Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-01-27
ISLAND POND VERMoNT JANUARY 27 1885,
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Jan. 22.-The Thermometer registered as
follows at the places mentioned in New Eng
land: Gloucester, 10 to l2' below; Lowell,
TO- below; Maiden, 49, below; Medford, IA
below; Melrose, TO- below; Stoneham, IL
below; Wakefield, l5' below; Reading, 15'
below; Everett, IL below; glastonbury, Ct,
Is TO IS below; East Windsor Hill, CT, 90
below; South Manchester, CT, 12' below
Wethersfield CT, Is to 81 below; Warren,
n. H, 90 below; st. Johnsbury, Vt, 55' to
40 below; Burlington, VT, So below. Lake
Champlain closed over.
Michael Tierney of Meriden, Ct, aged 81
and unmarried, while in an intoxicated con.
dition, was killed by the cars. The body
was frozen stiff when found He was a
mechanic
The entire east wing of the Holyoke Wnter
Power Company's Cabot street mill, in Hol-
yoke, 200 feet long AMI ~ feet wide, which
was occupied by the Holyoke Envelope Com
pany and B. +. Perkins machine works, was
burned Jan. %, entailing loss of about
1895, 900.
The gale that has pTsvailed along the At.
lautic coast the past few days was unusually
severe at Marblehead, Jan g. tearing shut
ters from their places and the lanterns of
the signal station from their poles. The cold
wave was intense, reaching 13' below at the
ferry and TO- below in the town proper. For
the first time in 10 years the harbor is frozen
to Point light.
The Shore line express train, bound east,
struck an unknown man on tho iron bridge
over the Pawcatuck at Westerly, Jan. %,
knocking him into the air He fell 30 feet to
the river, and, crashing through the ice was
borne away by the current.
The Mobile (Ala.) county court house
caught fire Jan q from detective fiue and
in less than an hour was destroyed. All the
valuable papers and records were saved, but
the law library, valued at $4,000, was
burned. Loss on building, $l00,000 insured
for S45, ,000
Dr. Carl Daniel Adolf Donai, editor of the
N. Y. Volks Zeitung. died at his residence,
ST. broadway, Brooklyn. He was one of the
best known Socialstic writer's, ranking with
Carl Marx Lassel and Frederick Engel.
In the supreme court at Exeter, N H In
the case Of Wiggin VS.. Severance, to recover
S2400 damages to Wissia's toauI, caused by
defendants dog soaring plaintiffs horse, the
jury returned verdict for Wiggin in $500.
The shops of the st. Johnsbury e. Lake
Champlain railro}d ID at st. Johnsbury, VT,
were burned, with four locomotives.
DR.. A G. French of Lewiston, Me-, died
Jan, %, aged So years. He was for many
years in practice in Fayette, which town he
represented in the legislature. He also
served as surgeon in the army.
Representative Dingley spoke before the
house committee on rivers and harbors in
recommendation of the appropriations asked
for by the United States engineers for the
rivers and harbors of Maine
The voters of Watervile Me-, have
adopted city charter. There was ma
jority of 100 in favor of the charter on a
heavy vote.
Owing to the prevalence of measles at
Exeter, N. H., the school board have closed
all the schools except the high and grammar,
for one week.
Mrs. John Drury of Central Falls, r. l.,
was so badly burned at t!"a in that place
that she died from her injuries
Two Salem man are held to explain the
possession of an unusually large number of
special delivery stamps and trying to ex-
change them for others.
Tl.~ ..O,. t,u,I4vss uIuI uceu III tn. leo;sla-
ture Jan. 23d included biennial elections
statutory prohibition, the raising of tho "age
of coAsent'' to IL years and the further re-
striction of gambling
There was a serious runaway at Lynn,
one lady being badly injured and two others
sIIgnUly.
Phillip Herbert, aged 46 years, sustained a
fracture of the spine by falling into the hold
of vessel in East Boston. His home is in
Unity court He was taken to the city hos
pital and placed in plaster cast
The Old Colony station at North Arlington
has been robbed, the safe being blown open
and its contents taken.
Michael Crowley, Jr., OF Weymouth is un-
der arrest on charges Of keeping liquor
nuisance and house Of ill-fame in that
town.
Nantucket New South Shoal lightship
was placed on her station by the light
house steamer Verbena at 7 p. IN. Sunday,
the 22d inst.
TIE 2lst annual encampment Of Maine
department, G. A. r., viii take place in
Portland Feb. and 10. Department head
o,,a,,to,c will ba Of thn Falmouth bota1