Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-10

j. u. Farrar 81 Co, Dauvers, Mass have
been sold; the factory to j, c. Campbell for
S4lO0 over a mortgage OF 5000. Mr.. Camp
bell was also large buyer of machinery.
At Lewiston, Ne, in the case of Cookson
V. Union Water Power company, for dam
ages for injuries received while at work for
defendant the jury rendered verdict for
plaintiff, for $4,000 Tue cas- Of Nellie NJ.
Pearson V. the Maine Central railroad a
claim for damages for injury by a train
which demolished a hack in which she was
riding, was settled by the payment of
$3.50.
In the superior civil court at East Cam
bridge, Mass, the jury returned verdict of
Sl4OO for plaintiff in the action for damages
OF White v. the town of Marlboro.
Owing to the depressed condition of the
market for sardines it is reported that not
half of the sardine factories in Maine will be
run the present year.
A slasher in the new Stafford mills, Fall
River, Mass, exploded, injuring John F.
Featherstone, an employe. Eight windows
were broken by the force of the explosion
and flying splinters from the machine
The employees of the Haskell shoe factory
in Salem, Mass, owned bye. S. woodbury.
and managed 10y d. ID. Lefavour, have re-
turned to work pending settlem mt of diff
culties regarding discharge of workmen by
the board of arbitration.
TIE strike among the carpenters at New
port, r. l., continues and from present ap-
pearances it would seem that it will be a
long and det ,rmined one
Frank e. Peach, tive-year-old son OF Chas.
Fl. Peach of New Bedford, Mass, was play
ing about fire In his fathers garden and
getting too near his clothing caught fire and
soon he was a mass Of flames The little fel-
lows cries of agony brought help but it was
too late and he died a few hours afterward
in great agony.
About lac, ,00O, 900 feet of logs are on the
land ngs in the Penobscot (Me) lumber re
gionS, representing a value of nearly 81, 40O,-
900, and the owners of these, as well as the
manufacturers ON the river, are beginning to
feel anxious about g stting their logs into the
main stream. Driving cannot be carried on
succe sfully without raj
Milan II. 10 nson OF Keene N. H., has
gone to Nashville, Tenn, w. ere he has ac-
cepted a position as instructor in the Normal
Training department os Fiske university,
The Provincetown, Mass, schooner Nellie
Swift McAskill, st. Kits, W. l.,
for New York, has been given up for lost,
with all on board. She is now over 40 days
out and no report of her has been made
since sailing from ST. Kits. She was an
Il sex built schooner, 1877 tons egist9r and
built II years ago. She has been employed
in the Grand Bank codfishing business dur
ing the summer seasons. Of her crew,
Capt Murdoch McAskill Mate James Nc
Donald seaman Charles Frazier, Oil Peter
Gon and VIM. MCPHERSON hail from this
port. All are single IN.
The Monson, Me-, pond and Hebron pond
slate quarries are to be worked this summer
in addition to the three now in operation.
Last summer about 1876 men were employed
In, ya1 Tho tit1or
of the other two named will call for 80 or 100
more men. There is every prospect that
business will be lively in Monson this year
BURGLARS entered the Office of the grist mill
of f. j. Hastings 81 Co., South Acton, Mass,
and blew open the safe. Only a small
amount Of money was obtained, but many
valuable papers were destroyed. The door
was forced with tools stolen from j. P.
Browns blacksmith shop near by
Joseph Violet while walking near a
boiling vat of lye in the Sugar River Paper
mil, Claremont N. H., either fell or jumped
in. HIS hat was found hung up by the vat.
He was instantly killed.
William Cochran of Plymouth, N. H.,
while wrestling, fell and struck his head
upon spike driven into plank, and receiv-
ed fatal injuries.
The Masonic Tomple at Lancaster, N. H..
will be dedicated on June "a.
Maine farmers are complaining of the
scarcity of farm help, and say that it is
nearly impossible to hire any one to assist
Them
In working the new lime rock quarry at
Warren a vein of st atie, or soapstone has
been discovered, and an examination of
specimens made By Prof, Sharples, state as
sayer of Massachusetts,, indicates that the
quality is such that it will readily find G
market
Rummery, Birney Co., of Crystal, Me-
have cut this season s., ,0O0 900 feet of logs.
N. Panfield Of tn Weirs has been appoint.
ed private secretary to President Pugh of
the Topeka, Hamilton ahd Buffalo railway.
John s. Holden of Palmer, Mass, has pur
chased the Bennington woolen mills in Ben.
nington, Vt, and will start them immedi
ately This plant cost nearly one million
and is the finest in Vermont. 1t is under
stood that the purchase price was eight pei
cent. of the original cost. Bennington peo
| pie are very enthusiastic over this sale
| These mills have lain idle over three years
their former owners going through bank
ruptcy and their stoppage caused decrease
in the towns p pulation of 1900.
Burglars made an Intellectual attempt tC
crack the safe in the office of the Blackstone
Manufacturing company, Of Blackstone,
Mass The knob of the safe door was broken
off with a sledge, when, it is supposed, the
thieves became alarmed by the approach OF
the mill watchman and fl d. No clue.
The Middleboro', Mass, Electric Light and
Power company has be gun the erection of its
plant at the upper dam of the Nemasket river
on Water street The building will C, 81
$1,000
A new freight depot some 50 feet longer
than the present one will be built this sum
mer near where the track crosses Union
street. Brunswick, Me.
Petitions to the Concor railroal asking
for the relaying of iron on the old road bed
between North Weare and Hennker, N. H.,
distance of eight miles, are being numer-
ously signed in the latter town and vicinity.
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