St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-04-25
Judge Barrett Dead.

Rutland Friday morning at the age of
85 years. He was born in STAFFORD,
May 81. 1914; graduated from Dart
mouth College, class of SO; studied law,
and in 1910 began the practice of his
profession in Woodstock, where he had
finished his studies; was State senator
two years, and States attorney for
Windsor county for like period. In
1857 the Legislature elected Mr.. Barrett
judge of the Supreme court, an office he
held and highly adorned and honored till
1880. After his retirement from the
bench he went to Rutland where his sons
lived, and practiced his profession as
long as his health permitted.
Fire at Burlington.
A fire started in the carpet department
of L. P. Woods store underneath N. E.
Chamberlin's, at Burlington, Monday
evening. 1t worked it's way from the
basement through the partitions and
flooring to the third story. The loss to
both Chamberlin L. P. Wood and Cham
berlin and Gould is very heavy, as their
stock is heavier at this time of the year
than almost any other. LIP. Wood had
about SIT, 500 insurance. Fortunately
the fire was checked before it reached the
scenery in the opera house adjoining,
about which serious results were feared.
The fire was discovered by some young
men on the street who gave the alarm.
The origin is unexplained.
At the Head Of a $4,000, 900 Company.
A. ]. Stone, manager of the Printing
| Machine company of London, Eng, is
remembered as one Huntington bright
young men. He left Burlington for a
position on the New York Herald, was
soon recognized by James Gordon Ben
nett as possessing great business ability
and transferred to Paris to take charge
of the Paris editions business depart
ment. Later Mr.. Stone organized the
London company for the manufacture
and sale of linotype machines. The name
of the concern was then changed to the
Printing Machine company. His COM
pany, which includes members of parlia-
1nent, is capitalized at $15,O00,0O0.
Central Vermont Trainmen Shot at.
Shots have been fired at trainmen on
the Burlington and Essex branch of the
Central Vermont railway, two different
evenings the past week. Both times the
| shooting occurred as the train passed
under the Main street bridge at Winooski.
| One bullet passed through conductors
lantern as he was collecting a woman's
ticket. Investigations in the case lead
the officials to think that nothing serious
was intended but that the shots were
fired by boys at birds.
Miss Harriet Gee, of Vergennes,
turned some hot lard into bowl and
the sudden heat caused the plate to
crack and when it was lifted it broke. In
trying to save the bowl the lard was
spilled over both hands and wrists and
it will be some time before she can use
her hands.
Colonel Merritt Barber, who left Ben
nington in December for the Philippines,
where he is acknowledgement of the
United States army, under General Otis
has written letter in which he says he
has force Of 70 clerks under him and
that the number will soon be increased
to 100. There is hardly All hour in the
day that kilograms are not received of
fighting going on with the insurgents all
over the islands.
Hon. c. A. Prouty, of Newport, has
accepted an invitation to deliver an ad-
dress before the Young Mems Club Of
Bellows Falls at banquet to be given
at Towns hotel about May 4. The club
is not political organization, though it
devotes some time to the discussion of
political subjects, and not long since w.
P. Stafford lectured for the club on the
Philippine question. The speaker at the
banquet last year was Hon. W. P. Dill
bingham.
The Rutland railroad will operate a
fleet of eight steamers for freight trans
portation from New York and New Eng
land points to the West, Southwest and
Northwest. Regular trips began Fri
day.
Patients were transferred from the State
Hospital TOR the Insane at Waterbury to
Brattleboro Friday. The state hospital
there has been crowded for some time
and shows the continued necessity of
having more buildings in which to ac-
commodate the large number of patients.