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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

chances of defeat in going direct to the
West Indies. These officers are familiar
with the Spanish character, and they
maintain that the commander OF the
squadron will follow the example set by
the Philippine Admiral.
According to statements made officially
in Madrid, the officers and men OF the
royal navy have Instructions never to
surrender to the Americans. While adj
be determined by the individual charac-
tiers OF Spanish naval commanders,
there is undoubtedly disposition
among the sea lorces of the enemy, naval
officers here contend, to go down with
their ships rather than allow them TO
tall into the hands OF the United States.
1t would not be surprising, therefore, to
many officers in Washington if the four
armored cruisers and three destrovers
composing the principal Spanish fleet
made an assault on the squadron off the
Cuban coast, or appeared before some
city on the Atlantic coast and proceeded
to lombard it. That the enemy would
ultimately meet with quite as severe a
defeat as that sustained in Manila Har-
Dor is generally believed in naval circles,
but there is no disposition to belittle
Spanish courage, which is now coupled
with desperation.
For the Commodore Promotion.
Representative Grout of Vermont on
Tuesday introduced in the house this
joint resolution:
Whereas, the intrepidity and skill dis.
played by Commodore George Dewey in
his daring attack upon the Spanish fleet
in Manila harbor and its total destruc-
ton, covered as it was by the protecting
guns of surrounding lorts, marks him as
the possessor OF high qualities as naval
commander; therefore,
Resolved, That he ought to be pro-
noted to the rank OF admiral and the
President is hereby authorized to nomi-
which bo1y is hereby authorized to con-
firm him, the general laws regulating
promotions in the navy to the contrary
notwithstanding"
oOT1e LateT DeSpatCneS'
Bulletins received at the CALIFORNIAN
office yesterday and today give this
mformation:
The Casline has captured the Spanish
schooner Pace and taken her to Key
West.
Secretary Long says that Commodore
Dewey will be made a rear admiral later
on.
The cable has been cut so miles out
from Manila and it will take several
days to repair it.
Madrid dispatches say that Spain
intends to throw her whole strength
against the United States. A second
fleet is nearly ready at Cadiz.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

straw bed with one or two covers,
neither sheet nor mattress. In Russia,
until recently, the soldier slept with
his clothes on on a camp bed, but now
ordinary beds begin to be used-the re.
suit of contact with more civilized
countries. After this it cannot be doubt
ed that the French soldiers bed is the
best Of all, with it's wooden or iron bed
stead, straw bed, a wool mattress,
sheets, brown wooden coverlet and
an extra quilt for cold weather. Thus
the bed of the French soldier is the soft.
pst Of all soldiers beds, as that OF the
French peasant is acknowledged also to
be the best of all European countries. -
British Medical Record.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04
Probate of Will.
NANCY F. KIDDER's ESTATE.

NANNY +. KlDDER'S ESTATE.
STATE or VERMONT, Caledonia District, SIS.
In Probate court, held at the Pr obate office
in st. ohnsbury, within and for said district.
on the 2Sth day of April, A. ID. 1898.
An instrument purporting to be the last
Will and testament of Nancy f. Kid
der, late Of ST. Johnsbury, in said district,
deceased being presented to court by Cath
crime b. Kidder, the executrix therein named.
for probate
1t is ordered by said court chat all
persons concerned therein be notified to
appear at a session of said court, to be held
at the Probate Office in st. Johnsbu1y on the
21st day of May A. d. 1898, and show
cause, If any they may have, against the pro.
bate of said will for which purpose it is fur.
Their ordered that a copy of the record of this
order be published three weeks successfully
in the Caledonian, printed at st. Johnsbury,
previous to said time appointed for hearing
By the Court, Attest.
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
true copy of record, Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

The North Frisians are very unmer-
ciful to people who don't marry. One Of
their legends says that after death old
maids are doomed to cut stars out of the
sun when it has sunk below the hori-
zon, and the ghosts of the old bachelors
must blow them up in the east, run
ming, like lamplighters, all night up
and down ladder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04
Anticholera Vaccination.

