St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-25


New Orleans says that Havana cannot
be starved into submission In 100 years
--Express messenger Lewis claims to
have been robbed of package contain
ing $4,000 while on steamer from Bos-
ton TO Portland-Fire In Old Orchard,
Me-. responsible for loss Of $4,000 to
owners of hotels and cottages-During
an attempt to arrest two negroes in
Horn Lake, Miss, for murder, one Of the
accused and three deputies were killed
As a result Of disturbance in Clinch
county, Ca, white man and negro
were killed and white man and negro
badly wounded--Practical suspension
of the reciprocity negotiations between
the Washington and Paris governments,
due to the action Of the French authori-
ties in increasing the tariff duty on sew
eral American products imported largely
into France.
FRIDAY, MAY 20.
Death and career Of Gladstone the
talk of Europe-Six men drowned in
attempting to cross the Allegheny river
on a raft-Continuance of friendly re-
lations between France and the United
States assured-Blockade again broken
to permit German ship to go to Havana
More than 40 persons killed and great
destruction wrought by cyclones in the
west-Spartan Bath barque, missing
with IL men, having left New Jersey,
April %. for Maine-Number of volun-
teers mustered into the service Of the
United States has passed the hundred
thousand mark-Providence received
$40. 900 from J. w. Brown for the decora-
ton of library building for which he
supplied the money-Boston physician
held in $4,000 for alleged completely in
the death of young woman-Spanish
squadron at Santiago Cuba, the fortress
which was bombarded Wednesday by
American battleships- mill in
Lawrence burned-Pennington Mimi,
practically wiped out by tornado-G
| C. Taft killed by falling form a hotel
window in Athol, Mass-Irving Webs.
ter, 30 years, killed in New Haven dur
Ing friendly bout with an acquaintance
Nathan Currier, Boston lawyer, killed
himself on the family lot in an Enfield
N. H. cemetery-Locomot spark
caused $500 damage in North Easton
Mass-George Knapp, "a, drowned neal
Newton, Mass, by the upsetting Of :
tanoe-Senator Sewell resigned as {
major general because he could not be {
senator at the same time-George Sea
yer, Is years, killed by falling four stories
In an elevator well in Boston-Elevel
people known to be dead, and two scor
badly injured as result of destructiv,
cyclone which swept over Ogle county
Ills.
SATURDAY, MAY 81.
Two hotels burned at Kennebunkport
Me-, losses aggregating 42,000-Tall
of a new loan of SEQ, 900 900 in Spain
Note for $4,000, supposed to have beel
bald by the former treasurer of Peters
ham, Mass, who Is among the missing
presented for settlement by the holde
-Four children drowned near New
martinsville, w. Va, by the capsizin
of a boat in which nine of them wer
trying to cross creek-Neck Of job
Mclaughlin, 16 years, broken by a
elevator in Dover, N. H., mill-Tw
bounty jumpers arrested in Lewiston
Me--New Bedford spinners vote to
back to work-Five soldiers and ny
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by an explosion in projectile factory
Spain-Best portion Of Kewaune
Wis, destroyed by fire-Rats gnawir
lead pipe cause loss of $1,000 to a Bo
ton firm-Paper mills running to the
full capacity-America firm shippir
100000 worth Of elevators to London
Dedication of monument at Chariot
N. c., to commemorate the Mecklenbul
declaration Of independence-Ven
, zuela revolution reported crushed
Jamaica appropriates a special defen
fund-Englands strengthening her fie
. h the Pacific-Hundred persons caug
i in a snowslide in Alaska, but only thr
!, killed-Two boys arrested in Ber
hamton, N. T., for trying to wreck
train for fun-Thomas Nulty hang,
in Toilette, Que, for killing his thr
sisters and brother to make pla
= for the girl he desired to marry
? Mary e. Selner arrested in Philadelph
;, for poisoning her aged and wealthy hu
!, band-Three men escaped death
y Portland while investigating a fire In
= sawmill through an explosion OF hot {
and sawdust-Newsgirl in Bridgepc
. mangled by a ocomotive-Six-ho
y fire in Toledo, started by electricit
caused $500, 1000 loss and resulted in t
= killing Of three flremen by falling wa
A resolution urging that Preside
Mckinley order that no unnecessa
= Sabbath work be done by the army a
:, navy in the present war and that battl
- be not begun on Sunday, met with
- cided opposition, and was finally laid
y the table at the Presbyterian assent
in Winona Lake, Ind.
:. SUNDAY, MAY %.
y Chief Justice Carpenter died In CO
cord, N. H., Of an apoplectic shock
a Two Brooklyn firemen fatally hurt a
~ others badly injured at fires in that CT
!, Hardware factory in Connellsvil
), Pa, destroyed by fire at loss of $40
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