Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-03
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New Tasiana News Summary.

New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The reduction Of price by the journal to three
cents has been followed by the Traveller and
Transcript.
Vim. Il. Requa, who sustained severe injuries
at an oil refinery in East Boston about q month
since BY an iron still falling upon hun, and who
subsequently had one of his legs amputated,
died at the city hospital Saturday forenoon.
fire broke out Saturday evening in store
on Commercial street, occupied by WIN. u Bell
d Co, dealers in pork, lard, and ham. The
buil8ine was DESTROYED. Loss So, geo; covered
nv Insurance Bell 4 Go. lost $4,000; fully IN
snred.
ton last week. Of walking 104 consecutive hours,
between McFtrick and Taylor terminated at II
O'Clock and Is minutes, Saturday night, Nc
Ffrick winning BY one hour and twelve min
utes. Both men are in very bad condition.
Thomas A. Foster OF the firm of Foster &
leighton boat builders, died in Boston, Satur
day, from inhaling steam caused by a collision
with ferry boat, while experimenting in the
harbor with a new steam water boat, of which
he had charge.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Patrick Joyce, an employe in the yard of the
Merumack Print Works, while working with
gang Of men at some heavy laden coal cars,
Saturday morning, slipped and FELL two of the
wheels passing over and nearly disembow0lmg
him. He only survived a short time. He had
been engaged with this company for over fifteen
years, and was most industrious workman.
He leaves a widow and TWO children.
ESSEX COUNTY
A boy named Dorr, belonging in Ipswich, fell
from a hay team in Newbury on Saturday af-
ternoon, and the wheels passed over his body
He was taken up in dying condition.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Last Saturday evening a young man named
AT..TH IL H. 81 Ia q.
feed horse, a somewhat vicious animal. he
went into the stall with measure of corn on
the cob, and it is supposed was at once knocked
down by the horse, as when discovered nc was
lying under the horses feet, irampled IN the
most shocking manner. His head was under
The hind feet and his legs were beneath the
forward feet, and the horse, recently Shod, had
stamped the flesh off the young mans legs in
several places, had crushed in his teeth and
shockingly mutilated his face and body. There
is little hope OF his recovery
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The editor OF the Chatham Monitor acknowl-
edges the receipt of a remarkably long speei-
men of the 'bll fish," It's length is % inches
Its bill is A inches long. 1t tapers to the cX-
tent OF 81 inches. Each bill is armed with 100
long, sharp teeth, besides a myriad of smaller
ones
DUKES COUNTY.
All the public schools in Chilmark are now
closed, in consequence of the prevalence of a
severe type of the chicken pox in that town.
The Vineyard Gazette says Goldfish have not
been so plenty off the south side for many years
as they are this season. Mutton shoal appar-
emily swarms with them, and the boats average
fully one hundred per day each.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The inauguration of Prof. Paul A. Chad
bourne as president of Williams college will
take place on commencement day, Thursday
June p, at O'Clock.
MAINE.
A storm of hail the size of peas with heavy
thunder, passed over Bath Saturday afternoon.
Isabella L. RoOs, aged thirty-nine, wife of
George W. Rock, oil Parker's hotel, Phippsburg,
committed suicide last week by hanging. She
leaves seven children. Insanity was probably
the cause. f IS
A young woman named Mary Ann McCurdy,
belonging to Lubec, applied at house for lodg-
ings in ST. John, n. b., one day last week, and
was told that she might sleep in the room with
the little girls, where she went TO bed. In the
morning she was found dead but quite warm,
The coroner's jury discovered that the cause of
her death was excessive drinking.
Two dead bodies were brought from Boston,
Wednesday, that of an aged woman, destined
for Damariscotta, and that of young woman,
for Bath. A box containing a corpse and
having the Bath number on it was landed and
taken charge OF by the undertaken, and after the
necessary preliminarieS ii was taken to stht
cemetery for burial. There, a sister of the de
ceased insisted upon viewing the corpse and was
shocked 10 see that Of another and older person
1t afterwards proved to have been the one which
should have gone to Damariscotta
NEW HAMPSHIRE. Il a.y
The short supply of starch in the market has
induced the planting OF a third more land than
usual to potatoes in Coos county, to supply the
starch mills.
Charles L. Towne of Oxford committed sui
elde by drowning in the Connecticut river on
Friday evening, in fit of insanity. He was
about thirty-fye years old and leaves a Wife and
three children.
The new Cardiff giant" man has come to
grief, having been arrested in Dover and bound
over in $500 to appear at the next September
court for obtaining money under false pretenses
by showing the so-called petrlieation as a genu
inc article.
The New Hampshire papers saw that {
woman seventy-five DID,. who for fifteen year
has been an inmate of the Manchester aims
house, has just been removed by a son livin;
at the west, who, until recently, supposed hi
mother dead. She was placed in the poorhous
by wealthy son living in that vicinity
Quite an excitement took place on the 25tl
ut. at West Peterboro which came near result
ing in panic. About thirty individuals, boil
old and young, were attacked with severe vom
Ting, attended with considerable pain. Doc
tors were called, but could discover no cause
alter careful examination and inquiry, il was
found that all who had used in any manner
milk purchased that morning from the milkman
were in this condition. A sample of the milk
was Immediately sent to Boston for analyzation.
The milkman and one of his children are also
suffering from similar attack.
An injunction, issued by Judge Sargent, was
served on the directors of the Nashua and Ro.
chester railroad, Friday evening" in the interest
OF the advocates of the middle route restrain.
ing them from the collection of assessments aud
the transaction of business. A mandamus was
also served in favor of the directors declared
elected by L. j Melvin of Chester, on stock moi
counted, demanding the surveys, profile of the
road, and books of the CORPORATION, A hearino
will be had on the injunction in Manchester on
the ith inst, and on the mandamus at Exeter
on the 2lst. The contracts for building the road
were TO have been closed to-day, and all who
have the interests of the city at heart arc in,
dlgnant at the attempt of lew designing men
10 hinder the enterprise.
VERMONT
In Burlington, woman supposed To be in
sane, and INDUCED with watchers aud clos
surveillance for some months past, was foun,
missing by her sleepy guard on awakening from
a short doze one dark, rainy night recently
The husband was called, the alarm sounded
the whole neighborhood aroused and organize,
into search party when lol the lunatie mad
her appearance in their midst and said she ha
been down to the river and taken n survey, an,
concluded not to drown herself this time as
might occasion her children unpleasant feel
ings!
CONNECTICUT.
Policeman Smith of the New London police
force has resigned. Another force is talked of.
There was a strike on the Air Line road ohout
eight miles from Wilimantic, on Wednesday
The foreman of a gang had words with A drive,
which ended in the drivers DISCHARGE unon
which general stampede took place.
AS the knights Templar were going down