St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
tuesday, May 4.

ovtradition warrant by obtaining
writ OF habeas corpus.
The Aeronautical Society of Great
pritain conferred on Wilbur and Or
Vile Wright, the aeroplanists of
navton. o., its first gold medal.
representatives of American mis-
oion work in Turkish territory are we'll
r,oased at the selection of Oscar S.
straus as ambassador to Turkey.
That the commodities clause" of
tho interstate commerce act of 1906 is
constitutional was in effect declared
nv the supreme court of the United
States.
During the past few months rabies
has been more widespread in New
Work. state than ever before. Quaran-
tines covering fifty-six towns, ten
cities and four villages are in effect.
Theodore Roosevelt bagged one
more lion at Wami. This gives him a
total of three lions and one lioness on
the expedition.
Wednesday, May S.
Louis Chevrolet of the Buick team
drove an exhibition mile in Sc seconds
with a horsepower car at the Mont
gomery, Ala, automobile meet.
Walter Wellman will this summer
renew his efforts to reach the North
Pole by means of a dirigible balloon
or airship.
The Jury which had under consid-
Grafton the case of Chester S. Jordan,
charged with numbering his wife,
Honora. at Boston, and Remembering
her body, returned verdict of muir
der in the first degree.
A hitherto unknown subterranean
lake broke out in Indiana and sub
merged highway to a depth OF
twenty feet. The lake is full OF eye
less fish,
With sporadic rioting undated, the
strike of 1900 bakers on the New York
East Side and in Harlem continues,
apparently with no hope of settle
ment.
A list of persons killed by automo-
biles in New York city the past twelve
months contains seventy seven names.
There are &c, 900 dead in Adana
province as a result of the massacres,
and 35, 900 homeless and penniless
refugees are wandering in the vilayet.
The Japanese sealing schooner Kali
sen, with thirty men, was seized off
Alaska for violation of the sealing
laws.
Inquiry into the cause of disable
ment of the scout cruiser Salem re-
vealed the fact that the dropping of a
bolt in the port turbine Of the craft
was due to carelessness of work.
man.
Thursday, May 6.
The Missouri senate adopted reso-
luton submitting to the people state
wide prohibition constitutional amend
ment.
May wheat advanced to S1.29h a
new nigh record price, on the Chicago
board of trade.
A letter from the widow of clergy
man at Harm says: I'VE have nothing
to eat or wear. We are living on grass
like animals. "
In an alteration at Hardwick,
Mass. William Goodspeed, a pros
porous farmer, was fatally stabbed. A
Polish farm laborer, John Gyrastis,
was arrested, charged with the stab
bling.
1t is said that Chancellor Won Bue-
low intends to resign unless the finan-
cial reform plans of the German gov
eminent are adopted.
The will of the late George H. Nor
rill of Norwood, Mass. the pioneer
ink manufacturer, shows the estate
to be valued at 81, 500 900. The prop
erty is distributed entirely among the
family of the deceased.
The disappearance of the whaling
schooner Carrie D. Knowles, which
left Provincetown, Mass. in Janu-
airy, 1904, never even to be reported,
and considered one of the mysteries OF
the sea, has been cleared up by dis
patch stating that the entire crew OF
fourteen men have been prisoners in
a Venezuelan prison, their vessel hav-
ing been seized while in distress.
A committee was appointed at Bos-
ton to inaugurate campaign in the
interest of Cape Cod watering places
Boston marketmen report short
age of so, 600 cases of eggs this year,
over the same period for 1908.
A hot wave, accompanied by several
prostrauons, struck the middle west,
in contrast with the snow that pre-
vailed during the first two days of the
month.
Friday, May 7.
James Boyle, charged with kidnap-
ping Billy" Whitla at Sharon, Pa.
was convicted after a trial lasting bl
lew hours. No defense was made.
Rev. Stephen R. Trowbridge, a
missionary, estimates the number Of
Afmenians killed in the province o.
Adana since the outbreak of the anti
christian rioting at % 900.
The Missouri senate passed the
mouse bill forbidding cigaret smoking
ny minors in public places, and pro-