Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-23
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.


ing. He was ayoung man of great promise.
BY fire on the corner OF Goldman and Shaw
NUT avenues, Boston, Thursday night, the total
loss viii amount TO $500, upon which Mr.. Nc
Neil has policy for $4,000 in Worcester COM
pany.
A Boston policeman, going along Schoolstreet
the other morning, accidentally dropped bot
tie on the sidewalk. A smile was visible among
the psssers by who saw the bottle break and
smelt its contents.
Ramsay Clark of Someryle got mad with his
wife on Saturday for knocking tumbler OF
liquor from his hand and after collecting few
hundred dollars left Somerville, and Is supposed
10 have gone to California.
State Constable Hinckiey, who shot McBeneh
in Everett, has been suspended from duty by
the police commissioners until after the eXaml-
nation of the case in the Charlestown police
court.
A colored man named Thomas E. Evans, en-
ployed by Messrs. Ellingwood < Co., and resid-
ing at Exeter place, Boston, was found dead
in his bed last evening. A coroner was called,
but did not consider an inquest necessary.
Heart disease is the supposed cause.
"a Defaultng Dentist-Disappearance of DR..
Dillingham;" is the allieratine head under
which the Bos on Journal tells how De. Diling-
ham of thar city has just left his family and run
of to South America, after having stolen gold
plate from Goldman & Shurtleff, valued at
$4,000, and engaging in other swindling opera
tions.
Some miscreants endeavored to set fire to the
university hall at Harvard college about two
O'Clock Friday morning Fortunately the fire
was discovered soon after and stopped. lot
of paper, wood, candles and other light mate
rial were found piled against the tront door,
while both these and the door itsel were Satura-
ted with kerosene. No clue is yet found to the
perpetrators of the act.
Thursday forenoon, Nation Cone, while en-
ployed in shifting cars at the Boston and Low
ell and Nashua freight yard, in Boston, was run
Hoo, inn faTan Pm
both legs, in a horrible manner. He was re-
moved by employees of the road to the Massa-
ehusette general hospital. Cone is single man
about twenty-five years OF age, and OF good
habits.
trapped unhurt in the cellar of dwelling house
on Arnold street in Boston, recently. The fam
ily occupying the residence say that they have
noticed numbers about their premises Ut the
same shade of fur. The one caught is quite
curiosity; seems very tame IN comparison win
the ordinary rodent, and the present possessor
of the animal intends to try what can be done
toward making pet of il.
On the 10th inst. a ridiculous outbreak oc-
CURED among the boys at Deer island, num-
Der of whom, armed with crude slung shots
made of stones knotted in handkerchleis, mane
an attack on two of their keepers, Mr.. D. IL.
Tebbitts, the principal, and John Mccarthy,
who has charge of the clothing department,
with the evident intent of making an escape,
but the mutiny was quickly suppressed and
seven of the boys-John Duffy, John Cahi,
John Barry, Joseph Hyde, Daniel Sullivan, VIM.
Flynn and Peter Fineran-whose ages vary from
fifteen to twenty years, were arrested and turned
over to the harbor police, Thursday.
The CraddOck mansion house in Medtord IS
continual source of interest and curiosity. 1t Is
the oldest house in the United States which re-
tans its original form, and was erected in 1854.
Mathew Craddock, who was first governor OF
the colony Of Massachusetts Bay, is spoken OF
as more forward in advancing out OF his sub
stance than any other, being generally the
highest in all subscriptions. He was an emf
nent merchant of London, and continued divers
years to carry on trade in the colony by his ser
wants The portfolios are still seen in both sto-
ries of the house, which, with the small win
d0ws with blinking panes and the massive tim
bers of the frame, speak of past century;
The brig Glendale, from Galveston for Boston,
arrived in Vineyard Sound Thursday night, and
reports having encountered terrible gale on
the I'd ofMarch, during which the master, Cap
tain Thomas Z. Dinkwater, was swept over
board by a heavy sea and lost. The vessel also
sustained considerable damage in spars and
sails. She had on board 1900 bales Of cotton,
which, together with the vessel, valued at about
100000, and as the property is heavily insured
in Boston, the report of her safe arrival was
received with much satisfaction by the parties
interested Capt Drinkwater was formerly in
command of the barque Grace Hammond and
other vessels sailing out of Boston. He was
about fifty years old, and leaves a widow who
resides at Saco, Maine.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Tie wife of Edward Simonds of Lowell, has
been missing fiom home since Tuesday of last
week. This Is the third or fourth time that she
has mysteriously absented herself from home.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Lawrence poygamist, David p. Jones,
has been bOund over in SO 900 for trial at the
superior court.
