St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-14

and the receiving of the same by grain
firms and individuals.
Fire in an East Side five-story tene-
ment house at New York suffocated q
woman named Ginsberg and her four
children
Maiden, Mass, was visited by a Sc
ries of fires which are believed to have
teen set by an incendary, and which
caused damage amounting to nearly
100000
Lewis S. Chanler apparently is elect
ed lieutenant governor of New York
OIL the Democratic independence
League ticket. All the other candidates
OIL the Democratic state ticket are
elected by small but safe pluralities.
The autopsy performed on the body
of Thomas Ryer, which was found near
the highway leading from Pownal, Vt,
to North Adams, Mass, showed IL
stab wounds in the body. Ten of the
mans ribs were broken. There is nc
clue to the murderers.
thursday, Nov g..
The president has appointed Attor-
Ley General William H, Moody Of Mas
sachusetts as justice of the supreme
court Of the United States, TO succeed
Justice Henry B. Brown, who retired
some time ago.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
will retire from President ROOseyelt'S
cabinet on March 4 next and James r.
Garfield of Ohio, at present commits
sion of corporations, will succeed him.
Schooner Eldora was struck by a
squall off the mouth of Gouldsboro,
Me-, bay and abandoned in a sinking
condition. Her crew was saved.
A report Is in circulation at Moscow
that the League to Combat the Revolu-
ton" has sentenced the former pre-
mier, Count White, to death, in case he
returns to Russia.
James H. Higgins of Pawtucket
Dem.) defeated Governor Utter (Rep)
for election for governor of Rhode ISL
and by plurality of 1888.
The threatened strike of the switch
men on the % roads entering chicago
has been postponed pending further ne
gotiations between the officers of the
union and the managers of the roads.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has given an increase of 10 percent In
the wages of all employees of the COM
pany now receiving less than $500
month.
On board the steamship Heligolav,
| which sailed from New York for
Christiana. are two zinc boxes, contain
ing the records made by Captain
Amundsen, who located the magnetic
pole. The boxes contain Amundsen's
records of his trip.
The terrific northeasterly gale which
| for a week has been sweeping over the
Gulf of ST. Lawrence and Northum-
berland strait has probably cost score
of lives and wrecked dozen vessels,
| large and small,
At meeting of the Boston board OF
aldermen an order to establish a mu-
nicipal lighting plant was defeated by
a vote of s in favor and against
AS precautionary measure against
yellow fever General Bell has issued an
order that American officers and pri-
Yates be not permitted to reside in the
densely populated portion Of Havana.
HI. j. O'Neill, aged SO, known as
"Barley King" from 1890 to 1898, dur
| ing which time he controlled the barley
market, died at Cedar Rapids, La. AT
one time O'Neill was reputed to have
been worth several million dollars.
Family troubles cost the Barley King"
almost his entire fortune.
Wednesday. Sept. 7.
Elections were held in AZ states and,
while the results in number of in
stances were of unusual interest, it may
be said that, generally speaking, there
were no great surprises. Perhaps the
widest general interest centered in the
remarkG BILE fight for governor which
| has been waged in New York between
| c. E. Hughes and w. r. Hearst.
| Hughes, while losing nearly all of the
principal cities of the state, was sue
cessful by about $4,000 plurality. The
rural districts brought about the Re
publican victory In New York city
the Tammany- Independence League jul
dietary ticket was successful, with one
exception, over the candidates named
by the non-partisan Judiciary nominal
tors" Massachusetts reelected Curtis
Guild, Jr., Republican, as governor,
over District Attorney Moran of Bos-
ton. who was the candidate of the
Democratic party, the Independence
League and the. Prohibitionists.
The Apsley Rubber company, Hud-
son. Mass, employing 800 hands, has
granted a nine-hour day with 10 hours
pay. The reduction of working hours
was unsolicited.
The president has dismissed in dis
grace from the army an entire bat
TALON of colored troops because of their
! failure to disclose the identity of some
of their number who had been guilty
| of violence and murder at Browns
vile, Tex.
Tuesday, Nov. s.
Dispatches have been pouring into
Halifax bringing news of vessels
wrecked or in distress, of wires pros
trated and of damage done by gale
and sea all along the coasts of Nova
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