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louise after his arrival was that though
according to his own story he had made
plenty OF money on his railroad contract
which according to one story was for
twenty-four miles of grading, and by an
other 100, he had collected material for a
book exposing the cruelties of Russian
prison life.
This book, he said, was to be a very
thorough one, of many thousands of
words. He said that it would surpass the
most tragic features of the stories of
George KEENAN,, and cause a sensation
throughout the world. How man who
had made big profit from Russian rail
road contract, and who expected to get
more contracts, could expect to hold these
contracts while exposing the Government
prisons he did not attempt to say. Those
who are suspicious of his movements,
however, think he got mixed up on his
plans.
Anyway, the nobleman has gone right
along figuring and meeting his friends
every day.
A week ago B. A. Aldrich, manufac-
turer of st. Louis, arrived here and regis
tered at the Palace. He was not long in
meeting the Count de Toulouse. The up
shot of the meeting was that he took the
Count, bag and baggage, with him to ST.
Louis. They left in the evening train yes
terday.
81 am going to furnish a lot of i'm
proved machinery for railroad building in
Siberia" said Mr.. Aldrich, as he was
ready to depart with the Count. This
machinery will consist Of plows, wheel
dumps and all the modern appliances used
in constructing railroad grades. I am
going to be partner with the Count. We
expect to take contracts for hundreds and
possibly thousands of miles of railroad. I
am taking the Count back with me and am
paying all his expenses"
If Count de Toulouse Lutrec is the real
Savin the falling in with Aldrich would.
according to the stories told, be as good a
thing as he could desire. Such things would
be right to the Russians hand. Sayin is
nimble of intellect and absorbs money
from all quarters with little effort.
Savin comes of a noble family in Rus.
STA. He is finished French scholar and
understands many languages. He came
of race of landholders. He is described
as a very large, handsome man, with dark
dark eyes. His age ought to be about 40
years.
Count de Toulouse Lutrec, who has the
misfortune to have one of the names that
Sayin had, is something over six feet high
His eyes are dark and piercing, his nos
trils very prominent, his hair dark and his
mustaehe and scraegly chin whiskers are
a sort of reddish brown. He cannot be
more than 40 or 45 years.
1t is curious thing, as those who know
something about both aver, that there
should be SO many resem blances in COM
mon.
Savin was in the midst of his career
when about 80. He was extradited to st.
Petersburg, tried and convicted, and de-
ported to Siberia. He was not. as is stated,
incarcerated in prison, but was always
left under the eye of the police.
c. M. Grunwaldt, great friend of the
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No Questions Ans,yered.

