St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-10
NEWS SUMMARY,

burgh, N. Y, has resigned on account of
Ill health and will remove to Newbury-
port, Mass, his birthplace. He entered
the priesthood in 1852
Fire destroyed three fine buildings
at Miami, Fla, involving a loss of
s60,5OO. The work is attributed to
gang of robbers.
Four men on the Tennessee Central
railroad were killed near lockwood
They were unloading dynamite, when
quantity of it exploded.
George w. Murray, a distinguished
member of the New Hampshire bar,
died at Canaan, N. H., from a stroke
of apoplexy. Mr.. Murray was born in
Hill. N H., in 1880.
A company is being formed to run a
steamer between Provincetown and
Boston during the summer season. It
is planned to have new steamer, with
accommodations for about 1000 passen-
gers.
Stephen O'Meara. editor and publisher
of the Boston Journal, has secured the
majority interest in that property. Mr.
O'Meara has bought for cash 100000 in
new stock and $50, 00G in old stock.
Collections were taken up in the Ar
Ington, Pacific and other mills at Law
renee, Mass, for the British South At
rican widows and orphans fund. The
mill operatives, a large proportion Of
whom are of British birth, gave very
generously.
The contributions to the Schley me-
ial,
October by Miss Edna Mcclellan. have
reached total of $5000
By an explosion of dynamite at the
Carnegie blast furnaces at Duquesne,
Pa, six laborers were injured. Four
were badly hurt, but will recover. The
explosion occurred while the workmen
were thawing dynamite.
The Dawes commission has assembled
In Washington and will remain there
some weeks to confer with the con-
gressional committee on Indian Terri
tory legislation.
The board OF naval construction has
decided to recommend to the depart
ment that extensions of time allowed for
the construction of the torpedo boats
low building be granted to the contrac-
tors on account of the difficulty expert
enced by them in procuring structural
steel.
Ethel Josselyn of Boston, who was ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff Norton at Bel
fast, Me-, while clothed in a boys suit,
on suspicion, has been released from the
county Jail.
A. H. Goetting of Springfield has been
again chosen chairman of the Massa-
chusetts Republican state committee.
The officers and committees are prac-
tically the same as last year, with L. w.
Standish of Stoughton secretary.
At the annual parish meeting Of the
Universalist church of Westbrook, Me-.
unanimous call was extended to Rev.
E. B. Barber of Gardiner, Me-, to be-
come their pastor,
Lowell N. Rouse, 10 years. was found
dead in an clubhouse at New London,
Conn, He had committed suicide by
taking carbolic acid. He was de-
spondent about work.
A drop of SO feet, from the top Of the
Hotel Gerald, Fairfield, Me, may cost
Sewel Mcguire his life. No bones were
broken, but internally he is in bad
shape.
The five-masted schooner Mary w.
Bowen Of Fall River, Mass, was
launched from the New England COM
pany's yard at Bath, Me- The Bowen
is owned by Joseph A. Bowen and others
of Fall River, and Whitman Chase, Jr.,
of Taunton. who will go in command.
On account of the lowness of water in
the Presumpscot river, S. d. Warren e
Co., of Westbrook, Me-, have not suf-
ficient water power to operate their
paper mills.
The icemen in the Fall River section
have begun to cut ice A yield of about
10000 tons is expected from Stafford
pond, Watuppa lake, New Boston pord
and North Watuppa. The quality is
said to be of unusual excellence.
DR.. Theodore L. Estabrook, the oldest
practising physician in Knox (Me.)
county, died at Rockland from valvular
disease of the heart. He was 81 years
old
Frank L. Taintor, well known in
Keene, n. H., many years ago as a
banker, and who had been an inmate Of
the New Hampshire asylum for the
insane for 20 years, met his death by
drowning, under conditions which indi-
cate destruction.
The worlds first aluminium telephone
system is in operation between Pittsburg
and New Kensington, Pa, distance of
is miles, and is so much of a success
that it is said the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company has ordered a similar
system TO be used in connection with the
heavy copper system now in use.
Harry Gibson of Cincinnati, cham
pion middle distance cyclist of the world
who has been the star of the l.. A. W.
this year. has announced his intention
to Join the National Cycling association.
The weavers at the Warren WColen
company's mill at Stafford Springs
Conn, struck for an increase in wages
and 90 looms are idle. 1t is thought
that the matter will soon be adjusted.
The weavers desire the restoration of
the schedule of 1891.
Employees of the Massachusetts Mo-
mar Plush company at Lowell, Mass.
have been notified of an advance in
wages. There has never been any cut
down in this establishment, and the in
crease is voluntary on the part of the
company
A Building Trades Council was Or
ganlzed at Lowell, Mass, by members
Oh the carpenters, plasterers, plumbers,