St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TUESDAY,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nduc III DOIL
houses OF parliament showed that Great
Britain and the United States were II
accord on the Chinese question'-The
Cuban constitutional convention again
adjourned without taking action on the
Platt amendment.-The senate OF Belgl-
UNI rejected motion condemnlng Brit
ish policy in South Africa-Plans to con-
meet the Black and Caspian seas have
been laid before the Russian Minister OF
Finance.
UNITED States.-Mrs. Mckinley is
making rapid progress toward recovery;
the president reviewed and spoke to the
school children of San Francisco. Five
cadets OF the graduating class at the
West Point Military Academy are to be
dismissed and six suspended for insubor-
dination.-The cup defender Constitu-
ton had her first trial in Narragansett
Bay, and, according to her manager, w.
Butler Duncan, Jr., her behavior was
most satisfactory.
WEDNESDAY.
FoREIGN.-Captain Barrows and Lieu
tenant Boyer, in charge OF commlssary
work in the Philippines, have, it is re-
ported, been sentenced to dishonOrable
discharge and mprisonment.-The min
listers at Peking were unable to agree
upon reduction of the Chinese indem-
nity.-The United States revenue cutter
Grant ran ashore or an unchartered
rock in Saanich Inlet and was badly in
iured
UNITED STATEs.-Presdent Mckinley
attended It ception given IN his honor
by the Knights Templar of San Francis
co.-Several lives were lost in floods in
the rivers of Eastern Tennessee, and
railroad trains were delayed by wash
outs there and in North Carolina.
THURSDAY.
FoREIGN.-Gaetane Bresci, the assassin
OF King Humbert, hanged himself in his
cell in San Stefano prison.
UNITED STATES 1t is feared in Wash
ington that the proposed Pan-American
congress will not be held on account of
the differences of opinion among South
American countries on the question of
arbitration.- PRESBYTERIAN General
Assembly began the discussion of the
subject of creed revision, and a number
of speeches were made Vice President
Roosevelt, at the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton, named an Indian baby born on the
grounds.
FRIDAY.
FoREIGN-The Cuban Constitutional
Convention, by a vote of 10 to 9, rejected
the Gomez minority report of the Rela-
tons committee opposing acceptance Of
the Plat fundamentally an explosion
in Welsh colliery SO miners were en-
tombed; five bodies were recovered, and
there is little hope of saving the others
Sir Alfred Miner arrived in London from
South Africa and was received with spec
ial honor, the King raising him to the
peerage.-Queen Vlctorias birthday was
observed generally throughout the Brit
ish empire.
UNITED STATES. Senator Lodge, of
Massachusetts,, has been selected for
chairman of the committee on foreign re-
ations-President O'Connell of the Ma
Chinists' Association said he would rec
a movement for nine-hour day
on all the railroads of the country, and a
strike if the demand is not granted -
Thirteen out of crew of fifteen were lost
by the sinking of steam barge in Lake
Huron.
SATURDAY..
FoREIGN-M. Altschensky, of Khar-
koff. a tpancier of great prominence in
Russia, committed suicide because of
financial embarrassments; many large
institutions suffer from his operations.
Three Europeans and ITS natives
persisted in the eruption of the volcano
of Keloet, Java.-Unfavorable crop re-
ports were made public in England and
Germany.
UNITED STATEs-Senators Tillman
and McLauren, of South Carolina, re-
signed after hot joint debate, and will
go before the people for reelection.
The President. Mrs. Mckinley and the
others of their party left San Francisco
for Washington.-Tbe Presbyterian Gen.
eral Assembly, in session at Philadel-
phia, refused, by vote Of 271 to 234,
to adopt the minority report on creed
revision "A terrific gale on the the
Great Lakes caused widespread death
and disaster.
SUNDAY.
FoREIGN.-Friction between German
and American soldiers at Picking led to
the shooting of a German soldier by an
American sentry; Emperor Kwang Su
has sent orders to his agents in Peking
to prepare the imperial palaces for occu-
patton by the court on the departure of
the foreign troops,-The Beers attacked
a British convoy in the Transvaal, killing
fouf and wounding thirty men, but
failed to capture the convoy.
UNITED STATES. - The Presbyterian
General Assembly is expected to settle
the revision question today. and may
complete its business so as to adjourn
tomorrow.-A report on the fire ON the
Petrol at Manila, when Lieutenant. Com
mander Roper lost his life, highly praises
the conduct of the crew.
THE ADMINISTRATION SUSTAINED
Hnsular Cases Decided.