St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
Thursday.

A terrible gale swept the Irish Sea and
the coasts OF Wa,cs and England; many
ships went down and many lives were
loSt.-George du Maurier died this morn
ing at . 80 O'Clock in Whitby England.
Major Mckinley addressed delegations
from Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio at
his home in Canton.-Thomas b. Reed
spoke at great meeting in Bridgeport,
Conn.-Two inches OF snow fell in the
Adirondacks.- President Cleveland ar.
rived in New York on Commodore Bene.
diets Yacht and after spending the even
ing at theater, started ior the Capital.
Friday.
Lord Rosebcry, in a speech on the
Armenian question in Edinburgh, ex.
planned his reasons for retiring from the
leadership OF the liberal party.-The Riff
pirates plundcred French ship named
the Corinte, off Athucemas, and carried
away her aptain.-Advices from Berlin
are that Prince Bismarck is suffering
greatly from neuralgia and insomnia,
and no longer receives visitors.-Maior
Mckinley received and addressed a mum.
Der OF delegations, including one from
Tennessee and one largely composed OF
eX-Coniederate veterans from the Shen-
andoah Valley of Virginia were
parades OF the sound-money and silver
partisans in Chicago; in the former
$4,000 men were in line - The Sher-
burne, MINI, bank robbers were caught
one OF them killed a CITY marshal when
overtaken and then blew his own brains
out-Phelps Hall. at Yale, was opened
with suitable exercises and a reception,
President Cleveland returned to Wash.
ington and attended meeting of the
cabinet.
Saturday.
Earl Russell caused the arrest OF his
mother-in.law, Lady Scott, charging her
with criminal libel.-Suspicious couces
sions are said to have been offered to the
Cuban insurgents by the Spanish govern
ment.-Major Mckinley received large
number OF delegations in Canton and
made over twenty speeches. - General
Palmer and General Buckner started on
campaigning trip through Michigan
and the South. - Ex-Governor Levi K.
Fuller died in Brattleboro, Vt.
Sunday.
The Most Rev. Edward White Benson
Archbishop of Canterbury died from apo
plexy in Hawarden church.-Jean Louis
Barthou, minister of the interior of
France, has challenged M. Cornudet, an
editor, to fight duel.-A terrific storm
ragged along the Atlantic coast; the
schooner Luther A. Roby was wrecked
on Cape Henlopen and three men were
lost Major Mckinley spent a quiet
Sunday, attending church in the morning
at Canton w. ], Bryan attended church
in st. Paul and received political callers.
Count Won Ballestrom, a young Ger
man nobeman, was accidentally shot
and killed by a friend in California;
Large sums of money were raised for
missions at the meetings of the Christian
Missionary Alliance i'll Carnegie Hall, N.
Y.-Political sermons were preached in a
number OF pulpts.
Monday
Advices from London are that Russia
is modifying her garrisons along the
Black Sea.-The storm did great damage
along the New Jersey coast. - Major
Mckinley addressed two delegations
from Pennsylvania who visited him at
Canton, Ohio The United States su
preme court began its annual session in
Neutrality-suspicious. from the North Pa.
cltic whaling fleet contained a narrowing
record OF desertions, fights, death and
mutiny; the catch of whales was poor.
Government experts report the exist
ence If a great gold-bearing ledge in
Alaska
Wednesday,.
United States warship Bancroft pro-
ceeding to Constantinople to force the
sultan to pay the indemuities on Ameri
can property burned in Armenia. Ma
rine bank of Duluth, Mimi, closes its
doors.-Repubicans from PENNSYLVANIA
visit McKinley.-One man holds up a
Union Pacific train near Ogden and gets
a little booty from the mail sacks
Secretary Carlisle to succeed Blackburn
IN the senate from Kentucky. Eight
masked men loot the little town of
Peryear, Tennesee.-Locomotve in Haz.
elton, Pa, crashes into trolley car and
kills two people and wounds several
others.-Unsuccessful attempt to rob
bank at Meeker, Col, the robbers being
shot down by the crowd.
Tuesday.
Sir William Harcourt resigned from
the leadership of the Liberal party in the
House OF Commons, and ntimated his
desire to withdraw from Parliament
Major Mckinley addressed two visiting |
delegations at Canton, one from Penn
sylvania and one from Sandusky county,
Ohio.-Thomas B. Reed and Frank S.
Black spoke at big republican meeting
in Observation-Disclosures Jones gave out an
estimate of the electoral vote giving
Bryan 279, Mckinley 81, and placing
New York among the doubtful states
W. Bryan travelled from Minneapolis
to Duluth, making speeches at way sta.
tons and in Duluth.-The steamship
Spartan, from Boston for Philadelphia,
went ashore near Angesea, N. J.. and is
likely to be total loss.-Wheat touched
the highest point in the present upward
movement and silver was at the lowest
price in three years.