St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-05-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
Thursday.

notorious bank swindlcrs. were arrested
for raising checksin San Francisco Sev-
eral of the Armour elevators in Chicago
were declared irregular" by the Chicago
Board of Trade.-A pool, taking IN the
nrincipal manufacturer OF bolts and nuts,
has been formed and the prices have befn
adyanced.-The River and Harhor APP
nropriation bill va passed in the Senate.
ETohn X. McKelvev, president OF the lead
trust. died at his homcin Plttsburg.-Ih ne
sentences of John Hays Hammond ana
his three associates OF the johannesburg
reform committee have, according
private dispatch received in Berlin, been
made Imprisonment for five years.-ihe
british Protestant mission at kiang-4m
was looted and burned by a mob; the
missionaries escaped by hight.-lf the
Kaiscr's new yacht, the Meteor, can beat
the Valkvrie III, his majesty may send a
challenge to race for the Americas cup
German See, the eminent French phy-
stefan and medical writer, died in Parls.
Spain says she is ready to hght Il
America wants war.
Friday,
Governor Morton signed the bill author
ling an additional 800 policemen TOR
New York.-The trotting mare Nightin-
Gale. property of c.. ]. Hamlin and valued
at over $4,000, dropped dead at LOUIS
vile. Ky.-Democratic state committee
ofNew York met and called the statecon-
v~ention for Saratoga on une 24.-lhe
claim of Henry A. Dupont to the vacant
seat from Delaware was rejected by a
vote of 81 to 80, the democrats and
populists voting solidIy against the con-
testant.-The day in the House was de-
voted to private pension bills, 1Ol oithem
being passed the contested election case
Of Hoge against Otey was decided IN
of Mr.. Otey, the sitting member .-Mins-
ter de LONE denies that Spain will enter
a formal protest against the action OF
the United States in regard to the Cuban
insurpents.-There were five fatal cases
of cholera in Marseilles during the last
week The Sultan continues to arrest
Armenians in Constantinople.
Saturday.
Details Of the appalling work OF a tor
nado near Sherman in Texas received (;
two hundred lives lost and a million
dollars worth of property destroyed
Preparations continued in Moscow tor
the coronation of the Czar.-Great tele-
graphic feat performed at the electrical
exposition in New York, a message being
sent almost around the world was re-
ceiyed on the opposite side of the hall in
6fty minutes.-The A. p. AS supreme
council decide to withdraw the boycott
made against NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
suicide of Mrs. Ellen Xix, a Boston
society woman, at Crescent Beach.-An-
nouncement of the death at Kansas City,
Missouri, of Rev. William Sewall, who
was well known in the Congregational
denomination of Vermont and Massachu-
setts.-Ex.Governor Mckinley lectured
on George Washington before the
Methodist conference at C~leveland.-ln
the Senate Mr.. Morgan's resolution d''
recting an inquiry to be made INTO the
cases of the Americans captured on the
Competitor and sentenced to death IN
Havana was adopted.-The North Caro-
lima republican state convention ad'
iourned after nominating D. l.. Russell
for governor and electing Mckinley dele
gates to St. Louis.-Secretary Hoke Smith
was entertained at dinner by the Reform
Club in New York City, and made a speech
on the currency question.-Baron vor
Kotze, who killed Baron Won Schrader II
d duel near Berlin, was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in a fortress.-S2
thousand dock laborers went on striker
Rotterdam the National Guard and gun
boats were held in readiness to suppress
disorder.
SUNDAY.
The speech recently made by Senate
Morgan on the subject of a joint resolu
, ton recognizing the Cubans as belliger
| ents has caused great Indignation a
Madrid. His statements referring t.
1 Her Majesty Queen christiana are re
garded as a shameful slander.-Foreig
merchants in Havana have lodged a pre-
. test with their respective consuls agains
B, General Weyler's embargo on tobacco
. Governor Claude Matthews OF Indiana
has written a letter opposing d sing
gold standard.-At Brewster, Mass,
young woman was shot and killed /
+ the street by a jealous lover.-Advice
from Pretoria are that the Transvat
n Executive Council, on the suggestion {
President Kruger, may pardon the COZ
victed members of the reform committe
Archibald Paul Mitchell, the foundt
and publisher of "Hardware," a journ;
b devoted exclusively to the interests
the hardware trade, died suddenly at h
l. home in New York.-Secretary Carlis
has written a letter defending his view
q on the currency observation-disclosures
o were injured and a hundred houses d
e. stroyed by a tornado at Frankfort, Ka
le An insane cabinet-maker in New Yol
S, jumped from a tive-story tenement
r, front of an elevated train and was kille
y. The Spanish government has order,
that an inquiry be held to determine t
truth or falsity of the statements tn
the Cuban rebels are using explosive b,
lie lets.-It is reported from Suakim, on t
IS Red Sea, that the Khalifa, the leader
the Dervishes, is dead.-Nearly half t
business portion of Blue Island, a surbt
ban town near Chicago, destroyed
r fire. Altogether 26 buildings were &C
sumed, entailing a total loss of$150,0 C
In Monday.
en- The Venezuelan government has agre
he to pay Great Britain the amount
manded for the Uruan incident on con
is ton 1t is considered simply as an indie
nifty for personal damages and not as
Inf iectingt the boundary dispute, but will /
,s apologize as the United States advised
-; The beautiful Jewish ceremony of con
W. nation performed in the temple AID;
, Israel at Boston.-Great damage be
. done near Gloucester, Mass, by for
ice ires,-A private letter, received at
rch port, Ind, from Washington, conveys
Information that Senator VOORHEES,
to retire from public lie at the end of
Will present term on account of failinghe