St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-16


the statute. The case will be held
open until the middle of September
while the prosecution is considering
the advisability of another trial.
VERMONT NOTES.
Luigi Scothella, an Italian en-
ployed by the Rutland railroad, was
seriously stabbed by his assistant,
whose name could not be learned,
Wednesday morning, August 9,
about seven o'clock. The wielder
of the knife Immediately fed and
and has not yet been found.
The Burlington Free Press states
that a well known doctor in Ram
dolph, over 80 years old, was never
shaved by a barber. Friends of
Isaac Aldrich, of Burke, state that
once he was shaved by an uncle of
his wife and ever since, though 81
years old, he has shaved himself.
James Prouty, aged IL, and his
sister Katherine, aged IA, were
drowned in the Connecticut river at
Windsor, August 8. The two chill
dren with companion, Helen
Spaulding, had been swimming for
two afternoons with the use of water
wings. They swan out into a deep
place and lost control of themselves
and before help could arrive the two
children were drowned.
A fire on Prospect Hill, st. AL
bans, August SO, though not an
alarming one, has done much dam
age in the way of burning large
trees and destroying much fine lum-
Der.
| George Meyhew of Winooski still
lives although he tried to commit
suicide by hanging twice inside of
5 minutes. He was caught and the
rope taken away from him. 1t is
thought that he had had consider
able trouble with his wife.
| A huge mammoth hay warehouse
is being constructed in st. Adams
by the F. w. Lipe company of To-
ledo, Ohio. The contract has been
granted to P. E. Sullivan & Co., for
| SIS, 700. The work is to be rushed
in order that it may be used for this
seasons crop, and it is expected that
other buildings of the same kind
will be erected later.
Frank Norton, a farmer in Addi-
son, is in search of his 15-year old
son who ran away August 8th. The
boy had recently made an acquain-
lance with another boy that has just
school, and it is thought that he in
duced Raymond to try his fortune
in some larger place than the farm.
Vito Montemorra, a laborer in
Rutland was shot five times and
killed by Ernak Romeo who had
been laying for him some time as
Romeo found Montemorrasz in the
room of his wife. Romeo was cap
tured but not until he emptied his
38-caliber revolver into the crowd
though it did no damage.
| During the electric storm, August
9Th, the lightning struck the barns
of E. A. Clark on the road between
Berkshire and Berkshire Center
burning them to the ground.
A forest fire at Winooski on
Shipman's hill burned over about $50
acres of land when so men got to-
gether and plowed the land in front
of the fire and stopped it.
The Rutland Railway, Light and
Power company will build dam SO
| feet high and over 100 feet long, in
the lower gorge on the Mill river in
Clarendon. The Clarendon Power
company is also making plant that
will cost 100000, and there will be
much competition.
E. H. Fitzhugh has been elected
president of the Central Vermont
railway and it is the opinion of a
large majority of people that from
this the Central Vermont railway
will develop into a large railroad
with double track system running
into Boston.
Eugene Corron, a 15-year old boy
was drowned August 8th, on the
Burlington side of the WinooSki
river in water barely over his head.
The boy stepped on stone and fell
into this small hole and was unable
to extricate himself.
Edison Wiley of Mortified has
been sentenced to 8 months and
not more than two years in the
house of correction for open and
gross lewdness. He has caused con-
siderable excitement in Mortified as
this was the place of the crime.
A 12-year old boy named Guyette
had a narrow escape from drowning
at the steamboat landing at ST. Al
bans August 9th. He was in swim
ming and got beyond his depth and
after going under several times he
was rescued by Louis Rich who
plunged off the dock and saved him.
1t is expected that the Fanny Al
len hospital will be opened to visi-
tors again by the middle of this
week. There have been four cases
of smallpox there which have
caused no small amount of worry.
A $1,000 fire caused from the ex-
ploding of lantern in the Burling-
ton Rendering Company situated