St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-01-22
THE WEEKS NEWS

ing Vi an eye anu lHJuTeu utdItl tnIet
score, many of them fatally. A tank
used in a moving picture scene ex-
ploded in a theatre and the building
was consumed by fire
Former United States Attorney Gen
eral Judson Harmon will be a candi-
date for the Democratic nom lnation for
President of the United States.
Mrs. Russell Sage is the largest indi-
vidua taxpayer in the city of New
York. Her assessment on personal
property and real estate stands at ST.
25S,000
The suspension If the firm of Robert
Maclay 4 Co was announced on the
New York Stock Exchange. The obl-
cations amount to $1.500000
After one of the hardest fights
against extradit'on in the court history
of the south, Ernest d. Blackwell was
brought to Boston from Florida by BOs-
ton police OH ers. Blackwell is
charged with the larceny Of promlssory
notes.
AN enthusiastic campaign for lower
rents was started by mass meeting
of 1900 tenants in the West End of Bos-
ton. 1t was unanimously voted to de-
mand of the landlords reduction of Is
percent in rents on the next rent day.
We n av, Jan. Is.
The official roll of victims taRen from
the ruins of the Rhoades Opera house,
| Boyertown. Pa. where holocaust 0c-
Cured. numbers 1G7. The ratio of wo-
men and girls to men and boys is about
nine to one.
President Roosevelt has directed that
the installation of the president and
congress Of Cuba, to be elected next De
cember, and the turning over of the
island to them, take place not later
than Feb /. 1909.
The stock brokerage firm of Dane,
| Smith & Co. announced its suspension
on the Boston Stock Exchange.
The attorneys for Harry X. Thaw
have begun relentlessly to build up the
case of legal insanity which they have
lnterposed in his behalf as a defense
for the killing of Stanford White.
The fact that Frederick f. Sergeant
the late cashier of the jewelers. Ma
| tional bank of North AttlebOrO, Mass.
which is now in the hands of a receiver
| had been hypothecating the funds of
the bank. has become definitely known
Governor Guild of Massachusetts in
an address before the National Shoe
| and Leather convention. advocated
sweeping revision of the tariff, with
! the abolition Of the duty on many i'm
ports.
Mayor Gerber of Reading Pa. re-
ceived BLACK Hand" letter in which
not only his l.fe but the lives of the en-.
tire police force of Reading are threat
ened
Health officials, having discovered
suspected case of yellow fever in the
business section of Santiago, Cuba
have ordered the disinfecton of all the
houses and stores in the district
| Inurs Y, ia . 10.
The Second Congregations church Of
Dorchester CBostonl. one of the most
beautiful types of colonial church archi-
lecture in the city, was burned by a
fire which is believed to be incendiary.
The building was erected 100 yea. 5
ago. The loss is $4,000.
The special grand jury which was
sworn to investigate the conduct of GER
tain banks in New York returned two
indictments against William X. Mont
gomery president of the Hamilton
| bank.
A serious earthquake occurred at
Gonaives, Hayti, seaport town of 49,
600 population. No loss of life is re-
ported. Communication with the town
| Is broken
John \. Steele. who shot and killed
Edward II. Cohen and seriously wound
ed Dennis ID. Driscoll at the MaSSachu-
sets state house. has been committed
to the state hospital for insane Grim
inalS.
Receiver Bancroft. who is now in
charge of the affairs of the jewelers.
National bank of North Attleboro.
Mass, says that the late Cashier Sar-
geant had diverted to his own use the
| banks money to an amount good deal
In excess of 100000
Postmaster Sampson was held up at
the point of a revolver by masked
man in the Hanover On. H. postoftice
and robbed of $570 and a gold watch
The robber escaped
The Robinson schoolhouse at Attic
boro. Mass, was burned. 1t was
valued at $4,000 The cause of the fire
is thought TO have been incendiary
The Corriere Dltala, an organ of the
Vatican, in an article on the Japanese
American situation, says that war be-
tween these two countries is inevita BILE.
EridyV, n. II.
Charles f.. Bruffee of WeStfield
Mass, was sentenced to serve four
months In jail for sending scurrilous
letters through the mails to his wife.
President Roosevelt has approved the
recommendation Of the isthmian canal
/ commission increasing the width of the
locks of the canal from 100 to 10 feet
Malachi NJ. johnson was sentenced
at Providence to sixty days in Jail for
setting fire to large dog upon which
| kerosene oil had been poured.
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