Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-09
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MAINE.
Patrick Kelly died in Portland on the 7th
from injuries received IN an affray with Michael
McGrath.
The schooner Romp of Quebec from New
York, went ashore on Sail Rock on Saturday
and will be total loss.
The opening of the extension of the Ports
mouth, Great Falls and Conway railroad to Os-
Sipee Corner, the shire town of Carroll county.
was celebrated on the It'll. The train LEAVING
Boston with the Pullman express, reaeh he'd n
sipee at one O'Clock, and was welcoIr al nv q
Dlast rom the whistle al Beachsm's mills and
salute OF artillery. The oflr> ei .i ~
were escorted in decorate 1T ol tue p roau
River hotel, where d. d charlot 10 the rlhe
There was ano-' Inter was serVeu. ,,.
the Seyer Id on Monday morning, the It'll, at
Tho +, a Mile Brook station, in Vassalboro
" leight train was behind time, but stopped
- wood up, when the mixed train ran into it..
Three cars were badly smashed, one man badly
scaded, one had an arm broken, and one lady
had a leg broken. Still another disaster oc-
Cured on the same road in the forenoon. The
regular morning freight train from Skowhegan,
consisting of fifteen freight cars, one saloon and
one passenger car, had arrived at Getchell's
Corner, Vasselboro, and was watering, when q
wood tram came along from the rear, and ran
into the freight train, entirely demolishing the
passenger car and tearing in pieces the upper
works Of the engine The saloon car was filled
with cattle drovers, who were on their way tC
Brighton. None Of these were injured. The
passenger car, which was in the rear, contained
about hiteen passengers, and the following are
among the casualties: G. p Wadsworth, mer
chant OF Boston, was scalded badly in the face
andihAnds; Eli French of Kendall's Mills had one
loot severely crushed; VIM Williams of Skow.
hogan was slightly scalded; Mrs Levi Usher M
Waterville received a bruise on the knee. Hon
Thomas S. Lang Of Augusta in attonoY, 49,, 80
rescue the lady, received some bruises abo,,t ~
left thigh. The railroad company Will ;,',,aS w
gate the matter at once
NEW HAMPSHIRE
On the 9Th an lrishman named Lara Wil,,..-
employed as teamster for Geo Phelns - ao.si
lessy attempted to cross the Worcester az or y
Nashua railroad, at Nashua ahead OF an ' aT
preaching Shifting" train and the resuIt We,
q collision in which Willitts received a broke,
arm.
Mr.. Isaac s. Marcy, who has been a resden
Of Nashua good many years, committed sui
eide in that city last Saturday night, by takn
an ounce of laudanum. Mr. Marcy was the In
ventor OF the soapstone hair curler now in gen
eral use, aud concerning which he had boz
rowed considerable trouble because of the CLAIM
OF another man to the same idea. This, togett
81 WIN summary discharge from the Frances
town soapstone works, SO wrought unon III
mind that lac was gloomy and despondent Sal
urday afternoon and told his wife that he sboml
never ask Tor employment again She reasone
with him as best she could aud finally went :
the company's works hoping TO gel him re;r
stated During her absence be procured IN
laudanum- The fatal dose was taken M e,gb
O'Clock, and although everything was done t6a
medical aid could suggest he died al thre
O'Clock sunday morning. He was NOT "a
from hfty-fye years Of age, =