St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-10-03
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Jesse W. Payson, well known as
the chief author of the Payson, Dun
ton & Scribner copy books, is dead
The four-vear-old daughter of Fred
Bleau of Winooski swallowed but
ton recently and died shortly after.
DIR. Perry of New York caught a
pickerel in Lake Champlain near st.
Adams recently that weighed 1914
pounds.
Mrs. Hiram Smell of Malad, Idaho,
has given birth to siXtets, three boys
and three girls. They weigh eight
pounds altogether. All are bright
and hearty and promise to live.
A colony of $50 German families in
Shelby county, Ia, in revolt against
the prohibition policy, has secured a
tract of land near Gainesville, Tex,
and will e1nigrate in the spring.
About $50 persons saw the lash
applied at Newcastle, Del, Saturday
morning. There were two victims,
William Thomas and William Jones,
both negroes, who took 10 and i've
lashes respectively for petty larcen-
les
During a heavy shower last Thurs
dav night the farm house of John
Toilet of Clifford n H., was struck
bv lightning and badly shattered
Miss Bell Toilet was seriously IN
iured. She was in a partially para
lived condition at last accounts
The New Hampshire legislature,
following the lead of Vermont, enact
ed a law for the development OF the
agricultural resources of the state
through immigration and other
means" at its late session, and Gov
Goodell has appointed \. Batchel-
der commissioner of agriculture and
immigration under its provisions
News was received at Waltham
late Sunday night of the death by
drowning in Boston harbor, near
Paddock's island, OF E q. Hartwell
of Waltham and Arthur Taft OF Ded-
ham. both Young men. They were
in a common dory, which was cap
sized. The accident was witnessed
by several persons, but they were
too far away to render assistance.
The fall term of the University OF
Vermont has opened with full at
tendance. The freshman class num-
bers 81, one of the largest entering
classes in the history of the college.
Three fine stone dwelling houses for
the OCCUPANCY of professors are beng
built on the college grounds, and
many other improvements attest the
growing popularity OF our state IN
StitutIOn.
Charles Friese. an engineer in a
New York brew VERY recently met with
horrible death by trying to fix the
engine while in motion. He slowed
ND the machinery and attempted tic
lump on the crank as it came slowly
by. He missed his footing and tel
into pit into which the crank dips
and in which it exactly fits. The
machinery followed the engineer ano
ground him to a Jelly.
The Pacific express company was
robbed of $1O.O at Bolton, Texas
Thursday night. The Missouri
Kansas & Texas train, on which the
money was, arrived at Bolton at .35
a. M. and, it being customary to dc
so. the money was left in the safe II
a box car used for express purposes
The car was entered through
window in the end of the car, anc
the safe unlocked. There is no clev
to the robbers.
A story reaches London from st
Petersburg on what appears to b'
good authoity that just previous to
the Cars departure for Copenhagen
a chest Of dynamite exploded at tn
Peterhof station. The station wa
badly wrecked and Il railway sigma
man was killed 1t is fully believed
that it was intended to have the eX
plosion take place when the Ca
passed through the station on hi
way to the train, but that through
some miscalculation, it occurred be
fore the time of his majesty's depal
ture.