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


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! fully avoided in his own remarks, how
ever. Secretary of War Taft delivered d
glowing defense of the Roosevelt adj
ministration at Boston, placing the
blame for the recent financial panic up
Oh those corporations which he charged
with systematic violation of law.
Governor Sparks has called an extra
session Of the Nevada legislature to
convene on Jan. IA to consider the labor
troubles at Goldfield
Twenty hundred barrels of
beer. valued at $17,500 and belonging
to the state brewery, were emptied into
the sewers by Internal Revenue Collec-
tor Howard at Oklahoma, Okla.
After listening to the charges Of al
legged misdeeds by certain former Off
GERS of the Passaic Steel company of
Paterson, N. j., Judge Lanning ap-
pointed three receivers for the corpora
ton.
Bishop Waters of Jersey City de-
clared before a large audience of Bos-
ton negroes that it was the duty of the
black men to do all in their power to
defeat Taft If he was nominated as
president.
Griefstricken because he has acct
dentally shot and killed David Scarbo.
10 years old, by accident. Henry Foy. a
farmland. attempted suicide at North
Adams, Mass, by cutting his throat.
The boys father seized the knife and
overpOwered Foy.
Enraged because his affections were
not returned Charles Bennett. young
silk worker, married, shot and killed
Jennie Mazzolli and then committed
suicide by shooting at Paterson, n. j.
~"esdav, j n. |.
At least nine miners We're killed and
three fatally and two seriously injured
in an explosion of gas and coal dust in
the BernalGoal mine at Carthage. n. NJ.
Mrs. Leslie Carter-Payne, the actress.
against whom an Involuntary petition
in bankruptcy was filed, has filed
schedule, giving her total liabilities as
S194.41S.
The New York public service com
mission has approved preliminary
plans for new subway extending from
the Battery TO the Bronx. The est
mated cost is S60000,000
c. \. Sehmick. president, and his
son, w. II. Schmick, cashier of the de.
funct First National bank Of Leetonia.
O., were arrested on the charge of
wrecking the Leetonia bank.
There are fifty counties in Alabama
which have closed saloons permanent.
lY. This leaves seventeen counties in
which liquor can be sold for another
year.
William b. Ridgely, comptroller of
the currency. says that he is confident
that the new year will bring general
revival in business. The banks of the
country. he believes, will soon find il
advisable to return to normal cash pay.
ments.
nv u wi VI Ailt i'tF Vi llt
first duma who signed the Viborg mani
feSt0 resulted in 167 of them being CON
yicted and sentenced to three months
Imprisonment, while two were acquit
ted. The sentence carries with it the
loss Of all political rights.
Captain Won Goeben, distinguished
officer in the, artillery branch of the
German army, has confessed that he
Major Won Schoenbeck, a
brother officer
The systematic campaign for lower
rents by thousands of tenants on the
New York East Side has begun to show
results.
7 rsday, Jan. 2.
An express was derailed near Barrie.
Ont. The whole train, with the excep-
ton Of the locomotive. rolled down a
forty-foot embankment and was
burned. All the passengers were taken
out safely.
The Massachusetts state house
'parkled with the brilliance of Govern |
Or Guilds third inaugural, which set
the Legislature into the whir of its six |
months session
Five persons were injured and two |
street cars were riddled with stones |
n riot after an attempt by the In
llama Union Traction comAnny to run
,arS manned by strikers ut Muncie. Ind.
Mosquito Indians have risen against
he government Of President Zelaya of
Nicaragua, who is accused by them of
le.ng responsible for the death of heir
.hief.
President Roosevelt received a New
Years throng of 5645 we'll wishers at
he White House which took two hours
Il passing him.
The mystery surrounding the muir
Ter of the woman in red" is MS i'm
seemingly as when her nude
,ody was discovered on Christmas day
n pond near Harrison. n.
Owen Moran, champion feather.
weight of England, fought twenty-five
'ounds to draw with Abe Attell
champion of America, at San Fran.
isco.
John w. Trafton, formerly an exam.
ner of merchandise at the appraisers
torres, Boston. was sentenced TO serve
wenty months IN jail for alleged con
piracy for so-called custom house
ra uds.
The Colonial Arms at Gloucester
lass, the largest summer hotel on the
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