St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-02-28

'0ihAnltltu eulclue aC Naples by Sn00t-
ing a few hours before he was to have
been married to daughter of the Duke
Of Cerigliano.
A detachment of so sailors from the
American cruiser squadron, now at
Naples, was received by the pope at the
Vatican.
Walter Forth, 16 years old, was
seized with an epileptic fit while carry
ing a lighted lamp down stairs at his
home at Lynn, Mass, and fell to the
foot of the stairs. He was so badly
burned that he died.
Thursday, Feb. 20.
In consequence of District Attorney
Moran's investigation of the escape of
George H. Gaskell from Charles street
Jail, Boston, Sheriff Seavey has taken
summary action and discharged the
four employees whose services the dis
trict attorney recommended that the
county dispense with.
Alexander S. Porter, a Boston real
estate broker, has filed a voluntary pc
titiOn in bankruptcy. He has liabilities
scheduled at $226,947.46 and assets of
only $500.
Meagre details have been received of
attacks upon Catholic missions in sew
eral towns in the southeast provinces of
China. The bishop of Chengchowfu
telegraphs that Christians are fleeing.
A dispatch from Paris, which bears
strong marks of inspiration, suggests
the possibility of intervention by Prssi-
dent Roosevelt, as in the case of Russia
and Japan, to reconcile the Numerically
opposite views of France and Germany
at the Moroccan conference.
The congress on uniform divorce laws
expressed itself in favor of all hearings
and trials in divorce cases in open court.
After Is years of more or less serious
consideration of the subject, the senate
passed a pure food bill by vote of 63
to 4.
Chairman Hull of the military affairs
committee, in presenting the army ap-
preparation bill to the house, urged the
necessity of complete preparedness as
to our army and navy for trouble in the
Orient.
An investigation into the conditions
which made possible the great fire of
last Sunday, in which six of the largest
mercantile blocks in Rutland, VT, were
DESTROYED. has been begun.
After a service Of over 20 years in
congress, General Charles H. eros
venor, the Sage Of Athens" was de-
feated for denomination by Albert
Douglass of Chillicothe, o.
"Wednesday. Feb. ri.
Mrs. ]. W. Waters, apparently In
sane. cast her children from the steam
er Plymouth off Point Judith, r. l., and
followed them herself. The children
included Helen, aged 4, Dorothy, 2years
of age, and an infant son of 10 months.
H. C. Evans, formerly consul general
to London, announces his willingness
to accept the Republican nomination
and make the race for governor of Ten
nesSee
Within IS hours five children were
burned to death in Caribou, Me-, viii
lage where an accident fatality usually
occurs but once in a period of several
years,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Glidden of
Boston have arrived in Calcutta in their
automobile, having completed the long
est motor-drive ever made in India of
4405 miles
The United States supreme court, by
an undivided bench, laid down the new
principle that railroads cannot deal in
the commodities which they haul over
their lines. This decision falls prin-
cipally on the railroads which directly
or indirectly own coal mines and sell
their products
Two boys playing on the Athol
(Mass.) fair grounds found the body OF
Charles L. Maynard, aged 50, frozen,
in a stall. Medical Examiner Oliver
said death was due to alcoholism and
exposure.
Gussie Hart, an actress, 80 years of
age. died in a cab while being taken to
her home at New York. She had fallen
down a long flight of steps at an up
town cafe, where she had spent sew
eral hours with party of friends.
Steamship agents at Boston unani-
mously voted to increase the wages of
longshoremen employed by the various
companies.
Tuesday, Feb. 20.
Charles II. Meyer, president ana
William d. Haywood, secretary and
treasurer of the Western Federation OF
Miners. and G.. A. Pettibone, a former
member of the executive committee OF
that organization, are charged with
completely in the murder of former
Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho.
]. p. Hill, president of coal COM
pany and one of the wealthy men of the
Guyandotte, Pa, valley, was shot ana
killed by Erwin Porter, Is years old,
during an alteration over some matter
about the mines.
President Reyes of Colombia was
shot at eight times by paid assassins
while he was crossing bridge in Bogo-
ia with his daughter. None of the bull
LET'S struck the president or his daughter.
The John Hancock National bank OF
Springfield, Mass, is to liquidate anG
ioin the Union Trust company.
ubo nointed reference to Ireland con-