St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TU EsDAY.

| to Europe, 1t is learned, is to seek honor
able terms OF peace with England, and i
is said that he will fight to the las
against annexation; preparations for hi
reception continued in Marseilles.-Gen
eral Macabolos, a former insurgent
leader, is to start in pursuit of Aguinaldc
with party of natives.-The woman
who attempted to kill the Kaiser al
Breslau was sent to an insane asylum
The British warship Pheasant was or
dered to Panama to protect British in
tereSts.
UNITED STATES Minister WI Ting
Fang spoke on the causes of the i'll feel
ing toward foreigners in China before
the American Academy of Political and
Social Science ia Philadelphia, showing
how the attitude toward foreigners had
changed owing to their own actions.-
DR.. Daniel Colt Gilman will resign from
the presidency of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity the coming year, and DR.. Albert
Shaw is talked OF as his successor.-Re-
publican members OF the house ways and
means committee held a meeting in
Washington to consider plans for reduc,
ing war taxes; Secretary Gage told the
committee that reduction OF $50 ,000,-
900 might be made-A conference of
commercial and industrial organizations
at St. Louis passed resolutions favoring
the adoption by Congress of the Cullom
| Interstate Commerce bill.-Postmaster
General Charles Emory Smith, Senator
Depew, Bishop Lawrence and Chief JUS
tice Parker spoke at the 1920 annual
dinner OF the Chamber OF Commerce at
New York.-Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., the
defaulting note teller of the First Ma
tional Bank, was held for the United
States Grand Jury.
WEDNESDAY.
FoREIGN-A detachment of the allied
forces in China under Colonel York, has
encountered strongly intrenched Chi
nese force near Kalgan on the Great
Wall, and is awaiting reinforcements;
wide areas of Manchuria are reported to
| be in a disturbed condition; a Peking
dispatch states that Prince Tuan has
been arrested and stripped of power by
imperial ct.-Ambassador Choate
made representations to the British For
eign Office as to the Filipino Junta at
Hong Kong.-Lord Roberts was severely
shaken up on November 18, his horse
falling with him, but breaking no bones ;
he reports British disaster to an out.
post of Bluffs" on November Is, six be-
ing killed, FIVE wounded and thirty-one
ured.-The Newfoundland mail
steamer Fife was lost in the Straits of
Belle Isle in a dense fog; the crew OF
thirty men escaped in boats.-Lieutenant
,h0 hae 80
the hands of the Filipnos tor three
months, has been liberated typhus
epidemic in Copenhagen is assuming
serious portions.-Secretary Root
and General Wood lett Santiago for
Guantanamo; notifications of the
| Cuban taxation law have been promul.
gated.
UNITED STATEs.-The reported loss of
lie caused by the tornado in Tennessee
and Mississippi footed up to sixty-four,
but it is feared that fuller details will
show that it is greater.-The Republican
members of the Ways and Means Com
mttee decided to make a reduction of
| $50, 1000 900 in war taxes.-Secretary
Gage announced that treasury refunding
| operations are to be discontinued after
| December 81.
THURSDAY.
FoREIGN-Presdent Kruger landed al
| Marseilles from the Dutch cruiser Colder
| land and received an enthusiastic well
come; he made speech which is re-
garded as daring bid for French ALI
ance with the Beers; some slight anti
English outbreaks were suppressed by
Fl, NI-
Paris today General Butler, in a speech
in London, denied that British soldiers
in South Africa had been guilty of the
outrages alleged against them The
condition OF the Gar was reported by
his physicians to be improving The
Beers, under Commandant Brand, were
defeated with heavy loss on November
19.-The Cuban Constitutional Conven-
ton, by vote of 10 to 10, decided that
its sessions shall be public.-Sir Arthur
| Sullivan, the noted musical composer,
died suddenly in London.-The Colon.
bian rebels at Buenaventura have been
completely crushed.
UNITED STATEs.-Damage estimated at
100000 was caused by the windstorm
in Colorado Springs, where the gale
blew eighty-hve miles an hour, and
much delay was caused to railroad traffic
in other parts of the state.-Representa-
tive Hull says a bill will be framed to put
the army on a modern basis; the cry OF
militarism has not scared the people,
Fears are expressed that the Powers
may fail to reach an agreement in China.
The torpedo boat Blakely was
launched at Boston The Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, fifty.6ve hours late,
came into port at New York, having
encountered gales. lost man overheard
and broken propeller blade, and went
aground in the lower bay; she was
foated and went to her pier.
FRIDAY.
FOREIGN. President Kruger's Journey
through France, from Marseiles to
Dion, where he spent the night, was
marked all along the route by scenes OF
tremendous enthusiastically Turkish
Government has refused to grant an ex.
equatur for an American Consul in Har.
poot The battleship Kentucky is to
sail from Naples tor Smyrna today.-It
is reported from Constantinople that the
American claims for indemnity against
Turkey will be settled without resortine
to naval demonstration.-Still further