St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

Messiah at Boston. was dedicated.
Tina Stone one Of the oldest newspa-
ner publishers in Lowell, Mass. died |
there aged 76 years. He was born in |
Bethel, Me.
Herbert Clark, aged u, was run over
and killed by an electric car al Portland, |
Me- Clark swayed on bicycle and fell |
under the car.
George Odom, the 4-year-old jockey
has signed a contract to ride for w. c |
whitney in 1900, 1901 and 1902 at a salary
of $4,000 year.
Mrs. Kate Murphy aged As, stepped
from a moving car at Haverhill, Mass,
and sustained fracture of the skull
She will probably die.
Michael Carroll, IS years old, attempted
To cross the track in front of an electric
car at Pawtucket, r. l., and was hit and
almost instantly killed.
Mrs. Eliza Wetterer, aged As, widow,
committed suicide at Gloucester, Mass.
by hanging, She had been melancholy
for the past three months.
The attempts made Saturday and
Sunday to float the American line
steamer Paris were unsuccessful. The
vessel is more buoyant, but is still fast.
Sumner Hollingsworth, president OF
the Hollingsworth & Whitney Paper
company, Boston, died suddenly at his
summer home in Milton, Mass, of apo.
plexy.
Louis Cote, s years old, was drowned
IN Powwow river, Amesbury, Mass The
boy went into deep water and efforts to
help him were futile. The body was
recovered.
Congressman Knox has appointed G.
F. Waugh of Lowell as a cadet at the
military academy at West Point. Arthur
w. Copp of Lawrence was chosen as an
alternate.
The monthly statement of the collec-
lions of internal revenue shows that the
total receipts during May, 1899, wer.
$23, 500, 1874, an increase over May, 1898, o.
$94O2 GIG
1t is the intention of the University OF
Pennsylvania to enter team next year
In the Olympian games at the worlds
fair in Paris and also in the English
championships.
James H. Nelson, weighmaster and
storekeeper for the w. r. Trigg Ship
building company at Richmond, was run
over and killed by a train on the
Southern railway.
The Catholic church at Pressure Isle,
Me-, was burned, together with the barn
of Henry Howard near it. The fire
started in the barn. The loss on the
church Is $4,000.
A. A. Stage, director Of athletics at the
University of Chicago, announces that
he has decided to send track team to
Paris to compete in the games at the ex
position in 1900
The sloop yacht Mischief, which sue
cessfully defended the America cup IL
1881, was sold at public auction at Bos
ton to D. S. Packard for $l050. She wa
built at a cost of $4,000.
Ground is to be broken at once for al
inhrmary at Harvard university. Tit
building, it is expected, will be com
pleted and ready for occupancy in tn
autumn or early winter.
w. N. Mott was killed by the cars nea
Christiana, Pa. He was one of the fast
est and most expert telegraph operator
in the country and had worked in nearl.
every state in the Union.
veloped at Fall River, Mass, in severa
days and the quarantine on all places ex
cept the city hospital and contagio
hospital has been raised.
Superintendent Mills of the militar.
academy has recommended that the eX
listing cadet vacancies, about so from cor
gresslonal districts, be filled this yea
fer September examination.
While playing about the railroa
freight depot at Chicopee, Mass, DENIM
Looney, u years, was struck by barre
which had rolled down from a pile an
received injuries from which he died.
Former Congressman Smedey Dar
llngton died at Westminster, Pa, aged
years He was elected to congress on tn
Republican ticket from the Sixth Penn
sylvania district in 1888 and served fou
years.
Chief Statistician S. N. D. North of tn
18th United States census has gained II
consent of the authorities at Washing
ton to establish his headquarters in Bo'
ton. The work usually Is done at WASH
ington.
Mrs Hannah Robinson, "A years oil,
was thrown from her carriage at Sia'
conset, Mass, and had her collar boz
broken and her ankle sprained. III
horse ran five miles over farms ar
gardens.
A cloudburst and terrific hailstor
struck Athol. Mass, the hail breakir
over 5000 lights of glass in an hou
Some of the haistones measured eig
inches in circumference and weight
~ ounces.
The selectmen of Northbridge, Mas
have granted franchise to the Worce
ter and Blackstone Valley Street RAJ
way company to extend the line fro
Rockdale to Whitinsville, a distance
four miles.
Rev. Nathan e. Wood, D. D., has be-
chosen president of the Newton the
logical institute DR.. Wood will give
HE nastorate at the Commonweal
avenue Baptist church, Boston, and
to .,eN ION at once
Rev. Edwin l.. Noble, pastor of Il
Wendell Avenue church, Brockto
Mass, gave his congregation surpri
by handing letter Of resignation to t
clerk. He states that he has not y
received call elsewhere.
The stockholders of the Merrimac II
company of Amesbury, Mass, voted
large majority not to accept the of
of the New York syndicate to purcha
the plant. There Is much rejoicing amo
the employees at this decision.
The principal banking firms of Prov
dence have decided to lower the rate