St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-10-31

leaders of the Brotherhood of Light,
who conduct a home for poor children
on farm in Colorado, are charged
with manslaughter in connection With
the deaths of six babies on the place.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railway announces that all station tel
egraph operators who handle Western
Union messages will henceforth be
given 10 percent of all the revenue de-
rived from this class of work
Two duels, in which three Of the
combatsnts received injuries which
disabled them, were fought in Havana.
Thursday, Oct. rs.
The first class battleship Minnesota,
designed as an 1S-knot craft, averaged
1887 knots an hour in her standardiZa
ton trial over the Rockland, Me-,
course.
The unusual penalty inflicted upon
15-year-old lad who was brought into
the recently created juvenile court at
Boston charged with serious offense
vas tiiQi VI lCal ling ~ pdSCo Va LIS
tory and repeating 40 pages of it to
Judge Baker.
Senator Clark of Montana says that
he will not seek reelection to the Unit
ed States senate His term expires next
March.
The Milford IN. H. Granite company,
one of tine largest cooperative granite
concerns in New England, has been
petitioned into bankruptcy.
1t is feared that the feeling of resent
ment which the Japanese people are ex-
hibiting over the anti-Japanese agita-
ton in California may result in 4 seri-
Gus anti-American boycott in Japan.
All the cases in the Androscoggin
county, Me-, supreme court against Rev.
Frank w. Sanford of Shiloh, leader Of
the Holy Ghost and U.s. society," in
Guiding one charge of manslaughter and
four of cruelty to children, have been
mol pressed.
A voluntary increase of wages, af-
fecting 1000 employees of the Bigelow
Carpet company, Clinton, Mass, was
made known when the employees found
the additional money in their pay en-
velopes.
The total immigration to the United
States may reach 100000 people this
year, according to Secretary Metcalf.
Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Mrs. Minnie Mckenzie, who shot and
killed Police Officer Sturtevant when
the latter was trying to take her into Gus
tody at her home at Boston on Dec. 4,
1904, escaped from the Worcester in
sane asylum, but was captured and re-
| turned.
The recent act of the Massachusetts,
legislature prohibiting splitting ON side
| walks and in public halls and street
cars has become operative.
A joint resolution providing for an in
vestigation by the legislature of the al
legged sale of diseased meat in Vermont
was killed in the legislature by vote
of 1856 to 81
Eastern Colorado has been in the
tllroes Of a blizzard. The storm takes
rank as the most severe at this time of
year of which the weather bureau has
record.
The New York board of aldermen
adopted a resolution asking for $225,-
900 for the municipal tuberculosis sani-
| tarium.
A woman who was brought to Som
erville, N. j., hospital after being bad
ly injured in an automobile accident on
Oct. IA has sent a check for $4,000 to.
the hospital authorities because they
respected her wish that her identity be
not revealed.
The police of Cleveland and detec-
tive agency are working to discover the
whereabouts of $150,000 worth of
property which Anna Held, the actress,
reported was stolen from her on Penn
sylvania train.
The pope is suffering from an attack
of govt and has been ordered to take a
complete rest. His physicians believe
he will soon recover.
| tuesday, Oct. rs.
Two balloons, Centaur and Torrent,
started from Pittsfield, Mass, in an en-
durance contest which carried them
many miles over northwestern Massa-
chusetts and southern Vermont. Lori
ent outsailed the Centaur by about
three hours, finally landing 81 miles
from the start, the Centaur coming
down in Bennington, 30 miles from
Pittsfield.
Benjamin f. McDole, 35 years old,
was mistaken for deer by William
Fowler, aged 10, while hunting in the
woods at Island Falls, Me-. and in.
SANITY killed by rifle bullet.
The actual work on Baltimore's great
sewerage system has begun. A bono
issue Of $10000,000 has been provided
to defray the expenses of the work
George Boynton pleaded guilty a
New York to the charge Of being par
ty to a plan for counterfeiting silver
coins of Venezuela for the purpose Of
financing a revolution in that country
He was sentenced to six months in thu
penitentiary.
The deer hunting season in Vermont
which is confined to one week, opened
with fairly good sport in Rutland coun
ty and one slight accident.
Legal formalities necessary to at
tach in the sum of $1,000,000 the prop