St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-14
THE WEEKS NEWS
Monday, NV. IL.


.umor as without foundation, but still
tbe report got widely circulated and OBJ
tanned credence in many quarters.
A serious split has occurred in the
talks of the Cuban Liberal party, due
IN the belief of the more radical ele-
ment largely composed of negroes,
that Alfredo Zayas is too friendly with
the Americans.
Two persons were seriously injured
and a number of women and children
bruised in a panic caused 10y blaze
from a moving picture machine at an
Evansville, Ind, theatre.
It has been definitely established at
Montclair, N. j., that a pet buck deer
killed Herbert Bradley, the wealthy
-four exporter, whose body was found
on his property there.
Advices from Upington, on the
Orange river. say that the Boer raider
Ferreira and his followers continue to
iptlmidate the farmers Of that region
and have captured some traders and a
few other persons.
John Reiderich, lineman, was
shocked to death while at work string
ing a wire at Greenwich, Conn.
The trouble between the union
switchmen and % railroads entering
Chicago has been finally adjusted and
danger of strike of the 10000 men has
been averted.
Sunday, Nov. II.
After ~ hours in an open boat in a
terrific gale and hard battle with
mountainous seas, Captain Williams
and crew of seven men of the barken-
tine Marion G. were picked up by the
steamer farmland and landed at Hall
fax.
According to the vital statistics for
1905. the births in France that year
numbered S07, 292, showing decrease
of 10,937 from the total of 1904 The
number of marriages show slight in
crease over 1904.
While walking on the railroad tracks
at Lowell, Mass, Mrs. Mary Patnaude,
aged 40, was struck and killed by To-
comotive, and Miss Healey, aged 20,
was internally injured and may die.
Henry #. Smith, 25 years old, son Of
q wealthy business man of Pittsburg,
was shot and almost instantly killed by
a burglar whom he surprised in the
dining room o. his fathers residence.
Esther s. Damon, said to be the only
surviving widow of soldier Of the
Revolutionary war, died at her home in
Plymouth Union, VT, at the age Of 93
years. She was married in 1895, when
she was 81 years old, to Noah Da'
mon, who was then rs years of age.
Another case of typhoid fever, max
ing six in all, has developed at Wes-
leyan university, Middletown, Conn.
The wages of the anthracite miners
for the current month will be Z percent
above the $3.50 basis. This is 3 per-
cent higher than the October wages.
United States cavalry subdued the
panic at Rio Grande City, Tex, which
has existed since election day, but
many people are still cautious about
venturing into the streets.
Saturday, Nov. 10.
Indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury at PittsDurg
against officials and employees of the
Shelby Steel Tube company. charging
them with conspiracy to defraud the
government in connection with the
boiler tubes furnished for number OF
battleships.
Texas rangers sent to Rio Grande
City to quiet turbulent political condi-
tions there and investigate the assassi.
nation of District Judge WEIGH were
ambushed by a body of armed Mex
Icans. A fight ensued and four OF the
attacking party were killed, one fatal
" wounded and two captured. The
rangers escaped unscathed.
Charles Bishop, an 1S-year-old farm
hand employed on the farm of Henry
Williams at Stafford Springs, Conn.
has confessed that he murdered Mrs
Williams, the farmers aged wife.
Bishop, ii is understood, also confessed
TO taking money from a trunk.
Five stories of the central wing OF
the new S750,000 Bixby hotel at Long
Beach, CAL, collapsed, carrying nine
workmen to death in the tons of tan
gled wreckage.
G. r. Bishop won the Hawley cup in
the balloon pursuit race for automo-
biles, arriving at the point of descent
at North Adams, Mass, with his car in
time to assist in dragging the balloon
to the ground.
Giovanni Bruno, Sicilian. believed
to be a daring Italian anarchist, was
arrested at Keen, Col. He will be re-
turned to Sicily.
A general investigation of what is
known as the Hartman system OF
railroads is contemplated by the inter
state commerce commission.
The secretary of the navy will ask
congress for more money to clothe the
biuejackets than they are now al
lowed.
AS the result of an investigation of a
series of alleged smuggling operations
carried on by sailing vessels plying be-
tween American and Nova Scotian ports
the Canadian customs authorities have
arrested James Mccarthy, a wholesale
spirit merchant of st. John,