Uo,,iso,, Trsdlev who yvas horn at Andovpr
in 1898, and who has been for the last fifty years
an esteemed resident of Alexandria, Va, died
there Thursday.
One of the mills operated by the North An.
dover mill company, and owned by Cen VIM.
Sutton, of Salem, was totally consumed by fire,
together with the machinery, Friday morning.
The ire broke ont in an upper story about five
O'Clock. The origin is unknown. The properly
was insured in several leading offices. The mill
was formerly owned by the late Hon. George
Hodges.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Samuel S. Manchester of New Bedford was
found dead in a building in that town on Thurs
day, under circumstances indicating that he
died from paralysis, from which he had previous
ly suffered
A Taunton Waterman smelt FIRE in the Repub
lican office the other night, and going in found
a sob. all abaze The cause of the fire is
mystery, A drunken compostor lay sleeping on
the burning couch, like a Hindoo widow on the
funeral pile on her dead husband-possibly
little more composed.
A FIRE broke out early Thursday morning in
the house owned and occupied by Mark Smith,
of Fall River, and before the alarm was given
the house was nearly burned down. Mr.. smith
escaped with his four children in their night
clothes The origin of the fire is unknown The
house was insured in the Traders and Mechan-
les OF Lowell for $500, which will not cover
half the loss.
Thursday morning, while a man named James
Holland was at work on Granite mill No. 2, FAN
River, putting up an iron balcony, the plank
upon which he was standing slipped, and he was
thrown to the ground, distance Of about fifty
feet The fall was partially broken by staging
about half way down, which he struck on his
face. He received very severe scalp wound,
and has his skull fractured. DIR. Isaac Smith
was called and rendered medical assistance TO the
sufferer. There is no hope of his recovery.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Hon j. II. Loud Of Plymouth has been offered
$4,000 for 100 acres OF pasture near the Rock
land house, Hull
The construction of the Marslheld dikes has
been stopped by the decision OF Mrs. Fletcher
Webster 10 allow her marshes to remain as they
are.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The dedieaiorial services at the new Methodist
Episcopal church in Williamstown, took place
on Wednesday Of last week.
While Siillman Hewitt of Florida was giving
his wife a hemlock sweat in the garnet of his
house on Saturday night, the house caught fire
and was entirely destroyed.
The house of Chas. Crosier at Washington
was fired, Monday night, by some ashes put
in box in the cellar, more than twenty-iour
hours before The whole family were aroused
from sleep about two O'Clock, and without stop
ping to dress, ran ont in their bare feet to
small creek near by, the water from which, by
dint Of very lively work finally quenched the
flames and saved the house.
Friday morning fire in George Van Valken-
burgh's carriage factory in Pittsfed, burned
Valkenburgh's carriage factory and blacksmith
shop, insured for $1,000; George Linkentelter's
blacksmith shop; the dwelling house Of Edwin
Clapp, worth $500, which was occupied by
two families-those Of John Hayden and Charles
Culloch. Payne's livery stable and a dwelling
house belonging to F. U. Weller, and occupied
by Mrs. Mary i. Chamberlain, were badly dam
aged, but escaped destruction The families
who were burned out saved their furniture.
MAINE.
The wife Of policeman Farr Of Lewiston, died
suddenly of heart disease on Wednesday, which
was the anniversary Of her birth and marriage.
She was ifty-four years old.
The Portland Argus says that Mr. Charles
Clement, a native OF Belgrade Mills, was IT,
Gently accidentally snCt dead, after return
from a buffalo hunt at Fort Scott, Kansas.
Mr. Erastus 7. Hayes Of Berwick, while lead
ing pair OF steers TO his barn on Thursday one
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