St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-02-27
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, Feb. 10.


vania supreme court. bequeathng ST. !
100000 TO charity
The negotiations for settlement Of |
the dispute between Nicaragua and |
Honduras have progressed to point !
justifying the prediction that the is. /
sues can soon be submitted to a peace
arbitration.
Frank T.. Noble, "A years old. was :
killed while coasting at Norwich. Conn
Il never wanted to shoot the creature. |
knew he was foul creature. destroy
ing the mothers and daughters Of !
America. but ! wanted through legal /
means to bring him to trial. But PrOv-
dence took charge Of it: it was an act
Of Providence" This is Harry X.
Tha-w's own story of the killing Of Stan
ford White as was told by him to DR..
Evans, the alienist. last August
After enduring untold suffering
during the dreary hours of one of the
worst nights ever experienced off the
Massachusetts coast the crews of three
harges and the ocean tug Valley Forge
faced death off Highland light and of
the crews STA We're drowned AND on,
died of exposure.
Professor Sterret of Cornell will lead
a party Of Cornell explorers into the
unmapped regions of Asia Minor this
spring.
Pleading guilty on charge of muir
der in the second degree Alexander
McEwan. who killed his wife. Annie.
at Boston. was committed to the state
prison for life.
Wednesday, Feb. 20
The federal grand jury at New York
indicted the Great Northern Railway
company on charges that it paid $100
in rebates on sugar shipments to a traf-
tic agent of the American Sugar Rein
ing company.
Max Mathews of the Standard Over
all company was sentenced al Boston
to term of IS months in Jail for CON
cealing the assets of the company from
the trustee in bankruptcy.
The fact that a spreading rail caused
the wreck of the White Plains electric
express on the New York Central rail
road. in which II persons were killed,
was developed at the coroner's inquest
The president has informed New
Workers interested in having the Of
naval ship Hartford as training ship
for the New York nautical school that |
he will be unable to comply with their
request.
Appropriations aggregating $1O4.-
1850 are carried in the bill provid.
ing for the sundry civil expenses of the
government in 1908.
Senator Smoot made an address to
the senate in defense of his position as
senator.
A jury at Portland, Me-, returned a
verdict of not guilty in the case of Cap.
tain Tower and Mate Davis of the
schooner Fortuna. accused of scuttline
the schooner for her insurance.
The japanese training squadron, con
sist,ng of three cruisers has arrived a,
Honolulu.
BY majority of 351 the French
chamber e deputies expressed conf
dence in the government and author
lied it to conclude negotiations for the
leasing of churches to parish priests.
Thursday, Feb. Fl.
A four years contest against Reed
Smoot being permitted to retain his
seat as a senator of the United States
from Utah was ended by ~ of his col
leagues voting to sustain him as against
Is for the resolution to unseat him.
In his crosS-eXamination of Mrs.
Evelyn n. Thaw at the trial of her hus
band. District Attorney Jerome brought
out the fact that in 1902 Stanford
White deposited the sum of 1890 with
Il New York trust company with in
structonS that it should be paid to the
Nesbit girl at the rate of S25 a week.
Schedules showing liabilities of $SC4..
GIG and assets of but $27S0 were filed at
Boston by isaac c. Atkinson. formerly
of the Atkinson House Furnishing
company and the B. A. Atkinson com
pany
The Nicaraguan army invaded Hon
duran territory and after two hours
fighting the invading forces were de-
feated, leaving 81 men killed and many
wounded OH the field.
Former City Treasurer Felker of
Newburyport Mass, who pleaded
guilty to the embezzlement of SS6. 800
of the funds of the city. was sentenced
to not less than four years in state
prison.
The French cruiser Kleber rammed
and sank the American fruit steamer
Hoguma in the Mississippi river just
Off New Orleans. The cruiser was
slightly damaged.
At dinner given at Washington in
his honor by Georgia representatives,
Hoke Smith was suggested as proper
Democratic candidate for president in
1908
Fred MeSser. ia years old famous
as a hunter and trapper before civiliza.
ton blazed trail across the Blue Ridge
mountains. died at his home in Hay
wood county. ~ c.
er day, Feb. ~.
Under the sress of a crosse Xamina
tion in which District Attorney Jerome
gave no quarter, Mrs. Evelyn N. Thaw