St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-03-09

TUESDAY. MARCH 1.


Fifteen Japanese warships furiously
lombard Port Arthur for two hours;
Russian cruisers Novik, Askold and
Bayan, accompanied by four torpedo
boats, steamed out to meet attack, but
forced to retire; Askold in sinking con
dition. Novik badly damaged and a tor
pedo boat sunk; Russian battleship
Retvizan again damaged; japanese
withdrew in good order-Temporary
injunction issued against the union
seamen along the Atlantic coast
Thomas w. Lawson to be witness in
Ham embezzlement case at Boston;
prisoner still unable to get bail-Rev.
Joseph d. Herr, d. d., dean of the
Gordon Bible Missionary Training
school, dies at Boston-Channel work
In Boston harbor much slower than last
winter because of the unusually severe
weather
WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 2.
No confirmation of story that the
japanese treated Port Arthur to another
furious bombardment, during which
Russian torpedo boat was sunk and two
cruisers were badly damaged, while the
Japanese escaped; Russian land forces
said to be awaiting attack-Decided
change in sentiment on the license ques-
ton shown at annual elections IN YER
mont, only 4S cities and towns, accord
ing to returns received thus far, voting
in favor Of liquor selling, as compared
with % last year-MrS. Della Smith,
68 years old, murdered at Londonderry,
vt. and her room ransacked; known
to have had considerable money in her
room and on her person and crime is
attributed to robbers-No danger of a
reduction in construction force at Bos-
ton navy yard, despite big cutin steam
engineering department-Ne Mexico
willing to join Arizona as a state
Federal party in Porto Rico goes out Of
Observation-Disclosures section of Bow
doinham, Me-, destroyed by fire
Heavy snowfall in New York state de-
lays traffic, and floods may follow.
THURSDAY, MARCH g.
Hardly word of news from seat of
war; now seems clear that story of
bombardment of Port Arthur by Japan
csc on Feb. % is nothing more than a
re-echo of previous attacks; evidence
accumulates that Japan has thrown
great army of more than 100000 men
into Korea-Fourteen persons killed
by collapse of skeleton of big building
at New York; contractors and owners
had been warned that it was unsafe
President Smith of Mormon church
testifies at Smoot hearing that he still
believes in polygamy, it having first
been commanded to the church by 'an
angel in bIack'-Three soldiers at
Fort Terry dead and two dying as re-
suit of drinking wood alcohol"Police
looking for Carl E. Brigham, aged 81,
in connection with murder and robbery
of Mrs. Smith at Londonderry, n. H
Mine workers and operators fail to
agree upon scale at indianapolis confer
ence-Provisional estimate of value
of estate of late William c. Whitney
places it at $11,OOO,OOO- severe
blizzard of winter raging in portions of
Michigan and Minnesota-TWo
masked highwaymen hold up trolley
car at Clinton, Mass; fired two shots
and escaped without booty-Captain
Wyndham to succeed the late Captain
Talbot as British consul at Boston
William H. Marvin begins 22nd year as
commissioner of Boston and Cambria e
idgeS-Charles-D Dick of Ohio elected
to the United States senate for both
long and short terms-Chief Murphy
of Tammany ready to battle with Hill
for an uninstructed delegation to the ma
tional nvention-President of Rural
Carriers association makes strong plea
for higher ages-Both branches of
congress working to avoid controversy
over eXpenditureS-Go Odell
was not called to Washington by the
president; former asked for conference
Sir William Van Horne tells of
bright conditions in Cuba-Trouble
in German Kamerun due to eccentric
conduct of district commissioner and
the theft of a lantern-
FRIDAY, MARCH 8.
If dispatch from Vladivostok to eff
feet that $500 japanese troops landed
at Song Chin, Plaksin bay, and imme-
diately started west by north for Mao
furchan be true, the japanese have be-
gun daring raid; location commands
important points in Manchuria- Great
prairie fire sweeps over large section of
Oklahoma; at least four lives lost and
1000 persons homeless-Presiden
Joseph Smith of Norman church con-
fesses that he himself continued to CO.
habit with his plural family since the
manifesto of 1890, and that he realized
fully that he was violating state laws
Wallace II. Ham, self-confesSed en-
beZZler, valves examination at Boston
and is remanded to Jail, bail being fixed
at $4,000; new accusations made
against him-Pittsburg in danger OF
serious fioods-Wisconsf to have a
new state capitol-Last dividend paid
to stockholders in Chicago fair
Three women killed by a train at Wal
lingford, Conn-Maryland house of
delegates passes the "Jim Crow bill
PLANS for two large Dunkard col