Worcester daily spy., 1872-04-17
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bhslON AND NlGlNlI1-
A prize fight. which was lust beginning to in
terest two or three hundred people in South Bos
ton was prevented by the police. The bruiserS ran
of and LETT their clothes, without telling theil
names
new hall. in Hanover street. Boston, was
dedicated the other evening by the independent
order OF Odd Ladies, says the Transcript. Ii Is
called Beaeon-Lisht hall. Rather singular, eh
Fifty thousand dollars of the $4,000 required
have been subscribed for the memorial edihce to
Theodore Parker in Boston.
The police Of Boston find that insanity IS
largely on the increase. For the year 1861 they
temporarily cared for ninety five of these unior-
tunatts, and for the year 1911 the number had
increased to 2S1. In view ofsthis increase the
chief asks that suitable provision be made by
the city for the temporary detention OF those IN
sane persons found by the police.
While workmen were unloading sand from
schooner A. L. Friend, at Knights wharf,
ChaTleStown, Monday morning, the platform
gave way, and dump car fell upon Charles
Blake, aged IS, James Cullen, 81, and Edward
Carney Is. They were all badly crushed Blake s
Lee was broken, Carney'S thigh was fractured,
aud both of Cullen's legs were broken.
In the superior criminal court at Boston, yes
terday, Ih0s. HeTty, the Maiden murderer, was
sentenced to confinement in the state prison
during the remainder of his natural life, the
first day TO be solitary confinement end the re-
mainder at hard labor He received the sen
tence apparently with the utmost indifference
jeremiah Shuckrew, for assault with knife on
Ciiy Marshal DTury, of Chelsea, was sentenced
10 three years Imprisonment in the house o
correction, and Chas. II. Dorus, alias Jack
Straw, for assuming to he an officer, was sen
fenced TO Imprisonment in the house of correc
ton Tor one year.
mDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Daniel Lawier, while under the influence OF
hquor, attempted 10 jump out of the third story
window of Wheelock's brick building, Lowell
at about one O'Clock Monday morning. Some
women saved him from falling out by catching
bold of one leo, aud shutting the window down
upon IT. Their cries brought some passeTS-by
10 their assistance, and be was rescued from his
perilous position and taken to the police sta
ton.
ESSEN COUNTY.
All the Gloucester fishing feet, with the eXcep-
ton OF the "Matchless" and Franklin Snow
which ale probably lost, have returned from the
Georges and the Grand bank. The losses for
the season now foot up five vessels and forty-
SIX lives, against seven vessels and twenty-SiX
lives, last season.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Monday afternoon the body of a man, appar-
emily about As years old, was feund floating in
Grab pond in the rear of the Fall River gas
works, by men employed there. .it is supposed
to be the body OF John McDonough, a soldier
who disappeared from here about nine months
ago.
DUKES COUNTY.
Burglars have pillaged thirty-siX cottages on
Inc old Vineyard Camp-ground and seven on
Oak Bluffs within two weeks
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The American whip company, at WeStfeld
manufactured 1000 dozen whips last month.
MAINE.
80 many cattle have been sold and killed i'm
the eastern section of the state that now beef is
transported from Brighton, Mass, TO Bangor.
Little, the murderer OF young While, now in
lhe state prison, was well satisfied with the ver-
dict in his case. Notwithstanding his desper-
are efforts TO kill himself at the time of the
n9omlcldei he seems TO have entertained great
fears of the gallOws.
Mr. Alexander Young was instantly killed
Monday, wheat WORK on Augustus Ritz's house,
IN Waldob0Io He had just deposited bundle
OF shingles on the staging under the caves when
me whole thing gave way, preciptating him to
the ground. He struck on his head and never
oreahed after. He was about sixty-6ye years
oi age, and leaves wife and two children.
VERMONT.
The st. Johnsbury Times appears in quarto
iolm.
The Brooks house, new hotel. lust erected at
Bratueboro, cost S125OO0
CONNECTICUT.
A new lodge of Daughters Of Rebekah was in.
stIiuted al Lyme, Saturday evening.
The members OF the class of 1912 of Trinity
college are TO have a reunion in Hartford on
wednesday, July 10Th, the day before the next
commencement.
A. c. Wilcox laid United States bond, worth
S5I5, and 500 bill in straw bed, for safe
Keeping. In his absence, his wife supposing
the money had been removed, emptied the straw
OF the bed in a back yard and his boy made a
bonhle OF It, consuming straw and money!
A cruel Meriden lady keeps an Usage orange
plant in her parlor, and has recently made two
full-blown flowers and one-half opened bud of
white wax and placed them upon the barren
plant. All her callers admire the sweet smell
ing fraud, while several gentlemen have OBJ
served that the halfblown bud has opened con
slderably since they first called