St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-31
NEWS SUMMARY.

| thrown from his carriage and Instantly
killed. His neck was broken.
Patrick Dorsey, aged 60, was killed by
being thrown from furniture wagon at
Providence. His skull was fractured.
John S. Lord of Springfield, Ills, has
been appointed chief of division in the
department of statistics, census bureau.
1t is reported that combination with
q capital of 5000, 900 900 is forming to con-
troll the automobile transit of Greater
| New York.
In Iowa political and congressional
circles the claim is made that Congress-
man Henderson is practically sure Of
the speakership.
A man supposed to be James Logue of
Portland, Me-, was found dead in the
doorway Of a house at Boston. A ply
stefan pronounced death due to natural
causes
Track laying has begun on the Hi
nos Central's extension to Omaha
The total cost of the road will be $4,000
900, and it will be open for traffic about
Nov |.
A four-tenement house at Biddeford,
Me-, occupied by Jewish families, was
Quilted by fire, causing a loss of $4,000.
The cause of the fire was defective
chimney.
The New Hampshire state board of
agriculture has called a meeting for
June 20 next of superintendent of
creameres to discuss limitations Of but
ter products.
Rev. Dr. George 3. Stewart of Harris
burg announces his acceptance of the
presidency of the Auburn theological
seminary of Auburn, N. Y, to which
he was elected two weeks ago
The stockholders of the Boston and
Maine railroad held a special meeting at
Boston and voted to approve the pur-
chase by the Boston and Maine of the
Eastern railroad. in New Hampshire.
A number of Boston women have is
sued an appeal to the women Of the
country asking them to sign a petition
to the president, expressing disapproVal
of the present course in the Philippines.
Frank Higester, SO years old, was ar
rested at Boston, charged with the
larceny of $1,000 worth of diamonds from
his employer Mrs. Julia b. French.
Higlester was formerly Mrs. Frenchs
coachman.
The war department is informed that
the award of the contract for furnishing
fresh beef to the army in Cuba and Porto
Rico has been made to Swift &, Co. of
Chicago. There are 10 posts to be sup
piled in Cuba.
Captain Charles II. Allen died at
Salem, Mas. aged 81. Captain Allen
had always lived in Salem, and was one
OF the seventh generation in descent of
William Allen, the first settler Of Man
chester, Mass, in 1924.
Commissioner General Peck an
nounces that American exhibitors at the
Paris exposition Of 1900 will have to pay a
charge of not more than 40 cents square
foot for the construction of permanent
floors and temporary walls
More than one-third of the business
portion of Staples, Mimi, was burned,
over rs buildings being destroyed. The
fire started from an overturned lamp.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $40 600,
Robert Cloyd was knocked down at
Boston by an unknown man, with whom
he had an alteration. Cloyd sustained
conclusion of the brain and is expected
to die. His assailant escaped.
Schooner Horace b. Parker arrived at
Gloucester from the western banks, and
reported the loss by drowning of John
Thomas and Lawrence Smith Both
men were married, and Thomas leaves a
family.
The pail factory of Russell & Whit
| comb, the box factory of A. H. &, G. e.
Whitcomb, with a number of lighthouses
and lumber sheds at West Swanzey
Mass, were destroyed by fire. The loss
on the property is over $4,000.
Colonel e. w. Cole of Nashville, fol
many years one of the most prominent
figures in the business world of the
new south, died suddenly at New Yorl
last night. Colonel Cole was 20 year;
ago the richest man in the south.
Paul Schukonski, aged II years, dice
at his home in West Cromwell, Conn, as
the result Of injuries sustained in ;
runaway accident. The boy fell be
tween the shafts and was kicked in the
head, sustaining fractured skull.
Rev. FIR. John Casey died at Dover
N. H., of pneumonia, after an Illness o
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Cork, Ire, and had been a priest TO
so years, being attached to st. Mary
parish, Dover, for the past IA years.
An authoritative denial Is given to tn,
statement that Archbishop Keane wa
about to return from Rome to resume hi
old post as rector of the Catholic uni
versity, Mgr. Conaty, the present rector
retiring to become bishop of Columbus.
The Windermere MILL Rockville, Conn
has been sold to the American Enamelet
Paper company of New Jersey for $40,
900. The mill will be started at once OF
the new process of coating paper an
other articles, making them waterproof
August F. Sickman, secretary of tn
Garden City Foresters Building ant
Loan association of Chicago, charge,
with the larceny of $4,000 belonging to tn
association, was remanded al New Yorl
without bail to await extradition papers
Representatives of the League o
American Wheelmen the Amateur Ath
letic union and the intercollegiate Ath
letic association met at New York an
formed an alliance between the L. A. "
and the Intercollegiate Bicycle Racin
association.
An order received at the Boston nav
yard directs the immediate construc
ton of SO boats, two 20-foot cutters an
one whaleboat for each of the 10 torped
boat destroyers now being constructe
by various shipbuilders along the AT
lantic coast
f The resignation of Edward Leighton
; the veteran conductor of the Boston an
, Maine road has taken effect thereb
, closing a service of so years and tw