St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-03-10

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within 40 rods of Silloway's doorvard
The boys were under the load Is min.
uteS.
Dllespondent and i'll, Howard H. Has
can returned to Rutland, his native CITY,
March 4 after an absence of two years
ana ended his life by shooting. He was
= and the son of George NJ. Hascall, a
Rutland .Jeweler. Recently the young
man had been employed at Stamford,
Conn, and had also worked at various
places in New York state George Cox.
cab driver discovered the BODY beside
stone wall short distance from the rail-
road station. Hascall had shot himself
through the heart. A revolver was living
beside the body. A letter in his pocket
stated he had become respondent from
continued i'll health. He was about 81
years old and had been away from home,
except tor brief visits, about two years.
Hiram P. Dee of St. Adams has been
arrested by Chief of Police John F.
Mahoney on complaint that Dee while
acting as public officer presiding at one
OF the polling places at the election will
fully attempted to defeat the object of
the election by diverting the ballots from
the box to his person. He was arraign-
ed in the city court before Judge N. N.
Post, waived examination, and was held
in the sum of $500 for his appearance at
the March term of the Franklin county
court. Bail was furnished by Ernest H.
Lewis. Under the statute upon which
this complaint. is based, the only penalty
upon conviction is the imposing of fine
of $500.
The sixth annual meeting and dinner
OF the Vermont Alumni Association Of
Norwich University will be held at the
Mortified House, Mortified, Friday
evening. These meetings have been
larger and more enthusiastic from year
to year, and there is every indication
that this one will be the best in the his
tory of the association. Many plans for
the future are to be talked out, and the
new course in craftsmanship will be given
special attention. DR.. c. H. Spooner,
president of the college, Captain Chap
man, and members of the faculty will be
present. Music will be furnished by the
University Glee Club Quartette.
The Montpelier school commission.
ers have recommended the erection of a
new high school building at the earliest
possible date, the building to be large
enough to accommodate 400 pupils
They recommend that the building be
erected of red brick and that it cost, ex-
Guiding the site, from $4,000 to 500.
600. They recommend that the city be
authorized to bond for 100000, and
furthermore that no land now controlled
by the school board is suitable as site
Robert A. Glynn of North Springfield
who, February 25, shot himself after
killing his wife died February % from
his wounds. Glynn was aretired farmer
and village merchant and was u years
old. The double shooting followed the
repeated refusal of his wife, who had filed
a divorce libel against him, to return to
their home and live with him. The libel
made charges of intolerable severity
against Glynn.
Of19 deaths in Chelsea the past year,
two were infants still born, two were
men killed by accident and the Is re
naming were people whose ages ranged
from 63 to 90.
Joe Kocsos, Hungarian laborer EN-
ploved in the Vermont Marble CO.;
works at Proctor, was instantly killeC
March by the caving-in of sandpi
where he was working.
Senator Dillingham; finds that one
tenth of all the United States senators
are either descendants of Vermonters OF
were born in Vermont.