St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-01-17

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corporations in which he denounced
Wall street because of its alleged inter-
ference with the affairs of the country.
The New York stock brokerage firm
o, H. H. Hoyt & Co. has closed its
doors, a petition in bankruptcy having
been filed against it.
Six deaths from spotted fever have
occurred among the draft of 800 naval
apprentices who were brought to the
training station at Newport, r. l., last
November.
Thursday, Jan. II.
William r. Harper, LII. D., president
of the University Of Chicago, regarded
by many as the foremost Hebrew
scholar in America, and equally re-
nowned as educator and business man,
died of cancer of the intentines at Chi
cago.
Eight persons lost their lives in a
fire which burned out the fifth, sixth
and seventh stories of the "fireproof"
West hotel at Minneapolis.
According to the annual report of the
Massachusetts state board of insanity,
the total number of insane persons I'M
der care on Oct. last numbered 10, 153.
The naval wireless station at
Thatcher's Island, N. H., has been dis
continued.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
asked that his estimate Of $2S,325, 900
for the maintenance of rural free deliv-
cry in the fiscal year ending June 30,
1907, be reduced to 27,799,000.
The supreme court of Santo Domingo
has ordered the arrest of President
Morales and his followers. The authori-
ties do not know the whereabouts Of
Morales.
The Kentucky senate and house In
Joint session formally elected Thomas
II. Paynter to the United States senate
to succeed ]. G. S. Blackburn.
The Boston Merchants association
has voted for more liberal liquor legis-
lation for that city.
In a coasting accident on a hill at
Turner's Falls, Mass, two young people
Of a party of 10 who were on a double
runner We're dangerously hurt and four
| others also received injuries.
Wednesday,, Jan. 10.
Secretary Taft has been endeavor-
ing Systematically to reduce his weight.
| ho hanan tho frpD tmpnt he
weighed 314 "a pounds. Today he
weighs 294 3-S pounds.
James f. Nichols, postmaster at Hills
boro Bridge, n. H., is charged with
the ENLIGHTENMENT of $6S from the gov
eminent through a discrepancy in the
accounts of his office.
Experts are at work on the books OF
the late Town Treasurer Hall Of Need
ham, Mass, for the purpose of investi'
eating report of shortage Of $4,000
There was sudden eruption OF
Mount Vesuvius, and the resultant
scene of picturesque magnificence was
witnessed by thousands of tourists.
Leland w. Prior, one Of the best
known men in financial circles in the
west, shot and killed himself at Cleve
land. He had lost heavily in stocks.
The control of the American Nation
al bank of Providence has passed into
the hands of the Rhode Island Hospita
Trust company, also Of Providence.
Hope Young, who was convicted Of
the murder of a child and for whom
new trial was granted by the Nova
Scotia supreme court, has been takel
to an insane asylum. Her mind be
came deranged.
For 30 days Mary Ference of Bridge
port, Conn, has gone without eating
subsisting on water through insane
fear that those about her are trying t
take her life by poison. Judge Nobb
has ordered the woman committed to al
insane asylum.
Seventeen persons are missing an(
are believed to have gone to their dealt
when IS houses at Haverstraw, N. Y.
toppled over into pit GO feet deep
which had been cut by clay diggers il
connection with, the brickmaking in
dustry there.
Harry Zucher, bartender OF An
sonia, Conn, who was struck over tn
head with billiard cue by Walter Mel
son, a negro, died of his injuries.
Tuesday, Jan. 9.
Except for a few broken casks o
china clay in one of the forward com
partments, steamer Ashfield arrived a
Boston from Fowey, Eng, little tn
worse for hard battle with the mort
Atlantic seas and winds.
Civil service regulations will nc
hereafter apply, so far as the isthmla
canal commission is concerned, to tn
| employment of track layers, skilled Ia
borers, foremen, etc.
Nathan b. Goodnow & Co., banker
and brokers at Boston, have made a
assignment. The advance in cope
shares is said to have affected the sta
bility of the concern and contribute
largely toward the causes of the failure
{ Frank Sherrie was hanged at tn
: Connecticut state prison for the mu
, der of Mrs. Kulas. He declared his IL
4 nocence of the crime of which he ha
been convicted.
Suicide by means of both bullet an
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