Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-31
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Some months ago a gentleman in Boston
failed in business, owing one Boston firm,
among other creditors, the sum of $4,000.
One of the members of the firm obtained a
policy of insurance on the life of the debtor,
whose recent death has fully cancelled the
debt
The annual communication of the grand
lodge of Free Masons of Massachusetts for the
installation Of officers was held on Thursday
last. Henry Goddard of Worcester and Dan.
iel w. Taft OF Blackstone were designated dep
uty grand masters of their respective districts.
.MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The Marlboro and Feltonville railroad have
declared dividend of II per cent. on their
earnings Tor the past year-which is very
encouraging exhibit for the stockholders.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Some time ago a sexton in Plymouth in
sweeping the meeting house, found 500 bill.
One Of the deacons claimed ii, and the two
are now engaged in a law suit for its pos
session.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
On Monday evening, Oath inst, screams
were heard ON Potter's Mountain, near Pitts
field, which were supposed to be the screams
Of a panther. The next morning the dead
body of Matilda Bedonough, a woman of fee
Bile intellect, and partially dependent on the
tO"ij AOuhN IN eilOl NilCliCC illt III
came.
John Wheeler of Lee, an Engishman aged
about CD, died very suddenly on Sunday eve
ming, oath ult, after race with some girls
Select Hall of Sheffield got choked with Il
piece of meat, at dinner on the 18th, and ex-
pired in half an hour.
Rev. DR.. Gale OF Lee was run away with
last Sunday by his horse taking fright lie
was bruised on the head, and received an I'M
clerical black eye, while his sleigh was smash
ed to fragments.
MAINE.
The only son. ten years old of James Nun.
son, was drowned at East Macnns on Christ
mas day, by his foolish venturesomeness in
skating as near the edge of the ice as possible
His agonized mother viewed his death strug-
giles.
The shoe business of Auburn, which has
| in prosperous years reached 100000 more
than one fourth OF that sum being paid for
the workmen's wages, is now virtually sus-
pended.
VERMONT.
| Daniel Carruth, aged II, died at East Rut-
| land Nov. 20, and his wife Betsev the next
day, aged "A. 1t is n curious coincidence that
they were married on Thanksgiving day in
1910, and the hymenial bond remained unbro.
ken for precisely half a century, during all Of
which time they were residents of the same
village.
Several members of II thoroughly organized
gang Of thieves whose operations have been
most Eextensive in the northern counties OF
Vermont have recently been arrested and the
gang broken up. They kept joint stock
books, showing the amount Of plumber each re-
ceved
The flannel factory of Wells & Herren, at
Watervle was burned on the 22d, throwing
40 or 80 hands out OF work, and in6icdng Il
heavy loss on the proprctors, who had recent.
ly repaired and enlarged the establishment.
coNEECTfCUT.
Ward Nichols, conductor on the N. Y. and
New Haven railroad, fell from the platform of a
car, Thursday, and was badly cut and bruis-
ed. lie had just time and presence of mind
to draw his feet from the track when the pom.