Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

Is was examining a rife in company with
Walter Wasnburn, the weapon was acciden-
tally discharged and the bullet entered
Hollis mouth, passing through his head, and
lmbedded itself in a closet wall. Death was
instantaneous. Young Holt was greatly
liked. His comTanion is IS years Of age.
They were boi h fond of firearms and were
considered very careful and experienced in
handling them.
Charles Z Woodruff of New Britain, Ct,
has confessed the commission of forgeries
aggregating 100000 Woodruff has been an
energetic business man for a number of
years. He started aud ran two or three
newspo per- but sold them out; was adm tied
to the bar tut practiced only short time
and then went into heavy real estate opera
ttons, He is believed to have sunk his own
money and that fraudulently obtainedin in this
way. Tho forgeries were very sAiliful and
! have been going on for several years His
plan was 10 make his own note and forge the
Endorsement.
Thieves, with twohorse wagon visited
and entered the house Of Samuel johnson,
in lonely farm district In Preston, COnu.,
and le surely loaded up with Mr. Johnson's
household gools and drove away. The fami-
ly were all away.
The stone sheds of the Wetmore & Morse
Granite Co. at Barre, VT, were opened up last
week and arc now in full running order.
meadow has been surveyed and the plans for
their construction made. There will be four
! bulldings-tho office stone shed, polishing
mill and acksmith shop.
The new county court house is to be To-
Gated at Dover, n H. the city giving the
lot, valued at $4,000. The building will cost
$50, 600
Lizzie McNaney, about 25, of East Fair
field, n. H., committed suicide by poisoning
Those members of the Boston common
| council who charged that bribery had been
pra1ticed in the election of city clerk have
concluded to let the matter drop.
The Riley Railway Construction company
has secured location near Revere Beach for
! the construction of about mile of its ele-
waited railway system. Work will be COM
menced about My 1st, and the section will
be completed by July 4th next. Electricity
will be the motive power, and the cost Of
road and equipment will be about $4,000.
The bill rrnitting accident insurance
companies to insure under certain conditions,
i. e., capital of $4OO, 900, the liability of
employers for injuries received by persons in
their employ is Icing debated in the Massa-
chusetts senate.
Twelve acres of land with two streams OF
water have been contributed for the new
Glen Nip plant, Fall River Mass, by
those interested in the project. 1t is pro-
posed to put %, 900 spindles in operation.
The stock is largely taken and there is no
doubt that the enterprise will go through.
Conductor Dunsmore, on the Worcester
Nashua and Rochester division of the Boston
and Maine railroad, was very seriously in
| jured at Oakdale, Mass.
The Augusta Lumber company has 1901
600 of logs to saw before the spring drive
arrives. The crew at present employed
comprises 65 men. The horse power of the
mills has just been doubled in capacity to
meet increased requirements
The Boston Herald news force has Just
| been reOrgani2ad-the local routine force in
charge of G. B. Danforth, the corps of spe-
cial home reporters under ]. B. Wright, and
ageneral corps of special writer's under Man
| aging Editor Holmes.
Samuel Rideout Of Calais, Me-, actively
| engaged in business up to 1880, deputy col
lector of customs during the last republican
administration, and prominent politician,
died recently of pneumonia. He was &C
years old, and leaves a widow and four
children.
The postmaster general has appointed the
following four h-class postmasters: Connec-
tcut-lIewis Searle, Brooklyn; a. G. Ladd,
Jewett City; G. a. Eaton, Kent; Isaac Rey-
nolds, Lansville. Maine-Walter B. Rand,
Locks Mills; B. G. Avery, Prospect Ferry
Massachusetts-B. D. Clifford, Chatham.
c. B. Chick, superintendent of newspaper
mails in the Augusta, Me-, postofflce, has re-
signed, the vacancy being filed by the ap-
| pointment OF John Carson of Mt. Vernon.
The place is an important one, "a the mails
Of the great Augusta publishing houses
amount to from four to six tons per day
The new uniforms of the Pawtucket, r. l.,
base ball club have arrived They consist of
white shirt, Chicago sty'e, with 'Paw-
tucket" across the breast white pants with
brown stripe, brown belt, brown stockings,
white cap with brown trimmings. esA
The seventh annual banquet and reunion
of the Rhode Island Newsdealers' Protective
union was held at the City hotel recently in
Providence. About fifty members and
guests attended, and the opinion was that
the event was not surpassed in interest by
any of the six preceding gatherings
A WOO l-pulp paper mill is to be built at
Little Falls, four miles up on the Biddeford
side of the Saco, as soon as arrangements can
be made to do so.
Mr.. c.. G. Corbett the former editor of the
Daily and Sunday Dispatch, has re-entered
| the newspaper field and has commenced the
publication of q paper called the Sunday
News. In politics and religion the News
takes neutral stand
The factory inspection bill has finally been
passed by the Rhode Island legislature after
many lengthy discussions and various
changes and alterations. The working peo-
pie of the state will welcome this as an unex-
pected boon. 1t will tend to greatly amelio-
rate their condition in the many mills
throughout the place.
The compositors on the Waterbury Ameri-
can, Conn, have gone out on strike for
higher wages, and although the editions have
appeared they hav9 suffered in consequence.
Petitions bearing the names of 1900 opera
tives are in circulation upon the Pepperell
and Laconia mills at Riddeford, Me-, asking
that the half holiday system be begun May
lst and continued until October 1st.
The Teople of Connecticut will vote on the
question of prohibitory amendment to the
constitution of that state.
Hubbard Hollister Jr., 81 years old, COM
mitted suicide at Hartford Conn. He served
through the war in the Sixteenth Connecti-
cut regiment and never recovered mentally
from the effects of a long Imprisonment at
Andersonville
Timothy Reardon of Lawrence, Mass,
who has been granted a pension, is totally
bird and will receive S72 month besides
over $4,000 arrears. He was a member of
the Twenty-firSt Massachusetts, regiment and
lost his eyesight from sickness contracted in
southern swamps.
The magazine ct Beatty & Co.'s quarry at
Leels Island, New Haven, Conn, was set on
fire by some person with malicious intent,
and nearly one ton of powder was exploded.
The shock was felt for twenty miles in every
direction, and the lights of glass in 50
houses in the vicinity were shivered by the
concussion. Loss about $1,000.
A Stamford Ct, syndicate offers $4,000
for the Norwalk fair grounds. This syndi-
cate that made the offer proposes to use the
grounds for a driving association, and will
rent them to the Agricultural society for