St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-30

yard at Essex Junction is uuarantined
with some sixty men in the enclosure, a
Canadian arriving there recently having
come down with the smallpox.
Vermont pensions: Increase, restora-
ton, reissue, ETC., John Mure, Chester,
$40; Edwin B. Hendry, SIG.
Secretary Shaw of the treasury depart
ment has forwarded an estimate of
S227,572 for the new buildings at Fort
Ethan Allen. The item is enacted into
law at this session and will have to 90
to the senate where the military appro
priation bill now is.
Pietro Calcagni, a former resident of
Barre, was a candidate for the Italian
parliament at the election held last week,
but he was defeated. Calcagni ran as
an avowed anarchist and was the first
candidate of that faith ever to stand for
parliament in Italy.
William H. Nichols of Bennington, an
employee of the Bennington Light and
Power Company, has been granted a
patent for an insuatOr.
Swanton is to celebrate July 4, this
year, with boat races, base ball, bicycle
and running races, and big display OF
fireworks on the river. The following
committee has charge of the arrange.
ments: John ManniX, chairman, c. Z.
Hall, {. W. James, George L. Campbell,
A. B. Anderson, D. G. Furman, Joseph
Mecor, George A. Best, Carl c. Fletcher,
H. A. Burt, Jr., S. H. Martin, Charles H.
Jacques, Z. {. Gilmore, and c. Fl. Newell.
The Founders day Grafton of the Uni
versitY OF Vermont Burlington, will be
given by Charles Whiting Baker, c. E
of the class Of Sc associate editor of The
Engineering News, New York city. His
topic has not yet been announced.
John Thompson, of Barre, a former
member of Co. E, LIST VT Regt., who
went to Chickamauga with the regiment
during the Spanish-American War has
been granted a pension of SIS month,
and S290 back pay.
About 100 hands are now employed in
the cartridge factory alone, of the Robin
Hood Powder Co. of Swanton, and the
business is rapidly outgrowing its pres
ent quarters.
The village of Bennington, in special
meeting last week, by vote OF bF TO 40,
refused to purchase the plant of the Ben
ningtOn Water Co., a corporation owned
principally by H. w. Putnam. The vot-
ers discussed the matter three hours.
This is the fourth time in three years
that special meeting has considered
this subject and always with the same
result.
The naval appropriations bill reported
last week calls for an expenditure of
$4,000, 900. 1t provides for two battle
ships of 10000 tons displacement, the
largest ever authorized for the American
navy, and also tor two exceptionally
large cruisers ola, 500 tons displacement,
the battleships to cost $4,212,O00 each
and the cruisers 81, $50, 900 exclusive Of
armor and armament.
The airship experts have arranged for
capital prize Of 100000 and subsi-
diary prizes of an equal amount for the
aerial speedway contests at the Worlds
Fair in St. Louis. The figure eight course
OF ten miles will be marked by captive
balloons, and the allotment OF prizes will
be made for the best averagein a series OF
trials. Nj. Santos Dumont, the Brazilian
aeronaut, who has attracted so much
attention by circhng the Eiffel tower in
Paris and trips over the bay at Monte
Carlo, believes that at least $50 airships
will be entered.