St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-17
robbers costs one officer his life and an


other will die of his wounds-An issue
or $l,OoO,0OO in bonds to be made for con-
struction Of "women's road" in Cali
fornia--Klondike gold received SO far
this season at the Seattle assay office
amounts to $2,250, 000-J. w. Jago. chief
officer of the Britannia, held at Queens
town for smuggling and robbng the
mails--Great growth in iron and steel
manufacturing industry of this country
since 1880 shown by the bureau of STA
tistcs-The attorney general COM
pleted a bill to foreclose the Central
Pacific debt of $64,OOO,0OO to the govern
ment, and threatens to file it soon
Two women missionaries of the Ameri-
can board killed in a collision in Yoko-
hama harbor.
SUNDAY, AUG. IA.
Boston boy of 5 killed by wagon
Michael Burke Of Brockton cut his throat
after arranging for his burial-Six in
mates of hotel in Gormanstown, Tas-
mania, burned to death-Sixteen dis
ciples of the Mormon faith sailed for
Europe for missionary work-Fire in
a Brooklyn apartment house caused
damage of Wisconsin volun-
teer said to have been executed in Porto
Rico for murder-Two troops ofcavalry
required to suppress a fight between
New York and Tennessee volunteers in
San ranclsco-Elizabet Lease, the
agitator of Wichita, Kan, declares that
w. j. Bryan has become the tool of cam
paign managers-Seyenteen lives lost
during a cloudburst in Hawkins county.
Tenn-Peace jubilee to be held in
Omaha in -Waddngton N.
Y, farmer and a hired man killed by
lightning and two horses burned to
death-Sultan of Morocco dead
Epidemic of cholera in Madras-One
man badly wounded in duel between
Mexicans in Ell Paso, Tex-German
1eweler murdered in Guatemala city
hotel by three men and robbed of $50 900
Earthquake in the state of Washing
ton-Drygoods store in Ashburnham,
Mass, robbed of $500 worth of material
Private in an immune regiment
killed in New Orleans while resisting
arrest by sheriff-Resignati of
Secretary of State Day and the appoint
ment of Ambassador Hay of London as
his uccessor-Seven residences in
Lowell, the occupants Of which are at
present out of the city for the summer,
broken into and robbed-Peter Moore,
aged 80, an employee of dredging COM
pany, fell overheard and drowned in
Boston.
MONDAY, AUG. 15
Seven persons killed and Al injured
by the derailment of a train in France
Wreck of the bark c.. C. Funk,
from Tacoma for Melbourne, and loss
of II lives, including the captain, his
wife and two children-One man
killed, two men drowned and two in
jured in a collision between a barge in
tow and yacht anchored at the en-
trance to Boston harbor-Five negroes
killed and three mortally wounded in a
fight between a Georgia sheriff and a
gambling party-Tobacco and other
crops damaged by hail in Sarahsville,
baltimore woman beheaded by a
ocomotive-Young woman of Long
Island City dies of lockjaw, resulting
from a scratch by a pin-Williams-
burg, N. Y. wife-beattr killed himself
James Evirs, Z years old, drowned
in anchester-Strike of Colorado
miners ended-Safe in postoffice in
Richford VT, blown open and robbed
Discovery of placer diggins in North
west territory, and stampede of pros
! pectors from Alaska-Arrest of a trio
engaged in making counterfeit money
in Detroit-Hot wave in England and
France, and extreme cold in Austrian
Notwithstanding shop in Sher-
brooke, Que, largest in Canada, con-
sumed at loss of $225, OOO-Nine- year.
old son of Alexander Betz of Peterboro,
N. H., drowned while bathing-Provi-
dence young man saved four bathers
from drowning at Mantauck beach, r.
1.-Two strangers suffocated by. gas
in Boston lodging house-Death of
Nebraska's oldest woman at the age
of 11O-Two men pinned under horse
and buggy in ravine in Ottawa, Ills.
and drowned-Three young men of
Washington drowned while frolieing in
a rowboat-Pasteur-C hamberlin Filter
company's plant in Dayton damaged
$4,000 by fire.
TUESDAY, AUG 16.
John Mooney, 8 years old, killed in
Randolph, Mass, by falling from tree
Viewers in Fall River factory on
strike for more paw. L. True, a
conductor, killed in New Gloucester, Me-,
by being thrown from a carriage
George Guth and wife of New York
found with bullet wounds, each hav-
ing accused the other of using revolver
Samuel Connors, colored burglar
captured in Lynn house by the inmates
Frederick Woods of Baltimore MUIR
dered and robbed in Waverly, N. j
Professor Litchfield probably hurt ia
tally in Clarendon, N. Y, by his head
hitting q rowboat in descending with a
parachute from balloon-Nonunio
miners shot strikers in Pana, Ills
Estimated loss of wheat by hail in North
Dakota this year is $4,000 acres, and as
much more damaged 20 percent-Re-
turn Of peace celebrated in Picqua, O..
with a jollification in which 10000 per-
sons cipated-Arthur Hughes, L
years DID, drowned in Salmon Falls, N
H., while bathing--Gladys Osmore, 1.
years old, burned fatally in Newport, VI
ID. l.. Hildreth fatally hurt at cross.
ing near Newport, Vt-Thirty-twC