St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-12
VERMONT NEWS
Woman Lost Life in Fire.


dav night. About midnight Miss Ger |
trude Laid, who occupied a room on the |
Ground floor heard her sister Maria. |
who had a room on the upper floor, call. |
If awakened her from her sleep and she |
found the small house full of smoke and |
flames. She made a frantic effort to |
reach her sister on the upper floor, but
the smoke and flames drove her back |
and she was obliged to flee to the street
in order to save herself. The fremen
made frantic efforts to enter the building
but were driven back by the dense smoke
and it was not until several streams of |
water had been playing on the fire for
% minutes that they were able to enter
the house. When they did so they found
Miss Maria Ladd in the bed in the upper
story room, her face blackened and
burned and to all appearances dead.
Boston Vermont Veterans.
The Vermont Veterans Association of
Boston and vicinity will observe its Goth
annual banquet at Young's hotel, Fri
day evening, February IA. There will
be a reception from to 7 O'Clock fol
lowed by a dinner at Z. Among those
who have been invited as guests are
GOV. Fletcher D. Proctor, and Lieut.
Gov. George H. Prouty, of Vermont,
Hon Dana Malone, encouragement of
Massachusetts, Congressman Kittredge
Haskins, and D. ]. Foster, of Vermont
the Hon. Clarke c. Fits, attorney-gene-
raj of Vermont, Col. A. {. Brown, de-
partment commander Vermont depart
ment G. A. R., Alfred S. Roe, of the
Massachusetts department, g. A. R., and
Ernest Z. Hobson of the Massachusetts
division, Sons of Veterans.
Fleeing from Wrath.
Fleeing from the drunken wrath of her
husband, trail little woman who gave
her name as Mrs North walked all the
way from Shelburne to Burlington Feb.
3, with the temperature near zero and
only scantily clad. Next morning she
presented herself to the poor department
in an appeal for her car fare to Rich
moud. Mrs North said that her hus-
band in his drunken frenzy struck her
over the head with a plate, the Jagged
edge Of which made an ugly wound
across her face, Fearing to remain
longer in the house with him she put on
mans overcoat over her thin wrapper
and started for Burlington. She left
home at o'clock and arrived at Bur
hngton at o'clock that morning, hav- /
ing tramped seven miles through deep
snow and binding wind, with the .
hghtest of shoes
Missing Man Committed Suicide.
Benjamin billiard of Evansville was
found nearly dead in a gravel pit Feb 4
from a seltnAicted bullet wound His
legs and feet were frozen solid. He was |
taken to a house near by where he died |
in short time, never recovering |
consciousness. billiard disappeared |
seven weeks ago, being last seen in
SomerWle, Mass. Extensive accounts
OF his disappearance were published in
the papers and he was advertised for |
in Massachusetts and Vermont. 1t |
seems that billiard went west after he !
left Somervile and then came to Yer |
mont, reaching Barton Landing, Feb 3. |
He then walked to Evansville, where he |
shot himself He leaves a wife and three |
sons at Evansville and a daughter of
Northboro, Mass
Guests of Senator Dillingham;.
On Monday, Feb. 4, Senator Dilling- |
ham entertained at the capitol, Count |
Dionys Szechenyi, Countess Szechenyi, |
and Mrs Nelson 'Shaughnessy. Count |
Dionys is the older brother of Count |
Laszio Szechenyi who recently married |
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt Mrs. o.
Shaughnessy is the wife of Nelson o. !
Shaughnessy, second secretary of the
American embassy at Vienna, Austria.
Senator Dillingham's acquaintance with
Mrs Shaughnessy began last summer
while he was in Vienna in the interests OF
the immigration commission.
Vermont Packing Co.
S, ]. Cray and H. S. Davis of Bellows
Falls have formed a company with |
$4,000 capital paid in for the purpose
Of Strengthening, packing and picking
hams, to be known as the Vermont pack
ing company. They expect to build a
cement building 100 by so feet, three
stories high, on the line of the |
Rutland railroad. They intend to
slaughter five carloads per week at the
beginning and will employ % men. |
They will hire some building until they
can build modern building that will
pass government inspection.
Slept With Bed on Fire.
Lucas Nicholas, member of an old !
Montpelier family VINO claim 1eldllOn-
ship with Grecian royalty, narrowly
escaped burning to death last week at
the st. James Hotel Rutland where he
is employed as porter, Proprietor
Poole smeed fire during the middle OF
the morning and investigation showed
that Nicholas bed was in flames and the
man in it asleep The claimant to the
throne of Greece had gone to bed smok-
ing his pipe
Pension Agencies Abolished.
The house committee on appropria
tions, Feb. 4, reported favorably the
pension bill for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1909 The bill as reported
abolishcs several pension agencies among
them being Augusta, Me, Boston, Con
cord, N, H., and consolidates them in
ONE central distributing agency at
Washington. The bill as reported carries
total pension appropriation OF $780,
100000 which is $4,000 less than
the aggregate estimates; the exact sum
>ayable by the consolidation OF the
agencies
Two Vermont Marble Employees Killed.
John Mccormick, aged II years, EN-
ploycd as teamster by the Vermont
4 D.