St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-06-01


George M. Pullman renounces terms of
husbands will and will receive 81, 600, 900,
and her sons each get fortune
"Statesmen's corner" in Westminster
abbey, where Gladstone will be buried
Senator German proposes war tax
on trusts house amends internal rev.
enue bill--Nearly 300, 900 people passed
the bier Of Gladstone in Westminster
hall in IA hours that body lay in state
Buildings and machinery of brick COM
pany in Chelsea destroyed at loss of
SS8, O00-Klondike party Of seven from
the Armenian colonies in Haverhill and
Nashua drowned in the Frazer river
DR.. Ferguson and w. M. Smith killed in
st. Louis during quarrel over sighting
remarks about a woman-Coored
youth in Salisbury, Nd, lynched for
shooting white boy Of his own age
Guns sent from Germany to Spain
marked furniture woman,
60 years, burned to death-Sheriff
deputy and an Indian killed by train
robbers in New Mexico in attempting to
effect a capture-Four men on hand
car killed near Gillette. Colo, in col
lision with a train.
SATURDAY, MAY 2S.
Twenty persons injured in riot at
Erfurt. Prussia-Idea Of a pan-Ameri-
can union finds much favor in Mexico
and Central America-American goods
in Australia rapidly absorbed because Of
fear that the war will cut off the supply
Exciting chase off Key West by the
Bancroft Of a 3-masted vessel thought to
be Spanish auxiliary cruiser-Sen-
ator Lodge introduces the resolution for
the annexation Of Hawaii as an amend
ment to the war revenue bill-Second
Manila expedition includes 5000 men from
Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota
John Sicily, 40 years, beaten and robbed
in Dover, N. H., by two men-Sophia
Anderson, "a years, hanged herself in
Campello, Mass-Thirteen envelopes,
containing about 5000 in wages for rail-
road employees, stolen from a car near
Attleboro, Mass-One life lost and
property worth S4O0, 900 burned during a
blaze in Dallas-Correspondent of the
London Times imprisoned in Havana
Sixty-nve deprived Of employment by
the burning Of Hughes harness factory
foundry in Fitchburg reduced to ashes
Charles Fetter killed in New York
in trying to stop a runaway horse
Three men killed in q collision near Day.
ton, Tenn-Six men drowned by rush
of water in a Pennsylvania mine
Baldwin locomotive works secures a con-
tract to supply II locomotives to the
Siberian and Eastern China rail-
road-W. p. Bechel and T. K. Sud-
borough late employees Of the Pacific
Express company of Omaha, arrested
for embezzlement-Bu secured
5000 worth of money and valuables in q
Rockland, Ne, house-Margaret Riley,
II years old and wayward, killed her
self in Lowell with poison because she
had been turned from home. l..
Barrows of winthrop Mass. killed by
falling from a window-Fire by an
incendiary in Portland caused loss
Of $4,000 and exposed lives to peril
]. B. Kelly, 65 and Respondent, shot him.
self in Bristol, N. HI. T. Titcomb' s
sawmill, dryhouse and stable in Houl-
ton, Me-, destroyed at loss of $75,000
Draining mill Of powder factory in
Hazardville, Conn.,, blown up, and one
man killed.
SUNDAY, MAY 30.
jeremiah Bibeau, Manchester bicyclist,
fatally hurt by comotive-Italian
ministry has resigned-Corporati
tax amendment beaten in the senate
by being laid on the table-Gladstone
buried in Westminster Abbey-Three
buildings wrecked, one man killed and
one injured in an explosion in powder
works at Carney's Point, N. CLERK
in the stock room of drygoods store
in Boston arrested for stealing goods
worth $b00-Five of the crew of fish
ing vessel hailing from Boston drowned
In Long Island sound by the capsizing
Of a small boat-German officers anx-
ious to serve in an official capacity in the
American army-Soldier killed at
Butte while bidding goodbye to his
mother as the train was pulling out
Member Of the italian parliament evad
ing arrest for completely in the riots
in Milan by remaining In the chamber,
where colleagues supply him with neces-
saries and where the police onot enter
Posse killed one robber and captured
a second after they had looted bank
in Springville, Utah, Of S4000-Phila-
delphia man shot himself seriously in
Greenpoint, L. l., because a woman with
whom he was infatuated refused to
marry him-Stand occupied by 1000
children fell in Denver and several in
jured badly-New York boy of fell
five stories from a roof and killed
Two of gang Of fighting and drunken
tramps killed near Freehold, N. j., by a
comotive-Derrick chain broke in
Jersey City and workman killed by
a car truck--Many victims Of the
plague in Hong Kong-Little danger of
an outbreak of yellow fever in the south
this year-General Gomez of the Gu
ban insurgents rebukes General Blanco
for writing him concerning terms Of
peace.
MONDAY MAY 30.
Frank Chapman, Boston telegrapher,
leaped from a New York ferry and
drowned himself-Cardenas harbor
completely closed, by the Spaniards since
the attack of the Winslow-Patrick
O'Brien killed his brother in Newark
during quarrel over the war-Cruiser
Columbia sank British freighter a