St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-05

Peace between the mine workers
and operators in the anthracite coal
regions OF Pennsylvania is assured for
another three years.
Harry G. Orndorff, member of
wealth. family, was sentenced to
prison @or six months for recklessly
operating an automobile at Boston
while Under the influence of liquor.
The military court, sitting at Con-
stantinople, condemned about 25O
conspirators to death and they were
executed.
Cipriano Castro, the deposed presi-
dent of Venezuela, predicts revolu'
ton in Venezuela within six months.
Refugees are flocking to all the
| cities in Asia Minor and it is impera-
tive that they receive aid, for thou
sands are starving.
Officers of the Worlds Christian En-
deavor Union have completed the pur-
chase of a plot of land at Boston FOL
the site and erection of an internatlon'
| al headquarters DulldlnS
After vainly trying to win back the
affections of the girl he loved Porter
Smith, a graduate of Dartmouth col
lege, shot and killed Helen A. Har-
den, senior at Smith college, as the
couple were walking together at
Northampton, Mass. Smith then
committed suicide.
Saturday May 1.
Wilhelmina queen OF the Neither
lands, gave birth to a daughter and
Holland is celebrating the happy
event from one end of the country tc
the other.
From sixty to seventy-five persons
met sudden death in great wind that
spread havic throughout the region
south OF the Ohio river.
The conviction is held by Armenians
that the Moslem attacks against them
had their origin in Constantinople.
George b. Hayes was appointed re-
ceiver for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in
the supplementary proceedings recent
ly brought by New York milliner to
enforce q judgment of 1888 rs obtained
against Mrs. Thaw.
Peace reigns in the labor circles OF
Boston, and there is none of the wide
spread industrial disputes over the
making of new agreements that in the
past have ushered in May Day.
A ten-hour day, a fixed minimum
scale of wages, more sanitary sur
roundings and recognition of the
union, were made the slogan of la
Dor war declared against 400 bakers in
New York.
A sentence of two years imprison-
ment was pronounced by court mar
tial against Paul Davies, an army ser
geant, for the acceptance of COM
mission from the boarding house
keeper to whom he sent recruits to
board.
Increasing confidence obtains in the
state department regarding the situa-
ton in provincial Turkey, and the
hope is expressed that conditions will
continue to improve.
Beginning two years trip to Alas
ka, Ernest de Koven Lefflngwell, the
explorer, sailed from Seattle.
Monday, May 8.
Cipriano Castro is reported to be
consulting with Paris lawyers with a
view of bringing a damage suit against
the French government for his recent
expulsion from Martinique.
Sultan Mehmed V has kept himself
somewhat in retirement since he re-
placed his brother on the throne.
The largest steamer on the great
lakes, the freighter Chenango, was
launched at Detroit. The Shenango is
COT feet long, So feet beam and 80 feet
depth.
Labor conditions in New York city
have not improved since the panic Of
1907, according to the annual report
of the citys commissioner of licenses
Martin j. Sheridan made new
record by throwing the Olympic discus,
free style, from a seven foot circle,
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