St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-04-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
Thursday.


Leslie. inventor and builder of the first
rotary snow plough, now used on all
railroads of the world that are required
to fight snow storms. Naval approprla-
ton bill passed by the U. 5. house OF rep
resentatives, which authorizes the build
ing of four new battle-ships and fifteen
torpedo Report that Mavroyenl
Bey. Turkish minister to this country,
has been recalled, confirmed by dispatch
from Constantinople,-Th receivers Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad issue a
statement Of their policy in the manage
ment of the property.-T Arizona state
hood bill favorably reported in congress
Theodore speaks on athletics
at Harvard OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Fish and Game Protective Association
opposes reducing length at which HOLSTERS
can legally be caught, News of an up
rising in the Filabusti and lnseza dis
tricts received at Cape Town; many
settlers murdered by the Matabeles.- An
armistice of several months duration
proposed by Italy to the Negus.
Friday.
Reported purchase by Great Britain OF
Delagoa Bay from the Portuguese Tor
$4,000, 0OO.-The Greater New York bill
passes the assembly at Albany In
exchange for important Russian conces-
sions China is prepared to surrender Port
Arthur to Russia, instead of making that
place a free port-A dispatch from Con-
stantinope says that the officials at Bit
lis are preventing American missionaries
from relieving the needy.-Great boom
for Speaker Reed at the Massachusetts,
state convention.-Rum that many
changes on the slate Of the navy depart
mentinvolving several transfers of officers
of high rank, will soon be prepared and
carried out.-Attorney- General Eastman
moves to vacate the charter of the Gran,
lite State Provident Association.-The
ship Indiana successfully locked at
Port Royal, S. c.
Saturday.
Disastrous confagration at Water
bury, Conn, causing loss of $3.50, 600.
"A mammoth grocery store in st. Paul,
Mimi, destroyed by fire; loss $4,000.
News of a terrible disaster at fort
near Kiang, China, 800 Chinese being
blown to atoms by magazine eXplo-
sion.-Small pox reported to be raging
in different parts OF the Indian territory.
The Oxford crew wins the 53rd annual
boat race between the universities of
Oxford and ambridge.-The schooner,
William Todd, of Calais, Me-, arrives at
Kensington, Jamaica, and reports that
the vessel was fired upon by Spanish
gunboats, boarded and searched Uni
versaist church in Portsmouth, N. H.,
destroyed by fire, also the historic Good
rich house.-Launching of the new battle
ship, Iowa, from the Philadelphia ship
yard Miss Mary Lord, daughter of the
governor of Iowa, naming the vessel
Death OF Edward King, well known
author and correspondent, at Brooklyn,
after a short illness.
The forces of the insurgents in Corea
are reported to be within ten miles Of
Seoul, and the government is helpless
M. Berthelot, the French Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, resigned his portfolio
The Turkish Minister at Washington has
received no notice of his recall from the
Porte The treasury deficit so far this
year is placed at $1S, 700, 000-Two dis
tilery warehouses were burned at Louis
vile, causing a loss of $1,000 ,OO0.-
Mrs. Emma Booth Tucker, one of the
new commanders of the Salvation Army
arrives on the st. Louis and talks of hel
plans.-The Matabeles reported to have
been defeated with heavy loss in two
fights with British forces.
Sunday.
Four persons perish in New Yorl
hre.-An unknown murderer kills al
Ohio farmer and his wife and fatally
Injuries their two daughters and hiret
man.-Th ereport that the Turkish minis
ter in Washington, Mavroveni Bey is t.
be recalled, officially nied.-The Goth
church and hospital of St. Sauveur, a
Lille, France, destroyed by fre.-Flood
in western and central New York caused
by melting ice and snow.-The peac
commission fails to end the Nicaragual
rebellion, the insurgents refusing tt
accept its terms.-American line stee mer
Paris, aground in New York lower bay
Charles L. Damrell, senior partner ant
proprietor of the "old corner book store
in Boston, dies Of pulmonary embolisu
at his home in that city.-Bishop Potte
invited by the authorities OF Cambridg
University, England, to be select preache
to the university during May, 1897
Anti.American demonstrations renewe
{ in Barcelona. American flag burned.
Monday.
American missionaries ordered to eaV
Bitls immediatel y.-Kentucky and Yves
Virginia said to be invaded by Mormo
miSsionaries.-Reed to be the first choic
, OF the New Hampshire delegates at thei
state convention at Concord. -Report
from the republican conventions held i
Virginia indicate that Mckinley ha
swept the state aud will secure nearly a
5 if not every delegate to the national cor
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the Grea
Northern ana Northern Pacific railroad
prohibited by the decision of United State
l supreme court. -Southern pig iron me
e combine. A schedule of prices will 500
be adopted and New York agency e.
tablshed.-France warns England tina
she must not encroach upon the former
r rights IN Madagascar.
I Tuesday.
f New Hampshire for either Reed c
Mckinley, but local pride will fave
Reed.-Removal of Gov. Hughes of Ar
= IONA signed by the president stu;
: ton at Buluwayoi regarded as extrem
= ly serious; preparations for defent
e against the Matabeles are being mac
} and more troops will be sent from Gree
= Britain at once.-Good wheat prospec
$ Mayor Wilson Smith of Montreal he
e placed loan Of 3,500,000 for the Gu
S bee government.-Littl chance of tt