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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10
HARDWlCK.

The annual school meeting of this
district was held at Academy hall Tues
day evening, J. M. Mcleod, moderator;
Edward Aiken, clerk and treasurer; trus-
tees, DR.. Darling, H. X. Wade, d. A.
Shattuck. A tax of 100 cents on dol
lar of the grand list was raised. 1t was
also voted to purchase a small piece Of
land of the Aiken estate adjoining the
school land for $50.
The 4th was celebrated here by
1000 or 5000 people. Thirteen guns
were fired at sunrise from the cannon
placed on Mrs. Hutton's hill At $50
barges of business men and antiques and
horribes, led by the band, paraded the
streets. At II O'Clock Prof. Ranger de-
livered an admirable address at the
Academy hall to full house. The rain
interfered to degree with the afternoon
sports at the bicycle park, but notwith-
standing, the races were carried out
according to the programme. James M.
Clark won list prize in three of them.
The ball game between Hardwicks and
Danvilles was carried off by the DanviIles
by a score of 10 to 5. In the evening
tneIe was d ulSplay OF fireworks, also
the play Down the Black Canon" was
presented at the town hall by the band.
Rev. F. F. Lewis goes to Washington,
D. c., this week as a delegate of the c..
E. County Union to attend the c. E.
National convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Gould were guests
OF Mrs. A. Perley over the 4th.
Mr.. Almon, partner in an electric
light firm in Boston, is in town and will
present proposition to the village at a
meeting for that purpose to light the
village. He is now making a survey OF
the streets.
The heavy rain fall of Monday night
did some damage to the highways in
this section.
A. Perley was in Hyde Park Monday
attending probate meeting.
W. H. Taylor is in Wheeock preparing
for the Way murder trial to be held at
St. Johnsbury next week.
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State News.

The judges decision in the Woodbury.
Herald libel suit is expected next week.
An International base ball league has
been formed by clubs in Malone, st. AL
bans, Plattsburg, Montreal, Hull Farm
ham, and st. Hyacinth
Hon, E. ]. Phelps, ex-minister to Eng
land, spent few days last week in New
port, He is visiting points of interest in
Northern Vermont, for pleasure and
health.
A Rutland woman gave the correct so.
luton OF the mystery story in the New
York Journal, entitled 1.-THE Mill OF ST.
lence, " and won the first prize of $1,000
offered by that paper.
The Howe scale works of Rutland, in
which are employed about 400 men,
have closed down for two weeks or more.
The reason for this action on the part of
the company is dull times,
Mrs. Jay Gould, fifth wife of Jay Gould
of Fairfield, was buried Tuesday at
North Fairfield. The five wives and
three children are buried in one lot. The
last death was caused by sunstroke.
The first term of court ever held in
Chelsea was the December term Of 1886,
and this event is to be commemorated at
some time during the present year. At a
meeting of the Orange county bar held
June 1S committee was appointed to
make the necessary arrangements. 1t i.
now expected that this centennial will b.
held upon some day in August or Sep
TENDER
The postmasters at Bethel, Derby Line
Ludlow, Brandon, Island Pond, Morris.
vile, Mortified, Rutland, Swanton
Waterbury, Windsor, North Bennington
Richtord, Springfield, Vergennes, West
Rutland and Woodstock are to receiy,
an increase of 500 each in salary, Will,
those at Hyde Park, Hardwick and Lvn
donville will get an increase of$2OO each
The salaries at Proctor and Winooski ar,
to be reduced 500 each.
Fourth of July in Bridgewater Cor.
ners was attended by "a shocking fatality
By the explosion of cannon two mer
were killed and IA men and boys were
more or less badly injured. The explos
ion hurled everyone within a radius of sc
feet to the ground, men and bows being
moved down like grass by the shower
of stones and broken iron. The cries o.
the wounded soon brought help and ev
erything was done to aid the injured
The accident occurred about 10 O'Clock
in front of the new schoolhouse near
Josselyn bridge, where 35 men and bows
were firing cannon, an old affair made
from piece Of shafting about fourinches
through and Is in length. The careless.
ness OF Bedor and Others in charge of the
cannon caused the fatal disaster. The
charge was composed of powder, damp
earth, sods, and cobble stones, tamped
with steel rod, and the gun had become
heated by repeated discharges, not being
swabbed out at each round The steel
rod or the hot iron prematurely fired the
piece.l
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10
SHEFFIELD.

