St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.
General Miles Request Refused.

a specific request to the war department
to be sent to the Philippines, and
in connection Herewith submitted a plan
by which, in his opinion, the war could
be brought to an ind without further
loss of life to either side. He proposed
! to employ methods similar to those used
I by him so successfully in his Indian cam
paigns. Secretary Root, after due con
sideration, denied General Miles request,
and disapproval of the plan submitted.
] The papers, so Endorsed by the 81 cretary,
were sent to the White H 0use, and the
President subsequently concurred in the
secretary's action. The final Endorsement,
disposng OF the matter, is said to bear
the date Of March 5, 1902 In effect,
! President Roosevelt and Secretary Root
hold that the war in the Philippines is
already at an eud, or virtually so, and
that the adoption oil General Miles plan,
involving change of policy in dealing
with the inhabitants OF the archipelago,
would be unfair to those officials, mill
tary and civil, whose work has brought
about almost complete pacihcation
Geronimo Wants TO be f. ee.
Geronimo, the Apache Indian chief, has
petitioned the authoritits a Washing ton
to be released from captivity. For the
last fourteen years Geronimo has been a
military prisoner at Fort Sill. Now, at
the age of eighty, Re has signihed his
wish to become a docile subject of the
Great Father at Washington. General
Frank Armstrong, of the regular army,
has been looking into the question, and
has recommended that Geronimo be par
oiled and made citizen. Geronimo has
been free, practically, for several years
! now, or ever since his removal from cap
tivity in the Florida Everglades to the
barracks at Fort S,lf Although under
constant surveillance, he has a small
farm and receives $35 a month as
government scout" With Geronimo
are 298 Apaches, who probably will also
be released
quo Beer Boom Collapsed.
Through the unexpected action of
Judge Heath in the Manchester, n H.,
police court, the Uno beer boom in that
city collapsed like punctured balloon.
Six new salOOniSts who started in to get
rich through the sale of the beer that the
state chemist had tailed to find contra
band were declared guilty of keeping
malt liquor for sale" and every one OF
them was fined to the extent of the law.
All but one appealed, and the grand jury
of the county will be asked to decide Just
how CORE ct the police justice was in his
decision, but there is wide CONSERVATION
among the saloon men and the rush of
new dealers into tie saloon business has
absolutely been checked.
Richest BODY of Gold Ore Ever Dis
covered,
News has reached Phoenix, Arizona, OF
the finding near Wickenburg of what is
said to be the largest body Of very rich
gold ore ever uncovered. The discovery
was made at 200 feet depth on the Ore
Grande groupe, four miles north of
Wckenburg. 1t is reported that the
ledge is 1870 feet in width in the narrow
est place. and carries values ayera ging
from $40 900 to $50, 900 gold, besides
quantity Of silver and copper. The
group was sold less than two wears ago
by the original locaters for $4,000, and
is no in the hands OF a syndicate Of
Iowa capitalists.
Wireless Telegraphy for Great Lakes.
wireless telegraph system, giving
connection between vessels in mldIake
and the mainland, may soon be an appIi-
ance on steamers plying on the great
lakes. The managers OF one of the com
panies are considering the fitting of all
boats, passenger and freight, with send
ing and receiving stations of the Marcoui
pattern. With this IN view, they will
make tests OF the system within a few
weeks II the tests are satisfactory the
boats will probably be equipped with
telegraph stations before the summer
navigation season is well under way.
George Fred Williams, of Massachu.
sets, has been asked to deliver the prin-
cjpal address at the memorial service in
honor OF former governor governor Alt
geld in New Haven, Conn, Sunday,
April 10. This is sometimes known as
Ieffrsou's day.
One of the largest single orders for
horses ever given in the country has been
closed with buyer at the South ST. 10.
seph, Mo-, horse and mule markrt. The
contract is for 10000 horses, to be de.
livered at the rate OF 500 a month. 1t is
the general belief that the majority of
them are tor the British army in South
Africa.
The vessel which struck on Cape Look
out Shoals, North Carolina, on March
10, was the Spanish steamer Ea, bound
to New York. She broke in two the FOL
lowing Monday, and the crew OF II men
was rescued, after having been on the
bridge three days without food or water.
A dispatch to the London Exchange
Telegraph Company from Constants |
nopIe, says the Turkish government has
fatty refused to repay to the United
States, the sum of money (72, 500 paid !
to the brigands as a ransom for Miss
Ellen NJ. Stone and her companion, Nine
Tsilka.
Congress will be asked to pay the bills
amounting to about 100000. which
the physicians and others who attended !
President Mckinley after he was shot
have presented. Mrs. Mckinley is in
better health and is now able to receive
callers at her home in Canton.
A. r. Peacock, the steel millionaire of |
Pittsburg. has moved his family to New |
York, owing to repeated threats that |
unless he placed $4,000 at a certain
spot near Pittsburg his children would |
be abducted and held in captivity until
the ransom was paid.
At Rome the scramble to be apostolic !
delegate at Washington continues, as it |
is equal to the four largest European