St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-03-31
The WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, March %.

police of the entire country endless
worry since he was kidnapped from
school in Sharon, Pa, last Thursday
was returned to his father at the Hol-
lenden hotel at Cleveland, the father
having paid ransom of $40. 900.
Six indictments, three for con-
Spiracy, one for perjury and two fol-
bribery, were returned in the Pitts
burg councilmanic graft cases.
Fire in warehouse of the Scar
ceys distillery at McBrayer, KY, de-
stroyed %, 900 barrels of whisky. The
loss is $500, 900.
Theodore Roosevelt and his party of
lion hunters are aboard the Hamburg
American line steamer Hamburg
bound for Naples.
Lloyd Bowers of Chicago has been
appointed to be solicitor general of
the Unitel States.
Wednesday, March "a.
The forty eighth joint ballot of the
Illinois legislature for United States
senator resulted in no choice.
Great Britain loses the services of
its most picturesque admiral in the
retirement of Admiral Lord Charles
Beresford.
A stringent anti-pass bill was
passed without a dissenting vote by
the New. Hampshire house of repre-
sentatives.
Governor Harmon issued a procla-
nation prohibiting the importation in
to Ohio of cattle which have not been
tested and found free from bovine
tuberculosis.
Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton of
the British navy succeeded, after an
arduous sledge journey of 170S miles,
which occupied 126 days, in reaching
within Ill miles of the South Pole,
or 354 miles nearer than the distance
attained by the Discovery" expedi-
ton.
Mrs. Lizzie Murphy of Cambridge,
Mass, was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment for performing an
operation upon Mrs. Margaret Rear
don, which resulted fatally.
Woman's suffrage for Massachusetts
was killed in the house of representa-
tiyes by vote of 100 to AZ.
Rev. M. D. Johnson shot and killed
Rev. Solomon Odell, following a
quarrel at Russ, Mo. Johnson is pas
tor of the Free Will Baptist church
and Odell was pastor of the Presby-
terian church.
The second case of leprosy to be
discovered in Boston, within a week
was pronounced in the case of James
A. B. Thomas. aged II.
Thursday, March IS.
The growing tendency towards big
ger and more formidable navies was
denounced by Andrew Carnegie at tie
Peace festival in New
York.
Eight inches of wet snow did dam
age in Denver estimated at from
5000 900 to $500, 900.
Ten years in prison was the SEN
tence imposed on Mrs. Rose Silsby
for the murder of Clinton E. Childs,
at her home in Waltham, Mass.
Count Boni de Castellane's petition
for an inventory of the papers and
furniture in the de Sagan mansion and
at the chateau Marais was declined
by Paris court.
The anthracite miners voted to re-
main at work after April l and to al
low the unions district executive
boards to continue their efforts to
seek an agreement with the operators
to the men.
Commissioner Rivera contends that
all the Porto Ricans ask for is justice
and the Americans are not giving
them this.
Threats to kill President Taft,
Mayor Whitlock of Toledo, Speaker
Cannon and Patrick McCarren, state
senator from Brooklyn, were con-
famed in a letter sent to Cannon
from Toledo.
King Leopold of Belgium has offered
1 prize of $4,000 for the best work on
progress of aviation published be-
ore March 1, 1911.
A new state issue was raised in the
house by the defeat of
he prohibition resolve by a refer
,nce to the next general court.
Fanny j.. Crosby, famous through
tut the English speaking world as the
blind hymn writer, entered upon
Ter Goth year.
Saturday, March 27.
A victory for the reciprocating
ype of engine in point of coal con-
sumption was the showing of the first
est of the three naval scout cruisers,
Chester and Salem.
There was some appreciate i'm
in Harvard athletics dur
ng the year 1907-S, according TO the
nnual report of President Eliot.
A sensation was created at Cork by
he appearance of letter from Will
lam OBrien announcing his resigna-
ion as Nationalist member of parlia-
nent for Cork and his retirement
rom politics.
Canada will make an offer of naval
assistance to Great Britain and the
ceiling among the Canadian ministers