St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-02-28
The WEEKS NEWS
Monday, Feb. rs.

AdVlCeS IfOm NeueAueld are 10 kne
affect that President Castro says he
will humble France, break up the Mon
roe doctrine, clear out the French from
Venezuela, and then start on Amer
leans. Englishmen and Germans. who,
,e declares, are worse than Chinese.
Three students persisted and nine
were seriously injured in the burning
nf Kenyon academy building at Gam
bier, o.
Vice President Lewis Of the United
Mine Workers of America says that
there will be no general strike in the
mining industry April l and that the
nnerators will restore the reduction ac.
cpnted by the miners two years ago and
perhaps more.
Work has begun in Mount Vernon
m the electrifcation of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company's main line from Woodlawn
to Stamford, Conn.
Boston will be "closed shop" city
from now on, according to President
Lynch of the International Typograph-
ical union.
David B. Henderson, formerly
speaker of the national house o. repre-
sentatives, died at Dubuque, Ia, of
paresis, which attacked him nine
months ago.
The guards around China's Forbid
den City have been doubled and ali the
palaces and residences of high officials
are especially guarded All the Off
Gals either refuse any information or
profess ignorance Of the reasons for the
precautions that have been taken.
The Canadian government will ap-
point a commission to Investigate and
report on life insurance business in
Canada, with view to enacting some
legislation.
Sunday. Feb. rs.
Joseph Dixon of Cambridge, Mass,
who was mourned as dead, has appeared
at his mothers home in Rochester, n.
Y.
Electric light wires thieves put
Arlington, Mass, in darkness for
night
Bituminous coal operators are said to
have proposed a restoration of the
scale of 10000, an increase of $50 per-
cent with two or threeyear contracts.
The shops of the Intercolonial rail-
road were destroyed by fire at Moncton,
n. B.
The Republican candidate for mayor
Of Kansas City is to make municipal
ownership campaign.
A negro who attempted to assault
child was ridqed with bullets and Gre
mated at Bienville, Ala.
F. J. c. Doorway, a Canadian, who
went to New York to receive a legacy,
Is missing and foul play Is suspected.
Steps are being taken in Boston to
form an organization of Irishmen who
served in the British army or navy.
The American Sugar Refining COM
pany has acquired the Brooklyn Coop
erage company and the Scranton and
Lehigh coal plant, and may come into
possession of extensive freight ter
minals.
John c. Hammond surrendered to the
Albany police and confessed to strang-
ling his wife and putting her body in
trunk where it was found last No
Vember.
Insurance companies declare that If
the suggestions of the Armstrong COM
mittee are adopted they must practical
y abandon business.
Saturday, Feb. "a.
Johann Hoch, convicted uXorcide,
confessed bigamist, and who, if but a
fraction of the stories of crime that
are told Of him are true, was one of the
greatest criminals this country has ever
known, was hanged at Chicago for
poisoning his wife, Marie Welcker
Hoch.
BY vote of s to 5 the senate COM
mittee on interstate commerce agreed
to report the Hepburn railroad rate bill
without amendment, but the resolution
adopted reserved to the members of
the committee freedom of action con-
Germ amendments offered in the senate.
The Woodbury. Granite company of
Hardwick, VT, has been awarded the
contract to furnish the granite for the
new Cook county courthouse in Chicago.
StuyveSant Fish has sent to President
Reabody of the Mutual Life Insurance
company his resignation as member
u the Mutual's board of trustees.
Secretary Bonaparte has accepted the
resignation of Jerdon P. Kimbrough Of
the naval academy. The hazing of
AlmbrOugh was the cause of the investi-
CATION of the affairs at the naval acad-
envy.
Incoming ships bring reports of large
lceDergs and extensive foes off the
Grand Banks.
EDWARD Gallant was sentenced at
sydney, G. b., to receive 40 lashes on the
bare back and % months imprison-
ment for assaulting his young daugh-
Ter Gallant will also receive two lash
eS each month until the expiration of
Ills prison sentence.
Friday, Feb. 20.
The Canadian government has pur-
thased $4,000 worth of wheat flour to
SEND to Japan for the sufferers from
famine in the northern part Of the king
dom.