St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

Roothbay, Me-, was found floating in the
barbor there. Huskins had been miss
ing three weeks.
The navy department has no appre-
henson as to the safety of the training
shin Monongahela, which Is said to be
overdue al Annapolis.
Patrick Moran, aged 81, was knocked
down by a railroad shifter at Nashua.
n H. Both legs were later amputated
at the hospital. He will die.
The executive committee of the New
York Consolidated Milk Exchange de-
clded to raise the price of milk to $1.31
per can, an increase Of 10 cents.
Seven hoboes held up freight train on
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford tracks at Holyoke, Mass. Three of
tbe trainps were placed under arrest.
Cornelius Ryan, 25 years old, of Wal
than, had a fight with some Italians at
Boston, He was badly cut in the neck
and cheek and stabbed in the back.
The electric power house of the Niagara
Falls Park and River railway, situated
above the Horseshoe falls in Queen Vic
toria park, was destroyed by fire. Loss.
$4,000
Mary Virginia Taylor, daughter of
Captain Taylor of the U. S. S. Indiana,
and Lieutenant John V. Chase of the
IT, S. S. Lancaster. were married at
Newport, X. |.
A memorial window in memory of
Cornelius Conway FELTON,, who was
president of Harvard college from 1860
to 1862, is a recent addition to Memorial
hall at Cambrc~e.
Herman Felsenthal, president of the
Chicago Bank of Commerce, died of
heart failure. He was instrumental in
introducing the study of German in Chi
cago public schools.
Commissary General Weston has
given directions for the purchase in
New York of 429 tons each of beans and
rice and 152 tons of dried fish for the re-
lief of the people of Porto Rico
a circular Of the war department Of
fers reward of $50 and travel pay not to
exceed $40 to any civil officer who will
deliver to the military authorities any
deserter from the United States army.
The will of the late exJudge Henry
G. Hilton was filed for probate at New
York The estate is valued at So 900 600.
The will was written by the testator HIM
self and makes requests of money to his
various relatives.
The body of an unknown man about
IS years of age was found in the sound
off Mantle, Conn. He had evidently
fallen from some boat. He was feet 8
inches tall, weight about $50 pounds,
brown hair and mustache and gray eyes.
Mrs Emma Lowell of Boston. sister of
Fred Williams, who was reported to
have been killed while burglarizing a
store at Little Falls. n. Y, states that a
mistake has been made, as her brother
is living and Is at present in Arlington.
VT
The Chace mill stockholders held a
meeting at Fall River and voted to in
crease the capital stock from $500 900 to
$4,000. 1t is likely that cash dividend
will be paid of so percent and the money
turned right back for the increased
capital.
There was a smashup on the Boston
and Maine railroad at Agamenticus, Me.
A gravel train ran into the rear end of
a freight one engine being badly dam
aged and about a dozen cars being
wrecked. There were no personal in
jurieS.
fire of supposed incendary origin
destroyed Williams pavilion at Ship
pan Point, CT. causing loss of $4,000 on
building and $500 on contents. Several
employees that were sleeping in the
building escaped with difficulty, and lost
all their effects.
The Rev. George Franklin Eaton, D.
D., presiding elder of the Cambridge
district of the New England Methodist
conference. died at Cambridge, Mass.
The cause of death was diabetis. DR..
Eaton was born at Hillsboro Bridge.
n. H., in 1887.
The Fitchburg railroad has signed the
contract under which it is to build a
slip alongside the navy yard at Boston.
There has been considerable controversy
on the subject and congress authorized
the road to build the slip partly on gov
eminent property.
Father Cluse, the German-American
priest appointed rector of ST. Patricks
Roman Catholic church in East st.
Louis, despite the protests of its men,
bers, who are now resting under the ban
of communication, has resigned, and
Bishop Jansen has accepted his resig-
nation.
The war department has given in
structions for the removal of the United
States troops garrisoning Fort st. Phil
lip and Jackson barracks near New Or
leans This action is purely precaution-
airy and results from the difficulty eX-
perenced in getting the troops out OF
Key West.