines reduce the out
ward steerage rate from SIS to $40
Five unsuccessful attempts tn elect Uni
ted States senator at Dover, DEL
Southern Pacific engineers threaten to go
out on a strike.-The great whiskey
trust in Chicago known as the Distillers
and Cattle Feeding company, placed in
the hands of misunderstanding Elbe
sunk off the British coast. OF the $50
persons or board only 10 were saved.
This would make more lives lost than in
all 1894 by maritime accidents.
Wednesday,.
Fish commissioner of Connecticut fined
$500 in Massachusetts for netting trout.
Dover national bank shortage proves
almost 500, 000.-President Eliot's
annual report Of Harvard College gives
foot ball a vigorous arraignment,