St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-07-17
VERMONT NEWS.
Our State Treasury.


The financial statement ofthe state
treasurer of Vermont for the year
ending June 80 contains these figures:
Total receipts, $S1S, 5O6.95. The
items in this include: Cash on hand
and in banks Aug. I, 1889, $50, 1863
Al; income from Agricultural college
fund, $3.50; from savings banks and
trust companies, $774.66; from for
| eign insurance companies fees, Sal 70;
judges of probate fees, $11 ,OS6 {;
United States Government for Sol
| diers' Home, $6544 .35 county clerks.
| judgements and balance, $50, $50. 33;
reform school, 1928. 46; State Prison
| $40, 535; corporations, taxes for
1889, $26S, 153. 81; towns, state tax
for 1889, 1858, 412.O1; temporary
loans, act of 1888, $4,000. The
disbursements include: Gettysburg
appropriation, balance, $6556. 10 {;
experiment station, appropriation,
$175O; Soldiers Home, paid Audi
tors order, 1854. 49, interest on
registered loan of 1890, SIS, $50 !;
temporary loans, $3,3O9.2O; Hunt
| ington Fund, to towns, $12 ,661 AT !;
United States surplus money, to
towns, $754.6S; temporary loans,
Act of 1888, paid, $21S, 165; Audi
tors orders, paid, $44O, 1872. 80. The
state resources: Cash on hand and
in banks, $117, 7OS.74, and estima-
ted amount of tax from corporations
| for 1890, $25O,OOO. The liabilities
include: Due to towns, United States
surplus fund, $40. 916.37, and due to
soldiers, unpaid balances, SIS, 267.37,
leaving available for the current fs-
cal year, July 1, 1890, to June 80,
1891, 1916, sos.
The Gulf Spring Hotel at Williams
town was burned Tuesday. Cause
unknown.
Ida Murphy of Windsor was
drowned on Monday in the Con
necticut She was 4 and probably
committed suicide.
E. D. Nash of st. Adams is vice
president and secretary of the indie
pendent Order of Railway Conduc-
tors, new order started in New
York Saturday.
Harvey Lawrence, the nine-year-
old son of Dominick Lawrence, was
drowned at WinoOski Monday. He
waded out beyond his depth and
could not swim.
All surviving members of Co. g.,
9th VT. Volunteers, are requested to
meet and hold their fourth annual
reunion in Boston, Mass, on Boston
Common, August II, 1890, at 6
o'clock p. m.
The well being sunk for gas at DIR.
Webb's Shelburne farms has now
reached depth of nearly 600 feet.
A strata of slate is now causing some
trouble as the layers slant, and the
effect is to turn the drill one side.
Only about five feet of progress was
made one day last week.
During thunder storm in Fairfax
by Robert Richardson was struck
by lightning and badly shattered in
places. Joseph Carols house in
Buck Hollow was also struck and
Mrs. Carol stunned, not recovering
consciousness for two hours.
President Charles Kendall Adams
of Cornell university, who is a native
of Derby, was married last week
Wednesday at Paddington chapel,
London, to Mrs. A S. Barnes OF New
York. They visit Mr.. Carnegie at
Cluny Castle, Scotland, before sail
ing to America on August 81.
The Eleventh Vermont regiment
will meet at Rutland on Thursday,
Aug. 81, the week following the ma
tional encampment. E. p. Lee of
Fair Haven will be the orator of the
occasion. A camp fire will be held
Thursday evening. Secretary Proc
tor and Judge Veazey will be present.
Mrs. Williams of Hydeville con-
fessed on Monday the story of Satur-
days tragedy. She stated that she
cut the throats of her two children
with a razor and set fire to the house.
She said she did it because she want
ed to join her husband, who was
killed a few weeks ago, and did not
want to leave her children.
A terrific thunder and wind storm
occurred at Fairlee and vicinity Tues
day and the steam tug Pearl capSized
on Fairlee pond and Captain Frank
Brown, aged SO years, was drowned.
The steamer sank. Other boats
were upset but their occupants were
saved. This is the first fatal accident
on this pond i'll its history.
The first annual convention and
tournament of the Vermont Fire
mems association will be held at
Burlington Aug. 5 and 6. There will
be $3.50 offered in prizes to be given
to visiting hremen. The business
session occurs in the City hall the
first day and the tournament the
second day at Howard park.