The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-31
new ENGLAND NEWS.

inc Connecticut Mutual Lie Insurance
company has been yictimized 10y Its financial
correspondent at Indianapolis TO the extent
OF 100000,
The postoiilce location matter at Lowell,
Mass, Is settled beyond doubt, and any at
tempt at delay In court by the defeated par
ties win be useless. The st, Peters church
authorities have been notified that as soon as
they are ready to pass the title deeds OF the
property, as they now stand, they win be ac-
oepted without any further preliminaries by
the United States officials,
The city council of Newport r. l., this
year is proving marvelously harmonious
body. Last year it was found impossible TO
| pass an ordinance granting the horse railroad
company the right to lay rails in the streets.
The new council met and settled this matter
with little discussion and almost no opposi4
tion. The horse railroad ordinance gives the
company the privilege OF laying rails from
the Middetown line, down Broadway and
Spring street to Morton park, with branch
lines to the railroad depot and steamboat
wharf and across the city to the bathing
beach. The road will be pushed and be in
operation before summer.
Walter s. Kent, 35 years old, milkman,
and Mrs Pardon NJ. Colwell, 25 whose hus-
badn is absent in Denver, COL. setting up
business, have left Johnston, r. l., together
and gone it is supposed, to California. Kent
has wife and two children, while Mrs. Col
well leaves a 5-year-old boy.
| Harry Freid, otherwise known as Harry
Taylor, the circus employee who killed James
s. Borthwick Of Ludlow in Forepaugh's cir
fore the Snringfed Mass ! nolice court an 4
charge of manslaughter He plea led not
guilty and was held for the superior court.
bail being fixed at $4,000.
John Ciilbv. n brakem,p IN tho Nev york
& New England railroad, was instantly
killed near Hartford, by falling down be-
tween the cars He is said to have friends
in Montreal.
A movement is being made for more strin-
gent prohibitory legislation in Rhode Island,
and for constitutional prohibition in New
hampshire
The Vermont board Of railroad commits
sioners investigat ng the cause of the
collision on the Passumpsic division of the
Boston 81 Maine railroad at Passumpsic, Vt,
last Saturday afternoon, took considerable
ssestlmony; Inc iault was attributed to the
s seIian oi ,ne iorMard IRAN OF tne engineer
az az. .he 10 ttain borrowing, Dut tnere was con-
hice OIL testlihony.
| Albert Moore fell from a stepladder at
Great Darlington, Mass, breaking his collar
bone and three ribs, fracturing the skull at
the base of the brain, as well as receiving in
ternal injuries.
johnnie Mahoney an 1l-year-old boy,
viii skating on the Little river at the out
skirts OF Hartford, CT, broke through the
Ice and was drowned. His brother Joseph,
who was with him at the time, was pulled
OUT by passer-oy'
Joshua Benson, aged CO, dlssolute char,
acter, was found dead IN bed In rented
room In Merlden, Ut. Alcoholism and ex-
posure the cause.
The body of Albert Vachou, IS years old,
was found IN the river at Great Falls, ii. H.,
on Friday. He had been missing since Sun
day, when he went skating.
The death rate in Newport last year was
IA. 81 per cent in a population of % 600: to-
tai number of deaths for the year, 315.
| A man named Carney was killed few
tween Melrose station and the Highlands, He
was returning to his home and was burdened
with three Jugs of LIQUOR attached to a rope
slung across his shoulder.
IDENTITY Collector Asblev of Westfield
| Mass Of the internal revenue department
transferred the plant of William Ritters
brewery at Chicopea, which was seized on
the 10th. for violation of the excise law. to
IDENTITY Marshal Hoyt of Boston. Ritter
viii be given preliminary hearing before a
commissioner OF the IJnitsd States district
court. next week.
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puases naval RAINING soa.ioli, NewPprl, ~. l.;
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| clared draw.
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For the first time In the history OF the
town the selectmen OF Great harrington,
Mass, have revoked liquor license, that OF
Merrick M. Rice, which cost $3.50. The place
had been complained OF as gambling place.
Liquor had been sold to minors
Samuel Halliwell, arrested some time ago
at the instance of the Stoning ton (Ct) bank,
whose agent he was, for securing money on