St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-08-21
WaterfOrd.
Vermont News.
LAwLESsNEss IN MIDDLEBURY


Saturday night was wild night in
Middlebury. The town was full of
people, among whom were many
strangers. The number of persons in
toXicated was unusually large and dur
ing the evening several disturbances
occurred at different places. One
drunken fellow insisted on stopping at
the Pierce house over night, despite
the opposition of the landlord, Mr..
Fuller. Pierce became abusive and
threatening until finally Fuller struck
him with club over the head, when
he was glad to get away. Shortly after
10 o'clock five or six fellows were
creating Il disturbance near Merchants
row. Night Policeman Clay n. Dick
inson first ordered them off and after
wards attempted to arrest one of them,
when they all pitched into him, got his
billy away and pounded him unmerci
fully over the head and face and then
ran. Dickinson fired three shots after
them but hit no one. Though bruised
and cut badly about the face Officer
Dickinson stayed on his beat until five
in the morning. The identity of the
parties can be ascertained and ar
rests will undoubtedly be made soon.
The people are greatly stirred up over
the affair.
SUICIDE AT NORTHFIELD.
A stranger, apparently about 45
years of age, appeared i'll NOrthtield
last Thursday afternoon and first
attempted to borrow small sums of
money of several persons. Between 3
and o'clock he procured fifteen grains
of morphine ut the drug store, and
went to the Mortified House and af-
ter sitting around awhile said he did
not feel well and wanted to lie down.
He was shown to Il room by Mr.. Nor
ris, the landlord, and nothing more was
heard from him until about 9:30, when
one of the boarders told Mr.. Morris that
the man was in great distress. Doc
tors w. b. Mayo and Edwin Porter
were Immediately called in and every
thing done that could be, but the man
died few minutes before ten o'clock.
About eight grains OF the morphine
were found in his pocket. He wore a
decent suit of dark clothes, was about
81 feet tall and weighed about l35
pounds. His name was 5. Rogers of
Fairlee.
The examination of Mrs. Qninn was
begun in Rutland on the 18th. Prof.
Seeley of Middlebury, who was en-
ployed to make the analysis, to ascer-
| tain if poison had been administered,
stated in his evidence that he discov-
cred arsenic in the portions of the
stomach, liver and intestines submitted
to him for analysis, and that death I'M
doubtedly resulted from poisoning.
The physicians who attended Mr..
Quinn in his sickness, and who after
wards made post mOrtem eXamina
ton, testified, on Friday, that the
symptoms of Mr.. Quinn's illness might
have been produced by poisoning, al
though believed ut the time to be a
severe attack of cholera mOrbus, and
that the condition of the different or
gans at the time of the autopsy indi-
Gated death by poisoning. A son OF
Mr.. Quinn also testified that Mrs. Quinn
had threatened at various times to
poison her husband.
STATE VITAL STATISTICS.
According to the registration report
for 1888, there were $3.50 births, 2,S;&
marriages and 5,204 deaths. The av-
erage age of those who died was AZ. A.
years. The number under one year OF
age was S3l ; the number under five
years was ,229, or nearly One-fourtl
of the whole number. Six persons
were over 100 years. Diseases of the
lungs comprise almost One-quarter o
the whole mortality of the state heart
disease next, and paralysis stands third
in the list. The number of divorces
during the year was LIB.
STATE FAIRS.
Addison county, Middlebury, Sep
TENDER 3-5; Franklin county, Shell
don, Sept. 3-5; White River Valley
Bethel, Sept. 3-5; State, Burlington
+ Sept. 5-II; POultney Industrial SO
ciety, Poultney, Sept. 9-ll; Mad Riv-
err Valley, Waitsfield, Sept. Is, IL
Caledonia county, ST. Johnsbury, Sept
16-I8; Champlain Valley, Vergennes
Sept. I6-l5; LamOille county, Morris
town, Sept. 23-25; Windsor county
Woodstock, Sept. 23-25 Dog Rive
Valley, NOrthiield, Sept. 25-2.
STATE TEMPERANCE CAMPAIGNING.
The state temperance camp-meetinI
opened at MOrrisville on Tuesday will
IL large attendance. There are sixt,
or more tents on the grounds. Their
is large choir, with e. 5. Parker o
. Elmore as leader, Miss Mckenzie u
MOOres, n. Y, as organist and C.. A
Spaulding as cornetist. Francis Muir
ply, the founder of the blue ribbon
> movement, addressed an audience o
1000.
1t is claimed that the Burlington
rink will he one of the finest in Ne'
England.