St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-09-04
Vermont News.

The Rutland county agricultural
society is building new $500 floral
hall on the fair grounds.
Fiftytive cases are set to be tried by
jury ut the coming September term of
the Rutland county court.
A cigar manufactOry is soon to be
started ut st. Adams by two gentle-
men from Worcester, Mass.
A Montgomery willow measures Is
feet around two feet from the ground
and the branches make IA circle 90 feet
in diameter.
The Washington county commits
siOner received SI7S4 for the sale of
liquor ut the town agencies the first
quarter of this year.
East Charlotte farmers are satisfied
that the entire potato crop this year,
both as to quantity and quality, will
be complete failure.
S. c. Durkee's saw -milI, at Brandon,
with the machinery, was burned on
| Thursday afternoon. The fire caught
from the engine smoke stack. Loss
5000.
The man who committed suicide in
| NOrthtield, and was buried at the
town expense, turns out to have been
the divorced husband of Mrs. George
Folsom of Chelsea.
Justice Wayne Bailey at Rutland
has decided the case of Mrs. John
Quinn for poisoning her husband and
has bound her over to await the action
of the grand jury in September.
William w. Prescott, who formerly
published the Vermont Banner at
Chester and the Workingman's Ga
zette and Vermont Courier at Wood
stock, died at Corning, Iowa, August
Is.
During the severe wind and rain
storm on Tuesday of last week, child
of Fred ID. COrliss, who lives in the
east part of SwantOn, on the road be-
tween st. Adams and Highgate, was
blown into Il well and drowned. The
child was % months old
| Miss Eula Reed, recently returned
from Kansas, fell while skating at the
Morrisville skating rink and struck on
her head. She did not complain of
severe injuries at the time, but Il while
after it was manifest that her mind
/ was atilOthth. Ipl Splilt Jlllt Tue
accident she was in unconscious
condition.
! The officers reports made at the
| Universalist state convention at North
field show the number of parishes in
the state to be 80, membership 1915. Il
gain of 1870. There are 40 Sunday
schools and 1920 scholars. The church
| property is worth S20O, 900; the home
missionary collections amounted to
$500, and S50,000 was raised for
church work, IL gain of $1,000.
Thomas Kennedy of Rutland, con-
ductor on what is known as the
''marble train" which runs between
Rutland and West Rutland, on We'd
nesday of last week, while in the act OF
uncoupling Il car which the engine was
throwing on the marble track at West
Rutland, lost his hold and fell upon the
track and was run over by the forward
truck of the engine, losing IL leg.
Bernard Burns, an employe of the
! Vermont Marble company at West
Rutland, was fatally injured on Tues
day of last week while at work in the
company's mill. 1t appears that Burns
was assisting i'll removing sawed slabs
of marble from the gangs and had
placed his hand on a slab with the in
tention of lowering it upon a stone
boat. At the same time he attempted
to draw the stone-boat nearer, when
he slipped and fell under the falling
slab. 1t struck him on the head
crushing in his skull. He lived but al
hour after the accident, dying uncon-
scious. Burns was young man only
% years old. He leaves wife and
! child