St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-05-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
Thursday.

PENNSYLVANIA republican convention
declares for uay.-Congressmen Money
and Hall have fierce encounter in com
mittee room; one called the other liar
and an ink well thrown by Hall cut
Moneys head.-Town OF Caribou, Me-,
flooded by the bursting of a dam; dam
age estimated at $40000.-President
Cleveland and party go fishing, -lnsur-
gents in Cuba said to have force OF 25,-
600 men in the field and are opposed by
16O.O 900 Spanish. - The United States
batte-ship Massachusetts in its run from
Delaware Capes to Cape Cod proved
even faster than the batte-ship Indiana.
The American National Bank oiDenver,
Col, closed its doors.-American securi-
ties were lower in London, owing to the
renewed talk of the Venezuela discussion.
Princess Marguerite OF Orleans was
married to Patrice MacMahon.-The AS
sembly passed the Greater New York bill
over the vetoes of Mayors Strong and
Wurster. - The Maryland republican
state convention elected an uninstructed
delegation to s.. Louis.
Friday.
The Bourgeois Ministry resigned; Pres
ident Faure Immediately accepted the
surrender of the porttolios.-Buluwayo
is now completely cut off from all means
of Geographic communication -Ambas-
sador Bayard unveiled the american"
memorial window in the Shakespeare
church at Stratford-Two classes of col
lege girls in Galesburg ILL.,, have lively
scrimmage during which dresses were
torn, HAIR pulled, faces badly scratched,
etc School census Just completed in
Chicago shows that her population falls
so 900 short of the census taken two
years ago Grand Forks, N. D., national
bank, capital 5000, 900, tails 19-year-
old desperate in Guthrie, o, T., shoots
his employer and keeps sheriff's posse at
bay.
Saturday.
Peer Egbert, % years of age, of Rock.
vile, Ind, kills six people and then shoots
himselt.-A fine equestrian statue of Gen
U. S. Grant unveiled in Brooklyn by the
generals graudson.-Three boys under
: age arrested in Charlestown, Mass, FOL
5 robbing pawn shop of $3000.-Negroes
armed near Cranberry, N. c., and threaten
! to burn the town because a negro was
= recently lynched there.-A monster meet
ing was held in Tivoli Hall, Paris, de
ploring the fall of the Bourgeois Ministry
- More fighting was reported at Eplsko
pi, Crete, between the Turks and Christ
ians; the latter have appealed to Greco
for aid.-Colonel Rhodes and two of hi
S associates in the Johannesburg uprisin
have pleaded guilty of treason.-The Yer
ezuelan Boundary Commission held
4 meeting in Washington and decided t.
send an agent to the Hagueto search tn
Dutch archives.-The Virginia republica
d state convention instructed it's delegate
to St, Louis for Mckinley Two wome
1t murdered by burglars in the village {
=, Hill Top, Md.
>, Salisbury must retire and there is muC
4 speculation as to his successor.-Conte
crate memorial day in the SOUTH vete
ans OF both armies joining in the exc
III clses and graves of both northern al
southern soldiers decorated Sixty-sev,
d. Mexicans buried alive in a mine cata
e. trophe near chihuahua ,-Mrs. Christie
l., Mcleod run over and killed by a troll
NuI III blOOkl IA CNClOHc VI u
al mendous force sped through Clay count
he Kas,, last night, dealing death and {
on struction on every hand, five perso
killed and 20 injured,
ny Monday.
au Secret legislation at Albany aims
70 turn over the state asylum tor the insa
Ky to Platt-AnA. p. A. council at Cantt
Ohio, denounces the attempt to use I
order against Major McKinley,-T
government secured large majority
oh. the senate elections in Spain; there W
red no disturbances,-The defeat OF
ury Matabeles near Buluwayo was confirm
ace. by dispatch from Sir Hercules Rob
+he son.-Masked men hold up two m
managers near Berwind, Col, and l
them OF $4000-The aggregate of
cut losses by the fire at Cripple Creek c.
will be nearly $1,000 OO0.-An Itali
,ast living near Boston, sells his wife to
and ! oil his countrymen for 80 cents.-An a,