St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-03-31

| OTSulp VI QuSSuSlduu HIS Salary
will be $25, 900 yearly, an increase OF
! $15,O OS
Presi lent Taft directed that an or
der be issued restoring the marines
to exactly the same duties that they
performed prior to their being ordered
! ashore.
The Republic Iron and Steel COM
pany announces cut of 10 percent in
wages. The cut affects about 70 900
men.
The Harvard Yale Princeton tri-
angular debate ended ina tie.
Friday, March 26.
Sailing ON the steamer Gaudeloupe
from Bordeaux, bound for West In
dian and Venezuelan ports, was Cipri-
ano Castro, former president of
Venezuela, who has been in Europe
for his health.
With boots and jeers ringing in
their ears, James H. Boyle and his
wife, arrested at Cleveland as the
kidnappers of Willie Whitla of
Sharon, Pa. were escorted by police
to train bound for Mercer, Pa.
George Cheever of Andover, Mass.
was held at New York on charge of
forgery. He is said to have obtained
about $40, 900 by means of forged
checks.
Governor Draper has stopped the
sale of infected beef in Massachu-
sets. Attorney General Malone sent
to the governor an opinion that the
laws of the state did not permit such
sales.
Phillips Exeter academy's list of
scholarships was augmented by the
addition of 800, 900 in two separate
gifts of $50, 900 each.
What is believed to be the oldest
missionary society in the country OBJ
served it's Tooth anniversary. The
organization is the Dorcas Society of
the First Congregational church of
Northampton, Mass. "
I The house of representatives OF
the Minnesota legislature passed a
bill providing for the consolidating of
st. Paul and Minneapolis as one city.
Frank Gotch of Iowa, champion
wrestler of the world, retained his
title by defeating Paul de Rouen of
France in straight falls.
Weary of the gay whirl of society
and face to face, as she believed,
with years of physical suffering, Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard, Jr. aged 40, COM
mitted suicide by asphyxiation at her
home in Washington.
Sunday, March %.
A sensation has been caused by
case of sleeping sickness in the heart
of Paris. The victim is a missionary.
That the whole of the American con-
tinent will eventually become one
great republic under the government
of what is now the United States is
the prediction made by former Gov
ernor Folk of Missouri.
For the third time in it's history the
main building of Seton Hall college,
South Orange, N. j.. was burned to
the ground. The loss is $50 900.
Having become infected from kiss
bestowed by request on a patient dy
ing of blood poisoning, Miss Marion
c. Spier, a trained nurse, died at
Cumberland, Md.
William G. Eyester of McKees
Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburg, states
that he believes he is the Charlie
Ross kidnapped from Germantown,
Pa, thirty-five years ago.
Unwilling to bear the ordeal of an
other trial, Mrs. Rose Silsby of Wal
than, Mass, sentenced to ten years
in prison for killing Clinton E.
Childs, has ordered her attorney not
to press for new trial.
All business in Sanford and SPRING
vale, Me-, was closed tight as re-
suit of the action of the local branch
of the Maine Civic League to enforce
the Sunday blue laws.
James Vango, young negro, who
confessed that he had murdered Isa-
dore DeVallant, night clerk in the
Eastern hotel at New York, for the
purpose of robbery, strangled himself
in his cell.
Monday, March 90.
TaWreDce r. ROyle q we'll known |
Boston newspaper man, shot and
killed his wife in the public garden in
Boston and then turned the revolver
upon himself, dying almost instantly. |
Boyle's mind was temporarily unbal-
anced by a nervous trouble.
An explosion of dynamite blew out
part of the southeast corner of the |
nearly completed grand opera house
at Boston. The contractor says he |
has received several yelled threats |
since the trouble with labor organiza-
tons.
Five companies of Oklahoma militia
marched against Crazy Snakes band
of Creek Indians, halfbreeds and |
negroes, entrenched in the Hickory |
Hills. A battle is regarded as inevi- |
table.
Crown Prince Georges remuneration
of. his right of succession to the Ser
Wan throne was accepted by King |
Peter, who declared Prince Alexan-
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