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

pit National bank OF rankllnYille.
y. Y, which was closed by federal
bank examiner. was committed to hos
ptal for the insane.
a A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed by Frank E. Hawks, Boston
real estate broker. The total liabilities
are $40, 1878 and the assets $40.
Saturday, Jan. Ia.
Arthur B. Smith, alias William Foley,
who shot and killed Patrolman John
I. Lynch at Boston, was held for the
grand jury on charge Of murder in
the first degree.
The Sovereign Bank of Canada has
gone into liquidation and the Bankers
association will take charge of the as
sets.
President Roosevelt will permit the
troops to remain in Nevada for such
reasonable leugth of time as will give
the legislature opportunity to organize
a force to perform the police functions
Of the state.
Three sailors of the cruiser ST. Louis
died at Vallejo. Cal, from drinking
wood alcohol. Two other sailors are
blind from the same cause and five
others may never again be fit for'active
service.
The announcement is made at the
CharlestOwn navy yard that the wages
of considerable number of the govern
ment employees have been raised.
Four girls were killed, ten seriously
injured and a score or more slightly
hurt at fire in the Imperial Knitting
company's mill at Scranton, Pa.
Secretary Metcalf has declined to in
terfere with the playing of baseball on
Sunday at the League Island navy yard
The American Insurance company,
| which has done business in Boston for
fifty years, has gone into the hands Of
a receiver.
Surgeon General RiXey of the navy
asked the house committee on naval af>
fairs to recommend an appropriation
Of S1.500,000 for the construction and
equipment VI q nav uOSJltdl snip
Every electric lighting and power
company in New York city will be sub
jected to an investigation by the pub
lie service commission
The Haytian government has de-
clared the ports of GOnaives and ST
Mare. which are occupied by insurgents.
to be blockaded, and it declares that
preparations are being made to bonn
bard them.
SUNDAY, J'r. 10.
Officers of the steamer Monterey de-
clare that Oh Jan IL a peculiar white
powder like -four fell from the skies in
the Gulf Of Mexico. Ii was not vol
canic dust, there being 10 grit in the
composition.
While a festival was in progress al
DragoSh, Macedonia. a large band of
Greeks suddenly swoOped down upon
the villagers and, after driving them
into Their houses. set fire to the build
ingS and burned them to death.
Fire damaged two buildings Of the
colony for the feeble minded and cpl
leptics at Marshall. Mo. to the amount
of $4,000 and mperilled 10 patients.
There is much suffering because of
the unusual heat wave throughout Vic
torla, Australia. Thirty-two deaths
have been recorded from sunstroke dur
ing the past few days.
Earl Jacques, 10 years old, confessed
that he killed and robbed Miss Mary
Eddy at Greenville. K. l.. while she was
WOODEN mills there,
Charles Emory Smith. editor Of the
Philadelphia Press. former minister to
Russia and ex-postmaster general. died
suddenly from heart trouble He was
born at Mans i.eld, Conn. to years ago.
John r. Walsh was found guilty of
wrecking the Chicago National bank
The federal jury that had spent two
months hearing the mass of testimony
consumed thirty hours in agreeing on a
verdict
\ verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree was brought in by the
| jury in the case of Alfred Mahan
| charged with the murder of his 4-year
old niece. Ethel Mahan. ut North Ben
nington, Vt.
ondaV, j n. 20.
After having been entombed forty
six days. 1900 feet below the surface IN
the Alpha shaft of the Giroux mine at
Ely. Ney A. d. Bailey, f. ]. Brown
and Fred Mcdonald were rescued. At
no time did they suffer greatly,
The usual ceremony of blessing the
waters by the Car of Russia took place
on the lake in the palace park at
| Tsarskoe- Selo instead of at the waters
of the Neva.
George II. II. Mercer. cotton bro.
| ker, prominent in Providence social
circles. was killed when an automobile
in which he was riding skidded and
dashed into a telegraph pole.
Mrs. Rosario Naia:ro, aged % years.
was fatally shot while in bed in her
home at Boston. The police are looking
for one of her boarders, Guiseppi
Capuana.
James Utley. Jr., and Thomas Hall
brothers-iRla were struck and in
stantly killed by train near Clinton
| Mass