St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-10-24
THE WEEKS NEWS
MONDAY, Oct. 22.


and will probably be total loss. All on
board were saved.
The following officers will serve the
g. c. I. u. during the next three
IRIS: President. Countess of Carlisle,
ogk. Eng; vice president-at-large,
rs. L. NJ. n. Stevens, Portland, Me-;
.reasurer, Mrs. NJ. E. Sanderson, Dan
vile, p. Q.
Albert Haskell aged IS, and Walter
Yelland were tipped out of a canoe and
drowned in. Lake Mattanawcook at
Lincoln, Me.
The trouble that has been brewing in
the Polish Catholic parish of the
Church of the Holy Trinity at West
field, Mass, reached climax, when
Rev. T. L. Przybylski, the pastor of the
church, was severely beaten by num-
Der of his opponents.
The body of George Raschid, the
Syrian leper, was cremated at Pickens,
w. Va. The shanty in which he had
been staying was set on fire and the
body was consumed with it.
Gable cars have ceased to operate in
Chicago, electric trolley cars taking the
places of the now antiquated cars
drawn by underground steel ropes.
Jewelry valued at $1,000 was stolen
from the house of Arthur Hunneweli
at Wellesley, Mass, by two men who
made their escape in an automobile.
Sunday, Oct. a.
J. II. Langdon, who Is in custody at
Chicago ON information furnished the
police of Baltimore, charging him with
forgery, is said to have operated sue.
cessfully in nearly every large city in
the east.
Winthrop, Mass, police officials have
been unable to solve the mystery sur
rounding the finding Of human hand
in the surf near the Crest.
Charles Scott has begun a 500-mile
horseback ride through Mississippi in
his campaign for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor. Scott has FIVE
opponents for the nomination.
John G. Sullivan, aged 60, for many
years registrar of probate and in
solvency of Plymouth county, was
struck by a trolley car at Middleboro.
Mass, and killed.
The story of the development of the
mining industry In Alaska during the
past decade is attested rot ghly by the
increase in the value Of its annual out
put from So 100000 in 1895 to over $751;
100000 in 1905.
An express train on the Central Yer
mont railroad was wrecked at North
Duxbury, VT, station, the engine, bag
gage car and mail car being overturned
by running into an open switch. A sec
ton hand is said to have admitted that
he had forgotten to set the switch prop
erly for the express.
Governor Magoon visited the Cuban
national insane asylum and discovered
deplorable state of affairs there.
Sixteen hundred and sixty persons Of
both sexes are crowded into filthy and
dilapidated buildings with capacity
for 400 persons.
Saturday, Oct. 20.
A cyclone, accompanied by terrific
downpour of rain, swept over the prov
inces of Havana and Pinar del Rio and
resulted in 20 deaths in Havana. The
money loss is estimated at $4,000, 900.
The dead are all Cubans of the poorer
class.
Several York county (Me.) towns ex-
perienced shocks supposed to have been
due to earthquakes.
By the verdict of jury, the Stand
ard Oil company of Ohio is guilty of con-
spiracy against trade in violation of the
Valentine antitrust law of Ohio.
Judge Holt imposed fine of $685.
900 on the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad company for grant
ing rebates to Lowell NJ. Palmer, who
has charge of the transportation for the
American Sugar Refining company. F.
L. Pomeroy, assistant traffic manager
of the New York Central, was fined
$4,000.
James B. Lehneman is no longer de-
tanned at Halifax in connection with
the Frolic Chinese smuggling case. His
property, which was retained by the
police authorities when he was paroled,
has been returned to him.
The success of the trials Of the Brit
ish battleship Dreadnought has led the
Marshall B. Ferguson, paying teller,
has been suspended pending the result
of the invests ion by government ex-
perts into the alleged shortage of SCI,
200 in the funds of the st. Louis sub.
treasury.
admiralty to give orders for the con-
struction without delay of three other
such vessels.
George Rashid, the Syrian leper who
was driven from various cities in the
east because of his affection, died in q
shanty at Pickens, w. Va, of heart
trouble.
Bishop O'Connor has sent an order
to all the Roman Catholic pastors in the
diocese of Newark. N. j., warning then
that the hymn Nearer, My God, to
Thee" must not be sung hereafter in
any Catholic church in the diocese.
Friday, Oct. 10.
Rt. Rev. Louis s. Walsh was conse
Grated to the episcopacy at Portland
Me-, with solemn ceremony. Walsh is
the fourth in the succession Of the
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