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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-01

Miss Alderman of Lexington, Mass,
shoots supposed burglar who entered
her room at night through window;
man may die from woundS-Twenty-
three miners entombed by explosion at
Wilcoe, Va; no possibility of any be-
ing rescued alive-Dock fire at New
Orleans causes estimated damage of
$4,000 00-Captain w. S. Winder, II
years old, commits suicide at Balti-
more; DR.. Osler's address on the use.
lessneSs of old mem found among his
papers-Steamer Nantucket makes
trip to mainland from the island and
back, carrying large cargo of sup.
plies to the long blockaded people
Montclair, N. j., police having hard
time to find any trace of Mrs. Ross
coachman, accused of numbering her
Baltimore man granted divorce
from woman who talked in her sleep
Minister Takahira says Japan is
not looking for nor expecting peace fol
another year at least, though ready for
it-Rev. D. +. Faulkner of Saco, Me,
who decides that he can no longer be
a minister and am Odd Fellow and
Mason, resigns from lodges of the two
fraternities--New Haven railroads
flremen committee adjourns without
announcing result of conference over
Observation-Disclosures gases kill
engineer att inspection of Simplon tun
nel-Pope to issue am encyclical to
bishops of the Rebuilding
French navy at cost of $100,O00,0O0 the
plan Of new ministry-Princess Vic |
toria of Connaught betrothed to Prince
Oscar Of Sweden.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-01
A Bad Failure.

Stocks-Bent's failure Is regarded as
a very bad one. Shares-How so?
Stocks - With his opportunities he
should have failed for at least twice
the amount
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-01
A HEALTHY OLD AGE
OFTENTHE BESTPARTOFLIFE
Help for Women Passing Through
Change of Life

Providence has allotted us each at
least seventy years in which to fulfill
our mission in life, and it is generally
our own fault if we die prematurely.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-01

A man has plenty Of friends when he
doesn't need them.-New York Press
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
ANNA POLLS "CoDE" BROKEN
Indication of Its Collapse at Naval .-. Academy.

Annapolis, Md, Dec. 18,-The mid shipmen of the first class at the naval academy, who form the court of last resort in matters relating to the ''code," have, it is said, passed the word among the fourth-class men who are being called as witnesses before the board of investigation that they may answer freely and fully all questions asked them. This is understood to mark the breakdown of all effort of the midship- men to defy the authorities. The board has summoned so many midshipmen of the fourth class that the upper class men are said to have decided that it will be useless to make any further att tempt to control the matter.
 Touching the rumor that whole class es, as such, contemplate admitting the practice of hazing, an officer in author ity to-day said that midshipmen would not be allowed to admit hazing in a general way, but that any of them who desired to confess to a special case would have it attended to promptly.
 Midshipmen Jerdone P. Kimbrough and Henry c. Cooper, Jr., were both released from the hospital to-day and will, 1t is thought, shortly be called be- fore the board of investigation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
COACHERS AND TRAINERS
 NOT ALWAYS RHRT MEN
COACH REID SPEAKS 1T Cs4M- BRIDGE ON COLLEGE AEH-
 LETICS.

Often Happens, He Says, That These
 Men Are Not an Influence for Clean
 Sport and Pure AthIetics-CoIIeges
 Blamed for ProseIytfng Among the
 Preparatory Schools and Condemns
 the Practice of Soliciting.
 Boston, Dec. 1s.-Head Coach Will liam T. Reid, IT,, of the Harvard foot ball team. was the principal speaker at the dinner of the Economy club. of Cambridge, at the Hotel Bellevue, in this city, tonight. Mir. Reid discussed the evils attendant upon college ath- letics, and made the statement that the graft and corruption in the busi- ness methods of to-day are responsible for much of the evil that hesets athlet- ics at the colleges" MT. Reid did not discuss the question of brutality In football, nor did he coafne his remarks to any particular branch Of college sport.
 ing athletes at the different prepara- tory schools. offering them special in- ducements to go to certain colleges He blamed parents for allowing their sons to enter a college where induce ments had been offered. He said that at the smaller preparatory schools boys learn to eyade the rules, and that ct the larger ones they begin to solicit athletes, and be solicited in turn. He blamed the colleges for proselytizing among the preparatory schools. and said that at the colleges and universi- ties 1t often happened that the coaches and trainers were not the kind of men who had an influence for clean sports and pure athletics.
 What we want at Cambridge said MT. Reid, are teams made up of men who came to Cambridge to be true sons of Harvard; who win participate in 1 sports in clean manly fashion; who will ta..e victory or defeat as men should, and if beaten fairly, take off their caps l to their conquerors
 Tn an informal discussion which fol lowed his address, Coach Meid said thai the Carlisle Indian school every year sent to Cambridge football team corr posed of men who played a strong clean game; men who never descended to mean or petty tricks or brutality
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
GOVERNMENTS ATTITUDE.
Forced to Adopt Harsh Measures as
 Last Resort

