St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-02-11
GENERAL NEWS.
Ex.sen. Dawes Dead.

The death of Hon. Henry Lawrence
Dawes, for many years United States
senator from Massachusetts,, occurred at
Pittsfeld, Mass, Thursday morning.
He was sc years of age and had been sick
since Christmas night when he con.
tracted a severe cold which developed
into the grip The children of Mr.. Dawes,
Miss Anna L. and Harry L. OF Pittsfeld
and Chester NJ, a prominent railroad
attorney of Chicago, were with him.
A Serious Affair.
Boston and Maine officials report
tragic incident which occurred on the lire
during Wednesday night OF last week.
At Plymouth, N. H., burglars broke into
the railroad station just before midnight,
and they held up the night operator, Mr..
Cough, and emptied the money drawer,
then fled up the road. Captain George
H. Colby, the station agent, heard the
alarm and rushed to the scene. He met
a man whom he took to be one of the
burglars and ordered him to hold up his
hands. 1t was Policeman Lewis c. Mills
who, in his turn, mistook Colby for a
burglar and fired on him. Mr.. Colby
was struck twice and killed. Policeman
Mills has not been arrested and it is said
no proceedings are likely to be taken
against him, as it was the case of an I'M
fortunate though perhaps natural mis-
take under the circumstances. 1t is re-
ported that the two burglars were cap
tured at Campton, N. H.
Bankruptcy Law Amended.
The President last week signed the bill
which amends the bankruptcy law of
1898. The bill modifes the existing law
in several important particulars, the
principal one OF which is a provision in
regard to preferred creditors. Under the
existing law those who had received pay
ments from person who had soon alter
ward been declared could not have other
claims passed upon without surrenderlng
the amount received. This provision was
modified SO as to allow the creditor to
retain the money received, unless the pre-
vious payment was fraudulent. This
change is in conformity with a decision
of the supreme court. Another amend
ment provides four new objections to a
discharge intended to prevent persons
from going through bankruptcy the
most important of which are the giving
of false mercantile statement or the
making of fraudulent transfer of proper
ty. The bill also provides that it shall
be an objection to discharge if a volun-
tary bankrupt seeks to go through bank
ruptcy more than once in six years.
Another amendment provides that the
appointment of a receiver for corpora
tion which is insolvent is an aim of bank
ruptcy, emitting the creditors to choose
their own trustee. Another important
change is one which gives the fedora
courts concurrent jurisdiction of suits tc
recover property which has been iraudu
lently transferred. Other amendments
allow wives of bankrupts to testify il
the proceedings; provide for an increase
OF lees OF referees and trustees to al
average of about so per cent over the fees
allowed by the present law and prohibi
the courts from allowing greater fee
than the law permits in any case, anC
add to the list of debts from which ;
bankrupt cannot be relieved by dis
charge from bankruptcy. The new
amendment includes debts to wife ant
children and alimony. The list of corpo
rations which may 90 into bankruptc,
is increased by adding mining corpora
tions.