St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-01-08

0ners has been taken and they now
must. accept their fate.
The Seaboard air Line system was
put into the hands of receivers at Rich
mond through the action of Judge
Pritchard of the United States circuit
court
John d. Rockefeller has added 3d.
$4,000 to his gifts to the University of
Chicago making the total of his bene-
factions over $23,000,000.
DR.. Walter r. Amesbury of Hyde
Park, Mass, waived examination when
arraigned on the charge of killing. his
wife, Anna A. Amesbury.
The st. Petersburg police have ar
rested nineteen persons accused of con
spring to murder DOwager Empress
Maria FeOdoravna upon her return
from abroad three weeks ago.
Major Crabbs of the quartermasters
department has been placed on the re-
tired list, being the first officer to be
retired as the result Of President
Roosevelt's horsemanship require
ments.
DR.. Nicholas Sem. one of the most
widely known physicians in the United
States, died at Chicago. He was born
in Switzerland in 1874, and came to the
United States in 1853.
turday, n. d.
Seven companies of United States
troops left Goldtield, New, for their
California posts The troops remaining
lin camp, 135 men, have been divided
into two companies.
Edward Hanlon, ex-champion oars
man of the world, died at his home at
Toronto Of pneumonia
Second Lieutenant John H. Thomp-
son of the marine corps has been al
lowed to resign for the good of the ser
vice. He was convicted of conduct I'M
becoming an officer and gentleman.
The Countess of Yarmouth, who was
Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, daughter
Of Mrs. William Thaw and sister of
Harry Thaw, accused of the murder of
Stanford White, has applied at London
for an annulment Of her marriage to the
Earl of Yarmouth.
Theodore s. Whitmore. the husband.
was held by the New Jersey police as a
suspect in the death of Lena Whitmore.
who was beaten insenslble, stripped of
her clothing and drowned in a pond
on the Hackensack meadows in Har-
rison. y. ].
The notorious Harden-NOn Moltke IL
bel suit came to an end at Berlin when
the accused editor of Die Zukunft was
sentenced to four months imprison-
ment and to pay the entire costs Of both
the present and the former trial.
Three thousand suburbantes resid-
ing along the line of the French West
ern railroad, exasperated by continuous
delays in transit, wrecked the offices
at the Saint Lazare terminus Of the
railroad.
Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts, well
known in New York society. died in her
home from the effects of d drug which
had been prescribed for weak heart
Sunday. n. 5.
With hundreds of militiamen in the
streets and martial law prevailing.
street cars were run over all lines at
Muncie, Ind. The strike of street car
men that caused the recent rloting is
still in force.
Hundreds Of japanese ex-solders. |
now in Vancouver, have received or
ders from the mikado to return to Jap
an ut once
An end Of the prosecution of the men
with the murder of ex-Govern-
or Steunenberg, except two. occurred
with the acquttal of George A. Petit
bone and the discharge of Charles Fl.
Meyer, president of the Western Fed
grafton Of Miners.
The home of Il. r. Carpenter. a JUS
tice of The peace at Andover, n. Y. was
dynamlted. Every window was shat
.ered, and furniture in the parlor was
splintered and the windows in houses
nearby were broken
Catherine Devine, known on the bur
esque stage as Little Egypt" was
found dead in her apartments Mt New
York under somewhat mysterious cir.
The coroner is investlgat-
ng.
An autopsy performed on the body of
Miss Mary Eddy who was murdered
while returning home from work at
sreenvlle, Il. l., the murderer robbing
The body Of her weeks wages SIG re.
7ealed the fact that the woman was
struck on the back of the head
ndaV, Jan. g,
The number of Catholics in New
is 12S,413, and of this num-
Der 37,022 reside in Manchester.
BY unanimous decision the 18TH
Man cana! commission will recommend
o the secretary of war that the locks
IN the canal be constructed at their
present projected width, namely. 100
eet.
Prince Helie de Sagan has filed suit
N the ground of assault, againts Count
'oni de Castellane in the criminal
'ourt asking one franc damages.
The condition of King Leopold. who
suffering from the govt, is becoming