St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Tuesday, April 20.

flames.
1t is announced officially that the
deaths at Adana, Asia Minor, during
the rioting numbered 400, among the
killed being many Turks.
Two hundred citizens of Ada,
Okla, disguised with the Justice"
meted out to criminals in the smaller
towns of Oklahoma, took from jail
and hanged four wealthy land owners
for the murder of Deputy United
States Marshal Bobbitt.
Jersey City was wildly excited over
the running amuck of splendid black
bull, which spread terror along two
miles of crowded streets before he was
killed.
Charles Colbert and Henry Colbert,
brothers, were convicted by a jury of
conspiracy to bride in connection with
an alleged attempt to bride a juror
in one of Pittsburgs councilmanic
graft trials.
Henri Renaud, French Canadian
weaver of Nashua, N. H., won the
Boston Athletic associations thir-
teenth Marathon run of twenty-five
miles over a crowd lined highway be-
tween Ashland and Boston.
Charged with having stolen seventy
three horses in as many cities and
towns, Albert Fuller, 60 years old,
was indicted by the grand jury at
Kingston. R. I and held for trial
Wednesday, April 81.
To afford all protection possible to
American citizens and their interests
In Turkey, the administration has dis
patched special cruiser squadron to
that country.
Bulls in wheat were leaderless and
a dashing bear raid wrought consider
able confusion in the Chicago pit,
where July, closing at 81. 12%,
showed a net loss of 35s@% cents.
Saving the hayward boys of the city
is the purpose of movement begun
at Boston.
Sultan Abdul Hamid will remain
with his family and accept resignedly
the fate which has been prepared for
him and his country.
A severe eruption of the Colima
volcano, Mexico, followed by an
earthquake shock, spread terror and
confusion among the inhabitants of
nearby towns and villages.
Senator. Tillman of South Carolina
paid his first visit to the White House
and received a cardial greeting from
President Taft. In his long official
career the senator never before had
called upon president.
Tunnelling their way under four
buildings to reach the vaults, robbers
gained admission to the Bank of Suf-
folk, Va, and escaped safely with
about $500.
Because of overwork, Rev. DR.. Ell
wood Worcester, rector of Emmanuei
Episcopal church of Boston and wide
ly known as the originator of the So
called Emmanuel movement, system
of healing, has been obliged to aban-
don all his duties.
Governor Johnson signed bill
making Sunday baseball legal in Min
nesOta.
Seven men arrested at Boston after
an exhibition of boxing in which they
took part were acquitted by jury in
the superior criminal courts
Thursday, April %.
Swept by bullets from the machine
guns of a British patrol cruiser, the
American fishing schooner Charles
Levi Woodbury., hailing from Seattle,
was forced to surrender off Vancouver
The Woodbury. is stated by the British
cruiser captain to have been poaching
in Canadian waters.
Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Nom
hasa on board the steamer Admiral
He was in the best of health, as were
all the other members of his party.
Three persons were killed, six ia
tally hurt and at least fifty were in
jured and property valued at more
than 81, 900, 900 was destroyed by a
tornado which swept through north
ern Ohio.
Mrs. Anna Trafford, strilingly
handsome widow, whose husband left
her SIS 900 three years ago, was held
at Brooklyn for trial on charge of
stealing bread and milk from door
steps. She had lost all her fortune on
the race tracks.
Old Fort Ticonderoga, on the west
shore of Lake Champlain, will be re-
stored and made to appear exactly
as it did on May 10, ITS, when Ethan
Allen swooped down on it and took it
for the continental congress.
Governor George L. Lilley of Con-
necticut died after battling with dis
ease for four weeks. Death was the
result of acute nephritis and its at
tendant complications.
A more rigid supervision by the
state department of agriculture to pre-
vent bringing diseased nursery stock
into New York from other states Is
provided in bill signed by Governor
Hughes.
Mrs. Boyle, the alleged wife of
James H. Boyle, abductor of Willie
NJbitla waC Halnn McDermOtt Har