St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-07-14
News and Other Items.

field on the anniversary of his assassi-
nation.
During the last five years about thir-
ty persons have been killed and about
seventy wounded, on the government
side, in the war with illicit distilling.
a 3-year-old child of James Million
ut Quincy, Mass, ignited his clothing
while playing with fire crackers, and
died of his injuries.
Annie r. daughter of Rev. John b.
Richmond, was accidentally killed at
Dover by a pistol i'll the hand of Ed
Frost. The boy was shooting ut
mark on a stable door in the rear of
the Richmond residence, when Annie
suddenly opened the door and received
the ball i'll her neck. The jugular vein
was severed, causing death in 10 min
utes.
Three boys about II years of age,
named Names, Downes and Higgins,
have been arrested at Boston, having
in their possession property stolen from
the house of Charles III. BOardman.
Mrs. Boardman, i'll from childbirth,
was alone in the house, and one of the
young burglars held her by the throat
while the others sought plumber.
William Pidgeon, I0-year-old boy,
lighted the fuse of cannon cracker at
New Rochelle, n. Y, and threw the
cracker on the ground. 1t did not go
off Immediately, and the boy picked it
up, held it close to his face, and blew
upon it. Then it did go off. One of
the boys eyes was destroyed and the
other was blinded, and his forehead
was badly burned.
Mr.. w. o. Hunt of Jacksonville, VT,
while driving to Readsboro, on Friday,
June %, was stopped by two men, who
started up suddenly from the bushes
beside the road. One of them took his
horse by the bit, and the other de-
manded his money. But Mr.. Hunt
was equal to the emergency. Dealing
the man nearest him a heavy blow
across the face with his whip stock, he
struck the horse so sharply that it
broke away from the man holding the
bit, and soon put safe distance be
tween Mr.. Hunt and his would be rob-
bers.
A correspondent of the Boston Her
aid relates the following incident {:
Coming out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Friday morning, in the car with your
correspondent, was an elderly man, in
great anxiety and tribulatiOn about a
change of train he must make. Were
you ever in this region before ? asked
a fellow traveller. no | never was
out of Vermont until last Tuesday,
what! are you from Vermont? Shake
hands / came from Vermont God
bless you ! I'd shake hands with a
puppy, if he came from Vermont And
the old man looked as though he meant
it. He made his last change of cars
all right, and in a few hours was
doubtless among his children whom he
WIS SOlHS 10 Sct.
President MagOun, of the Iowa col
, lege at Grinnell, lost his bacculaureate
sermon i'll the tornado, and preached
instead discourse upon the disaster.
Mary Ann Angel, first wife of Brig
ham Young, died ut Salt Lake City,
) June 81, at the age of -. She was
born in Ontario county, n. Y, joined
the MOrmons in Ohio in 1892, and was
there married to Young in 1884. She
: was once mobbed in Missouri, suffered
many hardships while in Illinois and
+ Iowa, and had been in poor health for
many years. She had six children, of
whom three are living.
The total number of voters in the
United States is over Il, ,3l9, OF
which number there are cOlored, |,
4S7 ,}44 native-born, 6,270,8IS for
5 eign-born, 3,072, 4S7. Vermont has
o., 62l voters, of whom 77,774 are ma
tive-born, II ,:533 foreign-born and 3l4
cOlored.
Mrs. LOrinda Strickland, of East
l Litchiield, Conn, aged 70, was found
: dead on the ID. She was standing up,
leaning over the bars of the COW yard
with milk pail by her side.
Mrs. Amos Root of Fort Edward n.
: Y, who has been seriously i'll, coughed
: up large double tooth, which slipped
down her throat some time ago while
she was under the influence of ether
1t is believed she will now recover.
Clifford WhitmOre of West ROches-
ter, aged IL years, hanged himself ac-
. cidentally on the ID, while playing
with rope. Supposed to be making a
f swing.
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