St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-21

DIPHTHERIA SCARE AT THE JUNCTION.
White River Junction was excited
last week over the conduct of Irish
people at wake on Tuesday night,
when the sealed coffin containing the
body of boy who had died from ma
lignant diphtheria in Boston, and was
brought home for burial, was unscrew-
ed and left open all night, contrary to
express orders. The schools were clos
ed and all exposed persons temperate
ly discharged from work.
Accounts received this week show
that while the community has become
very much exercised over the matter,
the reports of the danger have been
much exaggerated. There is no case
of the disease outside of the family of
James o. Brien, the father of the boy
who died. The youngest daughter
now shows symptoms of the disease,
and the doctor has given the family
instructions to stay at home. Further
spread of the disease is not anticipat-
ed. The Catholic school will remain
closed till all danger is past, and the
public school will not open for several
days yet. Outsiders are giving the
junction wide berth. Letters from
Boston doctors now state that the boy
died from ordinary diphtheria, and not
the malignant type.
The two state cases against John b.
Page for the embezzlement of Rutland
railroad funds have been nOlle pressed
by the states attorney, because of the
result of the civil cases of like ma
ture recently tried aud decided in ex-
Gov. Pages favor. The four cases
against J. NJ. Haven for enlightenment
have been continued to the next term
of the county court.
A young man named Wesley c. Ovitt
of West Enosburgh, broke one bone of
his leg and dislOcated his ankle on Sat
urday afternoon. He was riding "a
horse and the saddle girth broke and
let him off, the horse stepping upon
his leg.
Arthur G. Brown, a young farmer,
living at Montpelier Junction, was Sc
verely injured on Monday. His horses
became frightened and running threw
him beneath wheel harrow to which
they were attached. One leg was
broken and terribly lacerated below
the knee and he was otherwise hurt.
He is doing well.
Gilman Thomas of South Woodstock
was recently crawling along on the
ground, dragging his gun after him,
endeavOring to get near enough to Il
crow for sure shot, when the hammer
of the gun struck something with suf-
ficient force to discharge the piece.
The charge, bits of clothing and even
button, entered his side below the
lower rib and passed up under the ribs.
He is expected to recover.
Three young Winooski boys, La
dam, MOssey and Young, were on the
river Saturday in boat, which gradu-
ally flOated very near the dam before
they realized their danger, when they
jumped into the water. Ladam and
Mossey, being swimmers, reached the
shore, but Young, who could not swim,
was drawn by the current towards the
cotton mill bulk head. John LOuther,
who was in the mill, hearing the boys
! shouting ian out, and not waiting to
digest himself of his clothing, sprang
| in and with a few strokes reached the
boy who was then under water and un-
conscious. Grasping him by the hair,
he swan with him to the bulk head.
After twenty minutes vigorous rolling
the lad was resuscitated. The boat
went over the dam and was completely
wrecked.
Mrs. Sarah Collins of Orange, who
has been receiving IA pension for sew
eral years as the widow of Luther Col
Inns, has had her pension taken from
her under the act of congress that for
feits such pensions when such pension
ers are living and cohabiting with men
to whom they are not married.