Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-24
new ENGLAND NEWS.

to the effect that the proposed building will
not be nearly large enough to properly ac-
commodate the business Of the office. Mr..
Walker and Senator Hoar will endeavor to
secure an additional appropriation at the
next session of congress.
AT the last meeting of the Belfast, Me-,
city government it was voted to further the
plan of erecting city building on the Angler
lot near the court house. The building will
cost S23, 900, is 10 be put up by a stock
company and will contain memorial hall,
municipal court room city offices, etc.
The Connecticut house of representatives
by vote Of 1876 to 103 have rejected The mi
nority report of the railroad committee,
which granted permission to the Housatonic
railroad to parallel the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad.
The speed is moving gradually in the new
Lewiston, Me-, cotton mills. A large pro-
portion of the help has been engaged, but
several important positions are yet to be
filed Much remains to be done, and the mill
can hardly start up inside of a fortnight or
three weeks.
The West End railroad Boston, has suf-
fered loss of $4,000 by the verdict of the
jury in the case of P. J. Magee against the
railroad. Magee was a fireman of hook
and ladder company, and was injured while
going to fire in consequence of the truck
colliding with one of the defendants cars
Alexander Arthur, native of Canada and
an employe of the Munroe Felt e. Paper Co..
in South Lawrence, Mass, was drawn into
the machinery at the mill and killed.
The board of control of the Massachusetts,
agricultural experiment station have award
ed the contract for the construction of the
new building for the department of vege-
table physiology to Gilbert Patvin of Hol-
yoke for $4,000, not including the green
HOUSES, which will probably cost $500 more.
At a special meeting of the Providence &
Stonington Steamship company, the presi-
dent, W. M. Miller, informed the assembled
stockholders that the new steamboat for the
line was nearly finished, and would be de
livered the latter part of the week or the first
of next week. He said the Connecticut, as
she is to be called would, beyond a doubt,
prove success in every respect. The new
boat has been built at a cost of S625, 900,
and will be the equal of any running on the
sound. She will be ready to make the first
trip of the season on the Providence line on
June l.
Colonel Amos A. Parker of Fitzwilliam,
N. H., aged 80, is writing history of the
Parker family.
The Boston, Bar Harbor and Machias
steamship company has been organized with
a capital stock of $50, 600; paid in, nothing:
par value shares, S25 The officers are as
follows; President, Charles Deering, Cope
Elizabeth, Me-; treasurer, George A. Pratt,
Somervile Mass. directors, Charles Deer
ing John F. Proctor, John H. Hill, James
H. Baker and Charles F. Bates
The programme for the celebration of the
150th anniversary of the Incorporation of the
town of Brunswick, Me-, is completed and
win take place June 49, Salutes and the
ringing of bells will begin the day.
Ex-Alderman Samuel B. Weston Of
Nashua, n H is confined to dark room
and is great sufferer from his eyes, Mr..
Weston's affection the indire It result of a
fracture of the shoulder, received by being
thrown from horse in one of the battles OF
the Army of the Potomac
The trusees of the old Robson mill al
Fall River, Mass have decided to expend
S45,000 in improvements, which will include
the substitution of ring frames for mules,
and increasing the number of spndles
Three hundred looms will be added English
card purchased for warp work, new boilers
put in and engines compounded. Work or
the improvements will begin soon.
VIM Thorp of Southington, Mass, tried
to cross the track ahead of a consolidated
train at Naugatuck, Conn, and was struck
and killed
The valuation of Keene N. H., is 6,0S1,
996 decrease of $S000 The number oil
polls is 2059, an increase of GO, and being the
largest number in its record.
Schooner Champion 81 tons, bound tc
Gloucester, Mass, from the Banks, with
40, 900 pounds of fish, was run down six miles
off Thatcher's island by the schooner Willie
Parkman of Portsmouth, N. H., and sunk il
five minutes The crew were saved Thi
Champion was owned by William Parsons Of
Gloucester She was built III 1864 in Dux
bury. Insured for $500 in the Gloucester
Mutual Insurance company.
John G. French has been chosen president
of the Manchester N. H., Shoe Manufacture
ing company. This new corporation give:
employment to 200 people, has a weekly pay
rolf of $500, and has added 500, 900 to the
taxable property of that city.
While Fred Spaulding of Frankfort Me,
was cleaning his horse the other day, the
animal grabbed him, threw him down, bit
him and stamped upon him, injuring hin
severely.
The masts of the Phillips schooner in the
New England company's yard at Bath Me-
are said to be the largest spars ever made il
Bath. They measure 115 feet, the same
length as were the first masts of the Gov
Ames, and are three feet longer than thosC
OF the Morse schooner LAMBERT.
A call has been issued for the eighth
annual convention of the French Canadian,
of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, to bt
held in Spencer, Mass, August 13 and IA.
Frank Bowley, who was indicted at Plais
tow, N. H., for stealing money from Frank
Kelly and held in $1,000 for the higher court
escaped from the Plaistow lookup by prying
off the bars of his cell.
Al.
woollen mills recently DESTROYED by fire will
be rebuilt Immediately The debris is being
cleared away, and preparations are being
made to add 2500 square feet Of floor space tC
that of the present mill
About 60 people in South Glastonbury
Conn, were taken violently ill after return
ing from the fair and festival of st. Luke''
parish. The cause has been traced to vanilla
ice cream Coroner Bunce is making an
analysis of the extract used in favoring thC
cream. None of the cases will prove fatal.
Work has begun on the foundation of the
Fitchburg R. r. woodworking machine
shop at East Fitchburg Mass. The new
structure will be 300x60 feet and two stories
high. The lower story is to be filled with
woodworking machinery. Upholstery and
cabinet work will be done on the second
floor. The erection Of the two remaining
shops will probably be postponed till nexI
yeaf.
Two locomotives recently completed at the
Manchester N. H., Locomotive works for q
western road have been taken by the Con-
cord road. There was some doubt as tC
whether the western road, which recently
became somewhat embarrassed, would be
able to accept the engines and they were ac-
cordingly sold to the Concord road and were
taken to the shops at Concord to be relet
tered.
A first-class liquor license has been grant
ga tne Wass t ~ so nd ths nIoses tbf
list as the town is entitled to only four
Deputy Sheriff Spiller, who owns place
nearly opposite, claims to own to the centre
of the street, and as an abutter will conte
the license.
Sewell Larrabee of Jackson, Me-, commit