Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-20
new ENGLAND NEWS.

ings will be held in % Massachusetts, towns
and cities, and also in 10 towns and cities of
Connecticut, in the interest of the proposed
United States Central railroad from Boston
to Hartford.
AT special meeting of the stockholders of
the Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad at
Plymouth, n. H., it was voted to unite with
the Concord railroad and form new cor
poration, to be known as the Concord &
Montreal railroad. The capital stock Of th4
new corporation will be 81, 800, 600.
The Hartford toll bridge, over the Con-
necticut river between Hartford and East
Hartford has been made free The bridge
was built in 1908. Toll was first collected in
1911 and has been ever since. 1t was freed
by an act of the legislature of 1887, and the
state, through the legislature of 1889, agreed
to pay 40 per cent of the cost of freeing 1T.
An appraising board fixed the price at $780,
000
Joel Foster, who resides on the Pelham
road in Methuen, Mass, met with an acci-
dent while out hunting. His ramrod became
stuck in the gun barrel and he endeayored
to loosen it by pounding the butt of the gun
on the ground. The weapon was discharged
shattering Mr.. Fosters right hand.
Want of medicine, which could not be OBJ
tained on the compulsory closing of drug
stores by order of the selectmen, is portion
of the physicians certificate of the cause of
death in the case of Mrs. Marian f. Baird,
the wife of Herbert w. Baird of Hudson,
Mass, after having been ill with typhoid
fever for five days. 1t seems that on Sun
day, at which time the drug stores are
closed by order of the selectmen, Mrs. Baird
was taken i'll, and DIR. Hartman being called
prescribed some brandy for his patient, Civ
ing her husband prescription for the same.
the drug stores being closed the stimuant
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hands of the district attorney of MiddleseX
county and an inquest may yet be held.
The executive committee of the Massachu-
It's Woman Suffrage association has voted
to prosecute their work by conventions and
meetings in the western part of Massachu-
setts and elsewhere. The petitions for mu-
nicipal suffrage will be for women who can
read readily in English, write a simple SEN
tence at dictation, and who have not been
convicted of crime or impriso led for such
crime within five years preceding the time
of election; and if o. foreign birth they shall
have resided in the United States at least
seven years.
The Berkshire Mass, Exposition has net
ted about 500.
A village improvement society has been
organized at Dana Mass, and plans are on
foot t. lay sidewalk and make other altera-
tions about the village.
The boot and shoe workers of North Ad-
ans, Mass, complain that the decision of the
state board of arbitration reduces the wages
of stitchers in the factories below the price
offered by the manufacturers
A short time ago John Lincoln of North
Easton, Mass, had 7S geese and 68 ducks
killed and about 25 of both kinds manned by
dogs. He asked the town for compensation
aud WAS allowed s240, but has objected to
this as tCo little and has asked the county
commissioners to raise the sum.
A number of leading bu .iness men of Nor
way, Me-, have gone into a company for the
purpose of building a hotel and selling
mineral water. The location is in Milton
Plantation.
The Maine superintendent of schools is
gradually preparing the way for the intro
duction of free text books into that state, the
law fixing the date at which this must be
done at August l. 1890. This winter he will
obtain the lowest figures for school books of
the publishers, and issue a circular to the
school officers throughout the state, in
which necessary information will be given
and two systems outlined by which the
change can be made.
Charles jerks of White River Junction,
Vt, who took laudanum because another
fellow took his girl to a show, will recover.
The Sheldon Marble company Of Rutland
VT, is to furnish the marble work of the en-
trance hall and staircase of the new public
library building in Boston.
An electric car struck the carriage in
which Gov. Ladd was riding at Newport,
r. |, The driver was thrown from his seat
He held on to the hors and re cued the
governor from his perilous position.
A Goshen Comm young man went to
Birmingham the other day, and for the first
time in his life saw steam car, an electric
car and steamboat
The city solicitor of Boston, it is said. is to
bring suit against the proprietors of Dows
tannery in Woburn for pollution of the Mys-
tic water supply.
The dead body of full grown female
child has been found in Mr.. j. B. Smithers'
yard, Cambridgeport.
An unknown scho )ner was sunk during
the storm off Chatham, Mass.
There is a general belief that Che ter f.
Sanger, Esq, will succeed Judge Orcutt in
the Cambridge, Mass, judgeship.
Milton M. Parks, of Keene, N. H., was
fatally injured by his horses taking fright and
he was thrown from loaded wagon, which
passed over him, crushing his head and
otherwise injuring him.
Johnnie Taber aged years was drowned
while bathing i'll Otter creek, near Vergen-
nes VT
Washburn Bros, of Thomastcn, Me-, have
launched handsome four masted schooner
TO be commanded by Capt. j. Balano, of
Port Clyde.
There was a race recently between the New
York express and an accommodation train
on the Boston and Albany railroad between
Brighton and Newton. There is a stretch of
two miles between Brighton and Newton, and
The engineer on the accommodation train let
her out to see what she could do against the
fast express. At first the express gained a
little but soon the accommodation drew away
from the flyer. 1t was fair and square
victory for the accommodation train.
A confidence man who registered at the
Washington house, Lowell Mass, as S e.
Chase, Watertown, about 60 years of age
has been active. He made a great many
preliminary arrangements, as though about
to do big business, and, while doing so,
borrowed small ums of money from several
parties on bogus checks, and made many un-
successful attempts to do so in other cases.
He escaped.
Five horses were burned to death in a
stable at Roxbury, Mass.
Considerable interest was excited in New
Bedford, Mass, by the unearthing of box
containing half a dozen human skulls and
many bon mingled together in a box
found where workmen were excavating for
the foundation Of building. Inquiry de-
veloped the fact that in 1874 As the build
ing was occupied by George Hart as a
boat builders shop, He excavated to put
in large wooden cistern, and several
skeletons were unearthed, and reburied in
the box which has again been dug up.
The site of the building was formerly a
knoll, surrounded by marsh, and tradi-
ton say many of the crew of an English
ship who died Of an epidemic at this port
about the time of the revolutionary war
were buried on the spot.
Johnstown has Received So Cos, 1 Ia.
The food relief commission has completed