Mrs. Franklin Gray fell and broke her
hip and is expected to live but few
days.
Thomas Mcdowell while at work on a
stone culvert fell and broke his leg and is
having very serious time on account Of
his age.
The school directors have the school
house under way on the Square; it is
located just south OF {. Z. Sise's house
on the west side OF the road
Hay is very light, not over a two.
thirds crop
Mrs. H. V. Drown is gaining slowly.
Nelson, the creamery man, has gone to
Passumpsc
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THE TOWNS AROUND.
NORTH DANNILLE.

Prof c. E. Pu ney and wife ofSt. Johns
bury have been the guests ofO, II. Stev
ems for few days past.
Mr.. Sdelinger of Whitcfeld, N. H., oc
cupied the pulpit at the Free Baptist
church last Sunday, delivering an able
discourse.
Mrs. c. E. Green of ST. Johnsbury
spent the 4th with friends in this place.
Miss Mabel Kelsey of St. Johnsbury
is visiting her uncle, H. A. Kelsey
The village school closed very sue
cessful term last Friday. Miss Webster
spends her vacation at her home in
Montpelier and Miss Hayford goes to
Old Orchard beach, where she has a po-
sitionas table girl in one Of the large
hotels.
F. S. Stanton goes this week to Bethle-
hem, n. H., with his four horses and will
act as coachman at the Sinclair house.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Batchelder is visiting her
sister, Mrs Alice Morse of st. Johnsbury.
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july Fancies.

She gidcd into the office and approached
the EDITORS desk. ~ have written a
poem" she began. "Well!" exclaimed
the editor, with worried ook-T have
written poem on My Fathers Barn,
and" 49," interrupted the editor
you don't know how | am relieved.
was afraid it was written on paper, and
that you wanted me to publish it. If
should ever happen to drive past your
fathers barn Illstop and read the poem"
Il Public Opinion.
Independence. He: Hortense Vaseline
Debris, from this hour henceforwardforth
we amt to each other what we wuz a
week ago. / brand yer as flirt an a
croquette
She (haughtily): As you please, Regi-
maid Overton. There are Others II Life
Publishing Company.
Edison received, few days ago, at
his laboratory at Orange, N. j." says
The Electrical Review, June 10, 1.-THE hol-
low eyepieces Of pair OF opera-glasses
with the request that he fit them with
the X rays and return them to the YER
mont sender. Evidently this Green
Mountain individual had desire to see
things. Another seeker after the unob-
tainable, writing from Pottstown, Pa,
sent the following matter-oi-fact epistle:
Thomas A. Edison, Dear Sir: Will you
please send me one pound of X rays and
bill as soon as possible This order was
filed away with the opera-glasses "
He was ragged and bewhiskered,"
said DR.. Depew. II met him out here on
Broadway. He asked me for dime and
gave him quarter. He thanked me
profusely and then he said:
will you not tell me your name, sir ?"
"Certainly," said taking him into my
confidence. ~ am Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States. Now tell
me your name" blushed and replied:
me sir? I'm nobody. I'm only
Chauncey M. Depew."
Slept in the hen-coop. Papa, is Mrs
Bigelow very poor?"
mo, Cedric, Mrs. Bigelow is we'll off;
don't you know what nice house she
has"
"But she sleeps in the hen.coop, papa"
"Why, Cedricp'
"She said she did,"
What do you mean
Don't you remember when she was
here to dinner night before last she ex-
cused herself, and she said she must go
home early because she went to bed with
the chickens ?"-[ Harper's Round Table.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

day, with ~ patrons; there are now
between so and GO patrons. The
machinery was set up by j. L. Edison OF
Bellows Falls, and is first class in all its
appointments.
Green peas, bects, turnips and new
potatoes were served at the Heights
House July 4th from their own garden
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and bem
ishes from horses blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeney, ring-bones, stiles,
sprains, all swollen threats, coughs, etc.
Save $50 by use of one bottle. War
ranted the most wonderful blemish cure
ever known. Sold by c. c. Bingham, 81
Main ST., druggist, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

