St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-17
VERMONT MATTERS.
Windsor county has summer school
in session at Windsor.

Windsor county has summer school
in session at Windsor.
Windsor county veterans are to have a
reunion about the middle of September,
at White River Junction.
Mrs. Chas Fuller of Rutland was ia
tally burned by her dress taking fire
from an oil stove she was 80 years old.
]. M. Bishop, laborer, was overcome
by the heat while digging ditch in Rut-
land on Thursday and it took an hour
to bring him to.
John Towards farm buildings,
house, two barns and a shed near Rut-
land, burned the 10th. Loss $4,000; in
surance $2560.
DR.. Ira H. Fiske of Montpelier is under
arrest for sending letter through the
mails in which he promised to perform a
certain crime for 500.
During thunder storm the horse of
L. NJ. Hutchins in Eden was struck and
the house and barn, with most of the
contents, were destroyed.
John Devine, Montpelier shoemaker,
gave his wife rat poison Saturday night,
in mistake for medicine, and her condi-
ton was critical at last accounts.
Mrs. E. H. Hamilton's house, barn and
shed at Enosburgh Falls were burned
recently. But little of the furniture
was saved and that was badly damaged.
The annual Episcopal church choir fes-
tival will be held at Bennington, Oct. is
and 10, with st. Peters parish. S. B.
Whitney will be the conductor as usual
r. J. Roberts, foreman in the Hughes
quarry at West Pawlet, was fatally in
ured last week by the dump-box strik-
ing him on the head and crushing his
skull.
L. Baker & Cos. planning mill at Rich
ford was burned last week, and the
freight depot of the Canadian Pacific
narrowly escaped destruction. Loss
$4,000.
The Woodstock G. A. R. post is active
ly advocating the election of Henry
Boynton of that place as the next de-
partment commander, to succeed Com
mander Doty.
BY Monday mornings frost corn was
injured and vines were completely killed
in several places in the vicinity of Mont.
pelier. The principal damage was on
the low ground. The mercury fell nearly
so degrees in 80 hours, between Satur-
day afternoon and Monday morning,
S. M. DORIS Sons, who did western
bond and mortgage brokerage business
at Rutland and ran bank at Bristol,
have filled petitions in insolvency. The
schedules show liabilities aggregating
S142,S74.6S, of which $4,000 is Sc
cured, and assets of the nominal value of
S241 ,406.32, of which $7S,936 is
collateral.
A destructive wind and rain storm
passed over the southern section of Wind
ham county Saturday afternoon To-
hacco, corn and other crops suffered Sc
verelv in the town of Vernon and in
Hinsdale on the New Hampshire side of
the Connecticut river. In some places
whole fields of tobacco and corn are ut
terly destroyed the loss being estimated
in the thousands.
A Rutland dispatch in the Boston
Journal reports that the early Vermont
fruit now in the markets is fair as to
quantity but below the average as to
quality. The lake towns of Addison and
Chittenden counties have many large
apple orchards, the clay soil being es-
pecially suitable to fruit culture, and the
crop is large item with the average
farmer there. In this section, partcu-
larry in Ferrisburgh, the apple and pear
crop is good, but on the east side of the
two counties, under the mountains, the
apple crop is largely failure and the
entire crop of a good many orchards will
be made into cider or fed to stock. In
Rutland and Bennington counties the
pear crop is just fair, while the apples
and pears are small and unfit for city
markets. An occasional orchard, pro-
tected from blasting winds, will yield a
good crop, but the crop as whole is
unusually poor.