St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-07-26

after eluding police for II years
Former president of bank at Nash
vile, Ark, fugitive since 1903, arrested
at Los Angeles, Cal-Resolutio for
removal of Justice Hooker of New
York supreme court defeated in the as
sembly-Governor Higgins Of New
York urges appointment of joint leglS-
lative commission to investigate life
insurance business In the state
John Hays will filed; nearly all prop
erty left to Mrs. Hay-Russia agrees
to a conference on Serious
disorders in Spain as result Of gen
eral diStress-Guilds meet in Shang-
hal to start the American boycott
st. Lawrence river so low that vessels
cannot take full cargo-New alien
bill passed to third reading in British
house of commons-Delay in tonnage
bonus plan checks steel shipbuilding in
Canadian provinces.
SATURDAY, JULY %.
AS result of frightful explosion Of
two boilers on United States gunboat
Bennington in San Diego harbof,
Lieutenant Perry and 3S men are dead,
80 men are wounded and q are missing
and may be dead; many Of injured
will die; warship much shattered,
great hole being torn in the stem;
ship beached to prevent its sinking;
boiler which first exploded was known
to be partially unsafe" scene Of hor-
ror and suffering In harbor aid streets
of San Diego-Bomb thrdwer at
tempts life of Sultan of Turkey; he es-
capes uninjured, but many Of his fol-
lowers killed-Fire destroys the Fish
River lumber mills at Eagle Lake, Me
-Teamsters rush for work in Chi.
cago, but there are not many va
cancies-Senato Dick laughs at
claims of Ohio Democrats; predicts Re
publican landSlide-Dr. Robert
Thompson, under sentence for counter
feiting, arrested at Boston for Illegal
use Of mails-Man killed and four
other persons seriously injured In auto
mobile wreck at Los Angeles, Cal
Fifty members of Garment Workers
union held in New York Tombs on
charges of riodng-Body OF Lillian S.
Keene, who disappeared last Decem-
Der, found in the Kennebec river ut
Bath, Me-MrS Mary Larkins, in
mate of state insane asylum at
Traverse City Mich, murdered by an
other patient-Dr. William II. Kelly
of Albany chosen United States dele
gate to international veterinary con-
gress, to be held at Budapest in Sep
tember-Suggestion that all secrecy
be removed from cotton report-Oanal
commission to advertise for a large
number of laborers-Report that
Loomis may represent the United
States at the conference on Morocco
Boycott of American goods in force al
Shanghai-Another large colony OF
Doukhobors preparing to start foG
Canada-Max Nordau declines to he
one of the leaders of the Zionist move
ment.
SUNDAY, JULY %.
Casualty list of the Bennington disas'
ter gives 60 dead and 80 severely in
jured, missing Is, probable ultimate
total dead S1-Portsmouth, n. H.
blast at Henderson's point is success
fully fired and the obstructing rock is
rent into fragments, water rising 10(
feet into the air-One man killed ant
four hurt on street railway at Hing
ham, MasS-Several persons i'll
jured, two perhaps fatally, in an cleo
trio car collision at Portsmouth, n. L
Funeral of General Blackmar a
Boston-Springheld, Mass, youn:
woman horsewhips clerk in Mali
clares Russia is not yet ripe for popula
success
fully defend the Davis internadona
lawn tennis trophy@Panama cana
construction to remain In war depart
ment, at least till Taft gets back from
the Philippines-No detail over
looked for comfort and convenience o.
peace commissioners at Portsmouth. n
H-Vermont politicians casting abou
for a candidate for governor 10 erusl
the ambitions Of f. D. Proctor.
MONDAY, JULY "a.
Forty-seven sailors Of gunboat Ben
nington buried In cemetery at sal
Diego; total number of casualties 125
90 dead and many in hospitals expected
to d4e-Czar of Russia and Empero
Of Germany in private conference OIL
latter's yacht in Baltic sea diplomatist
taken completely by surprise and va
rious rumors are In circulation
Grand jury of District of Columbia t.
consider certain criminal practices al
legged to exist ana 30 have existed 4
one of the executive departments;
known to relate to department Of ayr
culture, whose crop statistical report
have beea under investiga tion--Bod
Of late General BlaGkmar viewed b.
10000 people In state house at Boston
remains escorted to cemetery by Gran
Army veterans and militiamen-
, Daniel S. Lamont, Cleveland's war SCI
rotary, dies suddenly at his home q
Millbrook, n. War brewing /
Boston's Chinatown; gamblers wrougt
, lid by informers-New Orleans niue
, aroused over yellow fever scare; al
+ thorities trying to isolate disease
, Three business blocks burned at Skov
: hogan, Me-, with loss of $T7,500-