St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
,e contributions to the Dewey home

Wnlle DdlnluS DIT pIiSloiI "" 80
Isaac E. Race, aged 60, committed
suicide at Franklin, Mass, by taking
chloroform.
Henry c. Lorenson, brakeman, was
instantly killed by being run over by an
engine at Boston.
James Kane Of Boston tripped over a
piece of carpet in his room, and falling,
broke his neck and died.
May Thurston, years old, was in
stantly killed at Exeter, N. H., by being
run over by an electric car.
| The will of Maria e. Ames Of Concord
Mass, provides for public bequests ag-
| gregating more than $25OOO
]. D. Murphree, dramatic critic and
actor shot and fatally injured Postmas-
ter Goulden at Mansfield, Tex.
Archie Leonard, 8 years old, was
drowned while swimming in the Merri-
mack river at Manchester, N. II.
Jesse D. Dana. 1900. Of Lewiston. Me-,
was elected president and manager OF
the Yale Track Athletic association.
Edward +. Corey, IA years old, fell
from a train at Boston, and died later.
He was a student at the Boston art
school
Rev. Frank J. Goodwin Of Glen Ridge,
". J., was installed as pastor of the
Pawtucket ,R. - Congregational
church
The Dane county (Wis.) state bank,
doing a general banking business, has
suspended. The bank was capitalized at
100000.
Edward L. Macomber of New Bed
ford, a blacksmith was kicked in the
breast by horse and probably fatally
injured.
Olaf Gajdo, A years old, fell into the
cellar of a storehouse at Salem, Mass,
containing four feet of water. and was
drowned.
George Robbins of Bates college and
Cobb divinity school has accepted a
call to the First Baptist church OF Gar
diner, Me-
The steam sawmill of Phelps & Dodge
in Belmont Village, N. H., was burned,
also the Belmont electric light plant.
Loss, $4,000.
c. A. Zoebsch of New York was re-
elected president of the board of trus-
tees of the Moravfan seminary and col
lege for women.
The Harvard track team has begun
training in preparation for the games in
England Nothing is yet known about
the makeup of the teams.
The millinery store and stock Of Samuel
Meserve at Dover, N. H., was damaged
by fire to the extent of $780, caused by a
curtain igniting from gas jet.
The Saginaw House at East Corinth,
VT, was burned. The village is without
protection from fire, but by hard work
the fire was confined to the hotel.
T. G. Shaughnessy was elected presi-
dent of the Canadian Pacific railway,
vice William Van Horn, resigned. Van
Horn becomes advisor to the board of
directors.
The Goth birthday anniversary of ex-
Secretary of the Navy Richard Thomp-
son was celebrated at Terre Haute. Ind,
by banquet given in his honor by the
Thompson club.
Moses Richardson of Boston will pre-
sent the town of Templeton, Mass, with
$25, 600 to build hotel on the common, tc
be erected under the direction of a com
mittee of citizens.
A medical examiner, after an autopsy
on the body of Ada Mazzeo reported thai
the woman committed suicide. Mrs
Mazzeo was found dead in bed at Boston
with her clothing on fire.
The New Jersey electric railway was
sold at auction by Special Master James
r. Howell of Newark, N j., at the power
house of the company in Seacaucus
| The sale price was $1,500.000.
J The Afro-American council of the
/ United States has issued an appeal ad.
: dressed to the officials of the southern
states urging them to do everything
= possible to prevent lynching.
Tom Sharkey has issued statement il
which he says he is still the champion
r heavyweight of the world" and tina
Jeffries will have to dispose of him be
e fore laying claim to that title.
1 Lyman Daniels, prominent citizen O
h. the town of Montville, Conn, who i
more than 10 years DID, has been missine
= from his home since last Thursday. II
was in good health and spirits.
Edwin Fairfield of Wauregan, Conn.
is missing, and search is being made il
!. the Manexit river for his body, under tn
d belief that he was thrown from hi
= bicycle While crossing bridge.
d A state celebration is being arrange
# for the welcoming of Admiral Dewe
:. to his old home at Montpelier, VT, al
S though the exact form which it will talk
y has not as yet, been decided upon.
J. The rolling mill of Norton Bros I'll
|. can factory in haywood Ills, where tn
Y, workmen are on strike, was burned
r Loss, $4,000. The factory officials clair
It the fire was started by the strikers.
e Fire in the fremont and Suffolk mill
y Lowell, Mass, caused an estimated los
d OF $4,000. The fire started from spon
it taneous combustion in a shed in whic
'. was stored 1000 bales of raw cotton.
l. AT the annual commencement of tn
II New York university the honorary dc
n gree of doctor Of laws was conferred O
lie the Hon. William r. Day, former secre
tary of state and peace commissioner.
Agent Pollock telegraphs from Okla
homa, in response to an official inouir
y In connection with recent alleged evi(
y lions OF lntruders, that there is no troub
d, whatever on the Usage Indian reserve
at ton
ne Six large open air meetings under III
TT auspices of the Chicago Single Tax clu
N We're held in Chicago. The speakers
at vigorous terms espoused the doctrine ar
ne theories made famous by the late Henri
I'd George.
ce John Kuhn, Hungarian, aged As. wh
g. was taken to the town farm at Sout
no NOrWalk Conn for avo,,;,o a. -