St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-24
DIARY OF EVENTS.
July is.

FOREIGN. troops captured
the camp of Scheeper; some men anC
stores we're taken, but the bulk of the
commando escaped.-Andrew Carnegie
has signed the deed giving 100000
to the University of Edinburgh.-The
was decided fall in prices on the Lon.
don stock market in sympathy with the
decline in America. D. White
announced that Germany's action on
future questions might determine his re-
turn to Berlin after visit to America in
September Shamrock II again decisive.
ly beat the former Cup challenger in a
race on the Clyde.-A favorable report
GU the work done in connection with the
laying of Pacific cable was made in the
House of Commons.
UNITED STATES Slight showers gave
temporary relief in the heat stricken re-
gions of Kansas, but it is not thought
much benefit to crops will accrue unless
the predictions for more rain today are
ful6lled-The stationary tiremen at the
coal mines in the eastern part of Penn
sylvania will strike today, and it is ex-
pected 100000 men will have to stop
work in consequence and the mines will
be flooded The resignation from the
army OF Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong
was accepted, and no inquiry into his
alleged escapade in San Francisco will be
made by the military authorities -
A heavy fall in stocks was succeeded by a
moderate recovery Announcement was
made of the collapse of the machinists'
strike, the men returning to work in
large numbers.
JuIy 16.
FoREIGN.-Ida and Edith Yeoland, act
resses, committed suicide by taking poi
son in London.-A woman fired a re-
volver near Pierre Baudin the French
Minister of Public Works, in Paris; she
intended, she said, to intimidate M. De-
classe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs
The ministers of the powers at Picking
are growing sceptical regarding conclu-
sion OF negotiations, owing to trouble
between Great Britain and Russia-In
an interview Cardinal Gibbons spoke of
the Pope's great vitality, the Pontiff's
interest in America and his desire for a
settlement of the Philippine question:
The British force at Tien-Tsin will be in
creased by 900 men.-The Bank of Eng
land withdrew it's issue of E3 900, 900 of
India per cent stock, the subscriptions
being inadequate.-Shamrock II will sail
for New York on July %.
UNITED STATES - Adjt.-Gen. Corbin
and Surgeon-General Sternberg arrived
at Manila on the transport Hancock
Nearly ten thousand delegates to the Ep-
worth League Convention have arrived
in San Francisco. The stationary fire.
men throughout the hard coal region of
Pennsylvania went on a strike, and
many miners were compelled to stop
work.-Rains in Kansas and Missouri
had good effect on the crops, and it is
believed that the corn crop will be by no
means wholly lost.-Secretary Wilson
says that while the corn cropis seriously
damaged in several states, there is still
hope OF saving the greater part of it.
July ~.
FoREIGN.-The Duke Of Connaught
was installed as grand master of British
Masons, to succeed Edward VII.-"The
Cologne Gazette" announces August IA
as the date of the meeting between King
Edward and Emperor William at the
Mayence review.-The crops in England
are suffering for lack ofrain, and London
has spell of intense heat=-.General Ca
vero, a Carlist, was killed and nearly
fifty other persons were injured in en-
counters between Catholics and free
thinkers at Saragossa, Spain.-A report
from Moscow says that Senator W, A.
Clark, Of Montana, has invested 10, 000,-
900 rubles in Ural copper mines.
UNITED STATES. -Postmaster General
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reforms in second class mail regulations
it is said at the department. that the
changes will make one. cent letter post
age possible.-The Italian government
has made representations to the state
. department and instituted Investigations
through consuls into the alleged lynch.
ing of Italians in Mississippi.-J. P. Nor.
gan made formal announcement Of the
settlement of the fight for control of the
Northern Pacific Railway-It was an.
nounced that William K Vanderbilt
! would maintain an extensive racing
stable in this country next season.
July rs.
FOREIGN Lord Russell pleaded guilty
= to bigan1y before the House of Lords
: and was sentenced to three months i'm
f prisonment-A Chinese frontier statlor
in Mongolia has been fortified by Russia
| and surveys are being made for a direct
. railway line to Peking.-Correspondenct
: between Mr.. Steyn and Reitz, which was
captured by Lord Kitchener, was made
e public. 1t shows that Mr.. Steyn wa:
S opposed to any overtures for peace
r The consul general from Ecuador at Val
t paraiso was murdered in the center O
} the city.-Count Leo Tolstoi, who ha.
been suffering from fever for several days
was reported better, and to be in no i'm
mediate danger.-Drouth, accompanied
:, by severe heat, prevails through Eng
! land.
UNITED STATES. Daniel Griggs, tn,
+, son OF former Attorney General Griggs
was dragged through Mexican canyon
clinging to the side of his overturned
boat.-The fifth International conven
ton of the Epworth League was opene(