Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-12
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Conductor Nathan Swan of the Bangor
and Piscataquis Railroad is probably the old
est railroad conductor IN Maine. lie was
conductor on the Veazie Railroad, the second
passenger railroad built in this country.
The Whitman Agricultural Works, to be
henceforth located In Auburn. Me-, have or
ganized with the following Jffieers: Presi-
dent, John w. May; treasurer, ID. w. Yer
rib; clerk, j. w. Mitchell; directors, John
w. May, w. 4. Whitman, William Dickey.
b. +. Briggs. Ii. w. Hutchins. The capital
stock is 100000, and the amount pledged Is
$4,000.
Mrs. Margaret Kelliher, aged 102 years,
died recently in Brockton, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas Stratton of Lowell,
Mass, have celebrated their golden wedding.
Joseph Russell Of Springfield, Mass, aged
81, fell from tree on Saturday and received
injuries which may prove fatal.
A stock company has been formed at North
Adams, Mass, to build a shoe factory to cost
100000. It will have a capacity Of 1900
pairs of shoes day.
Mrs. William L. Smith and four other
ladies of WIentham, Mass, were alone in the
house recently with large dog, weighing 90
pounds, belonging to Mrs. Smith, and which
appeared to be Ill. All the morning they
pctLeu ana uOctOTtu the hhiuldi, Dut many nc
was locked in the kitchen, and was shortly
afterward taken with commissions. Some
men were sent for, and found that he had
hydrophobia and he was killed. He was
bitten by another dog ten days ago. 1t was
narrow escape for the women, who thought
he was suffering from poison.
Col Edward Woods of Bath, n. H., has
resigned the Office of Solicitor Of Grafton
county.
Benjamin Judd, veteran of the War Of
1872, died recently in Lisbon, N. H., aged VI
years.
The State Agricultural College at Hanover.
N. III. has opened the present school year
with % students.
Mrs. Robert C. Pierce of Portsmouth, N.
H, has given 800 to the permanent fund Of
the Cottage Hospital in that city.
A new daily paper has been started at Dover,
NH, called the Evening Star. George III.
Emerson is the editor and o. W. Farrar bus
mess manager.
Evans & Bickford of Littleton have con-
tracted to put into the Androscoggin River
$500, 900 feet of spruce pulp timber for firm
in Maine.
Henry Mcdonald, aged s., was found dead
in barn in Central Village, Putnam, Ct,
the other day. He had been on spree.
The Greenwich club, OF Greenwich, Conn.
Intend 10 erect UlOuuincuJ w Ncn. ioiaci
Putnam. There will be a tablet showing the
revolutionary soldier galloping down hill.
John Mack, aged IS, OF New Haven, had
his left arm crushed between the shoulder
and elbow while stealing a ride on train last
Sunday night. Amputation will be neces-
sary.
Thomas Morris, brakeman, fell from q
moving freight train on the Consolidated
Railroad as It was entering Meriden, Conn.
His hip was broken and he Is supposed TO be
internally injured.
At the annual meeting of the Flint Mil, at
Fall River. Mass, the report of the Treasur-
er showed net earnings for the year OF $685.
600. The following officers were elected /:
Clerk, Franklin L. Almy; Treasurer, William
S. Potter; Directors, John ID. Flint, II. L..
Amy, George III. Eddy, Reuben Hargraves,
G. w. NOVEL;, b. ID. Davol and w. 5. Pot
ter.
Charles II. Woodland, who was arrested in
Providence on the charge OF swfndllng, has
got away. One of his accusers, Abraham
Barker, went to the county jail, and, accept
ing $500 In settlement of his claim, withdrew
the civil suit, and Woodland skipped over the
line into Connecticut and thence into New
York.
United States Deputy Marshal Dow OF
Boston arrested John j. Maloney of Fall
River, clerk for the Old Colony railroad.
Maloney is alleged to have written scurrilous
letters to Mrs. Fuller of that city. Maloney
was taken to Boston.
A New England syndicate has purchased
about seventeen thousand acres Of mineral
land in Morrison, Ca, and will name the
locality New England City.
The Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester,
N. H., have presented their retiring Adju-
tant, Capt. John b. Abbott, with an ee-
CANT gold watch and purse of $3.50. The
veterans have also given Lieut.. g. III.
Moore of Nashua handsome silver tea
service in acknowledgment of his hospi-
tality extended to the battalion on their re-
cent visit to his city.
At the annual meeting Of the Connecticut
Indian Association, at Hartford, Gen. Nor
gan, Indian commissioner outlined a pro-
posed plan for furnishing public school edu-
cation to all Indian children. DIR. Everett
Hale spoke of the need of perman ent pol
lev. Henry Lyman, Sioux Indian now in
the Yale law school, and Rev. c. S. Cook, q
Sioux Indian, now engaged in the mission
ary field in Dakota, made addresses.
Mrs. Elizabeth Swallow and her husband
Thomas Swallow, started TO walk from Read
vile to Canton Junction a few days ago on
the track of the Providence Division of the
Old Colony Railroad. They were overtaken
by an express from Boston just as a freight
train was passing the other way. Mrs. Swai
low was struck by the engine of the express
and her body was cut In two. The lower
part of the body was thrown into the river
Her husband narrowly escaped being struck
The couple formerly worked In Lowell cot
ton mill and were walking to Central Falls
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