LONDON, ENG, Jan. IA meeting of
shareholders of the Barnato bank was
held in London this afternoon. Barney
Barnato presided and made statement
explaining the position of the bank. This
statement was followed by a number of
motions and debate, which frequent and
persistent Interruptions rendered desul-
tory. A motion of confidence in Barney
Barnato was finally carried, after which
some shareholders essayed to put ques-
tons to the chairman, but the meeting
was declared adjourned, cutting off all in
terrogatory proceedings. The fact that the
questions remained unanswered caused
some hard feeling and great deal of loud
talking, but the shareholders eventually
dispersed in apparent good humor.
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tunate man if he is not the world-famed
adventurer and swindler, Savin, who was
once pretender to the throne of Bulgaria.
Russian officials now in this City, among
them Consul-General Vladimir A. Art
simovitch, thinks that the man who has
arrived here is the swindler.
Savin committed many offenses against
the laws of France, Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Russia and other countries. He
swindled many people, doing it in SO ac-
complished a way that he was very
Napoleon.
His master stroke was in 1887 while Bull
garia was at war with Servia. Then he
appeared as claimant to the Bulgarian
throne. Many people believed in him and
his claim, and advanced large amount
of money for him. Finally for one of
numerous offenses, he was extradited to
Russia, and on conviction was sentenced
to term of years in one of the colonies.
This term has recently expired
II is pointed out as an odd thing that
just after the expiration of this term, a
man physically almost the exact counter
part OF Savin should arrive here from ST.
IBERIA; next, that the man should bear the
name of Count de Toulouse Lutrec.
No other alleged Count of this name
was known in Siberia by the Russians who
have arrived here recently. 1t is said that
as far as the Russian branch of the lou
louise Lutrecs is concerned there are none
of the male line living. The family had
its origin in France.
Count de Toulouse Lutrec, or the pre-
tender to that title, registered at the Pal
ace on his recent arrival. He changed.
however, almost Immediately and went
to the Hotel Gailhard. On being inter
viewed he gave out the statement that he
had been for two years in Siberia as con-
tractor on Russian railroads.
He said that he was by profession an
engineer The alleged count said that he
was on his way to Paris. He told of the
money there was to be made in Siberia in
taking contracts for building the Russian
road. This, he said, he was anxious to
have known in California from purely
philanthropic motives.
Several railroad contractors came to see
him, among them T. Erickson, who has
a contract in San Luis Obispo County for
grading on the Pacific Coast Railroad. Mr..
Erickson built great deal of the Canadian
Pacific, and also has built railroads in
Africa. AS result of his conferences with
the Russian visitor it is said he has
bought his transportation for Vladiyost took
and is to sail in day or two.
The count said there were loads of
money in taking railroad contracts there.
He also said that we could send all our old
things to Vladivostock and get good
money for them. He deplored the fact
that there were no modern machinery and
appliances for railroad building in Russia,
and said that one object of his was to pur-
chase extensive supplies on this line. He
was soon in Geographic communication
with manufacturers in st. Louis, Column
bus, Chicago and other places.
He is said to be a man of great enter
prises and purposes. He had also great
admiration for the ladies and went into
raptures about their loneliness. Mean
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RRECKED ON THE REEFS.
Total Destruction of the British Steamer
YoEfoTd.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Jan. 14.-Word
was received to-day from Progeso, Mex,
that the British steamer Yoxford, which
sailed from Colon on December 80 for the
Delaware Breakwater, via Port Limon,
Honduras, had been totally wrecked on
Alacrane reefs in the Gulf of Mexico and
that twelve of her crew were missing. She
was commanded by Captain Horsley.
Twelve OF the crew reached the coast but
were unable to account for their missing
comrades. The lost vessel was owned by
Hunting d Son of London.
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"a &c Ca1inet Meetina.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 14-Foreign
affairs were evidently not considered at the
Cabinet meeting to-day as Secretary Olney
was not present. He had short interview
with the President this morning and re-
turned to the State Department before the
meeting began. Mr.. Olney's object in abb
was to give him opportunity for an inter
view with Senator Sherman, chairman Of
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons. Mr.. Olney and Mr.. Sherman were
closeted for some time in Mr.. Olney's
Office.
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Russian Fur Company until recently,
came from Vladivostok, had seen Savin
at a prior period. He then was smooth
faced, and in size Hercules.
Mr. Grunwaldt never heard of any real
Count de Toulouse being in or about
Vladivostok when he was there. He
thinks it singular that, he should not, if
the former really was there.
Savin was sentenced to several years in
Siberia 1t is thought he may have done
some work on the railroad in company
with other prisoners.
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FLAMES At Il WRECK.
An Explosion Scatters oil Over Many
PerSons.


Persons.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 4-News has
been received here of bad accident that
took place this morning on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad at point fifty eight
miles north of this city. A special freight
train struck the engine of a local freight,
which was standing on Mahoning bridge.
The force was SO great that the local
freight-engine was knocked off the bridge
and fell into the Mahoning River, sixty
feet below.
At the same moment the boiler of the
wrecked engine exploded, throwing
flaming Goals in all directions and setti ng
fire to the bridge. From the bridge the
flames spread to the freight-train, and a
number Of cars were burned.
During the fire an oil tank exploded,
scattering burning oil over the surround
ing crowd, which numbered fully 200
persons. Nearly every one in the crowd
was injured, some seriously.
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Robert Kneebs Conricted.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 14.-The trial
of Robert T. Kneebs, the American horse
owner charged with having entered and
started on German tracks the mare Bethel
under the name of Nellie Kneebs, which
began on Saturday, ended to-day. The
jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and
the court sentenced Kneebs to nine months
Imprisonment and to pay q fine of 5000
marks, aud also ordered the seizure and
forfeiture of the mare.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
The Manitoba Elections.