St. Petersburg, Dec. 8.4-Midnight.- The following statement of the gov- ernments, position was made to the As soeiated Press tonight and may be &C., cepted as authoritative:
 "The government sincerely desired to introduce the new regime without hay ing recourse to harsh measures, but it received no support from the constttu- tionalists- or other moderates, while the protetariat organizations, under the leadership of socialists, continued their mad campaign in favor of armed re- 'bellion and openly melted the army and the navy to mutiny. The climax of thas campaig nwas reached when efforts were made to attack the credit of the country in the midst of considerable panic Had the government allowed such efforts to go unchallenged, it would have precipitated complete ffnan- cial and industrial ruin.
 After all, self preservation is the first law of nature, and besides, with out the restoration of & semblance of order, it would be impossible to hold S<ok9S was desperate one and 1t demanded a desperate remedy.
 "The government believes that the radical aims of the socialists have the sympathy of only fraction of the population, and that if their leaders did succeed in overthrowing the monarchy and in placing their doctrines in prac- tice they would be swept out of exist ence by a counter revolution.
 Nevertheless the government is on the horns of a dilemma as, no matter how honest it's motives, in the present state of excitement they are bound tc be misinterpreted; while, on the other hand, if enough order can be restored to hold the elections the cry will be set up that the government has adopted this expedient to control the elections and to capture the douma.
 we have taken the only course lef ! oman Ia nsA
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
Shippinx News,

New York. Dec. 18.-Steamer Bremen, Bremen, for New York. in communica@ tion by wireless telegraph with the station at Siasconset, Mass, at a. nl., when the vessel was 219 miles east of Nantucket lightship. The Bremen will probably dock about p. m. to-1norr0W.
 New York, Dec. 1S.-.Arrived: Steam- CTS Algeria, Naples and Palermo.
 Naples, Dec. 17.--Arrived: Steamer Furst Bismarck, New York,
 Lizard, Dec. IS. - Passed: Steamer Minnehaha, New York for London.
 Palermo, Dec. 17--Sailed: Steamer Carpathia, (from Triestel, New York (report of passing Gibraltar 18th was an erroro.
 Cherbourg, Dec 1S.--Arrived: Steam.. CT Kaiser Wilhelm IT., New York via. Plymouth for Bremen (and proceeded). { :. Rotterdam, Dec, I6. - ArrivedE Steamer Statendarn. New York via Boulogne.
 Friedrich der Crosse, New York via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
 Cherbourg, Dec. 17--Arrived: Steam CT Amerika, New York via Plymouth for Hamburg (and proceeded).
 Naples, Dec. 17.--Arrived: Steamer Princess Irene, New York (and pro- ceeded for Genoa).
 Lizard, Dec 1S.--Passed: Steamer Rhein, Bremen for New York. Boulogne, Dec. IF. Sailed: Steamer Graf Wa1dersee (from Hamburg and Dover), New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
AMERICAN CONSUL IS
 ATTACKED IN SHANGHAI
INCIDENT OF THE RIOT THERE PROMOTED BY BOZ
 CoTTERS

