St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TUESDAY.


FOREIGN Carnegie predicted
that the continental powers would at
tack England and force her to reques
aid from America; this aid, Mr.. Carnegi,
thought, would be granted.-The Boer'
under Kritzinger captured jamestown
in Cape Colony, after four hours fight
-Aguinaldo has sent a message tt
! Cables, the insurgent leader, advising
him to surrender; organization of civil
government is going on in the islands.
UNITED STATES. - The president and
cabinet decided not to call an extra ses
sion OF congress this summer, and that
no change in the administration Philip.
pine policy is required by the recent
Supreme Court Neutrality-suspicious.
with view to securing harmony among
the powers on the Chinese indemnity
question are in progress in Washington.
Three persons were killed in railroad
accident in the outskirts of Atlanta
The treasury department has issued an
order forbidding the entrance to the port
OF New York of immigrants suffering
from tuberculosis of the lungs, on the
ground that it is a dangerous conta-
gious disease.
WEDNESDAY.
FoRIGN.-Gen. Chaffee, with his staff
and two companies of troops, arrived at
Manila from China.-It was reported
from Aliwal North that Kritzinger's
command had been driven back, and
that supplies taken at Jamestown had
been recaptured.-Mr. Carnegie's gift to
Scottish universities will be used, accord
ing to John Morley, for the foundation
of faculties and the payment of students
fees.
UNITED STATEs-Immigration officials
at the principal Atlantic ports held a
conference in Secretary Cages office, dis
cussing, among other things, the new or
der barring out emigrants suffering from
consumption.-A slight improvement in
Mrs. McKinley's condition was reported
by the attending observation-disclosures
Tillman sent the withdrawal of his resig-
nation to Gov. insolvency of South
Carolina, saying he was forced to do so
by Senator McLaurin's action, but the
latter said he would Internationally re-
sign if Tillman would.
THURSDAY.
FOREIGN Leyland Line steam
ship Assyrian went ashore on Cape Race,
and is expected to prove total loss
The Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess
of Cornwall and York on board, sailed
from Sydney, Australia, for Auckland
New Zealand.-In the House of Com.
mons a Conservative member accused
British officers of corrupt practices in the
purchase of horses for the army; The
Hague Arbitration Court is said to
have considered the Boer war at a secret
session; a Boer commando suffered Sc
we're defeat in the Northern Transvaal.
UNITED STATES Employees of the
United Traction Company in Albany
may renew the recent strike because of
dissatisfaction with the discharge of sew
eral men, The thirty.fith annual en-
campment OF the Department of New
York, Grand Army of the Republic
opened in Rochester.
FRIDAY.
FoREIGN.-There was a yacht race on |
the Clyde in which Shamrock and the |
HerreshoH cutter Nevada took part, the
Nevada winning easily in her cass.-A
special embassy from the Sultan of Mo-
rocco bearing gifts and congratulations
to King Edward VII arrived in Lon
don.-Sarah Bernhardt will play Romeo
for a hundred nights in America to
Maude Adams Juliet American gold
mines in Corea are said to be the most
prosperous enterprises in that country.
UNITED STATES. - The president and \
cabinet received word from Gen. Wood /
that the Cuban constitutional conven- \
ton had CURLY refused to rescind its &C.
ton on the Platt amendment.-A Geor-
4Ia sheriff saved negro prisoner from
being lynched by mob, but one of the
men IN the mob was killed and two were
while troops were called out
to Keep the peace while the sheriff took
The prisoner to Atlanta Mrs. Mary Ash
ey Townsend C'Xariffa" }, the we'll known
southern poet, of New Orleans, died in
Galveston.
SATURDAY.
FOREIGN Louis Botha, wife of
he Boer commander.in-ch chief, arrived in
london from Cape Town, accompanied
'y Mr.. FISCHER, son of the former secre-
AIRY of state of the Orange Free State;
neither would discuss the purpose of their
Mission; the British captured two Boer
aaagers in Cape Colony, taking forty.two
'rlsoners,-The duties on American BIZ
ycles and several kinds of Americana sin
lave been raised by the Russian govern
nent.-The Chinese court has DELAYED its
eturn to Picking to September, owing to
he heat and the advanced age of the
)owager Empress.
UNITED STATES, -Mrs. Mckinley phys.
,ians reported that her illness was the
esult OF blood injection, and that her
ase presented a more hopeful aspect
ecretary Long announced list of re-
'ards given to officers and men of the
avy for gallant conduct in China.-The
usband of Mrs. Carrie Nation has de- d
ded to no longer Live w; Il, Lo- - III