WINNIPEG, MAN, Jan. 14.-To-morrow
the Manitoba general elections will be
held. A review of the situation on the eve
of the battle shows that Premier Greenway
is certain to carry the country on his
schools platform. He is conceded twenty
one seats in house of but forty, but the
opposition hopes to reduce his majority in
the Legislature. The prospects are, how
province.
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Treason and Espionaoe.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 14.-The trial
of Paul Schorens, native of the duchy of
Luxembourg, but naturaliZed Frenchman,
upon charges of treason and espionage, has
been postponed indefinitely. He was ar
rested in connection with the Cologne
espionage case last fall and conveyed to
Leipsic, TO be tried as spy. The suppo-
sition is that the indefinite posponement
of his trial is due to fear that the dis
closures of his trial would compromise
some exalted personages.
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Canal Lnborers Strike.

COLON, COLOMBIA, Jan. 14.-The labor
ers on the canal at Culebra have struck for
an increase in their wages. A detachment
of soldiers has been detached to the scene
to preserve order. Several OF the en-
ployes of the canal company are about to
return to France.
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4 Wareho,tse Rnrnea.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 14.-The ware
house of the Jewett Stove Works was de-
stroyed by fire early this evening. The
loss is estimated at $3.50, 900, of which
$3.50, 900 is on stock. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
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Boron de Ros Married.

LONDON, Eng, Jan. 14.-Dudley Charles
Fitzgerald de Ros, twenty-frst Baron de
Ros and premier Baron of Great Britain,
was married in London this afternoon to
Miss Mary Mahon, eldest daughter of Sir
William Henry Mahon, Baronet of Castle
gar, Ahascragh, County Galway, Ireland.
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"Chimn.ie Eaddenu a s.o,e..

NEW YORK, n. Y, Jan. 1.-The play
of "Chimmie Fadden" is a success. The
Journal, Advertiser, Record, Mercury,
World and Times all speak well of the in
itial performance,
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The Italian Parliament.
ROME, ITALY, Jan. A.-Parliament ad-
journed yesterday. No date was set for re-
assembling.
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RUSSIAN COUNT OR
SIBERIAN CONVICT,
The Alleged Nobleman De
Toulouse Lutrec Said
to Be a Fraud.
OFFICIALS ARE EXCITED.
Consul-General V. Artsimovitch
Thinks the Traveller Is the
Notorious Savin.
A PRINCE OF THE sWINDLERs.
Savin Was Pretender to the Bulgarian
Throne and His EscapadeS Are
Famous.
a PRINCE OF THE sWINDLERs.

The giant-sized, handsome Count de
Toulouse Lutrec, who arrived here two
weeks ago from Siberia, is a most unfor"
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FINER BoUCLE JACKETS same style as above,
with velvet collars, navy or black-were $l4,
IS so each.
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YOUR CHOICE.
YOUR CHOICE.

All our Mems 81 50 to $40 Overcoats must go at
All our Mems $12 so to SIS Overcoats go at..
All Mems SIG so to $40 Overcoats must go at...
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MEMS PANTS.


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All our Mems and Sc Dress Pants
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A Clean Sweep in Our Boys Clothing Department.


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Oand$
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KERSEY OR CHEVIoT JACKETS, latest styles,
box front, ripple backs, big sleeves, colors
black or navy-were $40,
Sc so each.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06
ItGiyes All Sides.

