St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-30
VERMONT NEWS.
s.oDs WAY MOI Go 10 Rutland.

shops May Not 60 10 Rutland.
Pptland special to the St. Adams
,fasssnger Friday says: The people of
nH..tIand and Burlington have been won
h 1.l;ng for some time how matters
otood regarding the proposed repair
s ston and depot of the Rutland road
,TLicb were promised to this city by
Doctor Webb. :, ,,
soondent last evening that he was not
s,,re whether he would place the shops
bore as promised, or not. Things had
anne m since he made the promise which
ronsa some uncertainty. He would not
.a,, that he would not put them here.
Hc said positively that that the new
station would be put here, as planned,
this year.
Railroad TO Sue City.
It is said that the Montpelier & Wells
River railroad is to put in claim for
damages against the city of Montpelier
&C a result of the February flood. 1t is
cIaimed that the Granite st. bridge which
wastaken out by the waterlodged in such
anosition that it turned nearly the whole
force of the current against the masonry
wall which forms the river banks under
+he railroads. car shops and beside its
tracks. and that as a result OF the bridge
staying there as long as it has, the wall
has been undermined by the stream and
will have to be rebuilt.
sheldon Clerk Captures Two burglars.
The Iennison & Gallup Co. store at
Sheldon was entered by two burglars
Friday night and both are prisoners in
the iail at St. Adams as a result OF the
bravery and GOODNESS of H. c. Royce. a
clerk, who sleeps in a room above the
store. He fired three shots at the bur
Glars and held them captiyes until
deDuty sheriff was summoned by tele-
phone. The prisoners, who gave their
names as W. E. Taft aud James Scott Of
Montreal, are not thought to be protes-
si0nal burglars.
Congressman George W. Ray of New
York, chairman OF the house committee
on the judiciary, will probably be APP
pointed Judge OF the United States dis
trict court for the northern district of
New York, to succeed Judge Coke, who
will be appointed additional judge of the
second circuit comprising the states Of
New York, Vermont and Connecticut,
under the authority OF the recent act Of
congress.
c. A. Gle and c. B. Greene have
bought nearly all the shares in the Nor
risyille Foundry Company at Morris
vile and will take possession of the bust
ness at once. Captain Frank Keuheld,
who has formerly owned a controlling
interest in the business has sold the en-
tire interest to the new firm. Under the
new management the business will be in
creased, neCessitating the building Of
large addition to the machine shops and
the addition of large amount Of ne "
machinery.
Miss Ada Croft, who has been at the
head of the department of instrumental
music at Goddard Seminary, Barre, for
the past few years, has rendered her
resignation to the trustees to take effect
at the end OF the present term.
One birth and eleven deaths have oc-
cured in Orwell since January l.
The construction OF the electric rail-
road from West Rutland to Fair Haven
is being pushed rapidly. A large addi-
tonal force of men was put on last week
and the work will soon be in progress all
along the line between West Rutland and
Castleton. The company expects to
have cars running as far as CastletOn in
the early summer aud to Fair Haven
next fall.
Many may not know Newport has an
author in the Reverend Newell, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church, but
that is the fact, and Mr. Newell has quite
a reputation as an author, having had
book published by the Methodist pub
fishing house entitled Truth About
He'll" which had good sale, says a
Newport correspondent to the Free
Press. Now the Abbey press Of New
York has published The Lite Worth
Living by Mr.. Newell
The partnership which has existed be-
tween Charles E. Ryle and John H.
Crimmins Of Montpelier, under the name
Of Columbian Granite Company, has
been dissolved. Mr.. Ryle will continue
the business. Mr.. Crlmmns retires from
the business owing to i'll health.
James w. Lewis, a wellto-do Mont
gomery farmer, stabbed Herbert Isher-
wood, a farm laborer, Friday, with a
pocket knife. sherwood is a recent ar
rival from England and worked tor Lewis
until they quarreIed, and returned on
this occasion to settle their differences by
whipping his former employer. Lewis
defended himself with knife, stabblng
his assailant in the arm and just above
the kidneys, the latter being a serious
wound.
Rev. DR.. Cyrus Brooks, 81, one OF the
oldest Methodist ministers in the United
States, and once one of the most eIo-
quent and influential, died in St. Paul,
MINI, last week. He was born in West
ford and was ordained in 1888.
George c. Mackie, one OF the pioneer
in the Barre granite business and a
prominent citizen, died April 10 OF con-
sumption. He was one of the first two
Scotchmen to ply the granite bushes in
ibarre, having come there in 1880 with
his half brother, James c. Simpson. He
was born in Fraserburg, Aberdeensh're,
Scotland, May l, 1849.
The Vermont Farm Machine company
Of Bellows Falls is contemplating some
Important additions to its plant during
the coming season. One is 49-toot,
three,story addition to the south end OF
the present plant and another is large
Storehouse, two stories on one side and
three stories on the other.