St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-31
NEWS SUMMARY.


ID He was badly bruised, but had no bone
10 broken.
Is Commander Wainwright, who was
n command of the Gloucester at the bait
IL of Santiago, was presented with swor
e of honor and silver service at Wash
: ington by a committee representing tn
q citizens of the District of Columbia.
q Deaa Wayland of the Yale law schoc
I announ ces that the speaker for the com
v mencement exercises next June will b
/ W. Bourke Cochran.
Charles w. Walton, one of the best
Il known citizens of Maine, died suddenl,
I at Portland, aged so. The cause of hi
. death was heart failure. He was borl
in Mexico, Me. He was a member o
2 the supreme bench of the state for 81
; years. In 1S60-62 he was a member Of
congress. He retired from the bench ir
1897
Mrs. Florence Hall was fatally in
jured at Bennington, VT, as she was
about to enter trolley car. She was
struck by horse over which the driver
had lost control. She received an ex-
tensive fracture of the skull and severe
internal injuries.
Colonel Charles D. Viele, Fourth cav
airy, having been found incapacitated
for further service on account of dis
ability, by an army retiring board has
been retired from active service.
man, who registered at the st.
James hotel, Boston, as Ellie Sarazzin,
was found in his room nearly suffocated
by gas from an open jet. His life is
despaired Of. He is about 80 years old
and was finely dressed.
The bleached bones of about a dozen
skeletons were unearthed at the Brook
lyn navy yard by two laborers engaged
in digging an extension for warehouse.
The skeletons will be buried in Fort
| Greene along with the bones of the
prison ship martyrs of the Revolutionary
war, as 1t is presumed that these lust
discovered belong to heroes of the same
period.
A scholarship Of international law and
diplomacy has been established bv
General W. F. Draper of Hopedale,
Mass. American ambassador to italy.
In the law school of Washington and Lee
university.
Marty McCue of New York received
the decision over kid" Conroy in a 15-
round bout at New Haven.
Rev. DR.. G. l.. Platt aged 81, died at
Great harrington, Mass, from heart
failure. Deceased prepared for college
In Utica, was graduated from Hobert
college in 1871 and was ordained an
Episcopal minister at Charleston in
1S4S. DR.. Plat was the author of sew
eral religious works.
Mrs. Luke M. Thornton, aged about 35
fell from a piazza at Greenfield. Mass
while shaking rug and died from in
juries received.
The lease of the Attleboro branch of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad will expire in March, and the
understanding is that the lessee will
purchase the property outright and then
equip it with electricity.
Patrick III. Chaplin died at Hartford
after a lingering illness, aged A. The
deceased was widely known owing to
his exhaustive writings pertaining to
travel, both at home and abroad. Ha
was porn In Lafayette, Ind.
AS the result of an agreement signed
by number of the large contractors of
Nashua, N. H, nine hours will con-
stitute days work for carpenters in
that city on and after April 1.
The Market Street Baptist church If
Mass, has voted to extend
a call to Rev. James Norcross of Marble
head, to become pastor of the church.
Mr.. Norcross has also received a call to
a church in Brockton, Mass.
Senator Butler, chairman of the ma
tional executive committee of the Peo-
pies party, has issued call for meet
ing of that committee, to be held in
Neb., on Feb. II, for the pur-
pose of naming time and place for hold
Ing the national convention of that party.
William Maynard of New York was
given the decision over Charles Barrett
If Brooklyn at Bristol, Conn, in the
seventh round of a scheduled 1O-round
bout, on account of foul,
Clarence Baker was struck and in
SANITY killed by an engine on the Bos-
ton and Maine tracks near Brightwood,
Mass. He leaves a widow and four
At the annual meeting of the corpora
ton of the International institute for
girls in Spain, held at Boston, the treas
urer reported funds of $4,000 on hand
and subscription of $27 900 on condition
that sufficient amount be secured to
make total of 100000.
Stephen Green, prominent citizen of
Kensington, N. H., is dead, aged SO. He
mad been selectman and representative
in the legislature. He leaves a widow
and four children.
c. |. Hood & Co. of Lowell, Mass, have
posted notices announcing that after
Feb. the working hours for the force
in their laboratory will be reduced front
6S to 81 hours week, with no reduction
in pay.
William Fl. Prescott, rs years old, COM
mitted suicide at Worcester, Mass, by
drowning in a bath tub
H. M. Day, who had brilliant Civil
war record, rising to the position of
brigadier general through signal BRAY
cry, died at Gear Rapids, Ia. of heart
trouble, aged IA.
The Angora Manufacturing company's
plant at Philadelphia was DESTROYED nv
fire and one employe, Lizzie Blackburn
aged II, is missing.
Mary Knox, boarding house keeper
of Boston, filed a bankruptcy petition
with liabilities of $1O,366 and no assets
Secretary Long has presented the civ
of Nashville one-pound Hotchkiss gun