St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21

By order of Gov. Barstow, Adjutant-
General t. S. Peck has called a meet
ing of the commissioned officers of the
state militia, for instruction and drill,
at Burlington, the 28th and Doth insts.
Howard s. Leavitt, Craftsbury mer-
chants, have failed for $4,000 nomi-
nal assets $4,000
Receiver Rich began Monday paying
twenty per cent dividend TO the de-
positors of the st. Adams trust COM
pany, and will send out $50 checks
day till the job is done.
The Congregational church ut Wi
nOOski has locked out Rev. H. Newman
Wright for being too attentive to girls.
Wright has a wife and five children,
and has been an Episcopal, Methodist
and Congregational minister.
Henry Mccormick, Il brakeman on
the Schenectady freight train, fell off
car near the Fairhaven station Sunday
night and was run over by the train.
Death was instantaneous. The body
was horribly mangled. McCormick's
age was about twenty five. He was
resident of Rutland and unmarried.
The late Ex-Lieut. Gov. A. B. Gard
ner's house at Bennington Center was
burned Tuesday morning with his Ii
brary, correspondence and plate; loss
S25, 900, insurance small. The house
was unoccupied, Mrs. Gardner living at
Bennington village for the winter.
Clark p. Whitney of Westminster
was taken to the insane asylum at
Brattleboro last week. He attempted
to commit suicide by cutting his throat
with pocket knife about two weeks
ago. His insanity is considered at the
asylum to be of the very worst type.
An eight years old son of Lorenzo
p. Wardwell, while III the wood work
shop of the Burlington wooden com
pany, Friday, watching some of the
machinery, was caught between the
frame of planning machine and the
wall of the building, and was squeezed
into not more than two inches space.
No bones were broken, but the lad lies
in very critical condition.
A daring assault was that committed
the other night, on the street in Bur-
lington near the Baptist church, by an
unknown man on young lady. The
latter's screams brought prompt as
sistance, fortunately, and the man took
to his heels and has thus far escaped
the vigilance of the police.
A hundred sheep, belonging to
George Hammond of Middlehury,
which were to have been shipped bv
steamer from San Francisco to Sydney,
Australia, are still in San Francisco,
and it is doubtful if they are shipped
at all. Mr.. Hammond's agent in San
Francisco has been notified by cable
that the Australian ports had been
closed against American sheep, but
just what the meaning of it is, is as
yet uncertain. Whether the arrange
ment is only temporary, or whether
the importation of American sheep is
to be permanently prohibited, is not
yet known.
NEW INDUSTRY.
The Olcott Falls company is prepar-
ing to improve its water power on the
Connecticut river in the towns of
Hartford and Lebanon, n. H., about
two miles north of White River juno
ton. The company is organized in
New Hampshire and owns $50 acres of
land bordering its water power. That
on the Vermont side is on the Pas
sumpsic railroad, and that on the New
Hampshire side is one and one-half
miles from the Northern road. The
fall is twenty -four feet and is estimated
at 10000 horse power. The dam is
already done, and the company will
build pulp and paper mills, all on the
Vermont side, the first one TO be done
by next July.
THE RUTLAND TROUBLES.
The Rutland railroad company has
sued ex-presideut John b. Page for
money claimed to be due the company
from Page. Last summer a deficit of
$4,000 was found in the books of the
company, and Secretary J. VI. Haven
was charged with taking the money,
and he in turn charged it upon Page.
Haven was indicted for issuing fraud
ulent stock of the road and was acquit-
ted, but, i'll some unaccOuutable way,
neither he nor Page were indicted for
taking the missing $4,000. This suit
is probably an attempt to settle where
the money went to. 1t can hardly he
a serious attempt to recover anything
as Page has no property left, above
his debts. and his family have nothing
except stock in the Howe scale works.
Both Page and Haven have sunk from
leading business positions since the
discovery of the deficit. Haven has
been through insolvency and is now
critically i'll. Page has been depOsed
from the presidency of the Rutland
railroad and the Rutland national
bank, aud his Howe scale works are
being run for the benefit of their cred
| itOrs.
The Central Vermont railroad com
pany have notified their agents not to
receive, after Feb. |, any single piece
of baggage weighing over $50 pounds.
The order is modified little to pre-
vent any semblance of arbitrariness on
the part of the road, but agents are to
make the travelling public fully aware
of this rule, and hold them strictly to
it. The order is a just one. since it
tends to relieve station men at the
smaller places of the perilOus task of
handling, alone and unaided, the
heaviest end of drummer's trunk
weighing anywhere to six hundred
pounds, or even more. The principal
roads connecting with the Central
Vermont have Joined in insisting on
this limit for single trunk.
The dangers of electric wire were
| illustrated at place of amusement in
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