St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-25

O00-Four persons killed by tornado
near Springdale, Ark-Building con-
tanning 5000 pounds Of powder blown
UP near Hammond, Ind-Four men
buried alive in mine slope In Penn
sylvania-Snow IA feet deep on the
top Of Mt. ashington-Electric car
in Boston wrecks barber shop-Mo~ re
than half million spindles idle in Fall
River-Gregory Lundle of Hartford
killed his wife and shot himself fatally
e. B. Beale Of Freehold, N. j., killed
himself with a revolver-Four men
killed and 20 hurt in collision Of trains
near Collinsville. Ills-Two men
drowned in Ellsworth, Me-Neglect to
display a signal cause Of standing
train bearing Missouri militia being run
killed and several injured-Chief Of
New York police retired for refusing to
do the bidding Of the Tammany COM
missioners relative to appointments
In a plantation quarrel at Belleview,
La. growing out of jealousy, one negro
killed and two others mortally injured
Three loafers in Monroe county
Ind, whipped by whitecaps-William
Harrison, pay clerk in an iron works in
Brooklyn, reported missing with 5000
Expedition Of $50 colored families being
organized in Texas for settlement in
President Harrison to
represent Venezuela before the commits
sion chosen to settle the boundary dis
pute with Great Britain-Lydia Max
field AZ years, hanged herself in Madi-
son, Me-Lena SPORT, an insane widow,
decapitated her two children in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y-F'ive whalers reported
as wrecked off Point Barrow-Mem.
bers of an opera company quarantined
in two cars near Geneva, N. Y, because
OF smallpox-Carrie Green killed her
self in New York while suffering from the
grip-Locomotive engineers will not
join the federation Of trainmen-Wom-
an persisted in fire in Brooklyn, and a
fireman nearly killed by fall in trying
to rescue her.
MONDAY, May 20.
Patrick Reagan killed in Newport,Wt.,
by falling enthusiastically worth
$4,000 stolen from the residence Of Sena-
tor Mason in shington-Catherine
Hayes Of Lawrence burned fatally by
the explosion Of a gasoline stove-In-
surgents in Cuba subsisting on peppery
wood and palm buds-Theodore Par
sons badly cut in Williamstown, Mass
during quarrel-Four murders, an at
tempted murder and suicide in and
around Baltimore Sunday-North-
western Arkansas visited by a tornado
that destroyed many lives and great
deal of property-Lawye Bowen as
sassinated in Cotulla, Tex, on his way
home-Barbara Brooks, widow OF
Brigadier General Brooks, robbed Of
nearly $4,000 in money and jewelry by
burglars, who gained an entrance to the
basement of her house in New York by
the use Of jimmies-Sadie Norton sale
to belong in Boston, attempted suicide
in Newport News-Many miners perisl
in a fire in Dortmund, Prussia
Samuel Chadbourn, 70 years, shot him
self dead in Sanford, Me-Firemal
killed and two others hurt by locomo
tive tumbling from trestle in Sal
Francisco-Edward Bellamy, author @
!, Looking Backward" died in Chicope
= Falls, Mass, of consumption-Mr!
a Gregory killed ]. H. Williams in Ala
media, Col, with bullet intended 70
, her husband.
q TUESDAY, MAY "a.
Four Jockeys hurt in St. Louis, tw
probably fatally - Coremakers i
:, Cleveland struck for an increase of
cents-Colonel Cooper, concerned in
conspiracy to loot national bank /
:, Dover, Del, fined $4,000 and costs an
. imprisoned for IS months-Sherma
Livingstone, rs years old, hanged him
= self in Amesbury, Mass - Colore
= brakeman responsible for the death of
- boy wins was stealing ride was take
y. ~ from the sheriff in Rives, Tenn, an
y. lynched-French minister Of colonie
;. resigned because he failed to be re
elected a member of the chamber
deputies-Tug sank at wharf in Me-
= York, and one man drowned-Torna,
g in Texas destroyed II barns, 10 dwelling
!. and two churches, and killed several
. Steamer on Rangeley lake, Me-, burne
+, British schooner fired at in attempt
~ Ing to enter Portland's harbor, the car
o. tain having forgotten the orders
-. -. James Ellis, a foreman in Boston's stree
- department, shot dead by peddler {
:. fruit whom he admonished against Iii
~ tering a street-Indiana Novelt
~, ~, Manufacturing company OF PlNnoutl
:. Ind. which made wooden rims an
-, handles for bicycles, assigned-Celt
- brations in honor of the centenary {
~ the Irish rebellion in 1898 begun in Ire
~ land--A. A. Spoon Of Syracuse kille
~ his wife and himself in Indianapolis
l., Terrific storm in Virginia killed sever,
= and destroyed much property-Your
man arrested in Tampa on suspicion
~, being spy-General Merritt engage
to Chicago girl of 20.