Anticholera vaccination originated
about 10 years ago with DR.. Ferran,
Spanish physician. His vaccine Of eight
drops of a cholera culture mixed with
bile was used with many misfortunes
upon $4,000 persons, but gave sufficient
encouragement to lead to Haffkine's ex.
periments, which have proved SO sue
cessful in India. Haffkine employs
attenuated cholera bacilli, followed a
few days later by virulent cultures.
Equally good results from the use Of
dead cholera bacilli-killed by either
heat or chloroform-are now claimed
by Kolle, who gets the same effects by
simply using somewhat larger doses Of
his less terrifying preventive. Compare
tive tests have shown that the blood Of
the vaccinated individuals is now 200
times as potent in resisting cholera in
lection as that Of the unvaccinated. AS
evidence Of the effectiveness Of modern
methods Of dealing with cholera the
fact is mentioned that it has had $780,
900 victims in Russia since 1892, while
in Germany, including the Hamburg
epidemic, it's deaths have been but
5000. The disease seems destined soon
to become as obsolete as smallpox.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04
A Difficult Problem.

"What kapes ye shtill so long, Do
LAMP" inquired Mr.. Rafferty,.
"Oi'm thryin to convince meself that
it's no harder to push wheelbarrow on
the level than to push me bicckle up
hill an Oh can't do it. "-Washington
Star.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04
To Depositors
in the
Passumpsic Savings Bank,

Main ST, st JOhnSbury, Vt.
Section 4O95 Vermont S, atutes reads. "In
the yt ar 1898 and every fifth year thereafter
at such time in the year as the Inspector OF
Finance shall designate, the trustees If Saw
ings Banks savings institutions and trust
companies shall call in the deposit books for
examination and verification and cause the
same to be examined and verified by some
persons other than the treasurer or his clerks
employed for that purpose and approved by
the Inspector of Finance"
In accordance with the above law the
month of May has been named as the time
for presenting the deposit books, and de-
positors will please take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
W S. BOYNTON.
Treas.
st. Johnsbury, Vt April19, 1898.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04
Bank Stock for Sale.

In order to sc tie an estate it Is necessary
to sell 20 shares of the stock of the First
National Bank of st. Johnsbury. VT The
parties wishing to purchase can obtain any
information at the First National Bank or
OF the Administrator.
CHARLES ID. BRAiNBRD
administrators.
Danvile, VT, May 2, 1898.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

Massachusetts annually imports from
beyond her border eggs to the value Of
IS, 100000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

Great quantities of sulphur are mined
in the craters of several extinct volca-
noes in Mexico.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-04

During the Year 8e7,
THE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
1NcppA sED its PAYMENTS to Policy holders, 2osssas SO
N'o its Assets l. 2s6 ,967 81
its Reserves LIZ 40 SO
its Account I6f470 Is
its Insurance Outstanding 4215,349OO
A..os Liabilities. Surplus.
GA so6 900 o. $13OO6s 26.73. $1,s2O16555
SAMPLE POLICY ON REQUEST
w. ". sPRAGUE, General AGENT 81 Johnsbnry, Vt
The herald., 1898-06-21
TROOPS AT CAMP MERRITT
Twelve Thousand Men Are Awaitins
TRANSFORMATION to Manila


SAN FRANCISCO, June 2O.-with the
addition today of 300 recruits from Min
nesota, $50 for Iowa and 100 men of the AS
tor battery. the force of troops at Camp
Merritt has been increased to 12, 200. Early
tomorrow morning 1852 recruits from Kan
sas and Tennessee will arrive and num-
Der Of recruits from Ohio, Iowa and Idaho
are expected in the evening. On Thurs
day 260 men recruited to fill the Seventh
California regiment will reach Camp Mer-
ritt
Colonel Willard Young of the Second
regiment of the volunteer engineers is on
his way here to organize the Third battal-
ion of his regiment, which will be the en-
gineering contingent of the Philippines ex-
petition The other two battalions now
recruiting in the middle west will be as
sembled at Chicago before the end of this
week by Major Richard Henry Savage, the
novelist and former engineer, and Major
Pinckard of Alabama.
The First regiment Of California volun-
teers has been recruited up to the maxi
mum and tomorrow the 300 recruits will
be turned over to Colonel Berry of the
Seventh regiment, who will take them to
Manila.
Work on the third fleet of transports has
progressed so favorably that they will
probably all be ready to sail by Saturday.
The monitor Monadnock and collier Nero
are expected to start for Manila at the same
time.
After the departure of the next expedi-
tion the remaining troops will be re-
brigaded by Major General Otis. In this
connection the Fourth cavalry was for
mally attached to the First brigade today,
as was also the cavalry from Nevada
The herald., 1898-06-21
NEED MORE DOCTORS
The Troops at Chickamauga Not Given
Proper Medical Attention


