St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-05-22

He was taken to his home in. an in
sensible condition and is now. consider
ed in a critical state.
Joseph St. Lawrence of Rutland
while inspecting the ellison & Woodfin
marble quarry, at West Rutland. Sun
day, fell into the opening and to the
bottom of the shaft, distance of n
hundred feet or more. Death was in
Simultaneous. st. Lawrence was about
twenty years old and cigar maker by
occupation.
The recent failures in New York city
affect some St. Adams parties to n
considerable extent, and in one case at
least cause great Inconvenience. The
Wall street gamblers are not the only
ones bitten. If they were, nobody
would PARTIALLY regret recent develop
ments in that locality st. Adams
Messenger.
Rev. j. A. McColl was installed at
ST. Adams Wednesday as pastor of the
Congregational church. The exam
ming council comprises Rev. DIR. Dex-
ter, editor of the CongregatiOnalist.
Kew. DIR. Brastow and a number of
Franklin county clergymen. The ser
mon ut the installation services was by
Rev. DR.. Dexter.
Oscar Brown, an old citizen of Rut-
land, was killed by being crushed be-
tween two cars, in the railroad ward,
which were coming together for the
purpose of being shackled. Brown
was crossing the tracks and was going
between the cars instead of going
around. He has been employed for
many years past in the Central Yer
mont railroad shop. He left family.
The Free Press says that during the
high wind of the 18th at Burlington,
the steamer Reindeer got loose from
her mOOrIng at Central dock, and the
engineer and pilot being absent, she
drifted for time at the mercy of the
waves. The fireman was on board but
he could not run the engine. Captain
Rockwell ran to the pilot house and
steered her to the Champlain Trans
pOrtation company's wharf. Luckily
no damage resulted.
Burglars entered the Middleburv
post-ot1ice some time during Tuesday
night, and robbed it of about fifty dol
lars in change and postage stamps,
taking everything which they could
get their hands on, with the exception
of couple of dollars worth of stamps
which they dropped. The amount of
the loss may prove to be smaller than
the figures named and it may be a
little more, but cannot much exceed
that sum. The burglars made pow
erful effort To get into the safe, which
contained considerable money and
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They tried to force open the door with
'Jlmmies" and made desperate effort
to pry off the frame on which the door
hangs with thin wedges, but all their
efforts to get into the safe were fruit
less.
Among those who have received
Commencement appointments ut Dart
mouth, are the following Vermont
boys Stephen r. Willard of St.
Johnshury, c. o. Thurston of Barre, J g..
C.. Flanders of White River, w. f..
Sargent of Thetford, c. l.. Adams of
Williamstown and j. w. Granger of
Randolph.
Bellows Falls is to have another
newspaper, making the sixth paper in
Windham county and the second i'll
IhhG tON u. IL Will ne lSSutu DN A.
Mcdonnell, formerly of the Times, and
will be called the Rockingham Tran
script. 1t will be independent in poll
tiles.
Jacob Kent of Grand Isle, over 80,
stabbed his grandson, Rolla Kent, with
a jack-knife in the lower part of the
abdomen during a fight Saturday.
Rows between the Kents have been
frequent, and Saturday the old man
threatened to cut the throat of Rolla's
wife, who ran screaming to her hus-
band for protection. The young man
was stabbed in the row that followed
but may get well. The old man is con-
sidered crazy but has been arrested.
Fred, the eight-years-Old son of
Frank Wells of West Lebanon, was
drowned i'll the Connecticut river
Thursday night.
Albert Shanahan of Rockland, Me.
ID years old, accidentally and possibly
fatally shot a four-years old son of
Joseph Williams with Il toy pistol
while "practicing."