St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-04-20

allowing patient to battle in water so
hot that he died-New York specula-
tors proposing to go into privateering
to raid Spanish ommerce-Captain
Sigsbee to be given command Of an
American liner which has been bought
for cruising urposes-Row in con-
gress during which one representative
hurled book at another.
FRIDAY, APRIL Is.
Dennis (Mass.) high school was de-
stroyed by fire through defective Chin
ney-Henry B. Pierce, secretary OF
Massachusetts for 16 years, died at
Abingdon Of apoplexy-New Bedford
mill treasurers appealed to the mayor
for protection for operatives who have
returned to work-Jesse Hickey killed
In Bristol. VT, by the bursting of u
small cannon-Loss of s50,OOO caused
by fire in Millville, N. J-Selectmen Of
Petersham, Mass, claim to have found
an apparent shortage of $1,000 in the ac-
counts of a former treasurer, who left
town 10 days ago-B. D. Matthews,
60 years, hung himself to a tree in At.
lantic. Mass-Amelia Gee, As, hung
herself in Charlestown. Mass, owing to
ondency-Member Of the Balti-
more club offered $4,000 If they win the
baseball pionship-Vaclay Hass,
prosperous farmer, killed his wife and
two children and committed suicide with
a razor in Monroe. Neb-One man ia
tally and three others seriously injured
in dynamite explosion in a blacksmith
shop at granite quarres in East Doug
las, Mass-Luigi Menterello killed
Giovanni Lawbardi in Brooklyn while
shaving him-Florence Buell., IS years
old, killed herself with arsenic in a room
at the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION in New York-Russian privy
councillor and his daughter sentenced in
st. Petersburg to Siberia for selling
military documents to Austria-In case
Of hostilities the war department has de-
cided to call for 100000 volunteers
$4,000 to join the regular army and the
rest to act as coast defense forces
Joseph Taber. 80 years old, drank car
bolic acid in Boston-Burglars secured
1897 in money and jewelry from house
in Boston-Thousand of cords of wood
destroyed by forest fire near Central
Islip, l.. Spanish parliament called
to meet April 20-General Weyler back
in Madrid-About 3400 operatives at
work in the New Bedford mills
Thirty glazers in Lynn factory strike
because the firm refuses to discharge a
fellow employe - Former consul in
Cienfuegos. just arrived in Boston.
deprecates American interference in
Cuba
SATURDAY, APRIL 16.
State police ordered to New Bedford,
Mass, to assist the local police in pre-
venting trouble in connection with the
| opening of the mills-SiXty-tw bodies
have been recovered from the Chilkoot
valanche-Memoria tablets placed to
mark the headquarters Of Prescott and
Rochambeau at Newport-Sixty-one
| Of the recently returned members Of the
Ontario legislature protested before the
courts on charges Of bribery and cor
ruption-Thirty buildings burned in
Sutton, Que, at loss of $3.50, 000-Cap-
tain, cook and deckhand lost by sinking
81 a coal barge, and engineer rescued
by a steamer from Florida--Boston
boy drowned in attempting to escape
from an stitution-Thomas Powers
burned to death In front of stable in
Sandwich Mass-More shocks Of earth
quake in California;. H. Perkins
killed in Boston by the fall Of an elevator
four stories-National baseball league
opened before large crowds in the cities
not affected by rain-Boston painter
fell six stories and was killed-Supplies
cent to Cuba from America permitted to
20 bad-General Lee accused by a
Havana paper Of getting rich at the
expense of the Cubans--Saloonke
IN Water bury. Conn.,, robbed Of $500 by
q pickpocket in crowd that assembled
to see w. ]. Bryan--Factory Of the
Brown Machine company Of Winsted
Conn.,. entirely destroyed by fire, caus-
ing a loss of about $25, 000-Karl A.
Gordian of Manchester, Conn.,, COM
mitted suicide by taking strychnlne be-
cause he was respondent from being out
of work and disappointed in love af-
ir-Massachusetts Legislature appro-
oriated $500, 900 for war purposes In z
minutes, the quickest time on record
United States regulars begin to NOV,
toward Cuba-American sardine cor
poration formed, chartered under law
of Maine-Portland schooner Davi'
Torrey supposed to have foundered, witt
all on touchdown of Cebu, in tn
Philippines, bombarded and destroyed
by the Spanish-Queen regent of Span
Is said to have declared that she pre-
fers even the horrors Of war tQgiving u
Cuba.
SUNDAY, APRIL II.
John Keegan shot in the side in Brigh
ton. Massachusetts, greeting II
Boston to William j. Bryan-Captail
of a Maine schooner of the opinion tina
Standards in Cardenas placed inferno
machines aboard-Lumber bushes
badly affected by war agitation--Road
master accused of embezzlement by
railroad in Jackson, Tenn, killed him
self in a courtroom after receiving
sentence of six whistles 10 ap
nrise the people of Chicago of the begin
ming Of war-General Lee to comman
n division of the army in an invasion o
Cuba-Thomas Boland poured pucke
Of boiling water over his wiie IN eosto
because his dinner was cold wnen N
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