St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-04-27

preSlQent---MrS. worthy fdTker pedlel
with a blackjack in suburb of Lowell
by a highwayman-Shoe factory Of
Knowles & Poole in Pittsfeld, N. H.,
closed by local creditors and all stock re-
moved-Paris editor refers to John
Bull and Brother Jonathan as brothers
in nfamy"-Believed in Falmouth,
Eng, that one of the cruisers bought
abroad the Diogenes, foundered in
collision with bark April 19-State of
blockade of Cuba announced by Presi-
dent Mckinley
SUNDAY, APRIL "a.
Fire in Pennington, Me-, destroyed
five buildings and much lumber at a loss
of SIS, OOO-Millnery store in North At
tleboro, Mass, robbed Of stock and
money aggregating $7OO-Norman
Winchester, Is years, killed in London
derry, VT. by a batted ball--Commit-
tee of the Ohio senate which investigated
the charges Of bribery in connection with
the election of Senator Hanna reports
having found evidence Of conspiracy
to corrupt slators-Richmond, l.. l.,
boy Of IA killed by the explosion of toy
cannon while playing war-KansGs
Grand Army desires the removal of Pen
sion Commissioner Evans and the Sc
lection of somebody who will execute
the laws in accordance with the true
spirit that prompted their enactment"
-Shoddy mill in Gardner, Me-, dam
aged by fire-Spantsh consider the cap
ture Of the Buena Ventura an act Of
piracy-Two persons killed in Texas
by torn1 Sherman to
resign-Coal trade between Boston and
Baltimore affected by the Warfare
bank broken up in Lynn, Mass-Cash-
Ter of a New Bedford bank found dead
in a chair-Levina Ledoux Of Lewis
ton, Me-, drowned herself-Nicaragu
and Costa RIGA to settle their trouble by
rbitration-Merritt Wrecking COM
pany to receive $131;000 for pulling an
American liner off the Jersey coast in
February, 1S97--Call for volunteers Is
sued by the Observation-Disclosures Manu-
featuring company of Providence offers
enlisting employees $3.50 each-Hayti to
forbid the sale Of coal to Spain-Evi-
'dence presented in the Mildred Brewster
case in Montpelier, VT, to show that she
knew what she did when she killed
Annie Wheeler-F. A. Pierce, aged 43,
Worcester, Mass, bookkeeper, inhaled
gas with suicidal intent and died.
MONDAY, APRIL rs.
]. B. Thomas of Brookline, Mass, rs
years, killed himself in New York with
gas because he could not join the army
owing to weak heart-T. H. Smith,
insane from illness and loss of sleep, put
bullet into his temple in Montclair N.
J-Three men asphyxiated in Colo
RADIO mine during a fire-Martial law
proclaimed in Porto Rico, and Americans
in danger-Pilgrimage Of Irish Ameri-
cans to Ireland abandoned on account of
the war-New Bedford weavers voted
to urrender-Boston to have an
emergency corps of 1000 from the street
department to serve in home defense
Annie Connors, II years, badly
burned in Lawrence while using kero-
sene in starting fire-Fishing schoon-
er Alice Of Provincetown, Mass, de-
stroyed by fire in Liberia, where she
went on an experimental voyage-Two
men burned to death near Pittsburg
while asleep in a shanty-Four- story
building in ST. Louis ruined by fire at a
loss Of $50, 000-Naval brigade of Massa-
chusetts objects to enlisting in the regu-
lar navy because Of The effect upon the
organization-E. G. Allen, superinten-
dent of the Old Colony system, resigned,
his successor being New York man
Catboat capsized in Boston harbor, and
one of four men drowned-No accom-
modations in Brooklyn navy yard for
housing the naval brigade of Massa-
chusetts, and quarters secured on Fall
River liner-Thomas Murray lost his
| life in fire in South Boston stable,
and Is horses also perished-Mr Glad
stones condition worse-Man who gave
his name as X. Nixon committed suicide
by taking poison in Turkish bath par
lor in Boston-John Fl. Chance charged
with the murder of Boston druggist,
intimates that friend of his may have
committed the crime-Vessel captures
by the American fleet number seven,
five steamers and two sailing craft.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26.
Patrick Margin crushed to death in
Boston by a brewery wagon-E. L.
Morse Of Hartford killed himself with
a bullet-Dispute over Alaskan boun-
dairy likely to be left to arbitration
Boston electric cut off the legs of girl
II years old-Mancheste Manufacture
ing company to suspend operations May
l for an indefinite period-Torpedo
boat Somers at Falmouth, Eng, wait
ing for a crew-Captain of a British
steamer arrested in Havana as an
American spy, but released after SEN
tence of death had been passed
Vreeland & Aylesworth, shoe dealers in
three cities in Rhode Island, failed with
liabilities of $4,000 and assets of 81, OOC
Secretary Sherman resigned, as did
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary
Of the navy, who proposes to participate
in the war against Spain-New York
clergyman says there are 100000 jim
goes in the country-Lighthou to be
made into signal stations-Many Bos
ton ships and cargoes now on the high
seas-Spanish vessels already seized
will be held despite protests-Captain
Sigsbee challenged to fight a duel by q
Spanish officer-F A. Sissons, until re-
Gently cashier of a national bank in
Ionla, Mich, arrested on charge of en-
beZzling large sum-Conflagratio ir
Glasgow causes loss of about a million
boston aldermen want legislative
permission to borrow $500, 1000 beyond the
debt limit for emergency purposes
w. X. Booze and two sons killed neal
Lonoke, Ark, in factional fight
Spanish fleet at Cape Verde islands moth
fled by Portugal to quit-Pres!den OPP.
posed to guards about the White House
Sexton, billardst, dropped dead In