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 2O-Dr. F.
H. Hines, one Of the committee of the Illi-
nois Army and Navy league sent to Chicka-
mauga to investigate and report the condi-
tions Of the camp, in an interview tonight
with the correspondent of the Associated
Press, said
1.-THE quartemaster and commissary de-
partments are rapidly overtaking their re-
sponsibiities, but the medical department
lags painfully behind. The regiments are
inadequatey supplied with necessary med
icines and they cannot get them. The re-
auisitions of the regiment surgeons are not
promptly filled and are only filled in part
1t is to be presumed that this is because
there is an insufficient supply on hand. The
lack Of proper surgical instruments Is still
more obvious. OF course where medicines
and surgical instruments are lacking there
is a deficiency of other things needed in
sickness. The supply of ice and eggs for
example is almost shamefully inadequate.
The army regulations allow a certain num-
ber of division surgeons, but the proper
number has not been furnished and this
lack in the staff has necessitated the draft
ing of many regimental surgeons who arc
needed In their own commands. In some
cases regiment is left with a single sur
geon and that not the major, but one of his
assistants 1t is evident that one man can
not attend to the wants of 1900 enlisted
men,"
The herald., 1898-06-21
The War Loan

WASHINGTON, June 2o.-Although the
amount Of subscriptions to the new per
cent loan is not made public. 1t is officially
stated that 1t exceeds all expectations.
This Is particularly true Of the larger
amounts. The number of subscriptions re-
ceived for sums OF, $500 anS less is large, but
the department wishes 1t thoroughly UNDER
stood by the public that even should the
whole loan be subscribed for several times
over in larger amounts, every subscription
of $500 or less will be accepted at once, as all
small amounts will take precedence in the
allotments over large ones. A subscription
for 900 has been received from a
prominent insurance company Of New York
enclosing certified check for s40O 900, as re-
quired by the regulations governing the
placing of the loan.
The herald., 1898-06-21
AS SAMPSON SEES IT
DETAILS OF THE SITUATION AT
SANTIAGO
SHIPS LOADED WITH STRAW
The Spaniards Will Burn Them Before
Permitting Their Capture-Arm-
ament Of the Batteries

Associated Press Special Wire
ON BOARD THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCH BOAT DAUNTLESS
off Santiago de Cuba, Sunday, June 10, via
Kingston, Jamaica, June 20. $40 p. m
Copyrighted, 1898, by the Associated
Press.) Rear Admiral Sampson authorizes
the publication of the following informa-
ton from reconnaissance and from the
Cubans:
Matters are quiet at Guantanamo bay.
The Spanish are transporting artillery to
the town of Guantanamo. Yesterday a
shell from the battleship Oregon destroyed
railway car and set a warehouse on fire
"A spy asserts that the Spanish gun
boats and Sandoval have been filled with
straw. and will be destroyed If there is any
danger of her being captured.
1.-THE Spanish forces at Guantanamo are
vainly attempting to reach Santiago, where
nothing Is known as to the situation at
Guantanamo, as the Cubans hold the in
tervening territory. General Garcia S
forces are within three days march of
Santiago. They number 5000 The same
number of Cubans are near Holguin. Gen.
eral Rabi is eighteen miles west Of SAN
tiago with $50 men, all well armed.
"The battery at Castillo de La Socapa
opposite Estrella, Santiago, has two Hon.
toria guns, four Maxim -Nordenfeldt, 81
milimetre guns, lone Maxim Nordenfeldt
s. milimetre gun, and one Gatling gun, all
taken from the Reina Mercedes. The bat
terry at Castillo Del Merro has two Maxim
Nordenfeldt rs milimetre guns, taken from
the torpedo boat destroyer Terror, brought
by Admiral Cervera.
'The Punta Gorda battery has two Or.
donez bronze guns and one Hontoria. All
the batteries have also muzzle leaders.
The mines at the entrance are on the Lati-
menclar system-two lines of seven each.
One line was fired at the Merrimac, but
without effect. The Merrimac cleared the
line when she exploded. One torpedo in
the first line was also fired at the Merri-
mac without striking her. The mines
contain 225 Kilograms of gun cotton. and
there are several Bustamente torpedoes.
"The best information is that the hull of
the Merrimac does not block the channel,
but lies to the right. Vessels can pass
without touching it.
During the bombardment on June Cap
tain Hermon, second in command on the
cruiser Reina Mercedes, and five men were
killed by shell. Six were wounded.
Lieutenant Hobson and his men are
now believed to have been taken up to
Santiago"
The herald., 1898-06-21
INDEX
TO TELEGRAPHIc NEWS

