St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-04-08
VERMONT NEWS
Arrested at Toronto.

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life Insurance company ofNew York, and
was remanded March 81 for week. He
was employed by the Home Insur-
apee company in Burlington for
several months, during which time he
spent money so freely as to cause
comment. About two weeks ago he left
town in company with a young girl
named Eva Barney, supposedly for
Montreal Their departure was in the
manner of an elopement. Officers of the
insurance company at that time denied
that Bowie had carried away any of
their money. Sheriff James Allen left
March 81 for Canada. probably to bring
back Boyle, although the nature of his !
mission is not definitely known.
At Rouse Of Correction.
Gov. Fletcher D. Proctor and Atty. !
Gen. c. c. Fits were at the house of
correction March 81, investigating the |
assertions of Supt. D. L. Morgan that
prisoners are being committed unlaw
hllv for the sake of the fees the officers |
get 1t is alleged that many prisoners |
are sent to the state institution on
charges OF breach of the peace, who
should go to the county jails.
certain w iUuSOI county OTIlCcTS are
particularly under suspicion because the
long distance from the city makes the
travel fee at Is cents mile large. La
connection with the graft" stories the
books have been examined and they I
show that the number of prisoners COM
mitted for breach of peace since January
lis 81. The town of Windsor has con.
trbuted II OF these prisoners
Shooting at Proctor.
Declaring that he no longer must live
apart from her, Louise Enginge shot and
severely wounded her former sweetheart,
Joseph Tarkasei. at Proctor, April 2. /
Miss Enginge and Tarkasei are said to |
have come together to this country from
Hungary some years ago. She is %
years old and has been employed AS a
domestic in New York City. Tarkasei
became separated from the girl after
their arrival in this country, and he
came to Proctor. where he now has a
family consisting of wife and two
children. He is ~ years old. A few
days before Miss Enginge came to visit
the Tarkasei family. The man is said to !
have requested her to go back to New
York, whereupon she exclaimed that life |
was barren without him, and drawing a
revolver from her dress, she fired two
shots at him. One bullet took effect,
penetrating his chest below the collar
bone.
Attacked by Rat.
Henry O. Thatcher. an elderly man,
was attacked by large rat and severe
ly bitten, while walking along one of the
principal streets of Bellows Falls, March |
&c. He succeeded finally in knocking !
the rat from his person with an um-
brea and afterwards killing it with
stone, but not until the rodent had Bit
ten him on his leg and hands. AS Mr.. |
Thatcher was walking the rat ran past !
him and suddenly turned back and at !
tackled him yiciously, the old man being |
so surprised that he could not at first |
shake it of from his person. He went
to the office of a physician nearby and !
the wounds were dressed. The incident |
was witnessed by number of people !
who were unable to reach Mr.. Thatcher /
until he had been badly bitten
Scientific Lumber,ng.
The Rutland Railway Light and
Power Co., has contracted with Orel /
Johnson of Chttenden to cut 1000, 900
feet of hard and soft timber on the /
company's land adjoining its immense |
reservoir in Chittenden In order to get |
the necessary water rights the concern
had to buy thousands of acres of extra I
land and a late survey shows that it has
1900 acres of timber. The lumber is to /
be cut scientifically under the supervision /
OF the company's engineer. With view |
to conserving the small timber and pro-
tecting the watershed only trees eight |
inches or more in diameter, three feet |
above the ground, will be cut.
Vermont an Exception.
Comparison of bankruptcies for the |
first quarter of 1908 with the cores |
ponding three months last year shows |
that the large increase was well dis |
tributed throughout the nation, accord |
ing to R. G. Dunn & Co. In the New
England states liabilities increased over |
$2,000,000 while the number of failures
was 1853 more than in 1907. Every |
state except Vermont contributed
toward the increase in number OF fall
ures but practically all the excess of liza |
bilites occurred in Massachusetts.
There was small increase in Maine, |
New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Off
set by moderate decreases in Vermont
and Connecticut
VermOnter Nearly Lynched.
The timely arrival of the police with |
loaded rifles stopped what threatened
to be ynching in Brownsville, suburb
OF Atlanta, Ca, March 81. B. X. Chaplin,
young white man. was surrounded by
threatening crowd of colored men,
when two county officers came to his
aid and drove the mob back. The
negroes claimed they found the white
man in negroes house and dragged him
out, and, according to the police, were
about to suspend him from tree when
officers arrived. Chaplin came there
some time ago from Vermont and was
employed in local mill.
Fires in Vermont In 1907.
During the year 1907 there were
1883 fires in Vermont reported by the
various fire insurance companies doing
business in the state. The damage
amounted to $75O,762 The greatest
loss in any month was $9S,352, in
April Rutland county heads the list
with 1913 fires and damages of $122,-
lol The fire insurance risks written IN
ms state during the year were ST., 1877
251 as against $82, 661 ,149 in 1906,
Inc total business in Vermont OF fidelity