St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 81.

steamer to Boston-Frank Cataeco
stabbed seriously in Boston by an en-
D,ove whom he accused of theft
pody of gray-haired woman found on an
,sand near Salem, and the bruises lead
M the theory Of murder-Katherine
pobnson killed her child and COM
mitted suicide in Fair Haven, VT, in
grief over the death of her sister
Publishing along Labrador coast fail
ure-Hannah O'Brien of Boston aged
75 wears, killed by falling downstairs
Spain asks for peace through the French
ambassador in Washington-Miles'
troops land in Porto Rico and meet with
little opposition-N. w. Lermond of
Thomaston, Me-. nominated for COVER
nor by the gold Democrats-Two Span
ish prisoners on Seaveys island put in
irons for refusing to obey orders ard at
tempting to make an assault-Surgeon
General Sternberg against presence of
Red Cross nurses in the army-City Of
Mexico paper Of Spanish sympathies
published yarn about Cervera calling
upon and killing President Mckinley.
THURSDAY, JULY 2S.
Aaron Bedel of Weston, Me-, gorcd to
death by a bull--"Mango bellied de-
generates" the name applied to Cubans
by the American soldiers in Santiago
Gardner Mclean, hotel-keeper. in
tured his sick wife MORALLY in Saranoe
Lake. N. Y, while he was intoxicated
--Haddock Coal company in Luzerne,
Pa, suffers loss from a fire in one of
its mines--Courtland Littlefield, rs
years, suffocated in Providence during a
fre--Five men killed and IL injured
by an explosion of nitroglycerine in
Pinole, Cali, caused 1t is supposed by
an enemy-Peter Kvosnorisky accused
In Worcester of causing the death of
Albin Matulevie-Hoboken ~ j.,
policeman killed by an ex-convict-
Wayne Tarbell, aged 81, brakeman,
lost leg and crushed the other at Ches-
ter Depot, Vt-President Andrews
formally introduced as superintendent
Of Chicago public schools-News Of an
nexation received with great demon
STATIONS in Honolulu-American pipe
founders underbid British manufactur-
ers on 1000 tons Of water pipe for Glas-
gow-Amanda Romeo discards her
crutches at an altar in Bddeford and
says she was cured miraculously-
George Wright 10 years, drowned in
Worcester-Ruth Sweetland, 81 years,
poisoned herself in Springfield At
tempted lynching of st. Louis negro
who killed a railroad man wantonly.
FRIDAY, JULY 20.
Chicago judge rules that express COM
panies must pay revenue tax-Man,
woman and baby killed at a crossing in
Saratoga by comotice-Almost
successful attempt to assassinate Cor
oner Skinner of North Hampstead, L.
death of Joseph Banigan, the
wealthiest man in Rhode Island, and
known as the rubber king"-Brook-
lyn laborer fell from a window and i'm
paled on an iron picket-Francis Nor
ton, the authoress and sister to Presi-
dent Garf1eld's slayer, has filed suit at
st. Joseph, Mich, for a divorce on the
ground of desertion, making her second
experience as a petitioner for single
Observation-Disclosures in Monson,
Mass, killed by an explosion of a stick
Of dynamite-Patrick Brennan, Bos-
ton laborer, killed in drain by cavein
Frederick Morgan of West Stewards
ton, N. H., drowned himself-Secret
service men said to have taken letter
sent by the presidents secretary to a
Coney Island astrologer--Wools cour-
ing mill and storehouse at West Fox
boro, Mass, owned by Alexander Ross,
burned to the ground. with a loss Of
tl9 ,O0O-Tramps hold up two summer
girls at Enfield. r. l., and kiss one
and rob the other-Two burglaries in
Canton, Mass-Five year old boy killed
In Rockland, Mass, by jumping 20 feet
from a bridge-Powder mill of E.
T. Johnson in Troy, Pa. destroyed by
an explosion and the owner killed
Burgogne held to be at fault for the
collision with the Cromartyshire by
which several hundred were drowned
Much damage by hailstones in Chi
cago-Fireman killed, five men hurt,
and engine, caboose and car plunged
into the river by the giving way of a
bridge in Still Pond, Md-Loss of $4,000
by fire in Marlboro, Mass-C. A.
Brandt killed by somebody unknown
after quarrel in St. Lous-Test case
in the United States circuit court in
Pttsburg decided in favor of the Bell
Telephone company-Brewers asso-
citation of New Jersey decides that the
saloon keepers must pay the tax of 81 a
barrel for ale and beer-German and
Scotch syndicates considering plans for
the establishment of new steamship
lines directly from America to Manila
Seaman on the Brooklyn killed by
the explosion of shell that he had taken
as souvenir from Spanish vessel in
santiago-Report of Halifax inquiry
board on the Bourgogne disaster finds
the steamer blameworthy, recommends
anew ocean route and the enforcement
Of international regulations against
high-speed sailing in fogs.
SATURDAY, JULY 80.
Nine years old daughter of James Sias
Killed in West Bedford, Mass, by the
accidental discharge of revolver in hel
brothers. hand-Strike of mule spin
hers in the Sycamore mill, Fall River
George Allen of Brooklyn killed Ids
Linger and committed suicide because
OF illrequited affection-Frank Mack
years, killed by live wire in Bostor
Boys drowned in Attleboro, Woon'
Socket, New Haven and Plymouth, N
1.-Two workmen killed in Boston ant
seven hurt by the collapse of the roo
OF the new plant of an electric lighting
eompany-Ten buildings burned IL