St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-21
THE WEEKS NEWS
Msnda,, Nov. 10.

scene of confusion followed the explo-
sion. There were no fatalities. There
s no trace OF the man who perpetrated
the outrage.
THE systematic search for Minot ST.
Clair Francis, who escaped from the
Maine state prison, has come to an end.
Francis succeeded in breaking through
the Gordon of armed men who were
supposed to have surrounded him.
The final adjudication of the estate
of the late Mgr. Cremin, rector of st.
Augustine's Roman Catholic church,
Bridgeport, Conn, shows that the estate
is now worth, after the payment of all
claims, $377,157.
The body of Mrs. Annie c. Smith,
aged 76, who wandered from her home
at Peabody, Mass, on Nov. and for
whom an extended search was made,
was found in an open field about three
quarters of mile from Der home.
Death was due to exhaustion.
President Roosevelt and his party
sailed from Colon for Ponce, p. R., on
board the battleship Louisiana.
Messages from points in Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee, for distance
of several hundred miles, report that
territory to have suffered from a de-
structive rain and windStorm. Eight
lives are known TO be lost and great
damage done to property and crops.
Sunday, Nov. 10.
In terrific gale which has ragged on
Lake Superior steamer Theano struck
a rock near Thunder cape and was
wrecked. The crew were saved
With the rapid subsistence of flood
wters in western Washington it is said
that the general loss is not great. The
entire country is rapidly regaining its
thriving appearance.
The epidemic of crime that has
swept over Pittsburg and vicinity since
Nov. has apparently run its course.
Governor Magoon of Cuba is making
strenuous efforts to recover the arms
the volunteer forces of the late govern
ment failed to surrender. 1t is known
that thousands of volunteers succeed
ed in secreting their guns.
W. r. Hearst declares that he will
never again be candidate"
Concessions in the Congo Independent
state have been granted to three COM
panies, one Of which Is to construct
railroad. the second to conduct mining
operations and the third to exploit India
rubber resources.
A muskrat burrowed into the dam
of the million-gallon reservoir OF Will
lam Knowlton & Sons at Upton, Mass,
and caused a leak that not even the
powerful pump of the pumping station
could overcome.
The first convention Of Sabbath col
1eges was held at Boston with the oh
ject of forming national soclety. 1t is
expected that the members of Sabbath
colleges will be prepared to become
teachers In the Sunday school.
Saturday, Nov. II.
An unconfirmed report is in circula-
ton at Belgrade that Crown Prince
George of Servia has become insane.
The Boston Elevated Railway COM
pany. which controls practically all the
trolley lines in Boston and vicinity
and also the elevated system, an
nounced a voluntary advance in wages
TO its $500 employees.
The strike of the Clyde boilermakers,
IN which 10000 men were involved, has
come to an end by the men returning TO
work. They did not gain any OF the
points in dispute.
A temporary injunction prohibiting
the American Fire Insurance com.
pany from transacting business in the
state of Massachusetts was issued as a
result of the bill of information filed
by Attorney General Malone.
A dozen or more vessels were
wrecked at various points in the mari
time provinces, but no lives were lost.
IL, the Bay of Fundy the wind reached
a velocity of Y miles an hour. A blind
ing snowstorm prevailed.
Sir Thomas Lippton has sailed for
England. He has practically made up
his mind to issue another challenge for
the Americas cup.
A heavy rainfall, 24S inches in four
hours. and chinook wind which
melted recent fresh SHOWS, were the
causes of the heaviest and most disas-
trous floods in the history of the Puget
j sound region.
A search in Atlantic City, N. j., by
agents of the italian government fol
N Constanta NJ. Benedette, who was left
fortune of 100000 by an uncle in
4 Italy, ended with the discovery that the
young woman died in poverty three
B years ago.
II The captain and cook of schooner
II Marshall Herrin were drowned, the
third member of the crew saved him
q self and the schooner became tota
wreck in the gale off Wood Island, Me
Friday. NJ ~. 49,
n The United States government made
the initial move to dissolve the Stand
ard Oil company's alleged monopoly
u by filing in the United States circui
court at st. Louis petition In equit!
against the Standard Oil company ant
its 70 constituent corporations ant
81 partnerships, and seven defendants.
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