Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-27
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CITY NEWS.


The voting on the beer question is to rake
sDlace next Saturday.
The Providence and Worcester railroad COM
pany has declared dividend of five per cent.
Colonel John D. Washbum and Mr.. Stephen
salisbury, Jr are among the marshals of the
alumni for commencement day at Cambridge.
Edward Gouly had diary containing thirty
pr forty dollars, stolen from a pocket in his
,oat at NELSON'S shoe shop last Thursday.
Anna Shay, little girl living on Cross
treet, fell from wagon while playing yesterday,
aud broke her right arm. Her injuries were at
Etended to by DR.. Hubon.
The closing of soda fountains on Sunday was
not the result of interference by either state or
ocal police, but, as a friend remarked, owing to
"a war among the medicine men themselves"
x A Mrs. Gleason, of Rutland, was Frustrated
i6y sunstroke yesterday while shopping, and was
,arried in the drug store of Skinner & Son,
where, by proper treatment, she was restored
sufficiently to be taken home in a carriage.
Careless blasting at the corner Of Main and
Norwood streets, yesterday, threw fragments of
rock of size sufficient to kill whatever it struck,
man or beast, into the street, and distance of
thirty rods Or more, into the lot beyond.
A woman named Helen Reed, who was ar
rested for drunkenness, attempted to hang her.
self in a cell at the station house, ON Sunday,
but was not permitted to do so. A desire to
dash her brains out against the side of the cell
also remains ungratifed.
Ellis's confectionery store on the corner of
Park and Salem streets, was broken into Sun
day night by breaking light of glass in the
twest end of the building. About three dollars
in money was stolen and a lot of candy. Don
aldson's, on Park street, was broken open the
same night, and some candy stolen therefrom.
Rev. John Allen, of Maine, better known as
( "Camp-meeting John Allen" preached in the
Trinity Methodist church Sunday evening" He
us right from the Methodist camp meeting in
Salt Lake city, and gave a most interesting adj
dress.
Commodore George Smith Blake, retired U.
5. naval officer, who died very suddenly at Long
wood last Saturday, of apoplexy, was born in
Worcester in 1903, served in the Mexican war;
and became in 1857 superintendent of the United
States naval academy at Annapolis. He was
made commodore in 1862.
We would call the attention of those in
teTested in manufacturing to DIR. Henry G.
Davis new loom, now on exhibition at the
Mesrs, Bakers new building, corner Foster
and Union streets. We understand that this
is new loom, combining all the improvements
introduced by DIR, Davis, and is capable of run
niny at very high speed.
The annual examination of the senior and
mil oil nFt A
will take place next Thursday morning, to be
followed by the graduating exercises at two
O'Clock P. NJ. The review and drill, and dress
parade of the Cadets, will be held at halfpast
four o'clock All the exercises of the day will
be public, and all persons interested will be well
come.
The Salem street church, now undergoing re-
pairs, is the heaviest building which has been
raised up entire from its foundation in this city.
1t measures about ninety-ive feet by sixty-five,
and its estimated weight is about 1900 tons. 1t
is being elevated ten feet to make way for more
convenient quarters for the lvestry. C. K. Bah
cock is the mover. The estimated weight of
the old high school building, about to be re-
moved to the opposite side of Walnut street, is
about 800 TONS
Mr.. VIM. Mitchell, who lost an arm while en-
gagged in firing an artillery salute on the com
mon last spring, desires us to express his thanks
to the many friends who have so generously
contributed to the pecuniary relief of himself
and family during his illness. In addition to
the sums heretofore reported as having been pre-
scented him, subscription among his brother
machinists in the various shops has realized the
sum of $3.50, which has been placed in bank to
his credit, and his felow-workmen at Court
mills have also presented him purse of $780,
The secondary schools will be examined to-
day as mentioned below: