St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-04-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

A petition in bankruptcy was filed b,
Walter S. Besse, of the ship brokerage
t firm of Sherwood & Besse, New York
: Liabilities. $239, 727; assets, $37, 500.
The will of Anna H. Mann bequeath!
$4,000 to the Rhode Island Society fol
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and, after personal legacies, the residue
of her estate. amounting to about $780,
900, is given to the city of Providence, fol
the maintenance of Roger Williams
park.
John Calderwood shot and killed him
self at Nashua, N. H. Calderwood had
been respondent for some time.
At the New Britain, Conn, city cleo
ton, Samuel Bassett Dem.) was elected
mayor. A Democratic tax collector was
elected, but the rest of the ticket is Re-
publican.
Mr.. and Mrs, G. l.. SWEET observed the
50th anniversary of their marriage at
Leominster, Mass. and were given
public wedding celebration 500 or more
guests attending.
George Motley, treasurer of the Apple
ton mills of Lowell, Mass, from 1867 ia
1874, died in that city, aged 81. He was a
native of Portland Me-, and had attained
some prominence as a literateur.
Oliver Tobin and Gilbert Browning
students at Philips Andover academy,
who were taken into custody at Andover
Mass, on suspicion of having rung in
false alarms of fire, were found not
guilty
Joseph M. Milewski, employed as a
farm hand in Greenland, N. H., COM
mitted suicide by hanging. He had suf-
fered from insomnia,
Mrs. Louise M. Brown died at Jamaica.
L. l., aged 50. Forty years ago she was
prominent in literary and political circles
in Massachusetts. Her husband, Will
lam H. Brown, is now in his Goth year
Boston and Princeton played an in
teresting game of ball at Washington,
the Boston team winning, Is to 5.
At Tyngsboro, Mass, Mrs. Harriet
Littlehale with four generations of her
family, celebrated the Tooth anniversary
of her birth, and notwithstanding her
remarkable age entered into the joyous
spirit of the occasion with nearly as
much fervor as her great grandchildren.
Miss Mary Field French, aged rs. a |
cousin of the late Eugene Field and for
a number of years his guardian. died
at her home at Amherst, Mass.
Rev e. II. Prescott read his resigna-
ton from the pastorate of the jefferson
Street Free Baptist church, Biddeford,
Me. He will accept call to Esther
Vile, Ia.
John Ryan, aged %, son of Dennis
Ryan, a farmer hanged himself in his
fathers barn at Belmont, Mass. No
motive for the act is known
Murat Halstead has accepted the
of the new college of journal
ism, an institution devoted to teaching
practical newspaper work, and which has
opened it's offices at Cincinnati.
Thomas McGinms, who escaped from
the Worcester insane asylum, was To-
Gated in a small village 10 miles from
PaWtucket, r. l. He had suffered none
during his wanderings.
Seven horses valued at $1,000 were
burned to death in the stable fire of
GritIin & Mccarthy, Somerville, Mass.
The property loss was $500.
Allleu r. OuuS was struck by cars at
Lowell, Mass, and killed.
Samuel Briefly, a cook, was instantly
killed on the Firchburg railroad at Wor
Jester, Mass.
Abial Fisher, a prominent business
nan of Clinton Mass, dropped dead
While waiting for an electric car. He
vas an Odd Fellow and a member of the
J. A. r.
Joseph J. Parker, 80 years old, was {
truck by an engine on the Central Yer '
mont railroad at Randolph, Vt, and
'iIIed. Owing to deafness he could not s
rear the locomotive
Mrs. Rebecca Barnes a widow, aged
g. was burned to death at Torrington,
onn, by her clothing accidentally com
lg in contact with bonfire.
Tahanto lodge, A. 0. U. W., dedicated
Is new lodge rooms at Leominster
lass, with formal exercises
Alpheus Harding has resigned from 9
ne presidency Of the Miller's River Ma /
onal bank, Athol, Mass, because of his +
esire to retire from business on account +
i'll health