St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-28

raised to second lieutenant and after
wards was promoted to captain.
While Joseph c. Paine of Edgecomb,
Me-, was returning from a smelling trip
he broke through the ice and was
drowned.
The body of an unknown man, aged
about 40, was found ON the outskirts of
Lowell, There seem no indications of
foul play, death evidently resulting
from exposure.
Mrs. Susan Dennis, SO years old was
burned to death at her home on the
Grafton road, about two miles from
Worcester. Mass. 1t is supposed that
Mrs. Dennis must have been smoking,
as was her custom, and spark from
match set fire to her clothes.
William Hanrahan, aged IS, was in
stantly killed while walking on the
tracks of the Boston and Maine railroad
near Bradford Station, Mass.
Antonio Mascolo, the victim of col
lision between trolley car and vehi-
Gle which he was driving, died at Boston.
At the state convention of the knights
of Columbus of Massachusetts, Rev.
James N. Supple of Charlestown was
elected state chaplain to succeed Rev.
John j. Ryan of Cambridge.
Eight firms were burned out in fire
which destroyed four-story brick
building at Chicago. The total loss Is
$65,OOO.
Thomas H. King was found dead on
the track Of the Fitchburg railroad one
mile west Of Concord, Mass. King was
probably walking home when struck.
Rev. Edward Lorense, editor Of the
German periodicals of the United Breth-
rem church, and for more than 40 years
prominent minister in that denomina-
ton, died at Dayton O., as the result Of
rupture of blood vessel in his brain,
occasioned by paroxysm of coughing.
William H. Hawkey, fireman ON the
tug McDermott, was drowned after fall
ing off the wharf at which the craft lay
at Narragansett Pier.
George E. Cox, buyer for Chicago
shoe firm, was taken i'll in a Boston
theater and died before medical assist
ance could be rendered.
Michael Hough. aged 81, and unmar-
ried, was found dead near Newtown,
Conn. Death was due to exposure.
John Alexander, who has been In
the employ of the Grand Trunk rail-
road for many years, was killed on the
road at Portland, Me.
The boiler of the Pullman Lumber
company's sawmill at Pullman, Ark.
exploded. Two men are known to have
been killed and six injured, one fatally
1t is believed three bodies are still under
the wreck of the mill.
p. w. Miller, manager of a detective
agency at Atlanta, was sent to the chair
gang to work out fine of 500 and costs
imposed for conducting business with.
out license.
Frank d. Moore, IS years old, wa.
killed by train near Woodsville, N. H
Joseph Payne was drowned Will,
smelling near Wiscasset, Me-, by goinl
through thin ice.
Captain Charles E. Smalley, collecto
of customs at Nantucket, Mass, is dead
Captain Smalley was well known on tn
Massachusetts, coast, as he followed tn
sea in his younger days.
DR.. Charles X. Adams, president o
the University Of Wisconsin, is critical
i'll. He is said to be suffering fror
gastritis and various complications.
Timer Knowles. years old, was rul
over by a heavy four horse truck a
Brookline, Mass, and instantly killed
Pierce J. Sullivan, employed at tn
Joseph Wilcox Comb company's work
at Worcester, Mass, was burned t
death in a fire which started from
spark dropping from a grinding whee
into pile of celluloid dust.