St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
Thursday.

big Brush electric light plant being movec
from Cleveland, Ohio, to Lynn, Mass
Major Pingree OF Detroit says that Me
Kiney will be president in tact as well as
in name.-Lucy Parsons, widow OF The
late noted anarchist, vehcmently dc
nonuced Chicago authorities and is LED
off the stage by policemen.-Se Secretary
Olucy instructed Minister Taylor to de
mand redress tar annoyanccs to Ameri'
can commerce rom the Spanish govern
ment.-Miss Frances Willard has pre-
pared aninteresting paper on the progress
of woman, to be read before the W. I. l.
U. convention atSt Louis.-General Har'
rison made an address at the Farmers
National Congress in Indianapolis
Commissioner Miller Of the Internal Rev
enue Bureau has resigned
Friday.
The war department called on the lead.
ing trunk lines running to Key West,
New Orleans and other gulf ports for inn
mediate statement OF their capacity to
move troops, supplies and heavy war
material.-The republicans surrendered
the state OF South Dakota to the Bryan
electors by about 400 majority
county executive committees of the re-
publicans in Tennessee have begun ener.
getica,ly to gather evidence Of frauds
committed in the late election with a
view OF contesting theresult. -Edward j.
Ivory the alleged dynamite conspirator
was committed for trial by the Bow
street police magistrate, LondOn.-Costa
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their boundary dispute by arbitration
Premier Canovas of Spain admits the
fact OF great Spanish reverses in Cuba
The twenty-third annual convention Of
the w. c. T. U. met in St. Louis.-Major
Mckinley received few callers and found
time to attend to his correspondence
President Cleveland said that his atti-
tude on Cuban affairs remained the same
as was announced in his last annual mes
sage.-The battleship Iowa returned
from her builders trial trip, having ex-
ceeded contract requirements for speed.
Saturday.
a heavy gale in Halifax, n S., for As
hours lines the Canadian coast with
wrecks though no lives are reported lost.
with Amherst which debars the lat
ter from the championship series.
Thirty pounds of dynamite ex-
plodes at Niagara Falls, killing two men,
destroying a building and injuring four
men.-Burlington has one of the greatest
parades organized there in recent years.
Millonaires, business men aud workers
marched side by side,-lt is reported that
in the Spanish military hospitals at Ila-
vana alone 10000 persons are i'll. Of
these 700 are suffering from small poX.
1t is estimated that fully 10000 persons
on the island are seriously ill.-President
Zelaya has decided to grant a charter for
a railroad from Lake Nicaragua to the
Caribbean sea, a distance OF about 70
miles, TO two citizens OF New York.-Ni-
agara Falls. will furnish power to Buffalo.
Street cars will soon be propelled by the
cataract.-A statement published at
Madrid denying the report that Senior
Dupuy de Lone will be retired from his
post as Spanish minister at Washington.
Sunday.
1t was officially stated in Rome that
the ltalo-Abyssinian treaty was signed
on October 26.-The wreck of the Mexi-
can steamer Ensenado, off Lower Cali
fornia, was reported; no lives were lost
Major Mckinley passed quiet Sunday
at Canton; among his visitors was Webb
Hayes, son ofthe late ex-P President Hayes.
The students and friends of Yale express
anxiety about the condition of the Uni
versity football team.-The New York
State Board of Health has taken steps to
protect the public from adulteration of
beer by the brewers-The annual report
OF the commissioner OF navigation was
made public. - The National Council of
Jewish Women began its convention in
New York city.-Mr. Moody spoke at
Carnegie Hail. New York, to great au-
dience, and there were several overflow
meetings in churches - Shooting stars
seen at midday at Indianapolis, Ind, for
nearly thirty minutes.
Monday.
Three Boston men at work on the new
high service water tower went down
with the staging 100 leet,-Attcmpts to
wreck an apartment house bv dynamite
at RoXbury, Mass-Seattle, Wash, COM
pletely cut off from communication with
the outside world due to the damage
wrought by the floods and storms
Evangelist Moody receives a Request of
500 600 to be devoted to his work in
Chicago and Mortified, Mass.-The week
of sel-denial begins during which mem.
bers of the Salvation Army are to live
on bread and water.--The British, North
Atlantic and North Pacific squadrons to
be rehabilitated.
Tuesday.
Bryan addresses big crowd in st.
Louisville republicans OF Tennessee AL
lege frauds in the governorshir contest.
1t is claimed on good authority that
advances have been made toward future
athletic meetings OF Harvard and Yale
1t was said at Washington that General
Weyler will be recalled to Spain unless he
brushes the Cuban rebellion at once
Rev. DR.. X. S. Storrs presented with a
gold loving cup by the Manhattan minis.
terial association in honor of his 50th
anniversary as pastor OF the Church OF
the Pilgrims.
Wednesday.
The British steamer Memphis, from
Montreal wrecked in Dunlough bay near
Bristol, England, and nine lives LOST
George E. Taber OF Brockton, Mass,
shoots himself in church in that city,
A rumor that w. K. Vanderbilt is to go
as minister to England.-A London paper
announces scheme whereby Turkey is
to be ruled by an European ministry
composed of officials from England,
France and Russia.
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