All through the campaign Public Opin-
ion has successfully maintained it's repu-
tation for fairness. Every shade of
thought upon all topics is represented in
it's American Affairs department; not one
mans opinion but the opinion of every
man who is at all representative. Pub.
lie Opinion published at New York; is
the one journal that enables its readers
to keep posted upon the happenings in
every field ofhuman activity. Your local
paper furnishes information as to purely
local affairs, and Public Opinion furnishes
a view of national affairs. To 90 outside
these two papers, except for purposes of
special Investigation, is unnecessary.
There will be much to learn in the polti-
cal field after Nov Sd. The issue OF Pub.
lie Opinion for Nov. IL will contain
about 200 expressions of opinion upon
the result of the election from the press
OF this and foreign countries. Send 5
cents for this issue or we will send a sam.
PIE copy of our own selection free. For
$3.50 you can be a thoroughly posted
man for one year, SIPS for six months,
65 cents for 3 months.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06
Bogus Indian Relics.

Today the gentle tourist is being swim
died with bogus stuff-made by diluted
Indians from white mems patterns-but
Providence, in its mercy has fitted him
with such upper-story emptiness that he
buys the truck in the form of watch
pockets and match-holders to exhibit as
relics OF aboriginal savage life. Only
lew years ago, when was making my
small collection, could not anywhere
Ind shield, true war-eagle head.dress,
or spear Now they are to be had by
the carload, in Denver, st, Paul, and
other Western cities. But only think,
the feathers are those of the turkey-the
coward bird that the best Indians would
not eat, lest its meat should carry the
craven qualities of the bird into their
natures The spears are machine made,
the shields are wrinkled sheets OF calf.
skin daubed with scene-painters colors.
There are plenty of scalps today, though
did not come across one, except in pri-
vate collections, between 1889 and 1894.
The new crop is OF scalp.locks, torn
while the victims were still quvering, by
the painted red fiends" of the dime nov
els, with pairs of scissors, from horses
tails. The ends of the coarse hairs have
been laid in mucilage upon pieces of
chamois-skin the size of a half dollar.
am glad they are such innocent curios.
for the genuine scalps used to make me
creep such is my dislike for any human
hair that has been cut and is lifeless. | |
do not know what became of the real
scalps. Even when genuine trappings
were plentiful the places of the real
scalps had been taken by tresses OF horse
hair and pretty tails of mink and fishes |
and deer-skin, hung from leather disks
and beautifully framed in circles Of color
ed beadwork. They hang from war
clubs and quirts and tomahawk-handles,
and are often mistaken for scalps, and |
are far more ornamental From "My |
Indian Plumber" by JULIAN RALPH, in
the November Scribners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06

Was never known to in
jure clothes or hands. Any
soap made to sell cheaper
than "Welcome" is bound to
be injurious. The cheaper
ing causes that result.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06
an unequaled crisis is the prayer Of
yours ever Loyalty andgratefully foryour
generous responses in the past.

