St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02
VERMONT NEWS.
Heavy Verdict for Malpractice.


was completed Saturday afternoon April
81, when the jury brought in verdict tor
the plaintiff. The trial had been going on
since Monday at 2 o'clock in the al
ternoon and the Judge completed his
charge to the jury at ten minutes past
twelve Saturday. The case has been the
most sensational one tried in Rutland IN
several years and attracted a crowd OF
spectators during its whole course: They
found that "the defendant is guilty IN
manner and form as the plaintiff in her
declaration hath alleged" and that she
should recover in damages of the SAID de-
fendant the sum of $6S33 33. AS the
amount of damages asked tor by the
plaintiff in her declaration was only
$1,000, the verdict is considered large
one.
Little Jimmie Fox of Fairhaven aged IA,
was given writeup in the New YORK
Herald recently. He is one OF family OF
seven children and has always displayed
marked ability as mathematician. he
says he cannot exactly tell how he per-
forms his feats OF mental calculation.
When only i he was asked by a teachers
institute to stand such tests as TOOK
many older ones with pencil and paper
some time, but he was invariably cor
rect.
DR.. Pred Crosby, son Of E. c. Crosby
of Brattleboro, was crushed to oeatn
Wednesday afternoon at Northampton,
Mass. He fell from the transfer bus OF the
street car line, an old street car drawn Dy
three horses passed over his stomach. ne
never recovered consciousness and died
within haitian hour. Dr. Crosby practlced
in Northampton and in South Dakota, but
owing to i'll health gave up practice and
for the last three years had been con-
nected with his fathers electric railroad
enterprises at Springfield, VT, and North
ampton. He was married only few
months ago.
The Vermont Marble company OF
Proctor have been awarded $65 600
contract to furnish the interior marble
for the new government postofhce and
courthouse building in Buffalo. The
marble will all be clouded Rutland with
a good deal of fine carving. This is the
largest contract for interior marble work
ever taken by this company, and there
are few buildings in this country that
contain so much of one kind OF marble.
Clarence Burnett Davis, who has been
one of the crew on the United States
transport ship Solace for nearly four
years, arrived at his home in Chester
last week. Young Davis says he has
been in every country except Australia
during his service in the navy.
Miss Laura R. Fuller OF Chelsea, having
fulfilled the conditions required by law,
has been granted life certificate by the
state superintendent. She has taught
school Sc terms, the first when she was
fifteen years of age.
A growing Vermont industry is the
canning of corn, this seasons output in
the southeastern part of the state being
100000 cans.
Col. H. W. Hall of Burlington, chair
man of the board of trustees OF the Gill
Odd Fellows Home at Ludlow, has call.
ed the annual meeting OF the board to be
held at the home in Ludlow, Monday
May 7. An application has been made
for admittance to the home from q
brother in Felchville Lodge, No. 81.
Hon. w. w. Stickney of Ludlow will
be the memorial day orator at Rutland
The cable of the Western Nnion Tele-
graph Company, which runs under Lake
Chamblain from Ticonderoga to LARA
bees Point, has something of history
1t was made in Europe and was first
used in connecting opposite shores Of the
Red Sea. From there it was brought tC
Hilton Head, where it was used in con
Meeting that place with Tybee Island
near Beaufort, S. c. At the close of the
Civil War it was taken up and carried tt
New York, where it remained for severa
years in the compa1 y storehouse, befor'
it was placed where it now is.
Frank and Dustin Shaw, father ant
son, broke out of the county jail a
Woodstock, last week Monday night
the escape being discovered early Tues
day morning by the night Waterman
They were not locked in the cage bu
were given the run of the jail and brok'
out through a window that was pro
tected by light iron rods.
The 47eth Vermont petition in bank
ruptcy, was filed Saturday April Fl, ant
was that OF William H. knight, farme
and teamster of Huntington. Asset
$947.S2, liabilities $21885.
Mrs. Julia Billings of Woodstock ha
given the, D. l.. Moody school at Mt
Hermon, Mass, the sum OF $4,000 TO
endowment since the death of Nj
Moody.
DR.. Ripley Clark, an old and highl
respected citizen of Windsor, died Apr
%, at the age o. SO years.
c. P. Dickinson, who has purchase
the Orange county hotel at Chelsea, ha
taken possession. The price paid wa
$4,000. E. D. Barnes, the late proprit
tor, had been it's landlord for Is year
and remains in Chelsea.
E. D. Thayer, of Brandon, recent
placed 100000 lake trout fry in LAX
Dunmore.
5 Nine veterans, all over sixty years {
age have died at the Soldiers Home i
Bennington since January 1. The presen
. membership is about ninety.
; Judge L. M. Read, by order OF til
= court sold the Lebanon Springs road i
D Vermont to New York parties for $21
!, 900 cash. 1t is supposed it will form
!, part of the Rutland railroad extensio
to Chatham Junction, where it will col
meet with the Boston and Albany, fc
Boston and New York
The Ehret Mausoleum contract frol
e MIR. Caterson, of New York, has bee
awarded to Wells & Lamson of Barr
I The granite portion of the contra