St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-04-13


Thousands of birds and large numbers of
deer and rabbits have persisted from cold
in the Vermont woods this winter.
Their bodies have been found dotting the
snow, and the shooting season for deer
and grouse next fall seems likely to be
seriously affected. The greatest death
rate has been among grouse. Ordinarily
when it becomes extremely cold, these
birds burrow in the snow and remain
This year. however, the cold pierced even
this, and the gamev birds were
frozen or starved because they were too
numb to search for food. The snow
birds, crossbils, grosbeaks. nuthatches,
chick-a-deeS, barn and screech owls and
woodpeckers all suffered, and their bod
les are found everywhere through the
mountain districts. In the lowlands the
death rate has not been as great, owing
to the tact that the birds have been able
to pick up food about the farm-houses.
Deer have wintered worse than was ex-
pected. Henry Morse of Shrewsbury
found three dead in the snow back of his
farm, and other farmers bring in similar
reports. Many of the animals have been
saved by STAYING with the cattle, but
only the stronger have weathered the
winter. The fur bearing animals have not
frozen, By many succumbed to starva-
ton.
William Shepard, of Middlesex, aged Sc
years, was found dead in bed Thursday
morning apparently having committed
suicide. A bottle of chloroform was found
by the bed and piece of cloth saturated
with the poison was on the pillow. Mr..
Shepard had suffered for six years with
shaking palsy.
Incorporation papers have been filed
in the office of the secretary of state by
the Catholic Foresters Building Associa-
ton, of St.Albans. with a capital stock
of So, 900, their object being the erection
of a club house and hall and the holding
of real estate. Papers have also been
filed for the incorporation of the Barre
City Hospital Association, the incor-
porators including all the Barre
physicians and few leading citizens.
THERE'S no capital stock and there will
be no profit taking by the association.
Plans for wholesale Jail delivery at
the windham county jail at Newfane
were divulged to the jailor last week by a
tramp who was serving three months
sentence, and Mr.. Davis put an end to
the scheme just in the nick of time by
combining the prisoners in their cells.
The plan was to cut off the rivets which
held in place the iron separating the jail
corridor from the prison room. By
spreading the bars the prisoners could
get intosthe corridor and lie in wait for
the steward to open the door leading to
| the street. There are six prisoners in the
| Jail, and Mr.. Davis believes that several
ifnot all of them were planning to escape.
| Mrs. Grace Carpenter Mclaughlin,
| wife of Edward Mclaughlin of Fair
Haven, was fatally burned last week
| Tuesday, by having her clothing catch
| fire from a bonfire which she was tend
ing in the dooryard. She was % years
of age and was married last September.
A $4,000 house is to be erected for
| Postmaster Bancroft of Montpelier.
| Herbert N. Grenn, former real estate
agent in Brattleboro, has been arrested
| in Guilford on complaint of Mr. and Mrs.
| 81. nj. Seymour of Randolph, who alleged
| that he swindled them out of money in
selling property in Melrose, Mass,
| through false representation. Grenn ex-
pected to arrange to furnish bail of $4,-
| 900, but the sheriff of Orange county
started prosecutions of criminal nature,
and he concluded to go to Newfane Jail
to await the grand jury term of Orange
county court.
Louis Bancroft, about II years old, of
| Montpelier, the son of Nathan Bancroft,
| stage driver between Calais and Mont
pelier, found dynamite cartridge in a
| box, last week and while playing with it,
it was discharged, blowing off all but the
little finger on young Bancroft's left
hand. Amputation of the shattered
fingers was necessary. A fve-year-old
| brother standing near was uninjured.
The orator at the centennial
of the University of Vermont, Burlington,
will be Darwin P. Kingsley of New York,
| a graduate of the university in class of
1881 and one of the vice presidents of the
New York Life Insurance Co. The ora
ton will be delivered Wednesday, July g.,
which will be the big day of the week.