Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-02
New England Dispatches.
MIR. EarIe's Bail Fixed at S13,OOO-An
Unknown Man Commits Suicide in n
Car-Sudden Death, etc.
MASSACHUSETTS.

MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, May 1.-Thomas Earle, of Worces-
Ter arrested Yesterday Tor attempting to kidnap
the children from his divorced wife, was held TO
bail, in Salem, to day, in S13, 900. Clifford, his
accomplice, was held in $4,000.
The boot mandatory of Fowler & Bagg and
NJ. Z. Bagg, in HolliSton, was burned last nirbt
including 27O0 boxes Of finished boots Partially
insured.
Charles H. Davis has been appointed master
of the Suffolk house of correction, in place of
Charles Robbins, deceased.
LOWELL, May NO deaths from small pox
in this city last week. Marcus Woodbury.,
hack driver, died this morning and was imme.
diately buried. He was seized with the small
poX about week ago,
AT a spirited meeting of the Massachusetts
total abstinence society in Huntington hall, last
evening, about two hundred signatures were
added to the pledge.
SPRINGFIELD, May 1.-Holyoke voted to-day
to buy twenty thousand dollar lot, and build a
town hall thereon al a cost of S125100.
MAINE,
BANGOR, May 1.-William Low, the well
known market man, died suddenly this morn
ing of congestion of the lungs.
BANGOR, Nav 1.-Elbridge Reed, of Midway
arrested and discharged for want of evidence.
last fall, on suspicion Of numbering John Raw
of that place, who disappeared last September,
and whose body was afterwards found Secreted
on an island has been rearrested, and, after ex-
,
in August next. He was accused by the de-
ceased of improper intimacy with his wife, and
she is supposed to be implicated in the affair,
The house, barn and Outbuildings of Edward
Carter, of Stetson, with contents, were burned
this evening, the family barely escaping with
their lives. Loss $4,000; insured for Si2O0.
The Unitarian society, this city, has voted
unanimously to extend call to Rev. Arthur
May Knapp, OF Providence, R. l., to become
their party.
CONNECTICUT.
NORWICH, May IAN unknown Irishman
was found dead in an empty freight car at VIII
hmantic, this morning, with bottle of lauda-
mum by his side. He had beep heard TO COM
plain of beng out of work coroner's verdict.
suicide.
HARTFORD, May 1.-Charges were TODAY pre-
ferred against Chief of Police Chamberlin of this
city, for writing an indecent letter to a woman
in Norwich, and the chief is called upon to an
swer at hearing before the police commission
ers on the 18th inst.
John, Joseph and James Forsyth, brothers.
were arrested in Tariffyile to-day, by Sheriff
Russell of this city, charged with passing coun-
terfeit money. Joseph gave bail in $3.50 to ap.
pear at the United States court. The Others
went to jail. They are desperate characters.
Two OF them were previously under bonds to an
swer to charges of various depredations in
TariffVille and vicinity. One of them shot a
man few months ago, but got clear on a plea
OF self-defence. They were armed with loaded
revovers when arrested but were shackled by
the officers before they could make serious re-
sistance.
RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE, May 1.-Rufus Waterman died
in Woonsocket yesterday in consequence of
being struck by block thrown by a circular
saw saturday in the carpentry where he worked.