News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Jane Dobson, colored, died in Providence,
r. l., Saturday, at the reputed age of lib
years.
DIR. Burdens papers as candidate for Col
lector of the Port of Boston were filed at the
Treasury Department In Washington on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Lewis slocum of Holliston, Mass,
fell down her cellar stairs, receiving sup
posed fatal injuries.
james Frost of Perry, Me-, while hunting
on Machias River accidentally shot himself.
The ball entered near the knee and passed to
the thigh.
A young son of Alvin T. WEIGH of the
West Parish, Haverhill, while skating on
Crystal Lake last Sunday, broke through the
ice and was drowned.
Katie Ryan, aged 10 years, who resides with
her widowed mother at Leyden park, Brock
ton, Mass, was run over by freight train
on the Old Colony Railroad, severing both
legs and crushing one arm.
Hon. E. j. Tenney of Claremont, n. H.,
late member of the State Board Of Railroad
Commissioners, has been appointed Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue for the Che
shire and Sullivan District.
The Electrical Glass Company has pur-
chased the Sandwich Glass Company's Works
at Sandwich, Mass.
At New Haven, Ct, few days ago, while
rick Dorsey, aged %, employed as farm
laborer at East Haven, walked off the bridge
and was drowned before assistance could
reach him.
Horace Allen and wife of New Milford,
Mass, drank condensed milk in their tea the
other night and nearly died from lead pol
son1ng, having barely strength enough left
to rap on the window and call a neighbor.
Charles 81. Clapp, driver and collector
for the Manchester On. H.) Provision Com
pany, disappeared a few days ago, and Hora-
ito w. Heath, the manager, states that Clapp's
accounts are short $500 or $4OO.
The City Council Committee on Finance
| of Lowell, Mass, has placed the 100000 in
loans voted this year with Blake Brothers q
| Co. of Boston. They took the loan at 4 per
cent. for 20 years and paid $5610 premium.
R. W. Laid, about so years of age, under
| taker and prominent citizen of Ashland, n. H.
was instantly killed on Wednesday at H. III.
| Shepherds sawmill in Ashland, by falling
upon circular saw. Deceased leaves wife
and two daughters.
A little child, the son of John Heating,
West Quincy, Mass, was struck on the head
by the falling guy of derrick at the city i'm
provements ON Common street, and killed.
1t was the unanimous opinion of public
meeting of citizens of Whitman, Mass, that
| an electric railroad to connect Whitman with
Boston should be built and that the town
should grant the franchise asked for.
The selectmen of Revere, Mass, have de-
cided to employ legal advice to see If the Re
we're and Boston Electric R.R. cannot be COM
PEELED to run their cars all the year round, as
| their charter calls for.
Francis Bonneau, a Frenchman, born in
st. Valentine, Can, died in New Bedford,
Mass, at the age of 105 years, months. He
was twice married and was the father of Is
children. He survived both of his wives.
The Gloucester Fishermen & Seamen's
Widows & Orphans Society, of Gloucester,
Mass, has received legacy of $4,000 from
the late j. B. and Mary Dow of Boston, on
condition that ii be made permanent fund
bearing their Names