St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-12-23


Adirondack region--President signs
the Cuban reciprocity bill-Report
that former Speaker Henderson may re-
turn to congress --President offers va
cant civil service commissionershlp to
General John G. Black-king Chris
tan of Denmark in Berlin--Admiral
Alexieff said to opposs war with Japan
French fishermen said to be y1olat@
ing French shore treaty--ChamDer-
lain's proposed tariff inquiry meets
conflicting views OF the press--An
American said to have offered $25O,0O0
or original manuscript of paradise
Lost" -Austrian imperial minister
suggests that Turkey places herself Ill
danger if she does not agree to plans
of powers.
SATURDAY, DEC. 49,
John A. Benson, head of what is
styled California Land syndicate, ar
rested at Washington on charge OF
bribing interior department employe,
w. B. Harlan; neld in $4,000 bail
Secret service agents arrest E. e. Will
son and e.. 3. Wiggin at Boston,
charged with being dangerous counter
feiters-Treasury Agents Bum and
Bean return to Boston for duty-Re-
port of Professor Shalers withdrawal
from Harvard lacks foundation OF fact
Theological students Of Boston uni
yersity de ~ that they have declared in
favor of DR.. Hamilton for president
Nebraska supreme court holds that deal
ing in options is gambling--Sixteen
hundred livery drivers strike in Chi
cago; 400 stables tied up--Executlve
committee of the civil federation meets
in New York and makes plans for the
Independent plate glass manu-
facturers agree with Pittsburg COM
pany to maintain prices and output
Merging of American Tin Plate and
Steel companies will save United States
Steel corporation 100000 year
Senator Hoars speech on Panama
pleases General Reyes--Transpor1
Kingsley ashore ON the north coast OF
! Mindanao-Senato Hoar's Panama
speech arouses new interest in the sub
iect; plans being made for handing
such resolutions Nicaragua mrs
Central American republic to recognlz'
Panama-Wos y Gil says annexation
10 tho United States would not b.
agreeable to San Domingo.
SUNDAY, DEC. 20.
Electric car just escapes bein
smashed in pieces by an express tral
! in Somerville, Mass-Isaac lsaacsol
sailor. beaten and robbed OF Sl0o q
i Boston; man dragged into lodgln
: house and robbed-Historic Sout
church at Salem, Mass, destroyed o
= fre--Judge Beatty of Idaho, called
4 sit in United States court in Butte 0
: Judge Knowles, adjudges T. a. Heinz
: in contempt of CORTLAND fines nj.
g Chicago hearse strikers MAJ
:, ING # perilous to bury dead or even
\ move dying folk to hospitals-tres
3 dent Roosevelt sends third batch
&c Panama correspondence to congress
"a message between Reaurre and state q
~ na,+ment in the documents-M1
,e Mary H. Rogers on trial on charge
81 numbering her husband, at Benningto
,r VT. to submit her case to the jury wit
,s ont defense Nelms, lie
NJ tuclian. charged with paying men
NJ kill his wife and with kidnapping wen
to -Rev. Charles S. Bullock or str;
in ford, Conn, bound over for trial at Nc
III Haven on charges preferred by MI
10. Isabelle V. SEailer, member OF
congregation-Oscar s. straus &c
members of civic federation that Han
49, prefers to work for that body to-bei
;, nresiGent-Consolid railroad
-. gineer sticks to his lever, and with
~ arm broken keeps his extra freight trf
:, ont Of the way Of a passenger train 1
-, lowinc---Wilson and Wiggil, allee
III counterfeiters, arrested at Boston, M
-, in S7OOO-Moody instructs ma
~ forces in the Caribbean to "let
Iombians take the initiative" situat
,rs, not alarming, but one that requires "
a. delicate handling--Spain, France
~ the United States join hands in CT
w brating Louisiana purchase day at n
- Orleans-General John G. Black
rs+ cents civil service commissionership
VS. MONDAY, DEC. p.
me In hope of discovering perpetrai
,ch of numerous robberies and burgla
ro- which have occurred in Boston the
I'M lice of that city made raids in ch
Ter, lodging houses and arrested 81 men
lcal Chinaman murdered in Boston ST
- by three unknown thugs-Tur
by agrees to apologize for assault ON
- sui Davis; officials to be punished
red North Adams. Mass, police officer
dis shot Chief Dinneen promptly reno
fac John Kernel, the noted l
ton comedian, dies in hospital at Det
,lec- st. Joseph's orphanage at Nasl
for N. H., robbed Of $200-Drunken
re- starts fire at Providence, and wol
the is fatally burned-SanD Domingo g
Sol" TO all the demands made by the UI
NJ. States-Governo Davis of Arka
- assaults a judge of the supreme c
ling -Four firemen overcome by smol
love battling with Worcester, Mass,
'tion New East river bridge form
end opened, with much ceremony---T
/ ork men on New Haven road warned
an lookout for card SharpS--"Crt