St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-08
NEWS SUMMARY.

and instantly killed.
Roger McDermott, stone mason, was
killed by falling down stairs at Burling-
ton, VT. His home was in Lowell, Mass. |
PostofIice inspectors arrested William
II. Marshall, letter carrier Of Wash
ington, on the charge Of robbing the
mails.
A portion Of the plant Of the Victor
Metal and Foundry company, at Brain
tree. Mass, was burned, causing a loss
of $4,000.
Rosa Arvitch was fatally burned at
Fall River, Mass, as the result of her
endeavors to put out a bonfire set by
playmates.
A dispatch to the war department
announces the death Of Major Samuel
Robinson, surgeon y. s. A., at Hot
Springs. ARK.
Robert c. Alexander, editor of the
New York Mail and Express, died of
Brlghts disease. He had been Ill for
nearly year.
Ex-Governor Barto of Minnesota died
of paralysis at st. Cloud, after an i'll
ness Of several months. lie was a
pioneer Republican leader.
The American Axe companys works
at East Douglas Mass, have started up
after a shutdown for lack of water The
concern Is rushed With orders
Rev. Andrew Ten Brock. who was
American consul to Munich, Germany
from 1856 to 1862, died at Detroit, aged
&c. He was born in Elmira. NJ Y.
The window glass manufacturers out
side of the combination have practically
decided to form an independent organ
ization, with a capital of Sl5,OO0O00.
An explosion of liquid cement in
building at st. Louis, occupied by the
Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe COM
pany., fatally burned four employees.
The George Washington Memorial as
ISOLATION is endeavoring to procure
general observance of Dec. Ii, next. the
Tooth anniversary of Washington's death.
The Mckay sewers at the Bates shoe
factory at Webster, Mass, are on strike
against what they claim is reduction
in wages. The cut amounts to cents a
case.
Thomas Andrews had his face and
eyes filled with powder from a prema-
turely exploded discharge, while blast
ing rocks at Alton, n. H. He will lose
his sight.
William w. Bradstreet of Gardiner,
Me-, has given two scholarships to Bates
college for the benefit of Gardiner stu
dents. The donor gives preference to
youngwomen.
Edward +. Taft, treasurer and head
of the Ponemah mill at Taftville, Conn,
died at his home at Pawtucket, r. l.
He had been in failing health since Sep
TENDER, 1886.
George II. Daniels general passenger
agent OF the New York Central railroad
is at the head of a movement to abolish
the practice of tipping on dining anC
sleeping cars.
Francis p Devices died at Washing
ton. He was an assistant attorney gen.
eral from 1885 to 1893. since which time
he has had an extensive practice in thu
court of claims.
Michael b. Scanlon, representing ;
WASHINGTON syndicate, has secured al
option on the franchise Of the Washing
ton Baseball club for $780, 900. The option
expires on Nov. L.
Patrolman Moses p. Brown, one of tn
oldest men on the Boston police force
dropped dead while on duty. He wa
appointed in 1864. and was native
Moultonboro, n. H.
The auditor of the postofiice depart
ment, in his annual report, shows ina
during the last year the number Oh post
offices in the United States Increase
from 1876 to 74,SS4.
The heirs of the Young estate, q
whose farmlands near Middletown, Pa
Camp Meade is located, have been not
fed by the war department that tn
camp will be abandoned
The American Wire and Steel compan
suffered a loss of $4,000 by the burnin
of a portion of the wire establishmei
at Waukegan, Ills. The loss is offs
by an insurance of S314OOO.
Permission has been granted to ere
monument to the memory OF the Brltl
officers and soldiers who fell at the ba
tie of Bunker Hill in the central bur
ing ground, Boston Common.
The will of the late Mrs. Della
Thorndike, which was filed in the Su
folk probate office at Boston, provid
for $25, 600 in public requests.
historical department and his fath
have given the Harvard college libra
a collection Of 10000 volumes, bearing
the crusades in the Latin east.
Mary w. Novelli, wife of SAINT
NEWELL. a sculptor, attempted suicide
shooting at Barre, VT, inliicting so
we're a wound that her recovery Is co
sidered doubtful She is rs years old
Murdoch McDougal, As years old,
killed at Quincy, Mass, by falling do'
stairs. The accident occurred as he W
leaving the house of neighbor whom
had been visiting. His neck was brok'
The sword presented to Admiral Dew
A by congress has been removed from
office of the secretary of the navy, whit
1t has been on public exhibition for
last few weeks, to the residence of
admiral.
The official trial of the first-class b
tleship Kentucky will take place OH
Massachusetts coast on Nov. 20. L
date has been decided upon by the bui
ers and the navy department will
notified.
Theodore Halder. 45 years old, xii
himself by shooting at Boston lie
we'll known among German resider
snd had been employed as collec
for n brewery company. fle was
spondenr.
Henry l.. Higginson of the class OF
who gave Soldiers Field to Harvard,
given the sum of $l5oooo' 10 De useu
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