St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-15
vERnONT NEWS.
rlayors Elected.

TlhyOrb EteCto0s
Hon. Robert Roberts was elected
mayor OF Burlington March by plu-
rality of 81 votes. Mayor E. M. Sutton
was the Democratic nominee.
Rutland elected Gen. w. G. W. Ripley |
by majority of nearly 800 over John D.
Spellman.
In St. Adams Thomas Larner. the |
Democratic candidate. was chosen by a |
vote OF $50 against 521 for DR.. T. K.
Waugh, republican.
Another Fire at Bennington.
The summer residence of Mrs. John B.
Tibbitts, occupied by her and her son-in-
law, James c. Colgate of New York,
was burned Thursday. The house,
which was of stone, was built during
the civil war at cost of over 100000.
Several pictures and some furniture.
valued at $4,000, were saved from the
| first floor. The insurance about $35, 900.
The fire is supposed to have started
from an overheated furnace. Mrs. lib.
belts is spending the winter in the Ber-
muda islands.
Dog Saved Her Life.
Mrs. Joan Sweet, OF Stamford, was
overcome by gas at her home, but was
discovered Just in time to save her life.
Her husband built charcoal fire in the
cellar and then went to the barn. Mrs.
Sweet, smelling gas, started to the cellar,
but was overcome and fell to the floor.
A dog followed her and reused her to
consciousness once by licking her face.
She made an effort to reach the stairs
but fell again. She was rescued by her
| 4 ,<.,,a Ia Tor nd will re.
cover.
At the town meeting at Bennington
last week a gavel made from piece OF
the cupola OF the old court house, which
was built in 1896. was presented to the
town from H. L. Sheldon,
The large store house of the Valentine
Knitting Co. at Bennington was de-
stroyed with it's contents last Wednesday
entailing loss of 5000. The flames
started in the neighborhood Of the fur
mace, which, it is thought, became over
heated during the night. The store
house was a twostory frame structure
and contained $4,000 dozen pieces Of
knit underwear, besides large quantity
Of fine wool Insurance $50 900.
Mrs. Julia c. R. Dorr has resigned as
president OF the Rutland Free Library
Association. Miss Titcomb has also
resigned as librarian. Her place will be
taken by Miss Lucy D. Cheney. who is
student in library school at Albany, N.
Y. Miss Titcomb is indexing and cata-
loguing the library at Newport.
The Queen City Cotton Co., of Bur-
lington increase the wages OF their 300
employees April 8. This company also
contemplate building another mill to
cost 100000 and give employment to
200 more hands.
DR.. H. H. Mcintyre, of Randolph, for
merly the worlds fair commissioner,
took the gold medal at the College of
Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo-, recently.
!. The Methodist church at Burlington
6 has received about 1000 from the will
! of Mrs. Roby. who died there recently.
The Home for aged women receives $500
= and the w. c. T. U. temperance temple
of Chicago the same amount.
n The Vermont Marble company has
: exterior and interior marble work or
$ the gymnasium and theatre building o.
n Geo. Gould at his private residence al
Lakewood. N. ].
John B. Schofeld, who has been pro
NOTED to be chief clerk of the war depart
r ment, is Vermonter. He was born or
= his fathers farm at Pittsford in 1860
y He graduated from Middlebury college
e in the class OF 80. He went to Wash
r ington in 1884. He was clerk in the
O surgeon generals Office six years, ant
S Secretary of War Proctor detailed hin
r. to correspondence duty in his office. HI
d has remained there until now, as chic
i clerk to the assistant secretary of war.
It R. M. Squire, native of Springfield
u formerly commissioner OF public works
X in New York died at his home there, Sun
day night of heart failure. He has had E
varied career, having been a lawyer, al
editor, a miner, spiritualist, politi
r. clan, promoter, and an office holder.
: The Rutland Railroad company has lie
: contracts to the Edger Moor Bridg
/ Works tor the building OF twelve new
lie steel bridges on the Rutland, Rutland
lie Canadian and Ogdensburg and LAX
< Champlain railroads. This contrac
lie was for 100000 and there were nv
lg other companies after the bid.