St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-22
NEWS SUMMARY

alysis. He was born at ALLEGHENY Pa
SO years ago.
Isaac D. Mixter, q prosperous farmer
OF Beltast, Me-, was killed by falling
from load Of hay. His neck was broken
and he died instantly.
The United Presbyterian church Of
Brockton. Mass, has issued call to Rev.
John Heslip Of Pittsburg. His native
home Is In county Down. Ireland.
captain James Sylvester, aged 10,
formerly one of the best known masters
sailing on fishing craft out of Glouces-
ter and Maine ports, died at Belfast. Me.
The new battleship Kentucky was
successfully dry locked at the Brooklyn
navy yard. She will be scraped and
painted preparatory to the government
trial.
While James Shaunessey was loading
a shell at the Watervliet arsenal 1t ex-
ploded, killing him instantly. Elmer
Swatling was badly burned by the
powder.
Miss Rose Nelson, % years old. took
carbolic acid at Brockton, Mass. and
died two hours later. No reason is given
for the act, though she had lately been
rather respondent.
Rear Admiral B. J. Cromwell, who
was recently detached from command
Of the Havana naval station. has been
assigned to duty as president of the
naval retiring board.
Commander Selfridge, inspector of the
second lighthouse district at Boston. and
Commander Maynard, inspector of the
eighth lighthouse district at New Or
leans. have exchanged places.
Rev. Thomas B. Paige has resigned
the pastorate of the Universalist church
at Westbrook, Me-, after four years
service, to accept the assistant pastorate
Of the Every Day church. Boston.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road company has contracted with the
Pressed Steel Car company of Pittsburg
for 1000 high side gondola cars. Each
car will have capacity of 35 tons.
The card board manufacturers of the
United States have decided upon an ad-
vance of 10 percent In the price Of all
kinds of card board. This change in
prices goes into effect Immediately.
Reports received by Surgeon General
Wyman Of the marine hospital service
show that the yellow fever has about run
its course at Key West where 1t was so
severe during the latter part of the sum-
mer
The Waverly School Shoe company,
which for the past three years has been
located at Laconia. N. H., has decided
to move its business to Lynn, Mass.
The company employs about 100 opera
tives.
Arlington, Mass, will have a new
school building in the near future, for at
special town meeting committee was
appointed to secure plans, and the sum
of $3.50 was appropriated for the COM
mittee's use.
The supreme court Of Tennessee has
decided against the American Tobacco
company on the test case brought to
ascertain If cigarets could be sold in
Tennessee under the Rogers anti
cigaret law of 1897.
A Williams alumnus returns to his
alma mater as a professor temporary
though 1t is, for President Carter has
appointed DR.. Henry S. Leake as in
fessor Woodbridge, recently deceased.
Schooner Bessie Nj. Devine of Glouces-
ter, Mass, Captain Devine, has broken
all records for the Grand Banks fishing,
by landing S12,240 pounds of cod between
March 20 and Oct. 80. The Devine made
four trips, and the season netted her
owners $21. 066.
Governor-elect Crane of Massachu-
sets has formally announced that he
will appoint Major General Samuel Dali
ton as the adjutant general of his staff.
General Dalton has held the position of
executive military officer for the gov
ernor for 16 years.
]. II. Harper, vice president of Harper
& Bros, announces that at meeting of
the directors of the publishing company
George B. NJ. Harvey. editor and pro-
prietor of the North American Review,
was elected president and managing
director of Harper Bros.
David b. Henderson of Iowa, who is
slated to be speaker of the next house Of
representatives, has arrived at Wash
ington, and has established himself at
the Normandie hotel. Mr.. Henderson
says that he is ready for the work of the
coming session of congress.
A postal deficiency of $6,6lO,777 for the
fiscal year just closed, almost a q per-
cent decrease from last years de-
ficiency, is shown in the annual report
of Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden. The total receipts from all
sources were over sos, 900, 900.
After a life spent In the ministry and
as active pastor of the Newton, Mass,
First Congregational church for So
years, Rev. Daniel L. Furber, d. D., an
swered the summons of death. He was
born at Sandwich, N. H, Oct. IA, 1920,
and graduated at Dartmouth in 1S4S.
A petition to the Massachusetts gen.
eral court has been filed with the state
secretary by Frank H. Wright, asking
authority to construct a steam railroad,
running from the city of Springfield,
through the counties Of Hampden and
Berkshire, to the state Of New York.
Steamer Santiago, at New York from
Cuban ports and Nassau, brought to
port Captain Murray and eight dis
tressed seamen of the schooner Celina
of Bath, Me-, from Philadelphia for
Galveston, which went ashore on a reef
at Abacoe on Oct. 20 and became total
loss.
The indications are decidedly against
eny reopening in the immediate future
of negotiations looking to a permanent
adjustment of the Alaskan boundary
question. The modus vivendi, which
was adopted to define temporarily the
respective rights Of the two parties, Is