St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-10-12
cHITTENDEN COUNTY.

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house of Philetus Phillips, in which
were Mrs. Phillips and four children.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
During rhetorical exercises in the
chapel, Burlington, the Sd, several stu
dents were injured by the fall of a por
ton of the ceiling from above them.
Mr.. Hawley, of Fairfax, of the Senior
class, received an injury to the knee
and COMMISSIONS of the head, which will
confine him for some days. C. E.
Mitchell and John Dewey, of the Junior
class, received scalp wounds.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The body of man found dead on
the track of the Texas Central railroad
near NevasOta some weeks ago, has
been identified as that of j. K. Reynolds
of ST. Adams. The name of his COM
panion is withheld, which gives rise to
suspicious of foul play.
The Courier says that from the LIST to
the Goth of September there was ship
ped from SwantOn, over the Portland &
Ogdensburg Railroad, 2,226, $50 pounds
of freight. Not bad for a new road.
The residence of Charles H. Wheeler,
near Sheldon station, on the Missisquoi
railroad, was wholly consumed by fire
early Wednesday morning, with most
of the furniture and the clothing of the
family. From the following circum-
stances, the fire is supposed to be the
work of tramp: Between seven and
eight Tuesday evening man called at
the door and asked for supper, while
Mr.. Wheeler and son were at the barn.
Mrs. Wheeler told him she had none
for him, whereupon he flew into a tower
ing rage and threatened to burn the
buildings. Not long after he had de-
parted noise was heard in the cellar,
but Mrs. w. did not mention it, for fear
of being laughed at as being afraid of a
tramp. Shortly after midnight, Mrs.
w. heard the cracking of burning
boards and aroused the family, to find
the kitchen all on fire, while the shed
in the rear was nearly consumed. The
fire spread with great rapidity and it
was impossible Tor the family to save
much of their furniture, hardly hun
dred dollars worth escaping destruc-
ton. The cost of the house is said to
have been $500 and the insurance
$500, with insurance on the furniture
of 81 500.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
A sad accident occurred yesterday at
the "Dry Brook" bridge, between Cas-
Teton and Fairhaven. Ashton E. Hub
bard, the telegraph operator of Hyde
vile, got upon the eastern morning
freight to go to CastletOn. He was
standing upon IA box car when the train
passed under the bridge, and was struck
upon the head and Instantly killed, his
neck being broken. His remains were
taken to Fairhaven.
DR.. C. F. Adams of Rutland, home
opathic physician in good standing,
tried to kill himself by cutting his
throat with a razor Thursday, but will
probably recover, as the jugular vein is
not cut. The doctor has been in poor
health the past few months, and is re-
ported to have been labOring under
some mental depression; he has been
separated from his wife number OF
years and this has probably weighed
upon his mind more or less.
A block of marble fell into one of the
Rutland Marble Co.'s quarries at West
Rutland, Tuesday, and seriously injured
two boys at work with a machine for
quarryiug. John Welsh had his left
hand so badly lacerated that it had to
be amputated, aud Michael Duffy sus-
tanned fracture of the spine and his re-
cOvery is doubtful.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Mrs. Noah Fisher, who has been in
dicted at Montreal for adultery, has had
a career. Nine years ago she was mar
ried to Mr.. Fisher at Boston, her maiden
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dashing but rather coarse woman, and
spent her husbands substance reckless
| ly. She persuaded him to sell his farm
and buy hotel at Moretown, from
which shortly after she eloped with his
bartender and went to Canada. A few
years after she returned to her husband,
and they moved to Montpelier. Last
winter she again eloped with Frank
Kendall, one of her boarders, and since
then has been operating at Leominster,
Mass, as clairvoyant under the name
of Mrs. A. r. GrOut. Not long ago she
returned to her husband again and OBJ
tanned his forgiveness, but the district
attorney procured her Indictment, and
she and Kendall now languish in Jail
awaiting trial.
Messrs. James T. Sabin and john B.
Thurston of Montpelier have sold their
insurance business to Gen. p. P. Pitkin.
who has associated Mr.. Fred Pitkin,
his son, with him.
The next annual meeting of the Yer
mont Bible Society will be held in
Trinity church, Montpelier, October IL.
The directors will meet at 10 O'clock A.
NJ. The meeting of the society will be
at two o'clock P. NJ, and public exercises
at seven o'clock. Sermon by Rev. G.
B. Spaulding, d. D., of Dover, N. H.
The passenger train over the Port
land and Ogdensburg road, through a
misplaced switch, collided at Lake Sc