St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-08-10


and Hartford. The steel weighs 80
pounds to the yard and replaces IS
pound steel that has been down seven
years.
Joseph Krellinger, who resided with
his daughter in East Barre, told her last
thursday that he was going to take a
walk, and departed, since which time he
has not been seen or heard OF. Search
ing parties have been looking for him in
the woods and about the quarries but
without result. He was 81 years OF age,
partially blind and in a somewhat feeble
condition and probably wandered off
and became lost. Much apprehension is
felt by the members of his family as to
his safety. He was of medium height,
wore dark hat, gray coat and trousers
and blue shirt. He has gray hair and
beard.
The supreme court of Massachusetts
has granted a petition of the trustees of
the Thompson fund which yields Brattle-
boro $4,000 a year to convey the
Thompson hospital in Brattleboro, now
nearly completed, to a Vermont corpora
ton which will have entire control of the
property. This corporation, it is expect
ed, will be chartered by the coming legis-
lature. The organizing committee have
engaged as superintendent, DIR. l. K. Brig
ham, a woman, a graduate of the medi-
cal department OF the University of Mich
igan and the Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy, and who was formerly super
intendent of the Whidden Memorial
hospital in Everett, Mass.
Mrs. Nancy Bates of Richmond, widow
of Elihue Bates, passed her 9Sth birth
day Thursday. July %. She is quite
smart and rode four miles her birthday
to visit her son Henry. Her homeis with
her son, M. M. Bates. She is the only
pensioner living in that vicinity of the
war of 1912.
Only Montpelier granite men were
allowed to bid in the contract for the
monument of Joel Foster, the late super
intendent of waterworks and T. !. Kelli-
her got it, at SO 9OS. The city in annual
| meeting last March appropriated SIS, 900
for this monument.
The safe in the Windham County Saw
ings Bank was bio vn open by burglars
early Friday morning and 5000 taken.
The men were discovered at work by
George Batchelder who fired a shot TAX
ing effect in the arm of one of the burg
lars who was captured and lodged in
jail. The other two men escaped into
the woods. In the safe was $4,000
which the burglars overlooked.
T Y,
nous Artic explorer, is in Benning ton in
the interest of his coming trip to the far
north. He is the guest of Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy Charles II. Darling,
but came principally to see J. c. Colgate,
of New York, the multi millionaire, who
has summer residence there, and is one
of the explorers financial supporters in
the effort to reach the North Pole.
Slate dealers all over Rutland county
and several over the line in New York
state are forming trust for the purpose
of fixing uniform price on all slate.
The trust will control the entire output
in that section.
Mrs. Carrie Foster, the woman horse
thief, was Friday sentenced to not less
than two and not more than three years
in the state prison at Windsor. She had
stolen three horses so far as known.
The controller of the treasury has set
tied the matter of the mutual claims of
the United States against the state of
Vermont for ordinance furnished the
state and sold by the state to outside
parties and of the state of Vermont
against the United states for clothing
and other military supplies furnished by
the state to the extraordinary militia in
the years 1864 and 1865. The amounts
involved in these two accounts are now
found to offset each other, so that there
now remains due to the state the sum of
$155, 453, which is the interest paid by
the state in it's bonds issued by the state
to aid the United States in the civil war.
A warrant in favor of the state will be
issued for this amount.
Work has been begun on rebuilding the
oft burned depot at Montpelier Junction.
The new structure will be 2Ox46 feet,
and will have women's waiting room,
22x18 feet, a smoking room 1Ox8 feet an
office 1Ox19 feet and toilet rooms and
store rooms. The interior finish will be
of yellow pine and the building will be
heated by hot air. It is expected that
the work will be completed within two
and one-half months.
L. E. Lord of Rutland was haying at
Shrewsbury recently and lett his team,
which was hitched to moving machine,
under shed while he went into house
for lunch. When he returned one of the
horses was dead and the other died soon
after. It is not known what killed the
animals.
It is stated that the American Cereal
Company of Richford has rented the large
Canadian Pacific flour sheds, to take
possession Oct. 1. The Cereal company
will greatly enlarge its force in the town
and make Richford New England dis
tribution point. The Canadian Pacific
railroad will probably build a new -four
shed 1000 feet long at Newport.
Francis Merchant, well-known bust
man of Barre, died last week Tuesday
evening at the state hospital for the in
sane at Waterbury. Mr.. Merchant was
taken i'll about the middle of July with
congestion of the brain, and it was found
necessary to take him to the asylum for
! treatment. He was native of Aberdeen
shire, Scotland, was So years old and
had been in the grocery business at Barre
for several years. He was a member of
the Burns club of Clan Gordon and of
the local order of Red Men.
The outside work on the new tubercu-
losis building at the State Hospital for
Insane at Waterbury will be completed
this week. The steam heating system is
all installed.
Walter Scarf, of Burlington, who was
shot in the abdomen last week by care