Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-26
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY


The Committee on the State House, deem
ing 1t necessary to preserve the exact location
of the rod on its top, for the benefit of all the
trangulations in the vicinity, ordered, before
the old dome was removed to give place to the
present new one, that the rod should be care
tg etfa e a gpaee paSasa 6a Il d1 6ech in
pied. This was one of the main points in the
triangulation of the State by Simon Borden in
1914.
The Gazette announces the failure of Messrs.
Blakes & Kingsley, engaged in the trade of
woollen goods, on Water street, Boston. Their
liabilities are said to be over 100000.
Mr. John Friend, of Somerville, was seized
in fit in State street, and conveyed to the
Massachusetts Hospital, where he died Satur-
day afternoon.
ESSEX COUNTY
A lady in Lynn stuck cambria needle in
her foot eleven years ago, and it has just come
out as bright and sharp as when it was first
lost 1t has caused her no Inconvenience, and
the wonder is where it has been all the time.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The citizens of Lexington are taking steps
to construct new and costly monument
which shall commemorate the battle of Lex.
ington.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
| Frank P. Cummings, aged seven years, son
of Mr.. Solomon Cummings, is supposed to
have been drowned in Assonet river. He was
missing Friday evening about dark, and was
last seen getting into boat. His hat was
found in the water. Efforts were made to re-
cover the body, but without avail Mr.. Cum
mings Is absent in Canada.
RHODE ISLAND.
Thursday night! Albert A. Thornton, who
has for half dozen years past been keeper of
the Washington Trotting Park, while in fit
of insanity, escaped from the man who was
watching him at his residence on the Pawtux-
ct turnpike, and fled from the house. Up to
Friday evening no trace Of him had been dis
covered.-Providence Post
CONNECTICUT.
Shocking Accident-Warr Shepard, lad
of 16 years, lost his life, last Thursday, at
Sharp's Rifle Factory in Hartford under the
following painful circumstances. He was
new hand, and was engaged in removing the
loaded rifle barrels short distance to place
where they were tested. In some unaccount-
able manner fire was communicated to several
of the barrels, which event off" discharging
their contents in the head and body of young
Shepard, and instantly killing him. One ball
entered his abdomen, passing upward through
his chest and head, one traversed his right arm
to the shoulder, and Others entered his head,
scattering his brains over the entire apartment
and its occupants. Pieces ofhis skullwere blown
into Mr.. Fnney's cheek with such force that
they could only be extracted by means of pin
GERS. A young man named j. Bradley, who was
standing beside the deceased at the time, in a
STOPPING posture, received one of the balls
through his cap, which must have killed him
had he been erect This is the third death in
this establishment since it has been in opera
ton. Of the other two one was Of black
smith, who was holding chisel upon a bar
of cold steel for the striker to operate upon.
The man suddenly, and apparently without
cause, fell lifeless to the floor. He never
spoke. Upon lifting him. and opening his
shirt, small red spot was discovered upon the
left breast, and post mortem examination
showed that a very minute particle of steel,
stricken by the hammer, had penetrated be-
tween the ribs and pierced his heart. The
other was unlacing belt. He was eft-hand-
ed, and was using an awl, when his hand slip
ped, and the awl pierced his heart. He tore
open his shirt, crying, 81 am stabbed y and,
falling, died in very few moments.
ford Courdm.
The Maine Lar in COnnectcm.-An action of
trover, to recover the value of certain liquors
seized in Hartford by constable, has just been
tried before Judge Ingersoll in the United
States District Court. The plaintiffs were A.
& L. Clark of the city of New York. Under
the ruling of the Court, that the process was
defective under which the liquors was seized,
the jury returned verdict for the amount
claimed, nearly $4,000. A suit of like char
acter is pending against the same defendant to
recover for liquors taken at another seizure.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The Philadelphia correspondent Of the Bati-
more American says that Judge Clawson, the
representative in Congress from the Camden
district, is lying seriously i'll at. his residence
/ la AZ. ~
ed at the National Hotel, Washington, from
the effects of which he has never fully recoy-
] cred.