Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-27
New England Dispatches.
Buried Alive-PeaCe JubiIee-ImpOrtan
Decisions by the Connecticut Supreme
Court, etc,
MASSACHUSETTS.

MASSACHUSETTS,
BosTON, Sept 26.-Charles K Pierce of Lin.
erick, Me-, and VIM. A. Frye of Dracut, Mass,
were buried in a well they were digging, in
Dracut, to-day, and both killed.
A peace jubilee was held this evening" under
the auspices of the American peace society, in
honor OF the ratification of the Washington
treaty by the joint high commission, and also
in commemoration of the declaration of peace
between France and Prussia. A very large and
enthusiastic audience filled the hall. The ex-
ercises consisted of music, singing and adj
dresses, Rev. Howard Malcolm, D.. D., presid-
ing.
The opening address was delivered by Rev. ].
b. Miles, followed by Elihu Burritt, Hon. Anna
sa Walker, Rev. Drs. Peabody, Manning, Ha-
ven and Emery. The music was under the d-
rectlon OF Eugene Thager, organist, the Handel
and Haydn and Orpheus musical societies.
Messrs. West and Sawyer. The character Of
the addresses was looking forward to univer-
sal peace among all nations. Hon. Senator
wilson was announced, but was absent. The
meeting closed about ten O'Clock, a success in
every respect
MAINE.
BATH, Sept. pa man named Hughes, en-
ployed on the construction train on the Knox
and Lincoln railroad, fell under the cars this
afternoon, and was killed.
CONNECTICUT
HARTFORD, Sept. 26.-rhe United States cir
cult court for the district of Connecticut is now
in session in this city, Judges Woodruff and
Shpman on the bench. To-day, the Jury, in
the case of Mrs. Gay against the Union Mutual
life insurance company of Maine to recover
$4,000, the amount of policy on the life of her
husband, returned verdict for the full amount
with interest, amounting to $751; 40. Sheridan
Gay, the husband, shot himself on the cars, be-
tween this city and Providence in 1869. The
defence was that he deliberately committed
suicide, in consequence of extensive defalca-
1 hot tbo II
suicide, consequently the widow could not re-
cover. The plaintiff put in the plea of insanity
and introduced many witnesses showing his
previous condition. The arguments made were
among the ablesE ever heard at the bar in this
city.
Judge Woodruff, in the case Of the petition
of Seth Adams to be made party to the APP
pcatiOn of james Alden to put the Boston,
Hartford and Erie railroad into bankruptcy
has given an opinion, that the decision in the
court below, dismissing Adams petition, was
erroneous, and he also decides in effect that
as between the district courts of Connecticut
and Massachusetts, the latter is entitled to eX-
elusive jurisdiction over the estate of the bank
rupts, and over its administration. He holds
that the bankrupt act and rule No. 1G of the SUI
preme court require that a case like the pres
ent, where the bankrupts constitute one cOrpo-
ration, or two corporations having joint and
common interests with one set of cred
itors, who are alike interested in
the whole estate, the court whose
jurisdiction first attaches, by filing petition
and an adjudication thereon, retains and is to
exercise exclusive control over the adminstra-
ton of the bankrupt estate. 1t thus appears
that the district court of Massachusetts is to
have exclusive control, and all proceedings in
Connecticut must be suspended.
Judge Shipman has, with the concurrence of
Judge Woodruff, given an important opinion
with regard to the southern boundary of Con-
neeticut, that it extends to a straight line from
Fishers island to Lyons Point, including all the
islands contiguous to the Connecticut shore
within her limits. In view of this decision, Con-
necticut has jurisdiction over all, or nearly all,
the islands of the sound, west of Fishers island
and east of Lyons Point, and also all those be-
tween Fishers island and the Connecticut shore,
together with those east of Fishers island and
contiguous to the same shore. This opinion
shows that New York, except in one instance,
has never made any claim to the contrary, and
that claim was founded upon the construction
of the descriptive clause of the charter of Charles
H., to Connecticut, a construction which was
completely repealed by Connecticut and abandon.
ed by New York.