St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

AT the annual meeting OF the new
York stock exchange Rudolph Keppler
was elected president.
The Trinity college faculty have re-
mitted 10 days in the suspension of the
sophomore class for hazing.
The plant Of the Lookout Sewer Pipe
company, near Chattanooga, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss. $50 900.
Arthur Collier was arrested for set
ting the fire in the Valdez block at Hart
ford, which caused $1,000 damage
Paul M. Chadbourne Of Saco, Me-, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. No cause is
assigned for the act. He is survived by
a son.
The United States Plate Glass COM
pany, capital 100000, was incorporated
at Trenton, to manufacture glass of all
kinds.
An explosion of gas at Maple Hill COL
liery, Pottsville Pa, caused the death of
one miner and seriously injured four
others.
william Fit, 20 years old, unmarried,
was killed by tree falling on him while
at work in gravel pit at Readville,
Mass.
John Leonard and James Lowe, al
legged robbers of the bank at Ashburn-
ham, Mass, were held in $1O,O 900 for trial
May Is.
Twenty-Five stores and other build
| ings, including the Kings House, were
burned at Greenville, N. C. Loss, $10O, 900
to $4,000.
The employees in the fremont nail
| works at West Wareham, Mass, have
been notified of an 11-percent advance
in wages.
The Carnegie company has filed at
Harrisburg application for charter to
be granted May 20. The capital stock
is fixed at 100000.
Charles Toomey of Boston stubbed his
toe on a sidewalk and, in falling, struck
the back of his head so severely that he
died in half an hour.
William H. O'Neill was drowned at
Manchester, N. H. He was fishing, and
the supposition is that he was seized
with fit and fell in.
Rev. Charles Fox Penney, D. D.,
widely known Free Baptist clergyman,
died at Augusta, Me-, aged 67. He was
born in New Gloucester, Me.
Articles of incorporation were filed at
Trenton of the Illinois Electric Vehicle
transportation company with an au-
thorized capital of $25, 10000 900.
The North Congregational church of
Springfield Mass, voted to extend Il
call to Rev. Newton M. Hall of the Pres
byteran church Of Oneonta. N. Y.
The body of man so years old was
found floating in the Memimack river at
TIoUarhiI1 ic hoI bof to-
Eaton, but identification is nc. positive.
Secretary Long has designated Surgeon
j. c. Boyd to represent the medical corps
of the navy at the international medical
congress, which meets at Berlin this
year.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad company announces that
trains Will begin running regularly on
the Norwich and Worcester extension
June l.
Albert Blabon, who was convicted of
a murderous assault upon Mrs. Elbridge
Thorne, matron of the Denmark Me-,
town farm, was sentenced to 10 months
in Jail.
Elmer f. Small, aged about q years,
was drowned at Pushaw lake, about 10
miles from Bangor, Me-, by the sinking
of sailboat, due to ignorance of sailing
a craft
The Missouri house passed and sent to
the governor for his signature two bills
intended to give the attorney general al
most unlimited power in the prosecution
of trusts.
William r. Kerr, commander of the
| Chicago health department under Mayor
Swifts administration, filed a petition
in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $149, 900; as
sets, $1,000
The Alabama state senate, by a. vote
of is to 10, decided to repeal the call for
constitutional convention made in De-
cember last. The house had already
voted the same way.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla,
announces the death there of Mrs. Robert
p. Boss of Boston, who was well known
as a contributor to the press and an
essayist of much merit.
Steamer La Gascogne, at Havre from
New York, reports that one of her boiler
tubes exploded during the voyage A
fireman was badly burned and an en-
gineer was fatally injured.
The Terre Haute Electric street rail-
way has been transferred to C. l., Web
ster and C. Il. Stone of Boston. The
railway has been in the hands of a re-
civer for some time past.
The trustees of pauper institutions Of
Boston chose Arthur T. Hopkins, the
acting superintendent, as superintend-
ent of the almshouse and hospital on
Long island, in the harbor.
The Colorado state encampment of the
G. A. r. adopted resolutions denouncing
as reasonable the attempt of certain
persons to hamper" the administration
in its conduct of the Philippine war.
Hugh Cavanaugh was killed by a
pitched ball during game between the
Washington Athletic club team of Mont
claire and the Emerald Athletic club
team of Newark at Montclair, N. j.
David M. True, rs years old, for more
than 40 years a resident of Manchester,
N. H., committed suicide by hanging.
He had been in poor health for some
time, and his mind was unbalanced
Secretary of War Alger, in his official
capacity has given permission to the
trustees of the drainage canal to turn
through 1t the waters of Lake Michigan
when the canal is ready for operation.
The inter- collegiate shoot, in which
the University of Pennsylvania, Prince
ton, Harvard and Yale participated, was
won by the University of Pennsylvania
which captured the trophy from Yale.