St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-03

escaped serious injury-Unknown
tramp at Athens, Me-, assaults woman
aged S6-Mathias Gauthier, aged s.
struck by passenger train near Holyoke
snd killed--North Lubec, Me-, greatly
excited over the disappearance of the
Rev. p. f. Jernegan and the troubles
attending progress of the Electrolytic
Marine Salts company which was en-
gagged in extracting gold from sea water.
SUNDAY, JULY 81.
Death Of Prince Bismarck-Three
persons arrested in Tunis for numbering
marquis in 1S96-German agrarians
agitating for the exclusion Of American
products on various pretences-Brook-
lyn bridgesgagged from the running of
electric cars-Camp for the sick and
wounded Of Skaters army to be es-
tablished at Montauk Point, L. L
Lightning killed a young man and
burned two barns in Concord, Mass, and
killed cattle and caused damage to the
extent of thousands of dollars in Con-
necticut-B. W. Roberts released after
serving nine years of a sentence of 20
years in prison In Windsor, VT, for
murder he did not commit-Two broth
ers arrested in New Haven for stealing
Il horse in Pennsylvania-Fiv persons
killed and five injured by fire in lodg-
ing house in San Enthusiastically
workmen quarreled on roof, and one
broke the others skull with a hammer
Elevator man in New York almost
apitated-Schuylkil county, Pa,
without funds--Jersey City workman
wounded mortally for refusing to give
money to his cousin whom he had helped
often-Stories Of starvation from the
Ashcroft trail to the Klondike-Two
girls swept overheard by the boom Of
sailboat in Toms River, N. j., and
drowned-Mrs E. H. Cobell lost both
feet in trying to board moving train
in Montclair, N. J-Party to be or
organized in Canada which will include
all kinds of reformers and aim to be a
swaying power-Six highwaymen ex-
ecuted in Oaxaca, Mex, for murder and
robbery.
MONDAY, AUG. 1.
Paul Whtcomb and Roswell Griswold,
IS and 20 years respectively, drowned
near Great Darlington, Mass-Alleged
that the secretary of the Young Mems
Christian association in Fort Wrangle,
Alaska, loaded the stock of his grocery
or a schooner and disappeared after in
ducing the owners of the vessel to go
ashore on an island to hunt-George
PEPPER 25 years of age, drowned in Bos-
ton harbor by falling from yacht
Directors of the Electrolytic Marine
Salts company issue a statement to the
stockholders, saying they are convinced
now that the scheme was fraud
Plate glass insurance compact Dissolved
and a war in rates looked for-Pat-
rick Joyce of Lynn shot while attempt
ing to evade arrest on a warrant
Five persons drowned at a picnic in
Chicago by a collision Of rowboats--
Fire burned house near Seneca Falls,
n. Y. with three of its inmates
Ten young people injured seriously by
the overturning of an omnibus in Chi
cago-House and barn in Attleboro
destroyed by fires started by lightning
Fire starting in a feed store caused
a loss of 5000 900 in Escanabia, Mich
Three persons severely hurt in a COL
lision of electrics in Spencer, Mass
Carlist newspapers in Spain suspended
w. O. Woodbury. Of Cambridge
drowned in a successful attempt to res
cue a bather near Hull, Mass-Jo-
scph Kaller killed Feter Meyer in Scran-
ton during quarrel about the shooting
of pigeons.
TUESDAY, AUG. 2.
w. H. Marston, a New York broker.
cut his throat-Four boys drowned in
Paducah, KY, as the result of one get
ting beyond his depth while bathing
Three persons killed and many injured
during fire in a Chicago hotel-Death
in Columbus, O., of one of the Sells
brothers, circus roprietors-New-
foundland fishermen to be formed into a
naval reserve for England-Joseph
Banigan of Providence left $145,000 to
charities-Lewis' strawboard mill in
Beaver Falls, N. Y, burned at a loss OF
$50, O00--Burglar caught in the station
in East Weare, N. H., by the agent
whom he cut severely with razor In
trying to get away-Two men killed
and four or five injured in collision Of
trains in Atlanta-A private in an i'm
mune regiment in New Orleans shot
mortally by a sentry while trying to
sneak into camp-E. H. Merritt sur
rendered himself to the Newton, Mass.
police for burglary and embezzlement
in Brooklyn-Pawtuck policeman
made violently insane by the heat-G
C. Hammond shot himself dead in Paw
tucket-Slight snowfall in Nebraska
Fatal wreck of Southern Pacific
paytrain in Benson, Cal--Copious rail-
in Nebraska saves what is left of the
corn crop-Report that Hawaii will
pay Japan 100000 for excluding immi'
grants--Praire fire burns thousands
of bushels Of wheat in Rush county
Kas-Hotel Berwyn, Chicago, burned
and three persons killed and II injured
-Diamondville coal mines in Wyoming
sold and town to be built there-Twt
New York mining companies safely
reach st. Michaels after voyage aroun'
Cape Horn--New York merchants re
tain Joseph H. Choate in their test cas-
against the express ompanies-Paw
tucket merchant came to life after being
pronounced a corpse-Socialist max
things lively at the convention of thu
American Federation Of Labor in Spring
field--Clean sweep by the Alabam
Democrats.
Bismarck's Last Moments.
Berlin, Aug. 1.-The death of Prime
Bismarck just before midnight Satur
day night was without any premonitiol
n the forenoon. when everything favore
the theory of recovery as advanced b.