St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-01-17
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way at Cleveland, ono, plunge through
trestle over Tinker's creek, hurting a
number of passengers rs feet into the
chasm. Two men instantly killed and
many injurcd.-Reports from Berlinstate
that Russia will cooperate with Ger.
many in the Transvaal affairs.-Liberal
party in Canada very hopeful over the
split in the conservative party.-Paul
Verlaine, he French poet, is dead
Steamer Richard Peck, which runs be-
tween New York and New Haven badly
damaged BY striking a sunken wreck.
She is beached on Norwalk lsland.-Fif-
teen stowaways, 6 of whom were dead,
found in he tank otthe steamer Hermann,
arrived at Hull England, from Buenos
Avres.-Four trainnen have narrow
escape from death at Maybrook, N. Y,
waking up in their improvlsed sleeping
quarters to find themselves surrounded
by FIRE. All are badly burnt and one may
die.
Friday.
TWENTY-FIVE members OF DR.. Iameson's
party arrested at their club in Johannes
burg, charged with treason.-Robbers
blow open safe at Veronica, Mo-, with
dynamite and secure $4,000 belonging TO
the Farmers Bank-Two women burned
to death and two men badly scorched in
a fire caused by the overturnng of lamp
during a drunken spree at Lynn, Mass
Six officers OF the Sth regiment, Mass,
discharged by order of Governor Green
halge.-M UGH excitement prevails in fnan-
cial circles over the new bond ISSUE
Great Britain pushing on warIke prep
arations with all possible speed, and the
bitter. Germany will advise President
Kruger of the Transvaal to appeal to the
Powers to enforce his demands.-Qu
Victoria thanks Joseph Chamberlain for
his services in connection with the Trans
vaal diSturbance.-Six men injured by the
falling over an embankment, near Woon-
socket, K. l., Of a van drawn by six
horses, whichran away. The loss OF van
and load reaches $2500.-Onesu rvivorot
three miners who lost their way in a
snowstcrm in the mountains OF Idaho is
dying in Spokane, Wash. The sufferings
OF the men were terrible.
Saturday.
j. S. Spanlding, the sugar magnate,
died in Boston aged Ga ycars-Mrs. Alva
Vanderbilt divorced wife OF w. K. Van
derblt, married to O. II. p. Belmont in
New Hayes Hammond, an Amer
lean mining engineer, is among the num-
Der OF those arrested for treason at To-
hannesburg, and is in Jail in Pretoria
British fleet in the Levant is being dis
persed, as Britain will wait no longer for
policy OF Joint action on the part of the
powers,-Gulra, city of 5000 inhabi-
tants, reported captured by the Cubans.
An earthquake shock felt in Maine
Sixty thousand Abyssinians reported re-
pulsed by Italians with heavy loss.-Sam-
ue Ruff shot dead by Henry Martin alter
a drunken spree at Hartford, Conn.-An
international railroad and steamship
scheme between Russia and the United
States talked of, SO that the journey from
Alaska to Vladvostock can be made in
"a hours.-Patrick Sullivan, P. ]. Foley
and Cornelius Nagle, the murderers of
Duroy S. Foster at Billerica, Sept. 18th
last, have been sentenced to life imprison.
ment in the Massachusetts state prison.
Prince Henry of Battenburg is i'll with
fever in British West Airica.-The Venez-
uelan commission holds session at
Washington.
Sunday.
Havana in state of panic, and the
insurgents are burning cities, towns and
plantations on every hand-Capt. John
Allen, trustee of the Roberts estate of
Manchester, Mass. is short in his
accounts to the amount of $10O,00O.-
Lake Chapala, state of Jalisco, Mexico,
reported to have suddenly formed
gigantic whirlpool and sank several feet.
Pleasure boats were drawn into the
whirlpool and score of lives lost-Hen-
ry Norman, special commissioner of the
London Chronicle urges Lord Salisbury
to resort to arbitration for the settle
ment of all disputes, the Canadian, Ven
ezuelan, Alaskan boundary and eastern
fisheries questions. number of
Armenians killed in Anatoia estimated
at 50,000.-Secretary Herbert has decid-
ed to place the battle ship Texas out of
commission for repairs.
Monday.
Canadian government steamer New
field is searching for a boat from the
wrecked steamer Ealing off the Nova
Scotian COSTA gang of Italian assas-
sins, all Malta men, arrested for various
crimes at Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Steamer
Cephalonia, which went ashore near
Holyhead on Jan. 1 has been hoated and
will be repaired at Liverpool-Peter
Hougaard, a milk dealer in Englewood,
Chicago, kills his whole family, wife, five
children and himself BY gas.-Englands
flying squadron" almost ready for sea.
Sir Claude Mcdonald appointed British
minister to China, vice Sir Nicholas o.
Conner, recently appointed ambassador
to Russia.-A few rescued seamen from
the British bark Janet Cowan, taken to
Port Townsend, Wash, after terrible ex-
perences OF cold and hunger on a desert
shore.
Tuesday.
The sultan's order excludes the Red
Cross society from Turkey, but relief will
Immediately be distributed through the
missionaries already in the feld.-Sir
Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry visit
the U. S. senate ACCOMPANIED by Mrs.
Stevenson, wife of the vice PRESIDENT
Fishing schooner Fortuna run down bv
steamer BarnStable off Highland light :;
the schooner went down in four minutes
and of her crew were lost, IA saved -
Many deaths take place from sunstroke
in Sydney, New South Wales the weather
being the hottest on record.-Two thou
sand men assigned to the ships of Eng
lands new flying squadron" which will
be commanded by Admiral Dale.-There
are three Americans under arrest in
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