St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-14
GENERAL NEWS.
Building Burned.

The old Exposition building at Kansas
CITY, Mo, once the pride of all that re-
gion was destroyed by fire last week.
Ringling's circus was in full swing in the
grounds adjoining. The 6remen had to
drench the main tent, and the side tent
was struck to save it after several big
holes had been burned in it. Fully 1907
900 persons were in the tents and about
them, and panic was mario Wy averted.
The Exposition building was built in
1888 and cost over 100000. 1t was
an enormous affair, built after the Phil
adelphia Centennial style with a steel
and glass roof. 1t was she largest show
building in the West. 1t was sold re-
Gently and was to have been torn down,
so that the actual loss is not very great.
There was no insurance.
stories of Starvation from Nome.
A Port Townsend, Wash, dispatch OF
last week says: A story of death from
starvation in the Agiapuk mining district
was brought from Nome by passengers
on the steamer Centennial, and as a re-
suit of forty.three days of unparalleled
hardship George Dean, miner, is dead,
and his two companions, John Houstan
and Joseph T. Thiery, are at deaths
door. Houstan will probably recover,
but there is little hope that Thiery's life
will be saved. Added to the story of
starvation is horrible tale that in their
desperation Houston and Thiery severed
| the thigh of their dead companion from
his body, and were cooking it when help
arrived and saved them from practicing
cannibalism. The men had been in Good
Hope country prospecting. On June Z
they started for Nome by way of the
| Agiapuk River. Before they reached
Teller city their provisions gave out, and
hunger compelled them to eat grass,
birds eggs and anything they could find.
Civil Rule in Manila.
Gen. George W. Davis, Provost Marsh
al OF Manila, in the presence OF General
Chaffee, the military commander, and
the whole melitary staff, turned over the
city administration Wednesday to Civil
Governor TAFT and the newly appointed
officials. Judge Taft thanked the army
for it's good and conscientious work in
the troublesome times.
rIany Thounands Perish.
Great floods caused by the overfow wing
of the Yang Use, have caused the death
OF many thousands in China. The river
has risen forty feet, and for hundreds OF
miles the country is a great lake, with
only tops of trees and an occasional
root showing. At Anking the town is
flooded, some OF the houses to their
roofs. At Kiu- Kiang the native town is
flooded, and two feet of water stands in
foreign settlements. Lower down the
river toward Swu-Hue the destruction
was greater, and boatmen estimate that
twenty thousand were drowned in the
district Chong-Teh was wiped away
by the food and ten thousand drowned
there, and many other points have beer
inundated, involving awful loss OF lie
and great destruction to property. Ii
was feared an embaukment built by
Chong Chico Tung near Wu-Chane
would break, and lift did the flood
would drown hundreds of thousands.
John III. Rixby.
Tohn H. Bixby, son of n S. Bixby, o
Chelsea, died Aug 4 Of consumption at
his home in CRANKY, Mass. The funera
was at Chelsea Wednesday. Mr.. Bixby
was born in Chelsea July 10, 1859
+ After his graduation from Dartmouth
College in 1883 he became teacher
> and taught successfully at West Fairlee
Plain6eld, Stowe, South Royalton, anc
Rochester, in this state, and at Bernards
! ton and Cranky, Mass. He married {
Rochester woman, but they have had NJ
children.
State President Appointed.
| Mrs. William Gerry Slade ofNew York
president of the National society OF th
/ United States Daughters of 1912, ha
: officially appointed Mrs. c. F. r. Jenn
( of Brattleboro state president for Yer
mont. Through her Efforts society ha
, been organized, and at meeting hell
recently these officers were elected: FRS
vice president, Mrs. J. G Ullery; secon'
: vice president, Mrs. H. E. Bond; secre
f tary, Mrs. G. B. White; treasurer, Mrs
Frank Field; auditor, Mrs. Georgi
Morse Love; registrar, Miss Della Shel
= man; historian, Mrs. Dana Stafford. l
: may not be known generally that, a
shown by the disbursements by the stat
for recruits, only the old and populou
! states of Massachusetts,, New York
! Pennsylvania aud Virginia furnishe
> more men to the regular army than Vel
: mont. The National society OF tn
! United States Daughters of 1Sl
!, is the youngest of the patriotic societies
but it is endowed with the indomitab
/ spirit that animated the men who's
j. glores the society perpetuates. II
Vermont society is only in its infanc..
+ but it bids fair to grow to the stalwal
/, proportions of it's older sisters. tt
president will be pleased to give info
!. nation regarding the society to an
!, who may be interested.
= The Murder of King Humbert.
The anarchists of Paterson, N.
n have issued large red placards announ
+ ing that on Sunday, Aug. 49, they w
is produce at the American Theatre in ths
city tragedy called "The Assassinatic
:. of King Humbert l." The first act w
e show Bresci drawing the fatal lot; in tt
,e second act he is seen on bis way to Ital
; the third portrays the death of the kir
at the hands of the Paterson anarchis
= the fourth shows Rresci in prison, b
" suffering and his suicide.
re Many FiIIpinOs Surrender.
d, The war department has made cor