St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-12-11

covered on the farm of Joseph Tower,
the title to n part of which was last
Saturday conveyed to Rutland parties.
The members of the Washington
county bar will place a portrait of
Judge Redfield in the county court
room where he has presided many
years.
Mrs. Daniel Eddy of Manchester has
n specimen of Lobster Claw cactus
bearing 1911 buds and blossoms, the
circumference of the plant being over
1l3 inches or nine feet five inches.
Mr. Aldrieh, found dead at East
Wallingford, was taken sick i'm the
night, it is supposed. raised the win
dow and fell ont. He was found dead
under the window of bis room, in the
roadway.
George A. Ford of Maidstone, aged
seventy -four years, was found dead in
ii culvert in Stratford Monday. He is
supposed to have been walking on the
track in the night and stumbled, strik
ing his head and killing him.
Night Waterman C. n. Dickinson of
Middlebury Thursday night surprised
burglar in the post Office building.
They exchanged shots and the thief
escaped. He had unsuccessfnlly tried
to crack the post office safe.
Judge Wheeler of Jamaica recently
moved to Brattleboro, 26 miles, taking
favOrite cat. The cat the next day
returned to its old home, but, finding
the doors and windows closed, trotted
back to the family in BrattleborO.
DIR. Woodward of Brandon and DR..
| c, j. Russell perform med very delicate
operation on Mr.. Lowell Crfsman
recently, by which about three Inches
of his backbone was removed. The
patient is doing us well as could be
expected. e..
| Some considerable comment is made
on the change of name of Sutherland
| Falls to Proctor, in the act incorpOrat
ing it as village. 1t has been the
original name more than hundred
years, and Sutherla Falls is famous
the world over for its special variety of
marble.
| The indications are that Vermont
will have very creditable exhibit of
the products of the soil, the mine, the
| quarry and the forest, as well as IL fine
New Orleans exposition. Commission =
er Mead expects to fill eight or ten box
ears with exhibits and will start for
the Crescent City soon.
| The boiler room connected with the
! BrattlehorO gas works was considera-
bly, damaged by an explosion, Sunday,
occurring just rs people were going to
church and while the wOrkmen were
engaged in cleaning the sand pipe. 1t
was the result of carbon oxide igniting
! from the upper heater. The roof OF
the building WAS shattered and win
dOws and doors blown out. Two men
working in the room, however, were
uninjurcd. The explosion was felt i'll
many parts of the village.
MORE ADULTS But FEWER CHILDREN
Vermont's population in 1910 was
29l ,94S and in 1880 it had increased to
:}::}22 ,32S6 but the number of children in
the common schools decreased from
%. sis in the former wear to 72744 in
1894. But while in 40 years the popu-
lation increased II per cent. the num-
Der of children under 20 is over fiY,
per cent. less than in 1910. The aver
lage number of persons to each family
has steadily decreased.
BURGLARS AT ST. ALBANs. .-
An attempt was made during Satur-
day night to blow open the safe of J
b. Guinand, jeweler, who occupies d
part of Deschcnc's shoe store 4 hole
was drilled in the safe door in such Il
way us to break the combination ma
,hinery, but before the job could be
ompleted the burglars were frighten-
ed and hurried away, leaving theil
tools behind also rubber blanket
and a quantity of batting with which
they meant to deaden the sound. The
tools for the job were stolen from
Bedard's carriage shop.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH At BRADFORD.
Mrs. Gideon Heath, lady of about
fifty five, who lived on the back road
about seven miles from Bradford, was
found dead Tuesday night i'll a small
| pool of water Il few rods from her
house. She was lying on her back in
about three inches of water with an
old shawl tied tightly over her face
and AN old handkerchief around her
arms as though they had just been
Iltl tiplil'S were lUIoNH slbOF
her hips aud the ground around where
she lay and her appearance was such
as to indicate Il struggle. DIR. Fred
! Fletcher was at once summoned and Il
thorough examination was made, but
nothing wrong could be discovered.
People were much excited, bnt after
the examination the belief seems to he
gaining ground that it was q case ot
suicide. The physicians say death
could have been caused by suffocati0n
from the shawl if wet. Her husband
died just one week ago to-day.
WEST RANDOLPH ABLAZE. Loss 800,
600.
The largest aud by far the most dis
astrOus fire that ever visited the en-
E; terprising village of West Randolph
occurred Saturday. The fire was dis
covered ut 10 O'Clock Il. NJ, breaking
out of the cellar of wooden block on
Main street, owned by Dubois ~ Gay.
and occupied by w. E.. LamsOn as
! furniture store. The fire company,
Fountain engine No. I q, Immediately re-
sponded to the alarm and soon had a
stream upon the fire, but was unable
to subdue the flames, which seemed ia
completely fill the building. They
soon communicated with the building
next south, owned and occupied by
/ +. b. Chadwick as restaurant and
dwelling house. On the north the
! flames communicated to the block
owned by A. j. French, and occupied
by }. ID. Mitchell rs Il dry goods store,
from thence to S. NJ. Flint'S binding
occupied by n. NJ. Draper merchant
tailor, and then to the Cottage hotel,
all of which were quickly consumed
Here the fire was stopped in this di-
rection, but in the meantime it had
regained powerful Roadway ON Main