St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-01-03
THE WEEKS NEWS
Sunday. Dec. 81,


year Just closed did the stork visit New
York city. From these visits alone the
city's population was increased by
1O3,852.
Nine hours as day with free beer
won over demand for an eight-hour
Say presented by the employees of nearly
40 breweries in Cincinnati.
The mayor of Boston has revoked
the permit of the Holy Jumpers to con-
duct meetings in Faneull hall.
Walter Wellman and Santos Dumont
are to search for the North pole next
wear with an airship and wireless tele
graph OUTFIT.
Vice President Cacereshas issued
call for an extra session of the Santo
DOMINICAN congress to consider the case
of President Morales, charged with
treason.
The United Irish league has issued
instructions to Irish voters in Great
Britain, urging them to support Lib
erals except Roseberyites.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000 to
the Scots Charitable society Of Boston.
Quincy e. Dickerman has retired
from the Somerville, Mass, school
board after % years service.
General Bingham, appointed police
commissioner in New York, Is strict
disciplinaran and says he will rule
his department for law enforcement.
Monday, Jan. I.
There is a shortage of $1,000 in the
accounts of former Tax Collector Rus
sell of Dayton, Me-, which he acknowl-
edges and attempts to explain by stat
ing that the money was destroyed by
fire.
A great wave rolled up Vineyard
sound and, overtaking schooner Henry
o. Barrett, tumbled over the stern and
swept overheard to their death Captain
Joshua Norton, commander Of the YES
sell and his mate, James COnley.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, with
two Of their children, have returned to
Washington from their visit to Pine
Knob, Va.
The latest advices from San Do
mingo show that the situation is seri-
GUS and a clash of the contending inter-
ests is probable.
1t has developed that the assassina'
ton at Caldwell, Ida, of former Govern
or Frank Steunenberg with dynamite
bombs was perpetrated by someone
who pulled a wire that exploded the
dynamite as Steunenberg was closing
the rear gate of his home.
White flags flying from dozen fac
tories in the tenement house district of
Moscow, where the revolutionaries
made their last stand, now bear mute
witness to the end of the December
uprising. The entiredistrict is now oc-
cupied by troops.
Saturday, Dec. 80.
Approximately 1888 miles of new
track was laid by railroads in the Unit
ed States this year.
Mr.. Carnegie offers to give Bates
college of Maine $4,000 after the col
Iege has collected 100000.
Cecilia A. Wolsey, formerly a per-
former on the vaudeville stage under
the name of Lillian Western, who re-
Gently died, beQueathed $4,000 for the
care of her dog, parrot and cage of love
birds.
President Curtis of the New York
State Bankers association, at meet
ing of bankers, declared that trust
companies in New York have over ST.
O00,000000 on deposit and less than =
percent cash in their vaults.
Through an important change in rail-
way mail schedules the time of mail in
transit between New York and San
Francisco will be reduced practically
"a hours.
Two men employed in the paint shop
Of the Saco & Pettee mills at Saco, Me-,
died as a result of drinking wood alco-
hol, They are Alfred Forth and Jo-
seph Fecteau.
Bridgeport, Conn, was visited by an
electrical storm of midsummer pro-
portions Vivid flashes of lightning
were followed by tremendous claps Of
thunder, which shook the entire city.
The recent boom in copper stocks on
the Boston Stock Exchange was an i'm
portant contributing cause to the assign
ment Of the Boston stock brokerage
firm of H. r. Leighton & Co. 1t has
some 40 branch offices, all but three
of them in New England.
After five months investigation Of
the murder of Matte Hackett at Kents
Hill, Me-, the authorities now claim to
have found new evidence in the case.
Friday, Dec. 20.
Odell again attacks Roosevelt and
promises to reveal some likely political
history.
The Mine Workers union Is to give
Miss Roosevelt carload of coal as q
wedding present.
Secretary Shaw plans to reform the
customs service.
The drydock Dewey has started on Its
14,O00-mile trip to the Philippines.
The interstate commerce commission
insists upon rate legislation, in spite
of promises of railroad men.
The annual report Of the inspector
general of the steamboat service shows
that 600,000,0O0 passengers were car
ried during the year.
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