St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
WEDNESDAY. AI1G. q.

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comply with the Chicago agreement as
to wages-Young woman in Boston
made unsuccessful effort to end do
nestle misery with poison-Five men
burned in a collery in Plymouth, Pa,
one of them fatally-Combne of anti
Republican elements In Nebraska re-
newed. the Populsts getting all of the
nominations but one-Thousands of
dollars damage wrought by storm in
Sullivan county, N. Y, one church
burned-Patrick Davis, farmland in
Dracut, Mass, nearly killed Patrick
Eagan for interfering In an attempted
assault upon woman--Flora Dona-
hue, dissipated resident of Lynn, i'm
prisoned for six months for menacing
the life Of daughter IL years of age
Possibility Of contest over the will Of
Millionaire Banigan of Providence,
friends Of the widow asserting that she
will not be able to live on the annuity Of
15,0OO-Gertrude Hall, social out
cast, suffocated herself with gas in New
York--Loss Of $1,000 by fire in Kenne-
bunkport, Me-One killed and three
hurt at petroleum fire in Dunkirk,
France-Lincoln, r. l., laborer drowned
while bathing-Edwar Chalk of Paw
tucket, 40 years, jumped from bridge
and drowned-Two children killed by
electrics in MISUNDERSTANDING as
sault with an axe upon two women and
a girl In their home in Baltimore by
somebody unknown-Bg reception TO
Hobson in Atlanta-Steame at New
York reports passing 2S bodies Of the
Burgogne's passengers"
THURSDAY, AUG. 4.
Girl killed by lightning in jamestown,
N. Y, and farmer in Centralia--
Clarence Pierce of Waterville, Me-. aged
80 years, drawn around a shaft and
killed--Many persons killed by cy-
clone in a Spanish town--Quincy,
Mass, youth confessed to committing a
series Of obberies-Race riots in New
York-London papers insnuate that
Germany would not hesitate TO fo:m an
intrigue with Aguinaldo and the Phil
ipine urgents-Farmhand burned
to death and another injured fatally in
West Hartford-Sneak thief helped
himself to the cash in bank vault in
Sedalia, Mo-, during the noon hour
Oil tank in Philadelphia set afire by
lightning and destroyed, and a man
drowned in the cellar Of his house by
the sudden influx of water-Benjamin
Barker of Haverhill stepped from one
track to another to avoid train, and
was killed-Negro killed by a teacher
in Anardaka, Ok, while trying to enter
her room. H. Eldreth's head severed
by locomotive in Petersburg, N. Y
William Livermore of Gardiner, Me-.
aged 60 years, shot himself on account
o. domestic troubles.
FRIDAY, AUG. 5.
Bridgeport newsboy killed by an cleo
trio, the third fatality of the kind there
this week-Rutland laborer seriously
hurt by dynamite blast-Strike in
Cleveland wire mill preading-Hur-
ricane on the west coast of Florida
New Bedford man drowned in Beaufort,
N. c., by the capsizing of a boat of thu
gunboat, Governor Russell-Mary A.
Starr of Brockton attempted suicide by
taking paris green in cemetery
Capitalists were negotiating with Min
lister JernesRn for the use of 200 of the
machines for extracting gold from sea
water when the crash came-Mary
Bancroft, keeper of lodging house in
Boston, committed suicide by holding
her head in a foot of water in bath
tub by means of a packing case-E.
B. Bowers, wanted in Boston on a charge
of stealing stock from his employers,
drank poison when arrested in bingham
six warehouses burned in Dayton,
Wash-Police are investigating the
case of w. ]. Atkinson, who was found
in his room with fractured skull and a
broken arm-Griers lumber yard and
cement works in Montreal damaged by
fire-Brakeman killed in collision of
trains in South Norwalk, Conn
Louise Bosco of Brockton burned fatally
by an oilstove-James North of Prov
idence killed by blow with a billiard
cue-Ernest Smith of Manchester cut
his throat-Maurice Conlan, switch
man, and John Sullivan, a brakeman,
killed in Boston-John Reardon of
Somerville killed by locomotive at
crossing-The Klondike bubble
bursting; possible political effect of the
failure-Salmon pack on the Columbia
river this year will be lower than usual
DIR. Parkhurst's society to break up
dlsreputable places in the Long Island
portion of greater New York-Chicago
and Minnesota factions of the Supreme
Order Of Foresters will carry an issue
into the supreme court-Santa Fe
Railroad company to sue the Western
Union Telegraph company for refusing
to accept unstamped messages
SATURDAY, AUG. 6.
Bella Mcdonald, aged "a, killed by
abortion in Observation-Disclosures Sim
nett of Boston committed suicide while
spondent-Arthur Beers shot fatally
by negro in Fairfield, Conn.,, while
endeavoring to enter house where his
wife was employed to inquire about the
abduction of his child-Nitroglyce
used by robbers on a bank in Richland
Mich, and $4,000 in cash and $4SOO in
notes secured-Two women drowned
in Middletown, N. Y, by the capsizing
of boat-Two children buried in a
sandbank in Haverhil-Thomas Lip
ton, the Irishman who is to build a
yacht to race for the Americas cup
donated $500,0OO for dining rooms for
London's working people-Pasquiale
Casesso of Charlestown killed by jump
Ing or falling from third-story window
-Four girls drowned in Staten Island
by the capsizing of a yacht-Boy
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