St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-12-31

ship OF America-Death at Boston Of
George Milbank, popular theatrical
manager--Dr. Lorenz's tour one of
charity; received no big fees except
ArmOur's $50, 000--Thomas Doherty of
Gardner, Mass, in prison for desertiO l.
pardoned by the president--Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., ill as rt suit
of her attention to her stricken has
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. into poison cardy
case at North Adams, Mass, given up
by police.
SATURDAY,, DEC. p.
Notes from European governments
interested i'll Venezuelan affair and
from Venezuela agree to submit ques-
ton at issue to tribunal at The Hague
In Chelsea, Mass. police court Miss
Catherine V. Richardson. charged
with administering poison to her mother
with intent to commit murder, is held
in $4,000 until Jan. 5-Alaska moving
for new land Iaws-Large ma
chine plant at Peabody, Mass, burned;
loss $780, O0-Mr Bryan, in The Com
moner defends the Chicago silver plank
Bad condition in part of Mississippi
due to reign of whitecaps-Newb bead
of New York police force will retain the
present deputy commissioners in Office
J. p. Morgan settles out of court
suit based on failure to heat an apart
ment house leased from him-Net in
crease in immigration in 1902 is 11,S7I
lind of the convention of governors
at Manila-The Silverton has laid
223S miles of cable in the Pacific
Texas Democrats favor Judge Parker
for a presidential andidate-Ger-
many and England protest against hemp
tax in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bal
four ill-General Miles in Pekin--
Sweeping reforms proposed for the
British navy-Chamberlain welcomed
to Durham by large crowdS--Amer-
leans buying large lots of hides in Eu-
rope; stock there virtually cleaned ont
Professor Paulsen of Berlin SAYS de-
cadence of parliamentary government
in Germany is good for the country.
SUNDAY, DEC. 2S.
IL railroad accident at Wanstcad,
Ont, % persons were killed and 81 in
jured: telegraph operators mistake in
orders probably caused the COLLISION
Olney declines to attend a banquet at
Omaha which the western Democrats
hoped would start a boom for the Bay
state man for the presidency in 1901
Woman dying from self-adminStered
poison, confesses to having set three
fires at Kingston, n. H-.-Ex-PreSi.
dent Cleveland talks on the Monroe doc
trine; never better explained and de.
Tended, he says, than by Secretary
Olney-BOston not alone is suffering
from high prices for coal; Chicago, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore with
her---Niss Maud Scott Of Boston @
years, old, commits suicide By inhalina
gaS-MaScagni's troubles produce
nervous roStratiOn-James Welch OF
Boston loses 5000 and suspects Lis SON
who has disappeared, of the robbery
Cleveland emerging from a foul
days blizzard; severe cold weather in
the south,--Services in New England
in honor of Jesse Lee, founder OF
MethodiSm-Several days likely tC
elapSe before the signing of the pre-
liminary protocol in the Venezuelan
imbrOgliO; correspondence on now il
regard to the scheme for submission tC
The Hague tribunal-NIrS. Mar
tinetta Mckee, early friend of Abraham
Lincoln, dead at Frankfort, Ky-Sil
Thomas Lipton's third trial to oft
the America cup will cost him at icast
$1,000,000.
MONDAY, DEC. %.
Venezuelan rebels again take fiel(
against -BloodhOunds fail Il
find Seth w. Hartwell, aged an(
wealthy recluese of Littleton, Mass.
who mysteriously disappeared
tender to Moorish throne routs imperia
troops; 2000 reported killed ant
wOunded---Julic Opp and William
Fav9rsham, both divorced, will wee
each Other-Bank at Union, Mo
robbed Of $4,000, with no clew to guilt
parties Washington American lea gu
baseball club to be transferred t
Pittsburg- Pretty Ethel Smith 0
Brooklyn drinks oXalic acid rather thai
so home--Standard Oil company buy
the Beaumont oil fields in Texas
Cardinal Gibbons given a shake-up b,
falling elevator at Pittsburg-Secre
tary Wilson pleased with cattle diseas
situation in New England--Quec
Alexandra gives Il dinner to Boer wa
widows and orplans-Delaware an
Hudson railroad to extend its syste1
across Vermont-Loss of library on
of the serious features of the big fir
at Marlboro, MaSs-Senator Elkin
wants 50 more battleshipS and is SUI
piciOus of Germany--Senate of Rot
mania votes to naturalize the Jews c
that cOuntry-Count Lamsdorff, Rus
sian minister, lionized in Bulgaria.
Because she was reprmanded a 1!
year-old Buffalo girl commits suicid
Arthur r. Cove, retired bushes
man, dies in a bathtub at Boston
United States tug Sioux damaged an
sunk at Portsmouth, n. H., dock
indianapolis police claim to know {
plot to steal Harrison's body.
Conry to Contest Election
Boston, Dec. 26-Notice has bee
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