Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-24
New England Dispatches.
MASSACHUsE TTS.


BOsToN, Jan. 23.-The bankruptcy case of the
lndeDendent insurance company of Boston was
before Judge Lowell TODAY, on the question
whether an insolvcnt law of the commonwealth
or OF any single state is suspended by the opera
non OF the bankrupt law of the United States
Decision reserved
This afternoon, a man named j. D. Clark,
alias Delano, from New York. was arrested for
the forgery of two checks for 1894 each, on NJ
M: Ballou, proprietor of the st. James hotel.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 90 Archer Marsh q
brakeman on the Connecticut River railroad,
and instantly killed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
MANCHESTER, Jan. pa most shocking af-
fair occurred in this city to-day. At about half
past ten o'clock, Mr.. Dennis Shea, who resided
IN tenement In the second story of Kimball &
MAYNARD block at the south end of Elm street,
inflicted murderouS wound upon the head Of
his wife with fat iron. The wound was made
upon one side of the forehead, near the temple
The skull was terribly fractured After wound
inc his wife, Shea seized a razor and cut his
throat, completely scvering the windpipe and
the large veins and arteries. HemuSt have died
instantly. Mrs. Shea, after being wounded
rushed down stairs in a terrible condition. Her
head was all covered with blood. She then
rushed back up stairs to her room. Several per-
sons followed her, and she was found groaninr
upon the dead body of her husband
it is supposed that some angry words
passed between the parties, and that Shea
became suddenly Infatuated by something which
was said by his wife, and struck her without in
tending TO kill her. Believing that he had mur-
dered her, il is supposed that he then killed
himself They were not incorporate in their
habits, and so far as known they had used no
liquor recently. Moreover, it is stated bv their
neghbors that they lived peaccably together
and when last seen before the tragedy they
seemed on friendly terms. They were both ma
tiyes of Ireland, and were each about Gorty-tiye
wears of age. She had four children, the two
eldest of whom were at work in the mill when
the fearful tragedy occurred. Soon after Mrs.
Shea was wounded she became unconscious and
began to sink rapidly. No hopes are enter
tanned that she can recover.
CONNECTICUT.
HARTFORD, Jan, 90 A large number of the
delegates to the republican state convention
tomorrow arc already in the city. A prcimi-
nary caucus was held this evening, mostly for
informal speeches and interchange of ideas ilpon
the prospects of the campaign. Gen James I.
Pratt presided. Speeches were made by Dir.
Geo. S. Miller of Enfield, Hon. Aurustus Rran.
tegec and George Marshall of New London, w
G. Smith of Orange, II. l.. Harrison of New
Haven, Abiah Catlin of Harwnton and other.
Some feeling was expressed in favor OF changes
on the state ticket, but the general drift of the
speeches and the conversation of delegates was
decidedly for the denomination of Gov. Jewell
and the rest of the state ticket. 1t is probable
that this will be the result OF the convention to.
morrow.
The state temperance union, embodyinr all
other temperance organizations in Connecticut,
also delegates from churches and Sunday
schools, held its seventh annual convention at
MiddICown to-day, President Cummings, of
Wesleyan university, presiding.