St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-19

| - hoo peeH Impossible 10 verify the
story that the captain and crew of the
american whaling vessel Carrie D..
Knowles of Proyincetown, Mass. ,
have been languishing in a Venezuelan
prison for five years.
Opposition to further increase of
ornaments is steadily spreading
among the people, according to the
American Peace society.
The classic Metropolitan handicap
was easily won by s. c.. Hildreths A.
year-old colt, King James, carrying
125 pounds.
The striking postal employees in
France adopted resolutions appealing
to the workmen's organizations to
make common cause with them.
Emma Goldman, who was to have
delivered lecture at New Haven on:
"Anarchism and What 1t Stands For, y
was prevented from carrying out her
| plans by the police.
Saturday, May IS.
F. Augustus Heinze was arranged
at New York on new indictment that
charges him with misapplying So, 900
900 of the funds of the Mercantile Ma
tional bank.
After long search, Thomas P.
Williams, the Harvard honor man, a
member of the freshman class, whose
mind has become wrecked by over
study, was found in Rochester, N. Y.
A series of tornadoes in Kansas,
Missouri and Oklahoma killed dozen
persons, injured about 100 and laid
waste many farm houses and barns.
Rev. DR.. CORTLAND Myers of the
Temple Baptist church of Brooklyn
received unanimous call to the Ire
mont Temple Baptist church of Bos-
ton, the largest of the denomination
In New England.
A committee of college women was
appointed by the Women's Trades
Union League to investigate condi-
tons in the bakeries of New York
city.
An indictment charging murder was
returned against Ambrose Van Buskirk
of Lawrence Mass, aged 16, on ac-
count of the killing of Mrs. Kath-
crime Grey, an aged woman
Mayor Mcclellan of New York veto
ed the so-called equal pay bill, passed
by the legilature with view to put
ting the salaries of the women teach
ers on an equal footing with those
paid the men.
Sunday, May 16.
Zojoji, the famous Buddhist temple
situated in Shiba park, Toxic, was
completely destroyed by fire, the
damage amounting to about 5000 900.
John Kelley and John Gibbons were
instantly killed and the horse which
they were driving was nearly cut In
two when a locomotive struck their
carriage at Clinton, Mass.
Prince Lidj Jeassu, aged 10 years,
grandson of King Menelik and heir
apparent to the Abyssinian throne,
was married to Princess Romantic,
aged Z, the granddaughter of the late
Emperor John.
Stanley G. Smith, manufacturer
and banker of Woonsocket, r. L.,
was killed by the overturning of an
automobile in which he was riding.
Almost continuous drunkenness is
charged against Colonel w. F. Tuck
er, U. S. A., retired, in six deposit
lions filed at Chicago in the suit of
Mrs. Dolly l.. Tucker for a decree of
separation.
The socialists have introduced in
the duma an Interpolation drawing a
terrible indictment against the ad-
ministration in the Russian prisons,
which are described as veritable tor
ture chambers, seething with typhoid
and scurvy.
w. A. Clark, formerly United
States senator from Montana, VEN
tured the prediction that industrial
conditions will settle quickly at the
conclusion of tariff discussion.
The great strawberry season of 1909
opened in Delaware. From $3.50, 900
to 81 900, 600 is the estimate placed
on the crop of Delaware's three
counties alone.
With no prospect of receiving
recognition from their emnlOyers tho
5000 Japanese plantation hands on
strike in the Hawaiian Islands are
firmly standing their ground.
Monday, May II.
What is believed to have been
Black Hand crime resulted in the
murder at Boston of William Denapo,
aged rs, by shooting.
Broughton Brandenburg, the maya
zine writer, whose troubles quickly
followed the publication of letter
purporting to have been written by
the late Grover Cleveland, is pris-
oner in New York.
After the hold-up of Great North |
ern passenger train by six bandits be- |
tween Colbert and Mead, Wash.
twelve persons were injured when the |
locomotive and the mail car, cut off |
from the rest of the train, ran back |
wild after the bandits had rifled the |
mail of an unknown amount, and col |
lided with the rest of the train.