German Consul Stoned and Several
 Other Foreigners Injured-Twenty
 Chinese ROwdIes Killed Before Riot
 is Suppressed Damage Otherwise
 SIight-F0reIgn Warships Land SaiI-
 Ors to Take Part in QuelIing the Dis
 Disturbance.
 Shanghai, Dec. 1S.-The riot here to- day was promoted by boycotters on ac- count of an incident involving the mix ed court. The German consul was stoned and the American vice-consul and several other foreigners were att tackled and injured. The Chinese closed their shops when the rioting began. The local volunteers were called out to restore order, and attachments of blue jackets were landed from the warships to assist in restoring peace. The riot was finally suppressed. Twenty Chinese rowdies were killed and few Europeans were wounded. Otherwise the damage done was slight. Police, sailors from the foreign war ships and volunteers co-operated in suppressing the riots, in the course of which one police station was partly burned, a barroom was wrecked and a bicycle store footed. No European was killed. The streets are now deserted except for armed patrols.
 Washington, Dec. 1S.-The state de- partment's information regarding the riots in Shanghai was contained in sev- eral dispatches from Shanghai, the last of which was received about o'clock this morning from Consul-Genera | Rodgers.
 One dispatch from MT. Rodgers was to the effect that all parts of the city of Shanghai had been put under mar tial law and that the foreigners were all arming. A dispatch received there from Chefoo stated that all was quie in that city.
 It is gathered that the moving cause: for the riots were the anti-AmericaI boycott and a general feeling of hostn ity toward foreigners such as preceded the Boxer uprising in 1900. MT. Rodg CTS statement was that all business was suspended among the Chinese; tha as an incident to the general strike { number of foreigners had been assault cd.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
LITTLE HOPE FOR HIM.
Injuries to J. ". spaIding in France
 Probably Fatal.

Avignon, France, Dec 1S-The doc tors have lit;le hope Of saving the life of J. Walter Spalding, of the firm of A. G. Spalding & Brother, New York, who was seriously injured about the head in an automobile accident at a level crossing near Mondragon yester- day. The Frontal bone was fractured, one eye destroyed and the other injur- ed by splinters of Mir. Spalding's spec tacles.
 Details of the accident show that Mir. Spalding's automobile in which he was accompanied by three friends, was travelling at a high rate of speed. It broke down close to the crossing bar rier, swerved along the track and over- turned, violently throwing out the pass engers. MT. Spalding's head struck a fence post and the other passengers were severely bruised. iA A minute later an express train passed the scene of the accident.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
AFTER SMALLER COMPANIES
HUGHES SPENDS DAY PROBING
 THEIR BUSINESS METHODS.

Provident Life to Meet Losses Marks
 Up the Book Values of It's Real Es-
 tate HoIdings-Empire Life Not DO-
 ing Much Business--Debarred from
 Several StateS--Life Association of
 America Makes Loans on Worthless
 Securities.
 New York, Dec. 1S.-Wfth the re- sumption of it's sessions to-day the leg islative insurance investigating com- rnittee practically started on the com pletion of it's work preparatory to Formulating it's report to the legisla- ture. To-day was devoted to the snall- CT companies, those under examination being the ProvfdenR Savings, the Elm 4pire Life and the Life Association of America ..+ r
 There appeared, according to MT Hughes, to be a marking up of the book values of the Prevalent societys s real estate holdings almost annually, and subsequently, Miles M. Dawson, the committees expert actuary, pre- sented compilations showing that the society lost about $1Oo,o0O last year, which was offset by the marking up of its real estate holdings.
 Stacey Wilson, secretary of the Elm pire Life, formerly the Home Benefit society, an assessment company, told how his company was run. The com rany owns real estate, and has about $12,000 of assets, with an outstanding liability of about $50,OO0 This company does business principally in New York and Pennsylvania, having been debar- red from operations in several of the other states He said the total receipts of his company for 1904 were $7S,S35, while the disbursements were .$79,000. Witness said that hope of an increased business had been blasted by the action of many states in debarring the com pany.
 The Life Association of America, or- ganized in 1901, was also taken up and it's president, Henry T. Townsley, testi fled. He said the company was origin ally an assessment company, but in 1902 | 1t was incorporated as a. stock con- pany. He said his company frequently paid to brokers or agents what amounted to 90 per cent. commissions Fifty per cent. was the regular com. mission and the balance was made UT by committing of the renewal commits sion.
 A list of collateral loans was in evi' dence, and when MT. Hughes started 4 to read it Mir. Townsley asked if it was read fer the benefit of the newspapers MT. Hughes replied that it was read tc show thai the company loaned money on worthless securities.
 Mir. Tt.wnsley's examination will bt resumed tomorrow.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
whitney Speaks in Hartford.

