St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07

man says that as the responsibility for
the war rests upon the congress, that
pooy should investigate the charges OF
aouses--Fifty people dead in New
York from the heat Philippine peo-
pie want the whole archipelago annexed
70 tne United States--Hundreds of
disappointed Klondikers, some almost
penniless arrive in Seattle Sailor as.
saulted by shipmate on a steamer in
chelsea, and skull fractured-Man ar
restec IN Washington for impersonatine
an orricer or the pension bureau and
sWlndling--Annie Williams, so wears
drowned in Falmouth Mass. while hath.
ING alone at nlght-Training school
Tor sailors to be established at San
FRANCISCO by the federal government
schauss brothers bank furniture fac
tory in Toledo burned to the ground at
a loss of O,000-President devoted
several hours to an inspection Of Camp
Wlkoff-Spain selects its peace COM
missioners-Boat belonging to the gov
eminent destroyed and four men killed
WINE removing torpedoes from the river
near New Orleans-Strke in the Coler-
aine. "a, colliery ended by compro-
Earthquake in Santiago
w. Il. Parsons, manager of the Water.
town, N. T., branch Of the Postal Tel
egraph company killed by collision OF
plcycles-Boy named Cooksley killed
himself in Greedy, Ia, after numbering
an old man with whom he lived
Haitwitted tramp confesses that he
killed little Mary Wesley near Hopedale.
O-Great victory for the British over
the Mahdists near Khartoum-Con-
fession to officers and others make it
certain that Joseph Malone, a negro.
hanged in Dallas for murder, partici-
pated in five other murders and four as
saults on white women
MONDAY, SEPT. 5.
Frank, George and Mable Ferguson of
Brooklyn drowned near Stamford, Conn.
by the capsizing of a rowboat-Her-
bert Brayton, "a years old, drank poison
and drowned himself in Fall River ow-
ing to love and business troubles
William Barley Of Salem killed by a
J locomotive in Pawtucket while walking
the track-Comb and button factory
burned in New York and 200 girls de-
| prived of employment-Fran Thing
! of Swampscott and Frederick Kennedy
| OF Lynn drowned in Lynnfield, Mass,
while boating-Two brothers stabbed
in Camp Meade, Pennsylvania. by a
member of a Tennessee regiment
! Queen of Denmark seriously ill
Spanish soldiers in Cuba clamoring for
their money, many not having been paid
for 10 months and fully realizing how
hopeless their case Is if they return
home. there to await day of payment
Forest afire near Plymouth, Mass
Mrs. Bates arrested in Norwell
Mass, on a charge of killing her daugh
ter, aged II years, in 1897. because OF
| ealousy--According to advices from
the Philippines, General Rios, governor
of the Visayas islands, arresting and
shooting suspected persons, including
prominent natives of Manila-Celu-
loid factory and other buildings in New
ark succumbed to flames-Lightning
burned several buildings in New Hamp.
shire and Maine, and killed a man on
mountain In Vermont-Three boy:
drowned in Buffalo while bathing, anC
two men lost in the rapids by the up.
setting of their rowboat-Indiana pri
vate broke his back by diving in shallow
water in ksonville-Buildings in
Terre Haute uhroofed by Withdrawn
age of $500 caused by fire in Oakland
Me-John Hennessy of Bangor, aged
49, was fatally injured by being struck
by a freight train.
TUESDAY, SEPT. Z.
Engineer and fireman of a locomotive
injured in McGraw, N. Y, by jumping
after running into an open switch
C. f. Baker of Meriden, n. H., killed by
train near Charlemont, Mass
Prospectors in the Copper river valley
living on supplies furnished by the gov.
ernment-Conventio of factory in
spectors in Boston-House in Machias
port, Me-, torn to pieces by lightninl
bolt and a woman and child burned
badly in East Machias-Chaplain Nc
Intyre of the Oregon to be courtmar
tailed for talking too freely-Span
iards interfering with the distribution o.
food intended for suffering Cubans-
Residences unroofed stacks and barns
torn down and many buildings demol
ished by storm in st. Joseph Mo
Official Gazette of Spain publishes {
royal decree appointing the president Of
the French republic a knight of the
golden fleece-Bathing pavilion ir
Revere, Mass, belonging to the state
burned at loss of $5O,OO0-Bride los
har footing in tha Austrian Al ms and wa.
killed, and her husband threw himself
after her-Peruvian congress sane.
toned the suspension of the writ O
habeas corpus as the result of disturb
ances-Fireman and brakeman killed
and engineer scalded in wreck of {
Washington freight train-Bostor
steamer with 200 of the Ninth Massa
chusetts regiment, most of them sick
ran ashore at Point Judith during {
fog; men taken to Newport on lighter
Express crashes into heavily ladef
trolley car at Cohoes, N. Y; Is were
killed and number of the injured ar
not expected to live-Middeo f-the
road Populists meet in national con
vention at Cincinnati; Ignatius Donnell.
denounces General Wheeler and Senator
Butler, and recommends reorganiza
ton of the Populist party-Kansa
City Star gives the text of three NOR,
official kilograms, which, 1t claims
proves Miles was Skaters commands
Hollands young queen formally en-
throned.