yours ever Loyalty andgratefully foryour
generous responses in the past.
Letter from the Commissioner.
EDIToRs UNION SIcxAL:-I write ia
correct a popular misrepresentation with
regard to five hundred Armenians who
have reached Marseilts, some of whom
are desirous of ultimately settling in the
United States.
1t should be understood in the first
place that there is no fear of Amer.
lea being inundated with Armenian
emigrants. The Turkish government
itself is taking every precaution to keep
Its victims within its borders, lest bv
escaping they spread the knowledge OF
the situation within and make efforts
from without to remedyit. The few who
reached Marseilles are only handful
VINO succeeded in taking refuge upon the
foreign vessels in the harbor of Constan-
tinople during the confusion of the re-
cent massacre there, and who, through
the influence of the foreign ambas-
sailors, were enabled to escape to Mar
settles. They are not beggars, but hon
est, thrifty men, of whom a large number
are skilled artisans and industrious la
borers, who would very soon land on
their feet. They are not to be classed as
emigrants, but as victims OF political
persecution compelled to flee for their
lives, and such should receive hearty
welcome in the United States, which
particularly boasts itself "the land of
the free and the home ofthe brave" Miss
Frances E. Willard has personally invest
gated the situation at Marseilles, and is
maturing plans by which all proper
cases among these refugees may find
homes in this country. She has been in
correspondence, by letter and cable, with
the National Armenian Relief Committee,
which is cooperating with her, and has
already happily located number of
Armenians.
1t would be monstrous for these few
who have escaped as brands from the
burning to be now placed back again
into the furnace of persecution, cruelty
and outrage which would await them in
Turkey. All friends OF humanity, espec-
tally those who can possibly furnish en-
ployment to young, active men as car
penters, blacksmiths, tailors, cooks, etc,
or on farms, in factories or in their
homes, are urged to write at once, Civ
ing full particulars, to F. D. Greene, sec
rotary National Armenian Relief Com
mttee, 60 Bible House, New York.
Funds for the temporary relief and
transportation of these people are also
greatly needed, and should promptly
be sent to Brown Bros. & Co., SO Wall
street, New York city, who are the au-
thorized treasurers; to whom, also,
generous contributions should he sent
for the maintenance of the great relief
work which is being carried on in twerl-
ty centers throughout the interior of
Turkey.
No funds sent to Brown Bros. & Co.
have been or will be used for any i'm
practicable schemes, but solely for the
actual relief of the sufferers and for put
ting them on their feet.
SPENCER TRAsK, Chairman Elk. Com.
F. D. GREENE, Secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06
Why Use Soap

if not the best? Soap is not
soap when it takes prizes
to sell it. Welcomes {"
prize is its virtue. Virtue is
always pure.
"Welcome" is so virtu-
ously pure that it washes
clean without rotting clothes,
and will not make sore
hands.
welcome" lasts longer,
cleans quicker, and is vastly
cheaper in the long run.
So use only
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06
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 ofits exceeding promptness in re-
lieving pam in the bladder, kidneys, back
and every part of the urinary passages
in male or female. 1t relieves 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.,
st. Johnsburv Vt.
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You may possibly say in your heart,
but what is all this other than the old
principle DO unto Others as you would
they should do unto you'll" Possibly
you are right. If so, then the fact that
the Great Social Reformer uttered words
which we are only beginning to fully
understand after 1900 years OF crab-like
devouring Of one another, ages ofslaugh-
ter and selhshness, proves Him to have
been teacher whose spiritual insight
most of us are far from equaling.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06
Some Rambling Thoughts.
By MEMO"
(Copyrighted.)

(These Thoughts" by a laym an. are read
in a quarter of million homes, scattered in
every state of the union. In this section,
they will be found week by week in the col
umns of this paper only, as we have made
arrangements with the author for their ex-
elusive publications.
Life in "the home Of the brave and the
land of the free" is not by any means the
selfish tooth-and-nail struggle for exist
ence that some would have us believe it
to be. One phrase of evolution has be-
come so commonly accepted among US
that we rattle off survival oil the fittest"
quite glibly, and imagine it explains
everything of unevenness in the lives of
our fellows who are better or worse off
than we. When however, you and | can
see so many unfit" both surviving and
flourishing, we must look for some law
in operation different from that which
Herbert Spencer shows to prevail among
lower creatures, "carnivorous animals
remove from herbivorous herds individu-
ais past their prime, and weed out the
sickly, the malformed, and the least fleet
and powerful"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06

The department of agriculture has re-
ceived notice that proper sheds have been
completed at Richford for the examina-
ton of an ordinary train load of cattle.
The number of sheds is %, each capable of
holding the 20 animals which constitute
a car load.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-11-06

Look then with me, just for few mo-
ments, beneath all the fierce struggle for
wealth. food, life even, going on around
us, and by the law of "the survival of
the httest" explain. to me the existence
of so simple a thing as your public
school. You will find yourself unable to
do it, for you will find there the children
Of worthless, shiftless parents who make
no contribution to the maintenance of