Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-09-06
ISLAND POND VERMONT SEPTEMBER g. 1889.
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

Jessie Pratt aged so, of Reading, Mass,
undertook to cross the tracks of the Boston
& Maine railroad and was struck by train
from Boston and instantly killed.
The Lookout Mining company of Dead
wood Oak, in which $3.50, 900 of Keene
On. H. capital is invested, is reported to
be a monstrous swindle.
By the bursting of the Spring Lake reser-
voir in Crinston, R. L., two aged women and
boy were drowned. The water subsided
as rapidly as it came Small loss.
The potato crop is reported failure in
Connecticut. The farmers complain that
the extraordinary weather has cost them
two-thirds of their crop and they find at
least six or eight potatoes out of every hill
OF ten are decayed.
w. Z. Brown, q freight brakeman, of
Concord, was seriously injured while shifting
cars at Newport N. II.
Two of the burglars who robbed Deering's
jewelry store in Everett, Mass, have been
arrested officer Aston saw a man pass a
watch to bartender, and he arrested the
man and another with him. The Everett
jeweler identified the property.
Fully II, COO CaIedonians were present at
their 35th annual outing at Oak Island.
Two buncD men at Hartford, Conn, sue
ceeded in swindling Moses William, Rocky
Hill farmer out of $4,000 or $40, 900 worth Of
sarm mortgage bonds.
An attempt will be made this fall to re-
vive the interest in lacrosse at Harvard,
which has been on the wane for the last
couple of years.
The Montreal express was run into by an
extra fr, ight train at Centre Rutland, VT.
The freight locomotive and one passenger
car wero considerably damaged. No one
seriously injured.
P Rich, a North Andover (Mass.) horse
trader, who had been to Haverhill and had
started home with a new horse, became in
toxicated and in this condition fell out of
the carriage and was killed by having his
neck caught between the spokes of one of the
fore wheels.
George A. Parker of Concord, VT, aged
"A, was found in the Connecticut river. He
had loaded his clathes with rccks, waded
into the river stuck up a pole and laid down
by it, where he was found. Ill health was
the cause
Dr. NJ. B, Richards cf Pittsfield, Mass !,
has been arrested, charged with malpractice.
The doctor claimed to be an Indian physi-
C an possessing many wonderful curatives.
He has had an extensive practice and was
always we'll supplied with money. The al
legged crime was committed two months ago.
The po ice refuse to give the name of the
woman She has been dang, rously Ill for
some time, and finally confessed,
Z. L. Blake of Centre Harbor, N H., is
reported TO have lost 81 hogs and pigs from
hog cholera within two weeks, IS dying of
the disease and the remainder being killed
by order of the state board of health. The
cause i said to have been the swill, which
had been kept until it became poisonous.
Blakes SIS is over $500.
The Murdoch Liquid Food company pro-
poses to educate i'll stenography and type
writing 100 girls year
Great interest is manifested at Exc
ter, n. H over the proposed new driving
park.
Responsibility for the recent accident near
Middebury, VT, is said to rest with the con-
ductor and engineer of the freight, who for
got about the special excursion train, al
though it had run for two days previous
The hog train was composed of q cars Of
western pork, bound for Boston. Nine cars
are in the wreck with the two
engines and first car of the passenger train.
By the glare of immense bonfres made Of the
shattered cars tie work of getting out the
mangled hogs was prosecuted They were
at once killed. A lady who lives in house
near by, and who saw the collision, says that
both engines reared into the air. The one
headed north is pointed south, so great was
the shock. 1t is almost a miracle that more
were not killed and injured. 1t is the worst
accident which has happened on the Rut-
land division in many years.
Arnold E. Farquaher, a clerk in the Office
of the general ticket agent of the New York
| & New Haven railroad at New Haven, Ct,
| is missing, a. is also about $3.50, the proceeds
of the sale OF Grand Army tickets.
The musical festival at Harwich has re-
silted in a permanent organization.
A woman from Fall River threw vitriol
at a man at Reading, Pa whom she claims
Is her husband. He escaped injury but the
yitriol struck the horse he was driving, sub
jecing the animal to great pain. The woman
declares she will kill him yet,
A South Bost IL boy had his skull fractured
by being struck with base ball bat.
The Ruggles street m lie quartet begins its
! 18th season with its membership the same as
during its long and su cessful organization.
| Fhe organ in Mechanics hail. Worcester,
has been enlarged and improved at an ex-
psnse Of $4,000 in readiness for use at the
festival concerts beginning the 94th inst,
Soma time ago the Boston & Maine all
road lost quantity of iron braces at Sa 'em,
and the matter was referred to the police of
|
having sold them to a junk dealer.
Harry Wilbur, while playing base ball for
the PeyserS of Boston at Randolph had bis
left ear almost severed by the ball. He was
running to catch fly ball, which he missed,
the ball coming down and striking on his
ear.
Massachusetts, will not be repre ented al
the interstate rifle contests at Sea Girt N. j.
At aestipg of the Manchester N. H., as
sociation of milk Dealers the matter of rails
ing the price was discussed, and IT was
voted that committee of five be appointed
to confer with the association of retail
dealers to endeavor to come to some under
standing in regard to the matt,r
Tax collector Berry, of New Bedford, Me-
has been arrested on charge of using
abusive language and false Imprisonment Of
Philibert Dumont, against whom the collec
tor had a tax bill.
CROPS AND WEATHER.