St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-19
NEWS OF The week
Tuesday, May II.

Of New York. The count is attached
10 the Austrian embassy at Rome.
lose A. Arrange, leader of the Inde-
oondence movement in Panama and
socretarv for foreign relations in the
nrosent cabinet, died in Panama sud-
denly from heart failure.
lanes Boyle and his wife, Helen
g povle. are in the western penitentiary
of pittsburg, the former under a SEN
tence OF life Imprisonment, the latter
under a sentenceto serve a term of
twenty-five years for the kidnapping
of Willie Whitla.
Guilty" was the verdict brought in
bv the jury at Savannah, in the case
of the so-called "turpentine trust. !"
The defendants were charged with
conspiring to monopolize interstate
trade.
Charged with falsifying his figures
on the cancellation of postage, Am
brose NJ. Littlefield, postmaster at
West Kennebunk, Me-, was arrested.
Wednesday, May IL.
monument to the memory of Cap
tain Henry Wirz, keeper of Anderson
Vile prison who was hanged by the
federal authorities after the war, was
unveiled at Andersonville, Ga.
Premier Morris will have twenty-six
members of the Newfoundland legis-
lature, as against ten supporters of
Sir Robert Bond.
Marie From, 20 years old, danced
herself to death in Chicago public
hall, according to the verdict of
coroner's jury.
The National Hat Manufacturers
association voted to stand firm in
their resolve not to permit the use of
the union label in their shops.
Captain Peter C. Hams, Jr. U. S.
A., was convicted of manslaughter il
the first degree for killing William E.
Annis at the Bayside, N. Y, Yacht
club
Twenty men were drowned when
gasolene launch sank in the middle OF
the Ohio river four miles below Pitts
burg. Of the thirty occupants of the
boat, only ten escaped.
Laura e. REGISTER of Providence,
3d. was strangled to death after be-
ing attacked as she was returning to
her home after visiting a dressmaker,
where she had been trying on a we'd
ding gown for her marriage. Her
slayer is unknown.
Since April |, according to the New
York police, twenty seven children
have been killed in the streets of Man
haitian by automobiles.
Thursday, May 10.
At least twenty men were killed by
premature blast of dynamite in
stone quarry operated by the Callahan
Road Improvement company near
South Bethlehem, N. Y.
The first day of the French postal
strike passed peacefully. No dis
turbances were reported and the
movement appears not to have gained
ground.
A new Canadian fisheries inspector
made several hauls off Ogdenshurg,
N. Y, confiscating the property of
some Americans alleged to be poach-
ers.
Joel C. Preble, the oldest prisoner
in the states care as regards length
of service, died at Augusta, Me-, OF
senile dementia. He was committed
to prison for life in 1861 for the muir
der of his wife.
Constantinople witnessed another
batch of executions when twenty-four
mutineers of the army and navy were
hanged in public within the city
limits.
Fire destroyed the Pemigewassett
house, Plymouth, N. H., one of the
most famous hosteleries in the White
Mountains. The loss on the hotel is
estimated at 500 900.
That baseball is healthy sport for
boys and should be encouraged on the
public Fairgrounds was the decision
of the Playground Association OF
America.
Miss Geraldihe Farrar, the Ameri-
can prima donna, and Antonio Scott,
the Italian baritone, are to be married
in Paris next month.
The Cuban house of representatives
passed the bill authorizing the estab-
lishment of national lottery.
To save bridge toll, five foreigners
attempted to cross the Monongabela
river at McKeesport, Pa, in a small
boat, which sank as they got into
midstream, drowning three of the
men,
Count Boni de Castellane, former
husband of Anna Gould, is planning
for a hunting trip after big game in
the Rocky mountains in July.
Friday, May IA.
The two riffs in the south polar
caps of Mars which have been OBJ
served by Professor Percival Lowell |
at Fdagstaff ,Ariz. are regarded by |
astronomers generally as additional |
proofs of the Availability of Mars.
The cable connecting Venezuela
with the outside world was opened to
the general public.
Chairman Gary of the board OF |