St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-02

broken. On June Il he was tipped
out Of a wagon at the Bethel granite
quarry sustaining injuries from
which he was just recovering.
Rutland has had second hold-ur
when Perley Spafford was accosted
Wednesday by a man who first asked
for a match and then demanded
money. Spafford went into store
saying he would give him money on
his return, called the police station,
and the man. Mann by name, was
arrested after struggle.
The town of Bakersfield has been
suffering from a scarcity of water and
has now purchased some springs and
will install a water system.
A receiver has been appointed for
the White Cross milk factory in Ran
dolph For some time the farmers
have been troubled by its failure to
pay but the help has been paid. The
farmers are said to be owed some
$40, 900.
Montpelier has voted to expend
$1,000 for new fire apparatus and
fire alarm system
Alvin Ball was arrested in Burling-
ton last week for failure to pay his
board bill ar the Hotel Sherwood, and
proved to have only three cents in his
pocket.
The creamery of +. w. Draper at
North Sheldon was burned to the
ground July IS. Loss $4,000 with
1900 insurance.
Grin w. Sumner of Rutland was
electrocuted on July "A when he
grasped a telephone wire which had
crossed a power wire carrying 2,300
volts He was the father OF seven
children under 16.
Bosile Desmarais of Montreal and
his brother Mark of Rutland net for
the first time in 40 years last week.
Bosile left Rutland in 1855 and lived
in the west until a few years ago
when he came to Montreal to live
with his 84-year-old twin brother.
The body of a newborn male child
was fished out of the Connecticut riv-
er at White River Junction last week.
There were no clothes or any marks
by which the child might be identi-
fed.
Philip Messier is in Franklin
county Jail charged with pushing
Kermit Murray, seven years old,
against q sink and fracturing his
skull with fatal results.
The large farm buildings at Bar
ton owned by Charles H. Chase of
Chicago and occupied by his brother,
Levi, were burned with all the tools
and the household goods of the care
taker on July "a. The loss was 3d.
500, insurance $4,000.
John Turley and Frank Primavera
of Barre have been indicted charged
with the murder of John McAuley on
July II. Both are 9uarrymen. Tur-
ley is unmarried ami Primavera has a
wife and child.
William Leonard, alias Delisle,
who held up City Engineer Grover of
Rutland on July IL, has been SEN
fenced to not less than Ia nor more
than Is years at Windsor. He has
already served two or three terms at
the state prison.
The 38th annual reunion of the
Sth Vermont Regimental association
will be held at Dewey Park, Mont
pelier. August Is, at the invitation
of the Washington County Veterans
association which holds it's annua.
encampment at that time The bust
ness meeting will be held at p. M.
and campfire in the evening.
Two men, Ezra Duffy, aged %,
and Thomas Lessard, aged "a, both
unmarried, were instantly killed at
the McIver and Mathieson quarry at
Barre Thursday when a derrick fell
under the strain of a piece of granite.
1t is not known whether they were
killed by blows from the derrick
sticks or from the whirling of the
steel guy rope.