St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-04-26
VERMONT NEWS


Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
one of the buildings of the F. r. Patch
Mfg company at Rutland on Wednes-
day The plant has been used for the
manufacture of munitions for the al
lies. The lives of 100 or more men
were endangered by the explosion of
large tank containing oil for use in
tempering shells. The damage,
amounting to $4,000 is well covered
by insurance. The company will re-
build at once.
Rutland had a case of kidnapping
Thursday when two young Italians
tried to carry off a 17-year-old girl,
Mary Corsa. in broad daylight. She
had at one time kept company with
one of the youths who escaped by
jumping from the taxi when they
realized they were pursued.
Veranus .. Kirby of Swanton, SO
years old, died at the hospital at st.
Adams Apr. FL. He was found near
the railroad track at West Swanton
Apr. Is in a badly injured condition.
1t was thought he had been struck by
a train.
Miss Theresa Moore of Randolph,
so years old, committed suicide Apr
20, by cutting her throat with a butch
er knife. Several years ago she at
tempted suicide by taking poison. She
was in comfortable circumstances.
Ground was broken at Windsor
Thursday for a new machine shop by
Frank L. Cone. The shop will be 100
by 60 feet and will employ 100 men
at the start. The firm will manufac-
ture a new and larger automatic
lathe.
Roland Johnson of Rutland, a stu
dent at the university of Vermont, has
been arrested for manipulating worth
| less bank checks. The checks were
all on the Howard bank and for COM
paratively small amounts.
Fire, the origin of which was un-
known, destroyed the sugar house and
equipment Of A. L. Boisvert at Derby
April IS, causing a loss of $1,000.
About 700 pounds of maple sugar
were destroyed along with new evap-
orator.
Frank 7. Rodliffe, a Burlington
electrician, was killed on Apr. IT as
the result Of inhaling gaseous fumes
while at work in an electric light
plant at a summer home in Grand
Isle. His assistant, who was found
unconscious with him, will recover.
The men were recharging the storage
batteries of the light plant
! Mrs. E. j. Ormsbee of Brandon
wife of ex-Gov. Ormsbee, died Apr. 1S
She is survived by her husband, one
daughter, a sister and three brothers
The state forestry department has
deed of 800 acres of land in Wor-
cester adjoining the land given by the
Putnams to the state last year and will
plant 10000 trees this spring, most
ly Norway spruce. The state now
Of
Maurice Gray of Barre, eight years
old, was drowned Apr. II while fish
ing in a brook. He and his brother
had been throwing stones at an cleo
trio light globe floating in the water
and in his ardor to hit it the lad wad-
ed into the water until it was too deep
for him.
Henry w. Putnam, Jr.. of New York
has given Bennington 100000 for the
erection of the Putnam Memorial hos
pitaI Three years ago Mr.. Putnam's
father gave Il magnificent water works
system to the city, the proceeds to be
used to build and maintain hospital.
The system cost from $250,0OO to
100000 and in three years time has
yielded $4,000. Anything left after
building the hospital will be used for
maintenance of the institution.
tered Holstein stock at Bellows Falls
Apr. IS. The highest price paid was
$3.50 for a four-year-old COW.
The Bethel tannery is to be enlarged
and the present force of workmen
doubled provided the town will vote
to exempt them from taxation. There
are now on the way to the tannery
from Europe 10000 raw hides and
so 900 hides for sole leather All are
horse hides and over so per cent of
them come from the battlefields.
Vergennes is planning to celebrate
next July, the 150th anniversary of
the settlement of Vergennes. This
date will commemorate the first trip
to the falls of the river by Donald Nc
Intosh who came as a spy in the in
terest of Col. Reed who held the New
York grants to this territory.
In 10 states, poultry food firm Of
fered for the best-kept records with
best total figures for the past year
81, 900 in gold, the contestants to feed
their poultry feed exclusively. The
first prize in each state was $50 in
gold. Mrs. A. S. Foster of East Mont