Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-08-30
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Capt Gardner of the schooner Valkyrie,
from the Banks reports that the schooner
Martina A. Bradley, on the 10th inst on tne
western part of the Grand Bank, picked up
Capt. Charles Rogers in the ,mallboat
Nickelo e ~ in an exhausted condition.
Capt. R0g,.is was bound from Boston for
Paris, and had been at sea thlrty-eight days,
An accident occurred at the Roadville
(Mass) gravel pit on the Old Colony rail
road. Mr.. Mead, who has charge of the
pit was riding ON the gravel train with his
men, and observing that they were stand
Ing, told them to sit down or they would be
liable to he thrown off the cars He had
hardly ceased speaking when q sudden move
ment of the tram threw him out under the
wheels. Both his legs were cut off, and the
lower portion Of his body so mangled that he
died i'll very short time. He leaves a
widow and one child and belonged in Pits
field, N. H.
A warrant has been Issued on C mplaint of
Oliver p. Strout against w. G. Cookson,
charged with stealing horse in Ornevile,
Me. A harness was stolen in Atkinson the
same night and gig in Sebago the night
following. CooksOn has served three years
in state prison.
1t is claimed that Mrs. John Walton of
Saugus Centre. Mass, by the discovery of
flaw in the deed Of an estate d ting back to
the revolution, is entitled to property now
thiclIly settled between Tyler ami Pranker
streets, Lynn. The property is worth sever
al hundred thousand dollars.
Philip and Celina Martneau, brother and
sister claiming to hail from Boston, were
arrested at Manchester, N. H., for the theft
of a valuable diamond ring from a jewelry
store, while examining tray full of rings.
When arrest, d the ring was found on the
woman's finger. She said she forgot to take
it off.
At Middletown, Conn, Henry Tutreil, a
driver of a stone cart was thrown under the
wheels of his cart and almost instantly
killed.
Elzear Michaud, about 25 years old, pried
the bars Of one of the windows in the attic
above the workshop at the house of correc-
tion, New Bedford, dropped to the roof of
the boiler house, mounted the prison wall,
dropped to the street distance of 10 or 20
feet and escaped. Officers are now search
ing the suburbs for him. He was sentenced
Dec. Is, 1886, to three years for larceny but
on March 10, 1887 he escaped but was re-
captured the next day. f + tbs escape
Michaud was given two years additional and
at the time Of the present escape was serving
out that sentence.
1t is reported that the Electric Car COM
pany of North America, q Philadelphia cor
poration owning large number of valuable
patents, relating to street railway propul-
sion, has completed negotiations for a sale
of all its patents applicable to overhead and
underground construction to the Thomson
Houston Electric company of Boston.
A tornado of 30 minutes duration passed
over Winthrop, Me-, on the 18th. Corn and
other crops were seriously injured barrels
of apples were blown from trees in orchards,
and numbers OF trees were Frustrated by the
gale.
1t is reported that young man named
Melcher was badly bitten by a mad dog in
Middleton, Mass. Twenty or more unmuz-
zlel dogs have been shot in that town.
Second Officer Taylor of the steamship
Palestine Of the Warren line has invented a
new code of night signals by which the name
of vessel can be ascertained, the capt lin s
name, where she slils, &c Heretofo only
a steamers line could be signalled. 1t is an
arrangement of colored and white lights by
means of which signals can be readily and
easily made, using the Interna-
tional code signal book, four lights
representing one flag, read from
left to right The apparatus con-
sis's of a square fronted box, with six
teen bulls-eye glasses, four in q row, behind
which are placed colored glasses ON a revolv-
ing disc, turned by means Of a knob under
the bull s-oyes the different arrangement Of
the colored glasses corresponding to the
flags of the code book. For txample the
signal, 'What boat is that?' is represented
by top row of red lights and a second row
of three green lights and one white light,
which represents signal letters B. d. By re-
ferring to the code signal book will be found
the name, &c.
Benjamin p. Chadwick, agent Of the fish
commission, has been stirring up the fish
l,p 1,,,,gt NIL ,.,1 ,..f
rop Clark, William A. Ba-sett and j. G.
Childs, fish dealers of New Bedford, arrest d,
charged with not having their names and
residences inscribed on lobster cars belong
ing TO them, as required by the statute of
the present year.
A sad sight was witnessed by late pedes-
trians who happen d along Hanover street,
Boston, the other morning. A man and his
daughter were both intoxicated, and the
former was trying hard to get into a fight
with another man, who, however, thought
that discretion was the better part of VAL
The par remained upon the street quarrel
ing with each other for half an hour after
this.
Boston railroads have issued circular de-
claring their intention of charging for the
dete ton of freight cars.
B. M. KimbaIl & Son, morocco makers,
Haverhill, Mas, decided 10 finish skins
hereafte" by week work, instead of piece
work. The employees held a meeting and
voted not to work by the week, and 100 men
went out waiting for settlement of the
question.
A typhoid fever patient killed his nurse
in fit of delirum at Winchester, Mass,
Mrs. Frances Jerome who represents the
Yellow Cross society at Johnstown, Pa.
was assaulted by two rulians and dragged
from her horse while riding through de-
serted portion of Prospect Hill. Robbery
was evidently the object of the villains She
was pretty badly abused before managing to
escape their clutches, but will not suffer any
serious consequences. Her assailants have
not yet been captured.
Work has recommended at Underwoods
canning factory in North Truro, Mass, after
a shut down of two weeks.
George Belcher of Foxvale Mass, who
has been mis- ing since last spring, came
home recently, apparently all right and
claims that he had been working on a farm
in Framingham.
Sir Henry e. Knight who was lord mayor
of London, has been visiting in Boston. Gov
Ames lunched with him.
She Got $4,000 for Worthless Stock.
Six months ago lady of charming man
ners burst on St. Louis with all the efful-
gences of a social star. She was so nice, so
good, and so lovely. She was Mrs. Mar
garet Turgoose the wife of the president of
the Diamond Point and Silver Point Mining