St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-18

despair over the death OF his family ply
sician.-Thomas c. Platt causes the
circulation OF a pamphlet in New York,
containing editorials from papers that
sustain him and attack DR.. Parkhurst
and Whitelaw Reid. Congress gives
little promise of legislation to protect
the treasury and settle the currency
question.-Farmer tortured by robbers
at Hartland, ILL.,, till he reveals the hid
ing place of his money.-A terrible biz
card raging in the Allegheny mountains
Pennsylvania.
Sunday.
Reported that Japan is determined to
continue the war all winter and is to ad-
vance on Picking. along the
northern coast of Newfoundland are SUI
lering and food is being sent them.-Vc-
toria hotel and St. Georges club at Que
bee, Quilted by fire. The guests escape in
in their night hes.-Johnson, cham
pion Of the United States wins the mile
skating race at Minneapolis over Ostl und
champion Of Norway, by 20 yards in
2.45.-Street cars tied up in Akron, O.,
because of the storm.-Bill Cook, train
robber, murderer and desperate, captured
near Fort Stanton, New Mexico, by
Sheriff Perry. Wesleyan students make
laughing stock OF a medium who at
tempts a seance at Middletown, Conn
A strike ordered to begin on the Brook
lyn trolley roads this morning. Mem
bers of Philadelphia corrupt municipal
combine stand in tear OF aninvestigat
Monday.
A demented woman at Paterson, N. J.,
allows her sick husband to starve to
death.-Snow falls at Elva, Kansas, COW
cred with a yelowsh dusty tint, when
sprinkled in water colors it black Ohm
A. Mackenzie, a millionaire and promi-
nent tinancler of Duluth, Iowa, falls over
a ballustrade a distance of 65 feet, strik-
ing on his head and killing him instantly.
Sir John r. Seeley, professor of modern
history in Cambridge University, Eng
land, dies suddenly.-Gen. w. J. Sewell
receives the republican caucus nomina-
ton for United States senator from New
Jersey.-Report comes that New Found
land is ANXIOUS to join Canada.-Isaac
F. Abbott, the deiaulting cashier of the
Dover National bank, commits suicide by
shooting, at his home. One hundred
men employedn the Carnegie Homestead
steel plant Observation-Disclosures Cor
man defends the income tax and receives
a sarcastic reply from Senator Hill.
Tuesday.
Casimir-Perier, the president of France,
resigns because he is unable to solve the
problem presented by Dupuy sretrement.
The proceeding causes great consterna-
ton in Paris.-Tbrough some misunder-
standing of signals on the part of an
engineer Of the New York & New England
railroad, an engine, tender, and three
freight cars go off an open draw bridge,
carrying the engineer to the bottom OF
the sound near Boston.-Mayor Strong
OF New York favors the opening ofsaloons
Tor an hour each Sunday.-Post Office de-
partment about to instruct express COM
panles not to carry matter enclosed in
envelopes without stamps. Thisis to stop
the lottery transportatlon.-Ab big explo-
sion in Butte, Montana, kills rs persons,
Five cent savings bank OF Dover, N. H.,
passes into the hands OF receiver.
Wednesday.
Great demonstrations from $500
strikers in Haverhii, Mass, who march
through the city.-Strike in Brooklyn
still on.-Clergymen in New York indig-
nant over Mayor Strongs action in re-
gard to opening saloons Sunday.-Mud
dy water in boiler causes an explosion
at Pittsburg in which two men are killed
Willie Whitman died at the hospital in
d. l.