For Over Fifty Years
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used by millions of mothers for their
children while teething. If disturbed at
night and broken of your rest by sick
child suffering and crying with pain of
cutting teeth, send at once and get a
bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup" for Children Teething. 1t will
relieve the poor little sufferer Immediate
ly. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no
mistake about it. 1t cures diarrhea,
regulates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind collie, sottens the gums, reduces
inflammation; land gives tone and energy
to the whole system. "Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup" for children teething is
pleasant to the taste, and is the prescrip-
ton of one of the oldest and best female
physicians and nurses in the United
States. Price twenty-five cents bottle.
Sold by all druggists throughout the
world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Wins
low Soothing Syrup"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

T. F. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster of
Promise City, Iowa, says. II bought
one bottle of Mystic Cure for rheuma-
tism, and two doses of it did me more
good than any medicine ever took"
Sold by Boynton & Eastman, druggists,
st. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10
We are made richer by whatever makes
EoE.

We are made richer by whatever makes
us more grateful.
Relief In Six Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the New
South American Kidney Cure" This
new remedy is great surprise on ac-
count off its exceeding promptness in re-
lieving PAIN in the bladder, kidneys, back
and every part of the urinary passages
in male or female. Itrelieves retention OF
the water and pain in passing it almost
Immediately. If you want quick relief
and cure this is your remedy. Sold by
{. c. Bingham, druggist, 81 Main St.,
StJohnsbury, Vt.
Do good to them that hate you, and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10
KIRBY.

Rev. E. W. Parker, D, D., of India will
speak on foreign missions in the Cougre-
gational church, next Sunday at 2 D. m.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

Our prejudice is always an enemy to
our good.
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AA.P.T.L.

~ ~ ] . IS
The American Protective Tariff League
is a national organization advocating
"Protection to American Labor and
Industry" as explained by its consttu-
ton, as follows:
"The object OF this League shall be- to protect
American labor by tariff on imports which shall
adequately secure American industrial products
against the competition of foreign labor"
There are no persona! or private
profits ir connection with the orqaniza-
ton and tits sustained by memberships.
contributions and the distribution Of its
publications.
FIRST Correspondence is solicited regarding
Membership and Official Correspondents.
SECOND: W. need and welcome contributions.
whether small or large, to our cause.
THIRD: We publish large line Of documents
covering all phases Of the Tariff question. Com
pete set will be mailed to any address for sc cents
FOURTH: Send postal card request for free
sample copy Of the - American Economist
Address Wilbur F. Waterman General Secretary.
1875 West 23d Street. New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

Do good to them that hate you, and
you will soon have them hating them
selves.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10

Thoughts are things which fly without
wings.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-07-10
For Over Fifty Years

Living thoughts produce life in other
men.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
Otherwise

Judge Joseph ii. Blair of Omaha
has accepted an appointment as at
toInCy for the receivers of n Union
Pacific for the State of Idaho.
A singular phenomenon was n show
OF in Lander. WyO. recently. First red
and then yellow clay fell. Sollowed a
little later by almost black mud.
Gov. Drake Of Iowa has decided to
call an extra session Of the Legislature
for the second Tuesday in January,
1897.
ID. J. Flynn. travelling passenger
agent Of the Rock Island road for Col
orado and Utah. died at Denver of
pneumonia. He was thirty-three years
Of age.
At the African Methodist conference
at Richmond, Va. Bishop Gaines serv-
ed notice on candidates that he would
Ordain no minister who drank whisky,
chewed tobacco or smoked cigars.
Congressman w. S. Linton. who has
been urged by certain of the A. l.. A,
leaders as Il possible candidate for
president, says that he is not n candi.
date.
The reorganization committee of the
oregon snort LII railway
that 90 per cen Of the bonds and a
majority of the stock have assented tC
the plan.
The secretary Of the national legis'
lative committee of the Jr. O. u. A. NJ.
has been in Washington for several
days in the interests of the bills now
before congress for the restriction of
immigration.
The congressional conference for the
Twcntv-Seyenth Pennsylvania con
@rcSSiOn2l district. comprising Me
kcan. Warren. NenangO and Cameron
counties. met to-day. Charles w
Stone was nominated for congress.
At Max Meadows. Va. the negroes
employed ut n furnace struck for high,
or wages. They resOrted to riotous
conduct during the night and kept II
up all day. Considerable property vas
destroyed. The civil authorities shot
and killed. n Of the strikers and
wounded another.
4 secret meeting Of the steel and rod
manufacturers Of the country was
held at Cleveland for the purpose OF
cffecting n general pooling of interests
The meeting adjourned after an all-day
session without having reached an
agreement and most of the manufac.
turers left for home.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
After Big