Hartford, Dec. 19.-Henry M. Whit ney, the recent democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Massachu- setts, was the principal speaker at the monthly gathering of the Get Together club of this city. The general topic discussed was "The Future of New England" and the theme of MT. Whit ney's speech was "The Industrial Flu ture of New England" MT. Whitney gave an interesting talk on the prob- able growth of the New England states and spoke also in regard to our trade relations with Canada
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
HARTFORD FTREMEN HURT.
Several Caught Under a Portion of a
 Falling Roof.

Hartford, Dec. 1s.-F1~e this after noon on the third floor cl the Board- man building. 302 Asylum street, caus- ed a loss of about $45OO, Schwartz, Myers & Gross, manufacturers of un- derwear, being the heaviest losers Sev- eral firemen were caught under 0 por- tion of the roof. which fell and were painfully injured, J. J. McNally suffer- ing a broken shoulder and rib. A large part of the loss was caused by water.
 The fire started in the storage rooms of William Boardman & Sons on the top floor and worked down to the floor below, where most of the damage was done.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
DEFIANCE HURLED IN
 FACE OF PREMIER WITTE
IF HIS GOVERNMENT WANTS FIGHT IT SHALL
 HAVE IT.

Declaration of the ProIetariat Printed
 Under Very Nose of St. Petersburg
 POIice-Tbrone of the ROmanOffs
 TOttering on Very Eve of Final Fight -RepubIie Proclaimed at Riga
 Governments Attitude Explained
 Repressive Measures Adopted as Last
 Resort.
 St. Petersburg, Dec. IS, I p. m.-The workmen's council, under the very nose of the police, has succeeded in printing a hundred thousand copies of its paper announcing that the government has declared civil war on the proletariat, and saying that the challenge must be accepted. In its appeal to the people the council declares this is the govern ment's last fight, that the throne of the Romanoffs is tottering, and that anoth- CT blow will cause 1t to fall. The coun- ell adds:
 While the government at St. Peters burg is falling, It's own regiments are rising against it, and at Riga repub- lie has already been proclaimed. A few regiments may still be faithful, but the army as Q whole is on our side. The government wants to fight. It shall have 1t. s
 "The people are for us. If we are de- feated 1t will not be our last battle. We can fight on. The government is stalking everything-its army and its finances.
 "Witte cannot play his hypocritical game any longer. The government has only made confessions to save itself from ruin. Now, seeing that it's fall is inevitable, it is making last despair ing effort to recover its power.
 we would have preferred delaying the decisive conflict until better pre- pared, but reaction makes retreat inn- possible. A revolutionary conflict cam mot be avoided"
 The paper also contains a direct ap- peal to the army, which is signed "The Pan Russian Union of the Army and Navy" .-.....,2 ,2 rr.. ~.... .s ~ ...~..
 In spite of the fury of the revolu- 1 tionists, however, considerable conti- | dence is expressed In government cir- | cles that the extreme elements in the present temper of the worknen will l not dare to call general strike. and 1 that if they do the chances are thai 1t will be failure ..-.
 Operators on the bourse are inclined to interpret rather favorably tht strong measures taken by the govern ment, but heavy selling orders came from Berlin, and imperial is closed half a point down, at.79. -
 The Bourse Gazette says it is rumor- ed that $50,0o0,OO0 in gold has been shipped abroad to help in supporting Russian securities in the foreign mar kets.
 Governor Regensk of Riga is still UT gently calling for troops. He reports that besides the fact that armed in surgents are disputirg the passage O. the soldiers, the railroad tracks arr damaged in all directions, and he ad vises that troops be sent by water.
 It now transpires that half the rc inducements of troops on board tn train wrecked December 14 near Stock mansof. Livonia, surrendered to the in surgerts. Governor Regensk's lates advices said that the remainder of tho troops held out for four days. Theil position when last heard from was des perate.
 Governor General Doubassoff, of tn province of Chernigoff, has returned t. Moscow investe with special powers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
SIGNIFICANT COINCIDENCE.
Great British Fleet to Manoeuver Near
 Morocco During Conference.

Cadiz, Spain, Dec 1S.-Information transmitted to the Spanish admiralty confirms a report in circulation here to the effect that the British Mediterra- mean, Atlantic and channel squadrons, comprising sixty warships, will concen- trate in April near the Gulf of Cadiz, with a base at Lagos, for combined manoeuvres. Some people here are in- ciined to regard the presence of the British fleet near Morocco at about the time when the Moroccan conference closes as being a significant coinci- dence
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
UNION LEAGUE CLUB.
ANNUAL MEETING AND ELEC-
 TION OF OFFICERS.

