St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-26
THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, Feb. 18,

ing in the United States senate.
A third Indictment, alleging per-
jury by c. w. Morse during an exami-
nation before the grand jury, was
found by the special grand jury short
time after Morse had pleaded not guilty
10 charge of grand larceny.
Declarations of support to the candl-
dacy Of Governor Hughes for president
of the United States and prophecies of
his ultimate elect on to that office were
made tY speakers at the notification
of Stewart l.. Wooiford Of h $ selection
as president of g Hughes League OF
the United States.
Rear Adm r.. phNbert reports that
the bursting of a steam pipe on board
the French cruiser Describes off Casa.
blanca, resulted in the death of three
men and the injury of three others.
Speaker Cannon's presidential boom
received marked impetus in congress
when Mr.. Boutell, his colleague from
Illinois, brought the subject to the fore
as the climax of half hours speech.
Gertrude B. Williams, a white wO-
man, shot and killed her negro hus-
band, Pearlev T. Williams at Hartford
Her defense will be self-defense.
Wednesday, Feb. 10.
The mystery Of the disappearance of
Mrs. Maude Woodbury., wife Of Her
bert Woodbury., a wealthy livery stable
keeper and real estate owner Of Fox
croft, Me-, was solved when her dead
body was found hanging by a cord to a
doOrknob in an empty room at the top
of the fourth story lodging house which
her husband owned.
Resolutions adopted by the Illinois
state central committee endorse Speak
err Cannon for president of the snited
States
Lewis S. Cox, an insurance broker
of Philadelphia, is charged with forg-
ing a check for $4,000 on the Quaker
town pa National bank,
King Leopold of Belgium has con.
ferred upon Cardinal Gibbons the grand
cross of the Royal Order of The Crown.
General Tung Fuh Slang, the leader
Of the Boxers in the uprising in China
in 1900, is dead. He was regarded at
one time as the ablest and most power
full of the Chinese generals.
The Iowa supreme court upheld the
constitutionalty of the Des Mones
plan of municipal government by com
mission in every particular.
Thursday, Feb. 20.
Herbert Woodbury. of Foxcroft, Me-
was formally arrested on the charge Of
murder His wife's lifeless form was
found hanging by a cord TO the knob
of door in an attic room at their for.
mer home, the Exchange hotel.
William Jones and his wife were
found guilty of having kidnapped Lii
liam Wulf, II years old, from her home
in Chicago. Jones was sentenced to
thirty years and his wife to twenty-five
years in the Illinois penitentiary.
A petition for the impeachment o.
Judge Wiley Of the United States court
of China, signed by citizens of the
United States living at Shanghai, was
introduced in congress.
Patrick kervin of St Clair township.
Pa, died at the age Of 10 years. g
months and II days Kervln was a ma
tive of Ireland and died of the .nhrmi-
ties of old age
1t is the intention of the house com
mittee on appropriations to Top of
from S25,000O00 to $30000.0O0 from
this years total estimate Of $3S, 443, 00O
for fortifcatons
A $4,000 diamond robbery in broad
daylight, in the heart of New Orleans.
with hundreds Of persons passing at
the time. was perpetrated at the jewelry
establishment of NJ Waldborn.
The Continental Trust company OF
Maryland has filed bin Of foreclosure
against the Seahoard Air Line railroad
and its allied interests.
Secretary CortelyOu sent to the sen.
ate a report showing that BOG national
banks were placed in charge of receiv.
ers between Jan. /. 1898, and Jan 81
1908 The aggregate capital of these
banks was SIS, 736,520.
new baseball league, known as the
Atlantic association. was formed al
Boston. seven New England cities be-
ing represented.
Information from unofficial and In.
dividual sources evidencing the agrees
siveness of Japan in Manchuria has
( been accommodating at Washington.
Friday, Feb. Fl.
Lieutenant General Stoessel was con
demned to death by military court 70,
the surrender of Port Arthur to the Jap
anese. The court recommended thai
the death sentence upon Stoessel bt
commuted to ten years. Imprisonment IL
a fortress and that he be excluded from
the service.
A fire which started with mys
ferrous explosion and necessitated thu
removal of many prisoners from thei
quarters In the MASSACHUSETTS reforma
tory at Concord caused a damage o.
$4,000 to the laundry building.
George Dixon, carpenter on thu
American collier Abaronda. killed
Walter Weichert, chief officer Of tn,
collier, on board the vessel. Dixor
struck Weichert with an axe and de
capitated him
Judge Ball has dissolved the iniunc