Milwaukee. April 10. - There is
trouble in store for prominent grain
shippers Of Kansas City and other
Western points. Within a few DAYS
the United States district attorney for
the Western district of Missouri will
receive instructions from the inter-
state commerce commission to lay be-
fore the grand jury evidence tending
to establish a conspiracy to defeat the
interstate commerce law through false
weights. Supt. Carmen. of the West
ern Railway Weighing Association and
Inspection bureau. was in the city to-
day on business relative to the prose-
cution Of the Burger-Reinig company
Of Fond du Lac, Wis. The other cases
will be held in allegiance to await the
result of the Fond du Lac case.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
Crimes and Criminals

Davies, the Peru bank wrecker. re-
Gently captured in New York, broke
jail at WinterSet, Iowa.
1t is reported that the late Paul
Schulze of Tacoma robbed a st. Paul
syndicate of 100000.
Charles Lewis. author of "Valen-
tines Christmas n curtain-raiser
used by Sol Smith Russell. committed
suicide at Danville. Ill.
John Tyler Cooper, grandson Of ex-
President Tyler. vas indicted in At
lanta, Ga. by the grand jury for en-
bezzlement Of county funds.
l.. c. Rissler, n sewing machine
agent, who was sandbagged in Ottum-
wa. Iowa, several months ago. has
become insane. and was removed to
the asylum at Mount Pleasant.
Romulus C%Ottrell, alias John Smith.
despite his written confession of the
murder Of the Stone family at Tall
madge, Ohio, has entered a plea Of not
guilty.
John Rapp. a d~Og-catcher of st. Lou
is, who murdered John Hopner. aged
sixteen, whom he claims threw a
stone at him. has been sentenced to
WV sVdis IN IN ptuItcutldTS.
Charles Morris, the confessed muir.
derer of Mr.. and Mrs. Douthetts. COM
mitted suicide at Xenia. Ohio. by cut
ting his throat, when told to get ready
to go TO Columbus to hang.
Fulton w. Worcester. lumber dealer
and leading citizen of Whitehall. ILL.,,
was shot twice with n revolver by a
burglar in his bed chamber. The bur
glar then jumped out of the window
and escaped.
At MadisOnville. Ky. recently "A ne
gro named Henry Edmunds. who had
not been living with his wife for some
tine. slipped into her hom" and. after
beating her in a terrible manner, shot
Der TO death.
Editor Charles Branscomb of the
South Haven CKasD New Era was
m0rtally wounded in q shooting af-
fray between 4. A. Richards. editor of
the Wellington Daily Mail, and Rob
ert Simmons, editor of the Caldwell
News.
ACriS Anderson has been arrested at
GlenwoOd Springs, Col, on Il charge of
exploding a charge of giant powder
under the residence of James w. Ross.
The house was totally destroyed, but
the family of three escaped death.
Oran PoindeXter, a lad twelve years
Of age, was arrested at his home, four
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
Accidental Happenings.

