St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-02-04
SUICIDE IN WATERFORD.

suicide Saturday by taking Paris
green. No possible cause is known
for her action and the circumstances
connected with her death are peculiar
ly sad.
Mrs. Phillips was married four years
ago and has lived happily with her
husband. Last summer they came to
Waterford and worked for Dea. Brown
on his farm. This winter they hired a
little cottage in the village where they
were very pleasantly located. Satur-
day morning she set the table as usual
but when her husband came in to
breakfast he noticed that no plate had
been placed for her. When asked if
she were not going to eat she said no,
that she was not hungry, and COM
planned of feeling sick and soon began
vomiting. Household remedies were
used as she gave no reason for her
sickness. 1t was four hours before her
husband, in passing into another room,
noticed that a package of Paris green
kept there had been broken open, and
saw on shelf near by cup ia which
it had been mixed. A doctor was then
called but the poison had done its
work. Later doctor from st. Johns
bury was summoned but he reached
there at o'clock, about ID hours after
the medicine had been taken and found
her in a dying condition. She admit
ted to taking the poison but could
give no reason for her action and i'm
plored the doctor to save her life. Her
husband was frantic with grief and can
give no reason why she should have
taken the poison or why she should
have said nothing about the cause of
her sickness that the proper antidOtes
might have been given.
Mrs. Phillips was the only daughter
of Dea. BOwles of Sugar Hill, N. H.,
and Mr.. Phillips also comes from a
we'll known and highly respected fam
lily. Two weeks or SO ago Mrs. Phil
lips mother visited her, spending a
week in the pleasant home. Her
daughter complained of frequent and
unusual pains in her head but seemed
otherwise we'll and happy and no spec
ial notice was taken of it. The whole
event seems very mysterious and has
created a good deal of excitement in
the quiet village of Waterford.
Comes to Grief.
Hamilton GibersOn a one time resi-
dent of st. Johnsbury, who kept fur
for year or two engaged i'm the show
business with other st. Johnsbury par
ties, came to grief in New Hampshire
last week. He was one of the pro-
prietors of the Union hotel at Grove
ton Junction, and was arrested there
Thursday by United States Marshal j.
n. Patterson, charged with using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. 1t is
alleged that he sent out fifty circulars,
principally to the far West, in which
the recipients were given to under
stand that if they would send speci-
fed sum in postage stamps, or other
circulating medium, they would re-
ceive in return counterfeit money for
double the amount of their remittance,
and that he retained the funds so OBJ
tanned and returned nothing therefor.
GibersOn was taken to Concord and
arraigned before United States Com
missioner Rolfe. He pleaded not
guilty, waived examination and was
bound over in $500 for his appearance
at the May term of the United States
Circuit Court, to be held in Ports
mouth, N. FL.
STATE TEACHERS CONVENTION.
The state teachers association held
three-days convention at Burlington
last week. In the absence of the pres
ident, A. L. Hardy of st. JOhnsbury,
first vice. president of the association,
presided. Mr.. Hardy was afterward
elected president of the association for
the coming year. f.EFst
The welcome address was delivered
by Mayor Woodbury. of Burlington.
In Mr.. Hardy's response he said:
| have lived in Vermont only six
years but / have already become
greatly interested in it's educational
progress and [ have made many visits
to this centre of learning to draw from
the experience of the educators.
have visited your high and grammar
schools and have obtained many val
liable suggestions as to methods of in
struction. 1t is fitting that our meet
ing should be held in this city and it |
is also fitting that our sessions are to
be held in this room which is conse
Grated to true, earnest, hopeful work
i'm the cause of education. We expect |
that these meetings will be of great aid
and value to us and that we will carry |
back to our work much that will help |
us. We appreciate your kind well |
come; we would also welcome you and
the residents of Burlington to our ses-
siOns.
Addresses were delivered during the
sessions of the association by Gov.
Pingree and large number of the
leading teachers of the state.
On Saturday S. Fl. Bracket of st.
delivered an interesting adj
dress on Natural Science in the Com
mon Schools" The Free Press says of
it
The address was of an immensely
nature and was listened to
with the greatest interest throughout.
Prof. Bracket said there were a num-
Der of lines in which the natural
could ha mazda of nroaf uaa in