St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-12-13
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
Thursday.


capture four men who have made bust
ness of highway robbery near Concord
n. H.-The Red Cross society talks of
undertaking relief work in Turkey
Pennsylvania pcnitentiaries overcrowded
and arranged SO as to be nurseries of
crime.-Theits from the treasury depart
ment at Washington have been going on
for some time. About $4,000 old papers
have been taken and the stamps and
autographs removed About $4,000 of
the cancelled stamps have been recovered
Two negroes, Washington and Edwards,
have been arrested Terrific gale RACES
off English coast.-Snowfall and wind
throughout New EngIand.-Two trains
collide in the Boston & Albany station,
Boston, and do $4,000 damage to rolling
stock. Passengers badly shaken up
Said Pasha, fearing assassination, seeks
protection at the British embassy.-Tohn
G.. Stone, under arrest at Fort Wayne,
Ind, makes confession of murders that
rival those of H. H. Holmes.
Friday.
Philadelphia capitalists buy Long
Islands city's railway and light system
tor nearly $4,000, 000.--M E. Wether-
bee arrested at Manchester, VT, for
drowning her six-weeks old chld.-An-
other massacre reported from Turkey.
The Armenian monastry at Hassan
Kaleh sacked and burned.-Sir Philip
Currie refuses sultan's demand to deliver
Said Pasha who took refuge at the
British embassy in China as
Stunning serious proportions. China may
ask help from Neutrality-suspicious. of
Willimantic Dime bank will get back so
per cent.-Pension agent Lord, while Civ
ing testimony in bis own behalf in court
at Portland, Me-, becomes unconscious
Speaker Reed taking his time about max
ing up commttees.-England's reply to
Secretary Oney is a firm refusal to back
down on the Venezuelan matter.-Li
Hung Chang says the United States is
afraid OF Japan.-Cuban army in a bad
position and in danger of defeat
Saturday.
Schooner found floating near Pollock
Rip, Mass, wrecked in the recent storm.
Nothing known of her crew.-James S.
Chaffee, charged with receiving stolen
goods. indicted on II counts in Boston
He pleads not gulty.-Turkey's bloody
record confirmed bv consuls. Not less
than 100000 persons dead or dying
More atrocities reported.-An aged Bid
deford, Me, carpenter killed by his son.
who is thought to be insane.-J. W. Smith
and Mrs. Higginson, who eloped from
Boston, have arrived at Genoa.-Apaches
in Arizona have taken the war path and
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hurricane continues in vicinity OF British
Isles.-Capt. Bassett, doorkeeper of the
Senate, Washington, very ill.-The sultan
yields so far as to allow extra guard
ships to enter the Bosphorus.-Prot. S. T.
Bates, formerly of Harvard, dies at Santa
Barbara, Cal.-Cardinal Persico, of Dali
malta, is dead.-Mrs. Balington Booth
holding meetings in Boston.-Lecky, the
English historian, elected to the house of
commons for Dublin University.-Dumas'
estate estimated at 100000 frances
China wants Russia's aid to help quell
the rebellou.-Lord Dunraven to sail for
New York on Dec. 10.
Sunday.
British steamer Principal reported to
have been on fire Nov. 10, and running
for one Ct the Farce Islands, struck
rock and sank, only one survivor remain
ing to tell the tale.-Mrs. Ballngton
Booth addresses three large audiences in
Boston.-George Augustus Sala, journal
list and author, dies at Brighton, Eng
land.-American labor federation in ses-
sion in New York.-Boston women
teachers ask for higher salaries. The
sultan reported very much unnerved by
the incident of the presentation OF pc
tition in the street a few days since. He
thought the man who threw himself in
front of the carriage was an assassin
H. Thane Miller the blind evangelist,
dies at Cincinnati,-Ridgefeld, Conn,
has a disastrous fire in The business cen
ter.-Three trainmen killed under wreck
age of train which fell over an embank-
ment near Port Morris station, N. "
National secret political order to be
called Patriots of America, being formed
by w. H. Harvey, author of Coin Finau-
cal School.-Bank cashier d. w. Lane,
of Manchester, N. H., short $44 700 in
his accounts from ettingit out on drafts,
raised money to pay it all back to the
Merchants bank.
Monday.
Five companies Of Italian soldiers OPP
Grating in Abyssinia are surrounded by
$4,000 Abyssinians, and only a small
party succeeded in breaking through and
getting away.-Seven victims of a mad
dog taken to the Pasteur Institute in
New York.-Thieves make an attempt to
burglarize bank at Limerick, Me-, but
rl,t ,t fI,,, IL
chamber OF commerce talks of the need of
broader and deeper way to the ocean
from their harbor.-Herr Won Koeler,
PruSsian Minister OF the Interior, resigns.
Senator Morgan scores British ambas-
sador in Congress- The comet called
Perrin snow visible to the naked eye just
before daybreak Renegade Apaches
making for Old Mexico Officer Boswell,
of the Massachusetts state prison, badly
cut by broken bottle in the hands of
Donna Diego, serving a sentence for an
assault with intent to kill.
Tuesday.
Josiah Quincy elected mayor of Boston
by large majorty.-New Odd Fellows
hall at Maiden, Mass, dedicated. The
Peterboro, N. H., savings bank in trouble
but will be able to recover-Michael
Lehman, who shot Mrs. Grace Griffin at
Orono, Maine, and then himself, has died,
but the woman will er.-Minster
Bayard taken to task in congress by
Congressman Barrett for his recent
speeches in England,-St. Louis gets the
national republican convention to be
held June 16, 1896, kentucky first re-
publican governor inaugurated at Frank