St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-12
N. H., for embezzlement and obtain
Ing money nnder falSn nrotonnnr


TO the portrait of Jefferson Davis upon
the silver service which the war YES
sci is to receive from the state of
Mississippi
Hammond Lamont, aged As, editor
OF The Nation, died at New York af-
ter an operation which proved more
serious than expected.
A statue of Poet Henry w. Long
fellow was unveiled and dedicated at
Washington.
The situation in Central America
appears to be getting more comrlicat-
ed every day, judging from the news
that comes slowly into Panama.
Saturday, May 8.
William A. White, one of the jurors
In the Chester S. Jordan trial at Cam
bridge, Mass. became violently in
sane. A new trial for Jordan will be
asked on the ground that one of the
jurors who convicted him was a luna
tic.
One thousand rounds of rife ammu-
milton were confiscated at Baku just
as they were about to be shipped to
Persian ports.
Allegations by George G. Dion that
Mayor Brown of Lowell, Mass. had
offered payment to him for services
rendered during the last mayoralty
campaign were made during hearing
on charges preferred by Brown against
the Lowell police board.
The Rhode Island general assembly
of 1909 brought it's labors to a close
after a session lasting seventy-one
days.
Amherst college conferred the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws on Baron
Kogoro Takahira, the ambassador OF
Japan.
Cipriano Castro, the deposed presi-
dent of Venezuela, has arrived at
Santander, Spain.
The White House was thronged by
one of the most fashionable gatherings
of the season to inaugurate series
OF garden parties by Mrs. Taft.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer says
that he will take cognizance of re-
marks made by Rear Admiral Mel
Vile, in which the officer made saw
age attack on the recently adopted re-
forms in the navy.
Alleged by her accuser to be a
witch, Mrs. Laupaule Orber was tried
at Butler, Pa, on technical charge
| of disorderly conduct, was convicted
and sentenced to pay fine of SIS and
serve ten days in Jail.
A mandatory in Turin has built
| for several Americans an automobile
which will be presented by them to
Pope Plus. 1t will be elegantly
| equipped.
Sunday, May 9.
An Injunction has been issued by
Associate Justice Spear of the Maine
supreme judicial court, restraining the
Waterville Trust company from re-
| ceiving deposits pending an investiga-
| ton.
A petition was presented to the
| United States circuit court of appeals
| at New York asking that Charles w.
| Morse, the convicted banker now in
| the Tombs, be admitted to bail pend
ing a decision on his appeal.
Conditions are rather favorable for
the French government in its contro-
versy with the postal employees and 1t
is not likely that strike will be de-
clared for the present.
A procession marched through the
principal streets of STEAMBOAT after the
| girding of the sword upon Mehmed v.
This ceremony corresponds TO that of
coronation.
The shah of Persia has signed two
| proclamations, one announcing the re-
sumption of the constitution and the
other granting political amnesty.
In a gruelling race Henri st. Yves
of France took the measure of twelve
sturdy competitors in an international
Marathon held at New York and
romped home a winner by five sixths
OF mile.
A balloon trip over the Atlantic from
Boston to Europe is planned by Henry
H. Clayton after sixteen years OF
study of the direction and velocity OF
wind currents.
Imprisoned by fall of top rock for
thirty-six hours, Thomas Buscavage
| and John Masters, miners employed
at Pottsville, Pa, were rescued I'm =.
injured by big force of workmen.
Monday, May 10.
Mrs. Boyle, formerly Helen Anna
McDermott of Chicago, was convicted
on a charge of aiding, assisting and
abetting in the abduction of Willie
Whitla of Sharon, Pa.
The 200 union carpenters and 70
union plumbers who have been out on
strike at Haverhill. Mass, returned
10 work, their demands having been
agreed to.
Judge William l.. Penfield, former
ly solicitor of the department OF state
and an authority on international law,
died at Washington.
The nomination of Theodore Roose-
welt for mayor of New York city is
proposed by Stewart L. Woodford, the
diplomatist and former minister to