St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-11-18
marshal in Burlington will be abolished
and the business may be done by the
deputy marshal from Rutland.

marshal in Burlington will be abolished
and the business may be done by the
deputy marshal from Rutland.
At special meeting of the Bristol
board of trade Thursday night about
$4,000 worth of stock was pledged aud
| more is in sight for the rebuilding of the
Novelty Works, burned recently.
Judge Hoyt H. Wheeler of Brattleboro
has announced that the hearing on the
petition Tor a new trial in the case of
"Spotter" Wilson VS.. Percival W. Glenn
ent cannot be heard at Brattleboro
Nov. 10, but will have to be set for the
Oath or 25th.
Fire caused between SIS, 900 and Sc, 900
loss in Burlington, Nov. 7, destroying the
Acme steam laundry, damaging the stock
OF John Looney's furniture store and a
barn owned by DR.. D. c. Hawley. The
loss is only partially covered by insur-
ance. The fire caught in the boiler house
in the basement of the laundry.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners desire more room in its head
| quarters at the state house at Montpe.
her and the partition between Offices of
| the state geologist and the railroad COM
mission is to be removed, throwing the
two togt ther.
Solomon Walker, aged 65, member
of the wholesale grocery firm OF 0. J.
Walker & co. OF Burlington, was found
drowned in slip on the lake front oppo-
site the warehouse of the company,
| Monday, Nov. 8. He had been missing
since Saturday and his death is supposed
| to have been due to an accident.
A report is current among railroad
employees at White River Junction to
the effect that the Boston and Maine
Railroad Co. will still use the present
station in case the Central Vermont
builds a new passenger station on the
east side of it's tracks fronting on 'Korn
Alley" so. called, as has been talked of,
to avoid the dangerous approach to the
union depot from the village. Boston &
Maine trains could not readily reach the
Passumpsc division OF the road from the
proposed new sta. ion. The whole cues
ton needs, according to Boston & Maine
men, different solution from that the
Central Vermont people have suggested.
Harry E. Collins of Newport, 81 years
old, is at the Boston city hospital with
scalp wound and Indications OF fracture
OF the skull. How Collins received his
Injuries is mystery. He says be was
assaulted and robbed in his room at the
Falmouth house Saturday, Nov. 7, but
the authorities take little stock in his
story. At the hotel, because OF his
report that he bad been robbed of $40 OF
$12 and had been left practically
penniless, he finally admitted he belonged
in Newport. and got the clerk to write to
friends in that town for mileage book
which would enable him to return home
At the hotel an impression prevails that
Collins fell and cut himself.
There are in Bennington county only
two druggists who have taken out
licenses for the sale of liquor under tn,
newlaw. These are both in Bennington
According to the returns filed by then
with the county clerk the total number
of sales made in the six months ending
with October was 331.
Edwin Loosemore of Burlington, {
policeman and janitor OF one of the cit.
schools, disappeared from home recent,
and has not returned. He left wife ant
three children almost destitute.
Marvin Howard of Londonderr,
secured the largest black bear shot il
southern Vermont in recent years. Th
beast was shot near Mt. Tabor, bulle
from Towards rifle striking him in tn
neck and breaking the back bone. H
secured the bounty OF $40, sold the pei
for $50, and made enough oil from tn
, fat to bring $40, so that bis adventur
was fairly profitable. The bear ha
evidently been in a trap years ago. a
one front foot was gone, but the STUN
was entirely healed.
Mrs. Lafayette Derby OF Brandon wa
badly burned about the mouth and fac
last week, by taking mouthful of cal
bolic acid in mistake for tonic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Plumley, of NORTH
field, are expected back from Venezuel
. the last of the month or the first part {
December when the mixed commission {
which Mr.. Plumley is the referee wi
finish it's work with the Holland an
British claims.
. Early last week Conductor Williar
I Boulds of Island Pond was badly hur
: near Percy, N. H., while on his trair
: The train was going at good rate
speed and broke apart, and when til
= sections came together it was with sue
e force as to hurl Mr.. Bouds through tt
window of the caboose, severely injurin
his back and hips.