4, Havana merchants leaving Cuba;
I. reports as to the situation there; how .
+ the blockade is avoided.
+ Cuban spies visit Havana and then .
+ go on to New York; they make clear .
+ and concise report; Havana's defenses +!
+ amount to nothing before our fleet. 4
4. The measure annexing the Ha- .
+ waiian islands comes up for debate In !
+ the senate; friends of the bill are IN the ]
r majority.
+ Hero Hobson raised to the grade Of 1
+ lieutenant commander Of the navy. .
r A new army corps created for the .
i. troops sent to the Philippines, General .
4, Merritt commanding. !
+ How the troops sent to Santiago will 4
+ reach the shore. !
+ The native Spanish troops in Manilc 4
+ fire upon their officers: whole regi- 1
r ments desert to the insurgents. 1
r Blanco, captain general of Havana, i
r refuses to exchange Hobson and his !
+ crew and announces he Will no longer 4
+ respect flag of truce. 1
i An interview with General Garcia, 4
+ the Cuban leader had on board the I
+ warship New York. 1
l. War news from east and west shows 4
+ great activity in both army and navy; 4
+ ready to start. i
r read yto start.
/ Skaters forces reach Santiago. 4
+ Vesuvius again fires dynamite shells I
+ into Santiago harbor; tremendous ex- 4
+ ploson follows. 4
l. An attempt was made by young 4
i, Spanish volunteer to assassinate Cap 4
4, tain General Blanco to avenge his 4
i, brothers death; the latter was exe- 4
r cuted. 1
/ Spanish poison Aguinaldo, the gen. 4
+ eral of the Manila insurgents; he has 4
+ a narrow escape.
+ Don Carlos issues a manifesto in 4
+ which he says he is merely biding his 4
i, time to take the throne of Spain. 4
+ f*tft + + + + + + + + + + + r. +
The herald., 1898-06-21
NeWspaper Man Dies

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20-Wallace G..
Henderson. a newspaper man well known
throughout the state, died at the Occidental
hotel today from morphine poisoning, sup
posed to have been taken to allay pain.
Henderson has been doing newspaper work
in California, Arizona. Old Mexico and
NewtMexico for years, and at one time had
charge of a paper in Santa Fe, N M. He
has been employed in this city on several
of the morning papers. also at Sacramento
His speciality was railroad reporting, and
he was recently appointed press agent of
the Stockton and Tuolumne railroad, with
headquarters at Sonora.
The herald., 1898-06-21
Has Surrendered All Its Ships

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20-The Pacific
Mail Steamship company has furnished so
many transports to the government that
new arrangements regarding the carrying
of freight and passengers have become nec-
essary. The steamer San Juan sailed for
Central America today, taking the place of
the City of Para. The place of the Colon
which left on the last expedition to Manila
was taken by the Starbuck, brought from
the Central American coast for the purpose,
and the City of Panama is on her way here
to take the trip of the Newport, lately i'm
pressed by the government.
On the China and Japan line the City Of
Peking's place has been taken by the Aztec,
and the Glenfarg has been chartered at
Hongkong to carry the China's freight.
The herald., 1898-06-21
POWDER MILL FIRE
Attempt to Blow Up the King Mills in
Ohio

CINCINNATI, June 2o-The finishing
department Of the King Powder Com
pany. located at King Mills in Warren
county, was destroyed last night in a man
ner leading to the belief that 1t was the
work of enemies of the government. Tho
building, in which was stored a quantity
CT smokeless powder, had evidently been
fired by two men near midnight, one of
whom was badly burned and had been ap-
dragged away by his companion,
who then ran away in the direction of
South Lebanon. Smokeless powder in the
condition it was in this department, does
not explode like ordinary powder with a
flash, but breaks into bright light and
burns for some time. The great light at
tracted citizens and some of these met a
stranger going toward South Lebanon.
The injured man was taken into custody.
He is apparently a foreigner, but is SO
badly injured that he can scarcely talk.
The powder burned was not for the gov
ernment and the money loss is inconsid-
cradle, perhaps $1,000. This company has
a contract to supply the government; that
is thought to be the reason its destruction
was attempted.
The herald., 1898-06-21
THE ENGLISH PRESS
Views Upon the Hobson Incident and
the Situation in Manila

