St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-10-24

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coming year.
The Pythians' convention decided tC
consolidate the Pythian sisterhood hav
ing membership of 1000 and the Rath
bone Sisters, which has 125,000 mem
bers.
George Sutton is now the acknowl
edged billiard champion at 1S-inch balk
line, 2 shots in. In match game for
this title he defeated George Slosson by
the score of 500 to 375.
Captain G. E. Tyson who had an ex-
tensive experience in the Arctic seas
whale fishing and searching for the
North Pole, died at Washington, aged
IS.
By the overturning on an automobile
at the foot of a hill between Wayland
and Sudbury, Mass, Mrs Fred N Dill
lon of Fitchburg was crushed to death.
/. Thursday, Oct. 10.
While there remains some unrest in
Cuba, which Governor Magoon de-
scribes as the ''mere ripples of the re-
| ceding tide of disorder" the adjustment
of the charges against the mayors and
chiefs of police of various towns is
progressing satisfactorily
King Leopold of Belgium is using
| his personal influence to prevent the
proposed international conference re-
garding the existing conditions in the
Congo Independent state
Governor Brooks of Wyoming re-
quests that federal troops be sent to that
state to remove the renegade Ute In
dams. Brooks reports that the Indians
are beyond the control of the state au-
thorities.
Willie Hoppe of New York, the boy
billiardist, who was challenged by Jake
Schaefer of Chicago, won by score of
800 to 472 in At innings. The match
was for the championship and $1,000.
Attorney General Feulle of Porto
Rico reports unprecedented prosperity
in the sugar and tobacco industry Of
the island and consequent increase
in the foreign trade.
Two little girls, Elizabeth Wightman
and Mary Bonham, were run over at
Quincy, Mass, by an automobile owned
| by Louis Rothenberg and both severe
| ~ injured, the Wightman child prob
ably fatally.
The Aver house, an historic old hotel,
and the general store of G. A. ROBBIE &
Son in the village of Hooksett, N. H.,
were destroyed by fire.
After a trial that had lasted since
Oct. 8, DR.. Frank L. Brouwer, indicted
for numbering his wife, Carrie Brou-
wer, by the use Of poison, was acquit-
| ted at Toms River, N. j.
A verdict of guilty of granting re-
hates on sugar shipments was returned
by jury in the United States court
at New York against the New York
Central Railway company and F. L.
Pomeroy, the company's general traffic
manager. Sentence was deferred.
Wednesday, Oct. ~.
The French submarine boat Lutin,
while engaged In plunging experiments
in the Bay Of Tunis, failed to reappear
after one of her plunges, and is now
| lying on the bottom in 100 feet OF wa
ter. Her crew of IA men undoubtedly
| suffered horrible death.
The Massachusetts Democratic state
ticket, headed by John B. Moran, was
ratified at Boston by gathering that
so far exceeded the limits of Faneuil
hall that two overflow meetings were
necessary.
DR.. Finlay, chief of the department
Of health and sanitation, says that
while yellow fever in Havana is cpl
demic the situation is not one to cause
serious alarm.
Secretary Bonaparte holds that no
one is to blame for the grounding of the
cruiser Boston in Puget sound during
dense fog early last September.
| Mrs. Jefferson Davis widow Of the
president of the Confederacy, died at
New York of pneumonia, induced by a
severe cold.
Mrs. A. w. Esleeck, aged Sc, died at
| Greenfield, Mass, of hydrophObia. She
had been bitten in the lower lip by a
small dog.
Mrs. Annie McEwan, who was shot
| at Boston by her husband, Alexander
McEwan, died from her wounds. 1t is
expected the grand jury will act on q
charge of murder.
First Lieutenant Robert B. Calvert
of the Twenty-fourth infantry, U. S. A.
has been killed by Sergeant Taylor Of
the Twenty-fourth infantry at Alberta
p. /. Particulars of the tragedy have
| not been received.
"a mere pin prick" is the manner
in which the officials at Washington
characterize the refusal of the New
foundland authorities to admit duty
free supplies for the United States
naval tug Potomac, now at the Bay
of Islands.
Tuesday, Oct. IS.
An overturned cup Of tea changed
Henry A. Smith, 81 years old, from {
ouarrelsome to an Infatuated husband
and led to the murder of his wife, Hat
tie A. Smith, whom he shot twice, and
then, few minutes later, used the
same weapon to end his own life al