St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

Making the fastest time ever re-
corded by a sailing vessel on a trip
around Cape Horn, from Seattle to the
Atlantic coast-104 days-the clipper
ship Erskine NJ. Phelps arrived at
Norfolk,
President Taft defends the lock type
of canal as adopted in the Panama
work in an article which appears in
McClure's magazine for May
Record breaking consignments of
22O 900 Holsters were landed at Bos-
ton.
With several hundred guests waiting
at a New York church for the coming
of Miss Kitty Maher and Charles L
Keenan, to be welded, the wedding
was postponed, as the prospective
bride had changed her mind.
Saturday, April "a.
Theodore Roosevelt reached the
Kapiti hunting grounds and spent his
first night in Africa under canvas.
A series of violent earth shocks oc-
Cured throughout the whole of Portu-
gal. No material damage was done,
although the ground rose and fell in
wave-like motions.
Governor Wilson of Kentucky
granted pardons to former Governor
w. S. Taylor and former Secretary
OF State Charles Finley, both refugees
in Indiana, charged with completely
in the murder of William Goebel in
1900.
An indefinite leave of absence has
been granted to Robert Watchorn,
commissioner of immigration at New
York, and he will not return to his
post.
President Taft has ordered that I'M
classified laborers in the civil service
may be assigned incidentally to
classified work, reversing the order
by President Roosevelt on March 80,
1905.
Indictments were returned at Mer
Ger, Pa. against James F. Boyle and
his wife in connection with the abduc-
ton of Willie Whitla of Sharon, Pa.
The armored cruisers Montana and
North Carolina are on their way to
Asiatc Turkey, under orders to pro-
coed as swiftly as possible,
The Daughters of the American
Revolution elected Mrs. Matthew T.
Scott of Illinois to be president gen.
eral.
Cipriano Castro arrived in Paris
and continued his abuse and denuncia-
ton OF the United States.
Monday. April &c.
The Yildiz garrison at COnstanti-
nople surrendered to the Constitution
alist forces. The whole of the troops
protecting the palace gave their form
al and unconditional surrender.
Naiza Bey is now in command of the
garrison. Sultan Abdul Hamid has
been permitted to remain within the
walls of the Yildiz Kiosk.
Fifty or more Irishmen and Italians
were involved in fierce race riot at
New York and order was not re-
stored until an Italian saloon and an
Italian grocery store had been
wrecked
For the first time in ten years, war
ships of Japan entered Pacific coast
port of the United States when the
cruisers Soya and Aso steamed into
San Pedro.
After a brief hunting expedition at
Kapiti Plains, Theodore Aoosevelt and
his party broke camp and started for
the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease, on the
Athi river.
Society families of New York, Vir-
ginia and Great Britain were united by
the marriage at New York of Miss
Norah LanghOrne, the youngest
daughter of Chiswell D. Langhorne
of Albemarle county, Va, to Paul
Phipps of England.
Five thousand dollars is offered by
Arthur E. Boas of New York, thread
manufactures, for information leading
to the recovery of his 13-year-
daughter, adele, who has strangely
disappeared.
Thousands of dollars in counterfeit
currency, both of the United States
and Italy, were seized by the police
and secret service agents at New Ro-
chelle, N. Y, Four arrests were
made.
Sunday, April rs.
The situation in Asiatic Turkey Is
one of extreme gravity The latest
estimates of the number killed in the
villayet of Adana reaches approx
mately 1000, and thousands have
been done to death in the towns Of
other districts.
A number of villages in Portugal
have been wiped out by earthquake.
Salvatore and Stefano were badly
damaged. Thirty-nine bodies have
been taken from the ruins and 1870
persons are missing. Hundreds were
injured.
The famous old st. Louis Cathedral
at New Orleans was shaken by an eX-
plosion believed to have resulted from
a bomb placed in a tower of the build
ing.
A bicycle marathon race, so-called