D','u. ~ iaL;a,n paof ord
Tn.lle pnan' =" rhn ,n,ai IoSS iS
iio,i nun'l'r : 600 onI Soonno "
pia.'' Co.,
Inc central schooi onhuins d. HaS-
I'll T., wos hull, IN IsGr n a cost
sr sna - '
VI %'','''. ,
Bertia l'akln' eieNeh years oio. anu
Alice Grant. TWO years Do srahdchil-
dren or Nelson BlShop; WIN WHOM
they hVcd. were burned 10 uea'h III
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
prohjbitiOnists SOmiunte

st. Paul. April 19.-The Prohibition
party will indOrse neither Mr.. Cullen
u Mr.. Doran for mayor. 1t nominat-
ed Rev. j.. :. Innis, n professor at
Hamlinc university. for mayor in it's
city convention held last evening in Il
room in the Frost block. Mr.. McCardy
was Endorsed for controller, and three
candidates for the assembly were
named. The rest of the ticket was
passed. 1t may be filled or left open,
in the discretion of the city committee.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
STRON AGAINST HOOVER.
Evidence of Murder Is Against Him
and the Feeling Is Bitter.

Independence. iowa, April 19.-Cir-
cumStantial evidence is very strong
against Sylvester Hoover. the boy ac-
cuscd of the murder of Joseph Hekle.
which occurred Tuesday night. The
boy has firearms that carry both the
bullets fired a month ago in the re-
cent murder. His home was five miles
from the Hekle house. and one of the
horses of his stable was hard ridden
the night before. 1t is said ne had
threatened the life of Mrs. Henklc.
and it is evident that the shot was
fired at Mrs. Henkle. as il grazed her
head and hit her husband opposite.
The shot was fred through the win
dow of an adjoining oOm as Mrs.
Henkle sat in the door of the room.
Hoover talked freely of all the cir
cumStanccS of The case. but denies all
knowledge of the crime and claims he
was NJ home the night Of the murder.
He was admitted to $3.50 bail. but as
the feeling is bitter against him he
will not return TO his home. He is
sixteen years old. ovcrgrOwn. with n
frank open COuntcnance and n
straightforward way of speaking. He
had gone To school to HenKle'S wife
during the winter. and taken the high
er branches. rcciting over hours. liOov-
or admired his teacher. who is a very
pretty woman. The noighborS COS
siped and all sorts of rumors went
abroad.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
A CANAL AND WAR.
what would Have to BE Done In
NicnrnIua


Washington. April 10. The Near
aqua canal commission, which visited
the isthmus last summer, presented
some features of its side of the canal
question before the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce TO-
days.
Engineer Mordecai T. Endicott. l..
". a member of the commission. was
the first witness. He resented the
statement by Hon. Warner Miller II
Engineer Menocal. of the canal com
pany. that the Investigations 10y the
commission had been of Il cursory ma
ture. The board was in Nicaragua
a. days and spent "a days in actual
field work. Except in n few important
details. the plan Of Engineer Menocal
seemed TO Mr.. Endicott feasible. Whlle
the company's plan contemplated Il
canal % feet deep. the commission was
convinced that at certain seasons the
water would fall 10 "a feet unless the
dams were built to a greater height.
Mr.. EndicOtt waS asked If he thought
the canal would he a danger TO the
United States in case of war. He re-
piled that. in the event of war with
a nation ike Great Britain. the govern
ment would be obliged TO abandon the
canal. but might solve the problem by
blowing up the locks. From n mill
tary point of view the canal "A de
Sirable.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
FOUL PRAY SUSPECTED.
Disappearance OF a Young Lady Car
rNinG CnnAidernh bic MnncN

Grand Forks. y. D.. April 19.-Some
three weeks ago 4 we'll known young
lady. Miss Bounda Peterson. who has
been a domestic for Il number of years
in the family of {. Madison. u reputable
business man of East Grand Forks.
mysteriOusly disappeared from her
home, since which nothing has been
seen or heard of her. Mr.. MadSon's
family. with whom she has been for
the past five years, esteem her highly.
and are greatly exercised on account
of her sudden and mysterious disap-
pearance. She had collected about
500 which ii is known she had on her
person. Foul play is suspected. and
every effort is being made 10 discover
the cause of her disappearance.