St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Auo,ber Fraud Suppressed.

| Another Fraud Suppressed.
The post office department has issued
a fraud order, denying the use OF the
mails to the Merchants Supply Com
pany of 80 Norfolk street, Cambridge
port, Mass. The company claimed to be
large manufacturers of neckwear and
sought prospective employees By the
publication in newspapers in various
parts of the country of the following adj
vertisement:
"Female Help Wanted-Any lady can
earn good pay making silk 11eckwear at
home; work sent any distance prepaid,
send 10 cents for sealed contract"
To those answering the advertisement
and inclosing the necessary 10 cents the
company offered employment provided
the would-be employee would send So for
the available "outft," without which it
would be impossible to properly do the
work. If the So were forthcoming a
scanty outfit of worthless materials was
sent and the patron of the scheme, who
by the terms of the contract signed by
the company was to be paid so much per
dozen for neckties, was advised in cour-
teous missive to dispose of the results of
her efforts among her friends and ac-
qaintances.
The operator of the scheme was en-
gagged in a similar one at Bath, Me-, un-
der the name of the Home Employment
Company, against which a fraud order
was issued by the department in June of
last year.
Killed and Eaten by Cannibals.
The Colonial Zeitung," Berlin, the Of
fetal organ Of the German Colonial So
ciety, furnishes details of the massacre OF
the members of the first German South
Sea expedition on the cannibal island of
| St. Matthias. 1t seems that the vessel
which carried the expedition to the
Island of St. Matthias left, after few
days, for Herbertshoh, New Britain, to
get coal and fresh supplies. During its
absence the savages, who had hitherto
appeared friendly, although known to
be rabid cannibals, planned to kill and
rob the diminished party. The plot was
carried out one morning while the men,
bers of the expedition, who had a body
guard of forty drilled Papuans, were
cleaning their rifles, which they had
taken apart. Suddenly eighty of the
islanders broke from the bushes, raising
fierce war cries and brandishing spears,
with which they stabbed to death the
leader of the party, DR.. Mencken, his Sec
rotary, Herr Caro-, and white sailor,
who was asleep under a tent. DR.. Helm
roth emptied his revolver into his as,
sailants, while the bodyguard in the
mean time, retired to the boats with the
wounded and DIR. Heinroth leaving
twelve dead. The boats put off to an
island not far distant, where the expedi.
tionary vessel rescued them. Subse.
quently the survivors returned to the
island where they found that the bodies
had been devoured and the camp looted.
Volunteers Leave the Philippines.
With the departure of the army trans
port Fitzpatrick from Manila Thursday
the last OF the volunteers whose service
expires by law on June 80 are homeward
bound, and the great task imposed by
congress on the war department Of bring
ing 2O,O 900 volunteers across the Pacific
to San Francisco in five months is in
a fair way of accomplishment. On &C.
count of insurgent activity last winter
it was impossible to begin the reduction
of the force in the Philippines early
enough to carry out to the letter the re-
strictions imposed by congress, and the
first of the regiments did not embark at
Manila tor home until early this year.
The Fitzpatrick will not reach San Fran
cisco before July 4. The Ohio, slow
transport, now on the way will arrive
there about the same time. The Kin
tuck, chartered tramp steamer with a
single company Of the 38th infantry
aboard is detained in quarantine at Ma
gaski with a suspected case of plague
and will not reach Seattle before July Is.
With these exceptions, barring acct
dents, the six fine ships now speeding
across the Pacific are almost certain to
win their race against time and permit
the discharge of their soldiers from the
service before June 80. With the Kilpat-
rick's departure from Manila forty nine
thousand regulars are left in the Philip.
pines, and in the next few months this
number will be reduced to forty thou
sand; and if Gen. Corbin so recommends
as result of his tour of inspection oil
the islands in July and August, there may
be further reduction next fall to thirty
thousand, under Gen. Chaffee's com
mand Gen. Corbin's success in bringing
home this volunteer army of twenty
thousand men across the Pacific is re-
garded by the war department as no.
table military achievement.
1880 for Preserving Leg.
In the Superior Court at Concord, N.
H., Friday, A. Perley Fitch, the druggist
secured verdict of $3.50 for preserv'
ing in alcohol for ten years the ampu'
tated leg of the late John H. Pearson, a
wealthy resident of that city. In 1887
Mr.. Pearson was attacked with dis
ease which caused the amputation of his
right leg just below the knee. He turned
the leg over to Druggist Fitch with in
structions to preserve it in alcohol. Mr..
Fitch followed out the request and for
ten years the leg rested in glass jar in
the back office of the store. Shortly af-
ter Mr.. Pearson's death in 1899, the leg
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