St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-10-09
DIARY OF EVENTS.
TUESDAY, OCT. LIST.

ron WIS VII Clcll ucSOS 10 ascertain
whether or not the Spanish fleet was at
that port. That nothing effective was
done to prevent the enemy's batteries
at CienfuegOs. That he did not COM
municate the secret code to Admiral
Schley because he opposed the latter
knew it. The squadron might have
cone nearer the Colon on the day of the
Intellectual bombardmcnt That the
Brooklyn was dangerously near the
Texas at the time of the famous loon
of the former vessel during the battle
of Santiago. That he never saw any
signal from the Brooklyn at the time
of the BATTLE and that he had no verbal
or written instructions from the Brook
lyn. Also that there was no prescribed
order of battle by which he would have
been guided if the Spanish ships had
come out of the harbor prior to June L.
WEDNESDAY,, OCT. ..
The attempt to sail the second of the
present series of international yacht
races for the blue ribbon of the sea
proved dismal failure. Between %
600 and 10000 people who crowded the
pleasure fleet off Sandy Hook lightship
In the hope of seeing repetition of the
thrilling sport of last Saturday. wit
nesses instead, more of a drifting
match than a race. The wind was eX-
Ceedngly light and variable. at times
falling so low that the gossamer pen
nants, which are as light as thistle
down hung limp against the masts of the
big tickcrs-TOday' witness
Sed the Inauguration of the greatest
power producing plant in this country.
The water has been turned on the
wheels of the plant of the st. Laurence
Power company at MasSena in the
northern part of st. Laurence county,
New York, and started that mighty
enterprise. Even the Niagara Falls
power plant is surpassed by this one,
both in the amount of power produced
and as a engineering achievement.
While at Niagara Falls the fall is great
er, the volume is not so great-The as
founding story of how, because Of hope
less love, Miss Caroline Hall, the Bos-
ton heiress and art student, became Il
misanthrOpe, wore mans attire and pas
Ged for eight years as the husband of
her best friend, Miss Giuseppe Bor-
lana, was told today by the bereayed
wife" on board the ship on which Miss
Hall died Sunday-After plea of
guilty to the charge of classifying the
accounts of the Farmers National Bank
of Vergennees, David H. Lewis of Yer
gennes was sentenced by Judge Hoyt
II. Wheeler today, in the United States
circuit court, to seven years imprisOn-
ment in the house of correction at Rut-
land-A strike involving $4,000 opera
YES including every mill in Fall River
in which the lower wake next Monday
morning unless either the manufacture
ers or the operatives recede from their
present positiOn-At eight o'clock the
twO-starred pennant of Rear Admiral
William T. Sampson was run up on the
receiving ship Wabash, which is also
the flagship of the local naval station.
Just before the flag was hauled down a
salute of Is guns, the regulation salute
for a rear admirars flag was fired.
This was a pretty compliment to the
end of active service of Admiral Samp-
sOn-The Washington correspondent
of the Tribune says suggestion which
is meeting with favor is to change the
name of the Philippine islands to the Nc
Kinley islands.
THURSDAY, OCT. 8.
From recent reports received from
the middle, northern and eastern sec
lions of Maine, there is reason to be-
lieve that the marketable apple crop in
those sections will be less by one half
than it was in 1900--The Granite state
brick company Of Epping, n. H., one of
the largest brick-making concerns in
this section, has just been absorbed by
the brick trust-Miss Hattie Carthy of
Warren street. Reading, Employed at
the Wakefield rattan factory, was
struck by freight engine near Wake
field station about half-past seven on
Wednesday. She was walking across
the track behind the train which had
brought her home, and was struck by
an engine shifting freight cars. Two
girls who were with her had narrow eS-
capes-Hon. Edward n. Dingley of
Kalamazoo, Mich, has nearly complet
ed biography of his father, the late
Congressman Dingley, and it is expected
the biograpy will be published this fall
The evidence of Admiral Evans,
Captain McCalla, Captain Sigsbee and
Lieutenant Hood bears heavily against
the contention that Admiral Schley act
ed like a man of natural decision whose
energies were confined by adverse cir
cumstancs over which he could have
no control. There is no longer room to
doubt according TO their testimony that
there were four days perhaps more, in
which the Spanish fleet could have gone
to sea from Santiago harbor without
encountering any resistance capable Of
ctseriously retarding it's progress
The latest advices from the island of
Samar give narrowing details of the
slaughter of the members of company
c. 9th United States infantry, last Sat
urday at Balangiga. 1t seems that the
president of the town who claimed to be
friendly, led the assault in person. The
body of Captain Council had been tied
at the heels, saturated with kerosene
and partly burned. Forty-five bodies