St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-10-05

Philippines generally satisfactory
Plan for federal control of insurance
being considered by the administration
American engineers show that
Chagres river, near Panama canal,
can be diverted to Pacific, saving $780,,
100000 over French plans-Kaiser in
perfect health, according to members
Of suiee-Alderman John Pound
chosen lord mayor of London-Cuba
in sore need Of more workmen to
handle sugar crop-Panama wishes
to negotiate new treaty with United
States-Duke of Orleans plans Arctic
pedition-Shower of ashes or sand
in Italy probably due to eruption Of
Vesuvius.
SATURDAY, OCT. 1.
From all parts of the country and
from beyond borders of United States
come expressions of sympathy, and
with them unstinted encomiums of
worth, service and character of Sena-
tor Acknowledgements james
McInerney of Boston found guilty of in
tent to steal and with destroying his
own naturalization papers-Trinidad
Col, flooded; much damage reported
City of Providence offers rewards
aggregating $500 for incendiaries-
Ala, also acquitted-Joseph Watson,
negro murderer at Hartford, sentenced
to death-Chief Croker has a narrow
escape at New York fire which causes
loss of $25O,O00-Violent wiAdstorm
on Lake Champlain; Burlington, VT,
partly flooded; steamer wrecked.
Postmaster General Payne seriously
Ill; does not respond to remedies which
usually prove effective-The presi-
dent quoted as saying that Secretary
Hay has promised to remain at the
head of the state department-Mo-
roccan tribesmen murder the governor
of Arzila-Ernest Terah Hooley and
partner held in London on charge of
conspiring to defraud
SUNDAY, OCT. 2.
Department of commerce and labor
and department of justice unearth an
alleged conspiracy Of dealers in cork
for life preservers and four officers of
the Nonpareil Cork works at Camden,
N. j., are arrested-Commodo Plant
returns from England and says build
ers Of cup defenders had better wait
Ettle-Death of Sir. William Vernon
Harcourt- Russian cavalrymen raid
a Japanese fotilla on the Lao river
Mrs. Louise Blackinton and two
other women injured in auto accident at
Pondville, Mass; her leg amputated-
Herbert Sulkey killed at Boston navy
yard as a result of his efforts to save
some little girls from injury-Con-
spiracy to sink the battleship Connect
cut scarried-Parents of Rev. Vic
tor Barton and Rev. Frank Temp1eton
Of the Holy Ghost and Us society learn
of their death in Jerusalem-Ship-
owners association recedes from it's
demands for higher carrying prices,
and the coal war is ended.
MONDAY, OCT. 8.
While Rev. T. D. Beaver, Roman
Catholic bishop of Springfield, was
laying cornerstone of st. StanisIaus
Polish church at Adams, Mass, a floor
collapsed, precipitatfng $50 persons
into the basement; 81 persons so in
jured as to require hospital treatment
Henry G. Davis, in letter accepting
nomination for vice president, says
times are propitious for change of adj
HILLS IRA IIOn--HrOSpecC OF SeILlemenC
Of Fall River strike seems somewhat
brighter, owing to active mea sures re-
Gently adopted by the local merchants
Russians repulsed in desperate en-
deavor to regain Port Arthurs water
supply-Navy department officials
thoroughly aroused over discovery of
latest attempt to injure new battle
ship Connecticut. F. Libby of
Prospect, Me-, So, mysteriously miss
ng-Postmaster General Payne
lowering between life and death
Lynching of John Morrison, white, who
killed viii T. Floyd at Kershaw, S. G
Davis P. Gray, II, postmaster of
Whitinsville, Mass, found dead on a
sofa in his home-John G.. Peters, one
of the principals in boxing match at
West Bergen, N. J., dies in the ring,
following a knockout blow in the
fourth round-Mrs. Denman Thomp-
son, wife of actor and author of ''The
Old Homestead dies at West Swan
Zey, n. H, aged 65.