St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-19


sage of the Aldrich currency bill :,
1t is stated that w. b. Ridgely, the
comptrOll> of the currency, has decided
10 accept the presidency of the reor
ganized National Bank of Commerce of
Kansas City.
Tbs National Consolidated Oil com
pany. million dollar concern, with out
standing bonds Of 100000, has been
placed in the hands of a receiver.
The Republican congressional com
mittee of the Twenty-Frrst Illinois dis
trict adopted resolutions endorsing the
candi dacy of Joseph &. Cannon for
president.
Saturday, Feb. IS.
The great American feet of sixteen
Admiral Evans. passed Valparaiso and
continued on its voyage n0rhward for
CaIluo, Peru. the next stopping place.
The will of Mrs Iylands. widow Of
John Rylands Of the famous Manche>-
ter Eng. cotton firm, bequeaths 81
3G5.0OU to various charities.
The Amer can ship Emily Reed. ll3
days out from New Castle - S W,
for Portland, with coal. went ashore OH
the Oregon coast aud broke in two.
Ten seamen were lost, while six We're
saved.
Woman suffragistS who were ar
rested when they attempted TO make
demonstration in the British house Of
commons went TO Jail for a term Of six
weeks rather than give sureties for
their good behavior.
Charles Hastings, an American mine
owner, was robbed at Paris Of pocket
book containing $4,000 by an English
pickpocket
The constitutional amendment de-
signed to disfranchise the negro voters
Of the state was passed by the Mary
land senate.
Tyler Tex. was swept by disas-
trouS tornado. The storm swept ov@
the main residence quarter of the city,
leaving a trail of devastation and Kill.
ing four persons
The Wisconsin delegation to the ma
tional Democratic convention at Den.
yer was instructed at the state con
venton to vote as unit for William J
Bryan as the Democratic nominee for
president
The political situation in Portugal is
improving daily. All danger of a revo.
luton appears to have been removed
from the horizon
Sunday, Feb. 16.
Charles W Morse, tnancier and pro
moter of many large combinations. was
arrested in his stateroom when the
steamer Rtruria reached New York
quarantine to answer to two indict
ments charging him with grand larceny,
involving the sum of $4,000.
Despite official assurances that har-
mOny has been reesta blished between
Austria and Russia, the situation arts
ing from the question Of railway con
cess.ons in the Balkans has not lost its
tension.
Declaring that war between the
| United States and Japan was too hell
ish" to be thought Of Baron Takahira,
! the new Japanese Ambassador to Wash
ngtOn said that the Japanese people
know absolutely nothing Of break in
the cordial relations between the ma
! tons
The navy department has been Off
cialIy advised of the arrival of the
American torpedo boat tlotiIla at Talca.
huano, chile, four days ahead Of the
schedule
The archbishop Of Paris has issued a
decree condenning the last two works
of Abbe Loisy. "SynOptic Gospels, ard
his reply to the papal encXclical aga INST
modernism in the faith.
Ambassador Bryce has left Washing
ton for Ottawa for the purpose of con
ferring with the Dominion officials rela
tive to the boundary and fisheries dis
pute between that country and the Unit
ed States
Former Lieutenant Governor Ernest
| Cady Of Connecticut was found dead in
the bathtub at his home at Hartford
Death was due to fatty degeneration OF
| the heart
The body of well dressed man, with
the feet tied. the wrists badly bruised
and an ugly wound on the forehead.
was found on the banks Of the Merri
mack river at Newburyport, Mass
Monday Feb. H.
Mrs Steven Matava and her son,
| Steven. were killed. and Mrs Spencer
Neeley was seriously injured at Denora.
a Pittsburg suburb, by coming III con
tact with live wire
Frank II Hitchcock. first assistant
| postmaster general, has concluded his
service with the government to take
up the work of managing the Taft presi-
Dental campaign iIf the south and east
Governor Guild. fresh from his trip
in the west. where he was doomed for
vice president while with the Taft par
| ty, said that he would not refuse the
nomination, but he made it perfectly
| clear that he was not candidate.
Five hundred or more American
school teachers will visit England
| Scotland. Ireland and the continent of
Europe next autumn for inspection Of
schools and methods of teaching IN
vogue there