St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-08-07
State News.


Montpelier has been forced into inso
vency by the Montpelier National bank
its principal creditor
Manchester Centre was visited by a
very severe thunder storm last Thursday
night. Buildings were unrooted, trees
uprooted and crops levelrd to the earth
The loss will reach several thousand
dollars,
II. B. Cross OF Montpelier has brought
suit against George H. Almon, with
damages placed at $4,000, for injuries
sustained by him by Almon running into
him with his bicycle on Main street April
20 last. lis claimed by Mr.. Cross that
his injuries confined him to the house for
several weeks.
Walter Hitter of Brandon, was arrest
ed at Pittsburgh, N. Y, on a charge OF
stealing a bicycle from w. c. Fletcher of
: Brandon, and was lodged in the house of
correction at Rutland last Thursday.
He asked permission last Friday to APP
pear before the court and plead guilty.
The permission was granted and on his
plea he was sentenced to two years in
state prison.
There is a prospect of revival of the
copper mining industry in Vermont. All
the mines and mining property owned
by the Copperfeld Mining and Smelling
company, which have been operated
since 1920 at Vershire, has been sold to
syndicate of New York and Boston
capitalists, and the new company has
been incorporated under the laws of Yer
mont. The headquarters of the company
will be in Boston.
A man arrested by detectives in New
York Saturday for swndling is said to
be Edwin Holland, who was under arrest
at Bennington two days last week on
suspicion of being gold brick man. He
represented himself to be of the collect
ing firm OF Grant, Ward & Co., and then
as head of the firm Of Holland, Este &
Co. Both concerns are said to be at 60
Broadway. He collected money there
without authority and tried the same
trick at Bennington, but did not succeed
He is wanted III Boston for swnding
and is held for extradition papers.
About $50 o'clock last Tuesday even
ing Lillian and Clara Desaw OF Winooski
while out walking were joined by two
cayalrymen from Fort Ethan Allen.
After short walk, another cavalryman
named Mcdonald, an admirer of Lillian,
jumped from behind fence and empted
his revolver apparently in an attem pt to
kill his comrades in arms, but without
injury to them. He then reloaded his re-
volver and turning to Lillian said, 81
have mind to shoot you" She drop.
ped to the walk and bullet passed over
her head. Mcdonald then ran to the
home of the Desaw girls, where he put
on suit of citizens clothes and, accom-
panied by brother OF the girls, depart
ed. Jealousy was the cause of Nc
Donald's actions.
A statement of the receivers of the
Central Vermont road filed in court on
July %, gives some interesting figures re-
garding the assets and liabilities of the
company on March 49, 1896, when the
recelvership was created. The statement
was filed by request of the court, and
shows total assets of $5,712,427. Con.
struction and equipment is put down at
81 ,S66912 and the trust equipment at
SAL ,63l. The company held stocks
and bonds worth $1,939,O10, while
materials to the amount of $271, 1922
and cash to the amount of $15S ,419
were on hand. Under liabilities the float
ing debt is put down at $2,267,5 ;
there was due $350000 to the American
Express company secured by four per
cent bonds; 1924 ,051 was due as inter
est on the consolidated bonds; 1886 ,S44
was due individuals and companies
S54O Col was owing to railroads and
$lOO,297 was put down to profit and
loss. This Statement does not represent
the Consolidated railroad Of Vermont or
the property OF the Central Vermont
Railroad company, nor the $7,00O,0OO
bonds secured by mortgage on that road
as liability for the reason that they do
not appear on the books of the Central
Nermond Railroad company, nor does it
embrace claims in suits and other dis
puted claims Of the Rutland Railroad
company, Ogdensburg Transit company
and many Others OF like character, which
are the subject of dispute. Neither does
it embrace unadjusted overcharge and
loss and damage claims.
MI and Mrs. Edward A. Tyler the
former proprietor Of the Brooks house
at Brattleboro, were drowned last week
Thursday night in the Connecticut river
at point about three miles above this
village Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler left the
Brooks house at O'Clock in the after
noon and drove to their cottage, which
is situated upon an elevation on the river
bank about so feet above the river. AS
they did not return the next morning
and nothing had been seen of the missing
people, search was Immediately begun
and resulted in finding the horse hitched
at the cottage and Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler's
clothes inside the cottage. Graphing
hooks were at once brought, and the
river dragged, but without avail. A
diver from Springfield, Mass, arrived
Friday night, and the bodies were next
day found in the river. Mr.. Tyler had
been proprietor Of the Brooks house since
1892 and was married to Miss Leila
Williamson, formerly of New York, six
months ago. Mr.. Tyler was 20 years
old. The affair has caused profound
sorrow throughout Brattleboro.
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