St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-12-17
DIARY OF EVENTS.
TUESDAY. DEC. o.

nublic and seizure of customs NAV fol.
low--With mercury below zero a,d
their coal bins empty thousands Of fan,i-
lies in New England are suffering in
tensely--Blizzard still raging off
Newfoundland and five schooncrs
driven ashore-Connecticut commits.
sioner of domestic animals finds that
there is no case of foot and mouth dis
ease among cattle in the state and he
is endeavoring to induce Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson to raise the embargo
Chairman Job of the Illinois stoto
board of arbitration resigns to become
secretary of 'The Employers Associo.
ton of Chicago National 17ueI
Gas company, capital 12,5OO.OO0. in.
corporated at Trenton to MANUFACTURED
gas from oil; papers filed by counsel for
the Standard Oil company--Bids for
Boston harbor dredging rejected by war
department and new ones to be called
for-Organized labor opposes mail
boxes on street cars--Hope of early
coal settlement lies in outside agreement
jamestown, N. Y, reports an aver
age of two feet of snow-Cattlane
in Nebraska have no fear of war on H.
legal fences-Kentucky priest leaves
the church on account of his Socialist
views-Witness in coal hearing saws
cars have been made larger, but wages
have not ncreased--Successfu fest
of monitor Florda-Justce Holmes Of
supreme court sworn in--Presjdent
now said to favor admitting only Okla
homa as state-House adopts rnsol1l-
tons and adjourns as mark of respect
to Mr.. Reed-Canadian Pacific adj
vances wages-British scientists TO
meet in South Afrca--Negro minis
ter to Liberia shoots T. ]. Faulkner of
Rr00klyn-Fifth son Of the kaiser in
jured by falling from horizontal bar
Neither side in the reichstag shows
sign of yielding on the tariff-Cuban
planters trying to secure better govern.
meut officials for Cuba.
WEDNESDAY,, DEC. 10.
All German and British subjects in
Caracas arrested; combined British and
German fleet seize Venezuelan fleet
composed of four WarShips, in the har-
Dor of La Guaira-Engineer Farrell. in
charge of passenger train wrecked nv
collision ut Sandy Hook Conn, Oct. Q
last held OH charge of manslaughter---
Mrs. Harriet Ransom, Sc years old q
bride of three weeks, asphyxiated in her
room in an apartment house ut New.
ton, Mass-After debating the London
dock charge bill for almost four hours,
the house chopped its head off by strik-
ing out the enaCting Schooner
Eta A. Stimson of Boston ashore off
Plymouth, Mass, and will doubtless be-
a total wreck-Notable victory was
achieved by Admiral Sumner, in com.
mand of the white squadron, who can.
tured Mayaguez, T. r., without re-
SSt0ce and Immediately mined the
harbor-COntinuancc of extreme cold
weather in New England brings an in
deScribable amount of Inconvenience
sum lAliS sllii tlilNldl lOSS, anu Is DIO-
ducing conditions in all walks of life
almost Cedented--CharleSS Snow
man Of Castine, Me, found overcome bv
gas in Boston lodging house-Firc in
Wakefield, Mass, high school building
causes n slight panic among the 4CO
pupils; actual damage not heavy
Roosevelt, Platt and Odell to discuss
question of renominating Mayor Low
-Senator Cullom urges early action
Oh French treaty-Secretary Shaw adj
ViSeS change of law as to tea in bonded
MISUNDERSTANDING of duty on Pa
citic cable may cause delay in the work
Senator Pritchard opposes reap
pontment of negro postmaster at Will
son, n. C-Spain to increase naval
stimates-Arrest near Speza of IS
anarchists WHO were plotting to kill
King Victor Emmanuel.
THURSDAY, DEC. II.
Nenezuela's naval fleet sunk by
Anglo-German vessels and whole coast
bockaded; President Castro appeals to
his people to take up arms; American
minister has peaceful British and Ger
man subjects eleascd-Louis Lyman
Kills Charles Bruchner at Boston: mad
dened by jealousy by Bruchner's al
legged intimacy with Mrs. LYMAN
Riotous scenes around Boston coal of
nces in struggle to obtain supplies of
fuel-Fred w. Johnson, night en-
gineer at the Parker House. Boston,
Killed by an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Retail
Grocers' association split over the cues
ZION of spending its fund of $120,000 -
Judge Richardson decides that tie
courts Of Massachusetts, have jurlSdic-
ton in the case of Mittenthal Bros. VS..
Pletro gni-Health congress
opens in New Orleans-New York
physicians cure curvature of tie Srine
Rich art collection burned ut Mo l 1t
hiscO, N. Y---Ona fireman killed ard
Tour injured in fire at Toledo--LoSs
OF life on the great lakes in 1902 larg-
est on record-Indicted silk examiner,
CHARLES G. Browne, of New York miss
mg-Porto Ricans in Hawaii to appeal
10 congress to send them home--Civic
Federation believes q short day is best
for both employers and employcs-An-
other anthracite mine, r&iieved Of s.
100000 gallons of water, to startat once
al a.