OtAGE ftG~cAGGNIUuS~-NGW OlkACkalS--5
 The League's ProsperIty-s1O,O 900
 Spent in Installing Bowling Alleys
 and Refurnishing. <
 Last evening the Union League club held it's regular annual business meet ing and election of officers.
 Clarence D. Thompson was reelected president for the ensuing year The following officers were reelected for one year:
 Vice-presidents-G George A. Alling and Senator Eli Whitney.
 Auditors William F. Futile and George W. Lewis.
 Trustees-Ge General Edwin s. Greeley, Simeon J. Fox and Robert A. Brown.
 For the board of governors, of which there are twelve members, the follow- ing four were elected for three years: Major Smith G. Weed, Frank H. Cur tiss, William F. Porter and F. Parker Lewis.
 John M. Crampton was elected to the board of governors for two years to succeed Frederick g. Holbrook, Of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, who has been transferred to Boston, and George c. Ross was elected for one year to replace E. B. Flames.
 N. W. Kendall, Charles E. Burton and William H. Hamilton still have one more year to serve on the board of goy- ernors, and Judge Richard H. Tyner, Leslie Moulthrop and William R. Shaf- fer two years. .s.t,.sf s<..z.ss | Ward Bailey was reappointed secre- tary for one year, and General Edwin s. Greeley was reappointed treasurer | for one year. .., %z@
 The past year has been a very suc- cessful one for the Union League club, both in the increase in it's membership and financially. The net gain on the years business was $2,3T5.09. The sink ing fund has this year paid off d,000 on the second mortgage bonds ~ l During the past summer and fall about $10,000 has been spent in putting in new bowling alleys and in reftting and refurnishing the clubhouse. The Union League now possesses the finest and mogt elegant clubhouse in the state and is in the most f1ourishing eondt. tiOt,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
BULKELEY AND BRANDEGEE
THEIR ASSIGNMENT TO COMMIT
 TEES OF SENATE.

Former Chairman of That to Examine
 the Several Branches of the Civil
 Service; Latter Chairman of That on
 Forest Reservation and Protection of
 Game--other Committees to Which
 They Are Named.
 Washington, Dec. 1S.-standing com mittees of the senate were announced to-day in accordance with assignments arranged by committee appointed by the republican caucus and the demo- cratic steering committee acting sepa- rately.. Every republican senator was given chairrnanship' except Senator Burton of Kansas, who was ignored en- tirely as to assignments In response to his request that he be not placed on any committee pending the determination oi the charges against him III the courts.
 Vacancies were left for Senator La follette of wisconsin and Senator Gear In of Oregon, neither of whom have been sworn.
 The Connecticut senatorse received the following appointments to committees:
 Senator Bulkeley-- Chairman of ti1t committee to, examine the several branches Of the civil service; member of the following committees: of military affairs,on Cuban relations, on Canadian relations, on coast andoansular survey and on fisheries and on railroads.
 Senator Brandegee - Chairman ot committee on forest reservations an6 the protection of game; member o1 committee on Indian affairs, on Philip pines, on education and labor, on in dustrial expositions, on public healtf and national quarantine and on trans portation and sale of meat products
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
Sharp Warming to Germany.

Washington, Dec. S.-Germany is given g. sharp warning against tariff discrimination affecting the United States, in a bill introduced to-day by Representative MoCleary of Minnesota. The bill provides an additional duty of 25 per cent. on the wares of any coun- try found discriminating against Amer ican products.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
Samuel ripper Dead.

The death of Samuel ripper, forty years old, of 137 1-2 Foote street. occur red at the New Haven hospital this morning at 1925 o'clock. Tipper went to the hospital for an operation on De- cember 4. He is survived by g. wife and one son.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-19
MILK CAUSES CHrLD,s DEATH.
Providence Man Indicted for Man sIauGhter-sold Adulterated Article.

Providence, R. l., Dec. 1S.-The grand jury in the superior court to-day re- turned an indictment against John M. Mcdonald, charging him with man. slaughter in causing the death of Ella shanley, a baby girl, by adulterating milk, which it is claimed he sold to the Shanley family. Mcdonald was in dicted by the last grand pury, but de- murred to that indictment because of a technicality.