St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-21

Ioads' mas reached the testimony tax.
ing stage at San Francisco.
Advices from German East Africa
state that sixty deaths from plague
nave occurred in the Manuza district.
Ed Sharpe, a negro, who claimed
10 be l23 years old, died at Cedar
Springs, S. C.
A revision of the Philippine tariff SO
as to permit as much revenue as pos
slble, while extending efficient protec-
ton to the islands industries, was
recommended in a message to con-
gress from President Taft.
Miss Christina Palmieri, an Italian
aged 20, was married at Providence to
Camille Desisto, 81 years old, who,
on March last, shot her in the back
during fit of jealousy.
Marines gathered in force at Con-
stantinople and seized and conveyed to
the palace Arif Bey, commander of
the battleship Assar-I- a mem
Der OF the committee of union and
progress, and lynched him.
Saturday, April II.
Manufacturing plants in various
New England cities and towns were
shut down on account of the high
water in their wheelpits, and several
thousand employees had a day of en-
forced idleness.
The long litigation between the state
OF Texas and the Waters Pierce Oil
company has ended in favor of the
state. Officials of the company will
pay the fine and accruing penalties,
which total nearly So 900, 900.
Mrs. Joseph Sager, wife of a ply
sician of Celina, o., became an in
mate of workhouse, pleading guilty
to the charge of torturing her 10-year-
old adopted daughter with a red-hot
poker.
The Russo Bulgarian settlement
was signed at st. Petersburg stimuli
taneously with the signing Of the
Turko Bulgarian agreement at Con-
stantinople.
Only one man in all the history of
speculation ever operated a wheat
corner and played out the game to
final success, said Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson. That was Joseph of
Old"
Harvey W. Scott, editor of the
Portland Oregonian, has been offered
the post of ambassador to Mexico.
Walter Mills, who was known to the
farmers of Maine and New Hampshire
as the Apple King of New England"
was found guilty of using the mails in
scheme to defraud.
Miss Katherine Roosevelt, Bostons
best-known bachelor girl and one of |
the most daring horsewomen in the |
country, was married to j. Stanley |
Reeves Of Philadelphia.
A massacre of Armenians has taken |
place at Adna, Asiatic Turkey. Sol
diers are joining in the pillage of the
town. The fatalities are said to be !
numerous.
The 355 East Side bakeries in New
York have reduced the size of the
loaves of white bread from pound to
thirteen and fourteen ounces.
Sunday, ApriI18.
Patriots day at Lowell, Mass. was
marked by the unwilling of a monu-
ment to Charles A. Taylor, the first
soldier to fall in defense of the Union
in 1861.
Having advertised for generous
for the rebuilding of the
First Congregational church, burned
at Wakefield, Mass, five weeks ago,
he total of 1923 300 was raised at two
open meetings.
France is beginning to feel the eff
'ect of the prevailing high price of
wheat in the United States.
G. w. Poole, one of the best
Known horsemen in the country, COM
nitted suicide at the Santa Anita,
Cal. track.
The solemn ceremonies in the beati-
lcation of Joan of Arc were carried
nut in St. Peters at Rome.
The Harvard varsity crew defeated
weaker and less expert crew from
Columbia on the Charles river by six
I'LL lengths in a race of mile and
even eighths.
The Turco Bulgarian negotiations
ave been concluded. A protocol
igned by representatives of the two
ountries provides for the recognition
y the porte of the independence of
bulgaria.
Monday, April 10. !
Ri. Rev. Joseph G. Anderson,
lear general of the archdiocese of s
oston, has been created as auxiliary s
ishop of Boston by Pope Plus X. s
Operating noiselessly and without
,aving any trail, burglars forced an
to tie Wilton, N. H., post
flee and got away with $1,000 in 6
amps: t
Street fighting has been going on at y
dana, Turkey, for three days and
. least 1000 persons have been killed. t
Fire in the Empire building, New b
ork, entrapped 1875 girls working on '
le of the upper floors. All were r
however, the elevator boy b
the building running the car re- 1
eatedly through the smoke and v