St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-01-30
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tueso ay, Jan. 22.

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tenSfying.
The trial at Chicago of President
Shea of the International Brotherhoou
If Teamsters and 10 other defendants
has ended. the jury failing to agree.
The Jurors stood seven for acqulttal
ana five for conviction, after being
locked III the iuryroom for 90 hours
The heavy snow which covers Norm
Dakota for miles is piled in DRIFTS OF un-
precedented depth, covering IN sone
eases houses and barns.
President Brewer of the Washington
Life Insurance company must stanu
trial on indictments returned against
him charging perjury ard forgery
fire of incendiary origin destroyed
the hay and grain storehouse or the An
drew Spellman company at Providence
and threatened at one time 10 Durh
large part of the waterfront.
teonesoay, Jan. 20.
An expression of gratitude from Gov
ernor Swettenham of Jamaica tor the
sympathy and aid extended by the
United States to the victims OF the dlS-
aster on that island and the regrets OF
the British secretary of state on NC
count of the incident, are among the ue'
velopments at Washington IN the coil-
troversy between the governor ana Au-
niral Davis.
American refugees from Kingston
are unanimous in cOndemnlng what
they termed the inactivity ana utter
jnefficiency" of the English authorizes
on the island during the first days FOL
lowing the disaster.
Almost the whole Of Europe is in
volved in a cold wave. The severity of
tbe weather is causing intense discom-
fort and suffering
Antonio Gimino. an Italian, was
s+ohhed to death at Portland. Me.
Panic Celesto who boarded in Gimlho's
home. did the stabbing. it is alleged
and disappeared.
Inc SPUdtP DUSStu wv NOiiP' "A-'-
Foraker resolution authorizing the com
mttee on military affairs to invsstl-
cate the facts of the affray at Browns
Vile. Tex. without questioning the
legality or justice of any act of the
president In relation to or connection
with that ARRAY"
A deadlock in the New York board
NJ aldermen over the election of sue
cpssor to Recorder Golf was broken by
tbe election of Francis S. McAvoy. can
didatp of the Democratic members,
That the tendency of Japanese emf
grafton is not toward the Philippines
is shown by statistics presented to the
Philippne commission by the insular
collector Of customs.
Counsel for Augustus Hartie, the
millionaire paper manufacturer. whose
netition for a divorce was refused, has
fled exceptions to the statements of
the expenses of his wife, the total of
which amounts to nearly 100000.
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The stiffest cold wave since the mid
die of December swept into New Eng
land and was welcomed as insuring the
safety of the ice crop, which has been
in a precarous condition for nearly
month.
The 200 Japanese immigrants who ar.
rived at San Francisco on the steamer
Alameda, and whose landing was not
allowed by the immigration commits
sioner were permitted to land on in
structions from Washington.
Henry Bell, a negro, was lynched at
Greenwood, Miss, the home Of Govern
or Vardaman. The negro lad assaulted
woman of that place.
A number of United States secret
service officers raided houses in Somer
Vile, Lynn, East Boston and Roxbury
Mass, in connection with the efforts Of
the government authorities to suppress
lotteries.
The resignation of Theodore P
Shonts as chairman of the sthmal
canal commission is announced. Shont
was elected as president of the Inter
Borough Metropolitan company, whicl
controls the Rapid Transit and man,
surface lines in New York.
The United States senate accepteD
the proposition of the house of repre-
sentatives to increase the salaries o
senators, members and territorial de
egates.
The president has finally dismisse
the incident connected with the refuSa
of Governor Swettenham of aid fror
) Admiral Davis, as is shown in a Letter
made public by the state department.
President Roosevelt's message |
support of ship subsidy was receive
and read by both houses of congress.
The river and harbor appropriate
' bill which was reported to congress
by the committee on rivers and harbor
E carries an appropriation aggregatln
, $S3 ,4G61 1873.
1 ErldaV, Jan. IS.
= Senator Russell A. Alger died sudder
:. ly at Washington from heart failur
Alger was born in Medina county, o.,
1886.
Andrew Carnegie is to have his nan
. perpetuated in Chicago by universal
y bearing his name.
The Pennsylvania railroad manag
d ment has decided to change the age lin
u at which men may enter the employ