St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
tuesday,. March 30.


abduction of Willie Whitla, was held
in $25, 900 bail at Sharon, Pa.
Giuseppe Tosti, a steerage passen-
ger on the steamer Hamburg, threat
ened exPresident Roosevelt. Sail
ors seized Tosti and, by the captains
orders, put him in irons. Tosti re-
fused for days to eat, crying "Roose-
welt is trying to poison me-"
Miss Adele Murray, Winsted,
Conn, grammar school teacher, was
sued for $1,000 by George E. Bond
for whipping his son, Elliot.
Clark county, o., voted dry" by
eleven majority in the local option
election. 1t affects ninety seven sa-
looms and three breweries.
Herbert L. Swift of Chicago, 33
years old, son of the late Gustave F.
Swift, founder of the packing firm of
Swift & Co., was adjudged insane.
Excessive use of alcohol was given
as the causee.
President Taft has let it be known
that he approves the Payne bill in
principle and that he believes more
schedules in the Dingley tariff should
be revised downward than upward-if
any should go upward at all.
The Utah Fuel company pleaded
guilty at Salt Lake City to the fraudu-
lent acquisition of IA ,040 acres of coal
land, paid a fine of $4,000 and $780,
900 for the coal extracted and re-
linquished the land.
Henry Wood, a pioneer writer of
metaphysical and mental healing
works and the author of a score of
books on the subject, died at Bos-
ton. He was born in Barre, VT, in
1894.
Wednesday, March 81.
BY strict party vote of 1853 to 1876,
the house of commons refused to ex-
press lack of confidence in the Brit
ish governments naval policy.
The furmula agreed upon by the
powers of Europe and Austria Hun
gary for the settlement of the dispute
between the dual monarchy and Ser
via was accepted by the Servian gov
eminent.
Charged with the murder of Rose
Tritt at Sanford, Ind, thirty-two
years ago, Sylvester Burnham is to
be arrested in Texas.
Two negro students who were dis
missed from the Grand Rapids, Mich.
Veterinary college, following the OBJ
lection of white students to their pres
ence, were denied a writ of manda-
mus to compel the college to let them
pursue their studies.
Jan ]. Pouron, the Russian refugee,
whose extradition has long been
sought by the Russian government,
was discharged from custody at New
York.
Mrs. Machla Schlatsky, 106 years
old, died at New York. She was be-
lieved to be the oldest woman in the
state.
Thirty eight Mexican miners were
entombed in the coal mine at Minor,
Mex. as the result of an explosion of
fire damp.
Crazy Snake, the leader of the
band of Oklahoma outlaws, was cap
tured after being badly wounded and
was taken to the federal Jail at Mus
kogee.
President Taft announced by direct
inference that President Eliot of Har-
ward has been rendered and is consid-
ering the appointment Of ambassador
to Great Britain.
Thursday, April 1.
The last of the American troops who
have been occupying Cuba sailed away
on the transports Sumner and Nc
Clellan.
Rev. William Mcmahon, pastor of
st. Bridget's Catholic church, Cleve-
land, and editor Of The Catholic Uni
verse, filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy. His total liabilities are
stated to be 81 , 94 JAP, with assets
aggregating SIS, 207.
Examination of the books of the Of
flee of the Baltimore city register show
a shortage of more than $67 900 in
the funds of that office. William F.
Downs, stock clerk in the office
named, is under arrest.
The final act in Servia's submission
occurred in the national assembly at
Belgrade when Servia, bowling to the
powers, withdrew all opposition to
Austria Hungary's annexation of Bos-
MIA and Herzegovina and promised to
maintain peace.
Elroy Kent admitted that he killed
Miss Della B. Congdon at East Walling-
ford, VT, according to the testimony
given in court by Allen A. Leonard,
a deputy sheriff.
The bodies of fourteen men missing
from steamer Altenburg, which was
destroyed by fire off Havana, were
found in the harbor.
The military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, containing hundreds of prison
ers, was burned to the ground. Short
ly after the last prisoner had been re-
moved by troops the walls fell with
great crash, The fire started among
some rubbish in the. paint shop.
President Eliot of Harvard is to be