St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-10-31
THE WEEKS NEWS
Monday, o.t. 20.


By the wrecking of three-coach
electric train on the West Jersey and
Sea Shore railroad. at least so passen-
gers persisted and the list may reach a
total of 10 While crossing a draw
bridge spanning the waterway known
as 1.-THE Thoroughfare,' which sepa-
rates Atlantic City from the mainland,
the train left the track and plunged
into the water
The signal corps has completed a
wireless telegraph station at Camp Co
lumbla, Cuba This puts General
Bells headquarters in immediate com
munication with Washington.
William o. Robson, supreme secre.
tary of the Royal Arcanum, died at his
home in Wellesley Hills, Mass, of
pneumonia, after an Illness of two days.
Robson was elected supreme secretary
in 1877 and has held the office ever
since.
The embalmed body of 6-months-old
girl in a dress suit case was found at
the Adams Express company's Office
at Philadelphia by inspectors who were
going over unclaimed articles prepare
tory to having them sold
Thomas It. Dignam has been con-
firmed as temporary receiver Of the
Hartford Telegram company. The
liabilities are S10,77468.
The will of Colonel Henry P. Mar
tin, formerly commander of the Sew
enty-First New York regiment, filed in
Brooklyn, bequeaths 100000 to the
American Church building fund COM
mission of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States and $780,
600 to the domestic and foreign mis-
sionary society Of the Protestant
Episcopal church.
Sunday, Oct. 20.
Frank Martin, 8 years old, and AL
bert Holland, 10, who were arrested
for breaking into the summer home of
C. B. Reed at Greenwich, Conn, and
destroying property there, were COM
mitted to the state reform school until
they shall reach the age of 81.
The Merchants and Planters bank
of Indanola, Miss, has been placed in
the hands of receiver,
G. H. Lewis, acting as solicitor for
the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough,
says that no deed of separation between
the duke and the duchess has been
signed.
Two breakers were blown down,
>handreds of homes damaged, dozens of
persons injured and scores of trees and
telephone poles uprooted and blown
down in storm which swept through
the Lackawanna valley. The dam
age will be close to 100000.
The New England Insurance Elk
change took the first step toward re-
duction of insurance rates, which were
raised after the San Francisco disaster.
The step was in the form of repeal
OF the emergency rate" which raised
insurance 20 cents per hundred in the
towns and cities of New England over
which the exchange has Jurisdiction.
The first public utterance of Pres-
dent Roosevelt touching upon the cam
paign in New York was conveyed to a
Republican mass meeting at Cooper
Union in the form of an endorsement
Of the gubernatorial candidacy Of
Charles NJ. Hughes.
SATURDAY, Oct. 1T.
Residents of the seacoast cities Of
Maine are interested in the report that
a movement for the abolition of GUS
tom houses in many of the small ports
will be pushed at the next session Of
congress on the ground of excessive
| cost.
Mrs. Kaine, aged 65, was accidentally
shot and killed by two boys who were
out cunning in the village of Lansville,
Mass.
Murder and self-destruction by
shooting ended the lives of a man and
woman who were registered at New
York hotel as Mr.. and Mrs. Sinclair of
Burlington, vt.
John Hoag, assistant cashier of the
Aetna Banking and Trust company of
Washington, was arrested at Chicago
as he was about to board train for the
northwest.
A sentence of one year in Jail was
imposed upon Henry L. Farrington
convicted of manslaughter for the
shooting of Eugene Bryant in the
Hartford, Me-, lumber camp.
President Roosevelt has directed
Secretary Metcalf to proceed to Sar
Francisco and make a thorough ant
complete inquiry into the situation at
fecting the expulsion Of Japanese chill
dren from the schools provided fol
white children.
The American mission has decided
to remain in Fee until the Sultan of Mo
rocco takes steps for the payment Of
the indemnities demanded for out
RACES upon American citizens.
Friday. Oct. 26.
Battleship Minnesota, product o.
the Newport News Shipbuilding ant
Drydock company, had very success
full four-hour endurance trial off thu
New England coast, maintaining al
average speed of 1886 knots an hour
Her contract speed is IS knots an hour
There is a wholesale dismissal o
Grand Trunk railway conductors unde
way.