LONDON, June 21.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Times says:
Spain's refusal to exchange Lieutenan It
Hobson and his companions of the Merri-
mac Is easily explained and justified. With
out any intention Of acting as spies. they
must have seen many things in or around
Santiago about which the American nava!
and military authorities would gladly have
information.
The idea that Germany will interfere to
prevent the storming of Manila is now
abandoned, but speculation is active as to
her political designs. Ell Epoca suggests
that Germany may negotiate with the
Philippine republic and lease portion Of
the province of Cayagan, including the port
Of Apart, in the Island of Luzon.
1t forgets, however, that this would re-
quire the sanction of the United States as
the suzeradn. In the opinion Of tolerably
we'll informed people the idea of creating
a semi-independent Philippine republic Is
an absurdity.
The herald., 1898-06-21
TRIED TO KILL BLANCO
CONTINUED from Page One)

Nueva, Espana and Yanez Pinzon, Filipinas
and Aguila and Flecha. The Reina Mer-
cedes is anchored inside at Marel under the
protection of the local forts and block
houses. The big cruiser Alfonso XIPs ar
tillery has all been removed, the guns being
mounted near Cojimar to strengthen the
batteries east Of Havana, and the Spanish
Red Cross people have undertaken Capt.
Blanco's request to fit her up as hospital
ship. The third class cruiser Nueva
Espana succeeds her as flagship. The tor
pedo boat Fliipinas, long out of commission,
is being hurriedly repaired at the arsenal.
OF the two remaining torpedo boats, the
Pinzon alone is afloat and active, the Vena-
ditto was in the dry dock two days ago. The
Aguila and Flecha are converted tugs. too
small to venture out save in exceptionally
smooth weather. Six modern guns have
been mounted upon the shore batteries at
the entrance to the port.
Working Day and Night
Work upon the new sand batteries west of
the city goes on day and night The city
cigar factories have ceased operations and
their cigarmakers, Cubans as well as Span
iards, have all been armed by Capt. Gen.
Blanco and are being drilled with volunteers
every morning in front of Hotel Pasaje.
Including the regular garrisons here and at
Rega, Guanaboca and Marianao, upwards
of $4,000 men are under arms for defense
of the city. Food is not as scarce as might
be supposed, as railway communication
with Sagua la Grande, Cienfuegos and
Batabano none of which are blockaded, has
not been broken, and cattle continue to ar
rive from Mexico being landed at Coloma,
upon the south coast of Pinar del Rio, and
brought to the city over the Western rail-
way.
Spanish property holders, among whom
are most of the volunteer officials. are dis
posed to make any sacrifice to prevent bonn
bardment and save their property from
consequent destruction.
The herald., 1898-06-21
The Robinson Case

SAN FRANCISCO. June 2O.-Judge Bahrs
today began the hearing of an application
by the Southern Pacific company for a writ
of prohibition directed against the state
+" ard of railroad commissioners in the
case of Robinson of Alameda county. At
torney Monteith appeared for the board and
took the position that the case presented
by the petition was one of which the supe-
rior court had no jurisdiction.
Judge Bahrs overruled Monteith's OBJ
lection to the Jurisdiction of the court, hold
ing that the case was one of which the
courts could legally take cognizance. Hear
ing on the main points of theitigation was
continued until tomorrow.
The herald., 1898-06-21
DON CARLOS MANIFESTO
The Pretender to the Spanish Throne Biding
His Time

1xARID June 2 via Brtz 2oE impartial prints
interview
the pender
ents be regarded in the manifesto Don Carlos sad
won't conceal from
of unmagnab humiatons
United States imminent might
impassvity.
"Unswerved
difficulty
should sacrifice
"The
the
will able
They brought the yielding
will
This attitude
endu but when the hour for the shall
admitting
caed
problem and the question Of spain's foreign
+
"Our peoples wonderful
of said,
ton with which she strike alliance
The
have further
therefore, it, for
ten times superior his
all
ships as he could he would
work preserving to Spain the which
he
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The herald., 1898-06-21
IN THE HOUSE
The General Deficiency Bill Passed
Without Debate

WASHINGTON, June 20.-The house to-
day passed the general deficiency bill, car
ry.ng 1924, 900 900. The bill occasioned little
debate, and 1t passed practically as reported
to the house from the committee on appro-
priations. The remainder Of the day was
given to District of Columbia business.
The house committee on coinage, weights
and measures today favorably reported a
bill to fix the standard by the adoption of
the metric system of weights and measures,
making its use obligatory IN the conduct
of the government business. The commit
tee says the practical way to make the
change is first by government in Its work,
and the people will speedily follow the ex-
ample, and that its adoption would stimu-
late our foreign commerce.