Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The first annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Bank Of Mutual Redemption was held
in Boston, Friday. To this time the bank has
paid its expenses and earned $4,000 besides
the surplus, however, has been entirely alb
sorbed by losses. Of the losses 81 400 was in
counterfeit money taken in bills on the Bright
OH Market Bank 1000 lost supposed to have
been stolen, in the foreign money department,
$4,000 held against the Warwick Bank by
means of alleged fraud. The old Board of
Directors was chosen, with the exception of
Francis NJ. johnson of Quincy, in place of
Charles Francis Adams, resigned.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Herman B. Blake of Franklin, whose barn
was destroyed by fire one night last week, and
who was badly burned in his efforts to save
his stock, died from the effect of his injuries
on "Wednesday night last after enduring a
week OF circulating pain.
Daniel Flynn, laborer employed to clean
out well of Nathan ID. Conant, in Roxbury,
was, on Thursday, buried by the cavng in of
the walls, thirty feet below the surface Peo-
pie were attracted to the spot, and hearing his
voice below, imploring relief commenced
clearing out the well with great assiduity, and
after nine hours labsr succeeded in taking
HIM out alive, and with no bones broken.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Before the Superior Court for Plymouth
County, last week, Judge Russell gave de-
cision denying the jurisdiction of Justices of
the Peace, in cases where the defendant is
charged with being common seller of intoxi-
eating liquors. Fanny Burns had been indict-
ed on such charge and the jury returned
verdict of guilty. The Court ordered judy
ment to be arrested, and the defendant dis
charged.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At Beverly, on Monday, William Galaxy.
while intoxicated, stabbed David Lynch in the
abdomen, infiicting dangerous wound His
recovery is doubtful. Galaxy is under arrest.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
In the Superior Court in session at Lowell
Thursday, Heinrich Bona, the party arrested
in Charlestown last summer for passing coun-
terteit half dollars at various stores on Main
street, pleaded guilty to an indictment, and
was sentenced TO seven years hard labor in
State Prison.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Berkshire Eagle states that the store of
Harvey Cole, in Williamstown, which was
destroyed by fire with its contents, Tuesday
morning, contained the Town Hall, Police
Court room, &C., with which all the records of
the town, the records of personal mortgages,
&C., were destroyed. Loss, 1900. Insured
in a Worcester office for $3000 The house of
Rev. EX-Protessor Griffin, situated near the
store, caught fire, and was injured to the
amount of SS00-insured for 81 800. By the
Jealous efforts of the college students, Prof.
Griffin's valuable library and all his furniture
was saved.
CONNECTICUT.
The Rockville Horse Show closed Wednes-
day, and among the premiums awarded were
tho f,ll (l,, .
I'd Of SO to L. c. Truesdale of Warren, Mass;
four in hand, LIST premium of $50 to Nathan
Washbun Of Worcester; trotting horses in
harness, lst premium of $40 to L. C. Trues-
dale of Warren.
Curtis Dart, arrested for the murder of Mrs.
Lorana Wood, at Warren, has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree, and SEN
fenced to the State Prison for life. The case
will go to'the Court of Errors
Four sons OF Connecticut have recently died
in Ohio-at Medina, 14th inst, Judge Noah
M. Brenson aged SO, native of Plymouth
at Cleveland, 18th inst, Hon. Jonathan Inger-
soil Todd, native of New Haven, who has
been a member of the Ohio Senate and Super
intendent of the United States Marine Hospi-
tai at Cleveland at Hudson, Ohio, 18th inst
Elisha Ellsworth and his wife Elizabeth, each
aged 70, who moved from this State in 1911;
aged go, native of New London.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Albany Argus says ''the milkmen of
Syracuse had a ball at the VOORHEES, House
Tuesday evening, in which the milkmen of
Rochester and other places united. The at
fair was drawn mild, and the cream of the Joke
was t at almost all the ladies wore sky-bue
silk dresses. In the dance some of the milk
maids skinned along the floor with much
grace, while others bodied up and down like
a churn-hande. One of the young ladies
present declared the scene was heavenly
meaning, we suppose, that it was i'll the milky
way"
The president of one of the largest banks in
New York city, recently, called to his presence
clerk filling responsible post in the bank,
and inquired Of him where he had spent the
previous evening. The clerk, in great con-
fusion, acknowledged that he had frcquented
place not altogether reputable, whereupon the
president notified him that his services were
not required another hour. The examination
into the private conduct of this young man
was induced by the discovery of deficiency
of $500 in his accounts, which was not salts
tactorily explained.
About $4,000 worth of property" passed
through Rochester on Saturday evening, on
the underground railroad. Arrived in Cana
da, the property" was metamorphosed into a
dozen smart young men and women.
Two young girls, named Mcdonnell living
in Carrigthornhill, near Cork, ireland, are be-
lieyed to be the only rightful heirs to Senator
Broderick's estate, and information has been
sent to them accordingly. They are his cou-
sins. The two claimants in California are sec
ond cousins The estate amounts to some
100000
Little Tommy = is five years old. He
was i'll musing mood the other day, and his
mother asked him what he was thinking
about, ooh, said he, 81 was thinking of old
timeS!'