The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-04
new ENGLAND NEWS.

@. II. Binney a Boston insurance agent
has gone into voluntary insolvency, MS
liabilities are reported to he Sl60, 600 ana ms
assets $50, goo II is claimed that about sio,-
90 of this Is secured by real estate and other
collateral, and that with proper management
he win be able TO pay 30 or 60 cents ON the
dollar. Tee failure, IL Is claimed, is due 10
causes outside of his insurance business, ana
the ma jority of his credit is with Boston
parties, One half is with national banks
and the other half is a 6 raj indebtedness
The Melrose, Mass, base ball club an
nounces the following organization for the
season; Pitchers b Sc and Bingham, both
of Harvard, the latter also pl lying when not
pitching in centre field; catchers knowlton
and Campbell also of the Harvards OF last
year, Campbell also playing secont base;
Westcott first base Grant left field, and
Captain Carleton right field, all members OF
last years team; Gallivan of the Harvards
of 1887, third base, and Sullivan, the short
stop of the Medfords playing in the same
position on the Melrose team.
Two hundred weavers of the Berkeley mill
in Providence, have gone ON strike. The
matter of a change of speed involving, as the
weavers claimed, virtual cut down, had
been under discussion between the operatives
committee and the management for several
days and n tice was posted that looms
could not be kept in continuous operation,
that some styles would be dropped and that
weavers who desired stea ~ employment
must apply at the office of the company.
This the weavers considered, added insult to
injury,
British schooner A. Anthony, Norris mas
ter, from st. John for Boston, has been
seized at Boothbay, Me-, by the custom au-
thorities at that port for not reporting The
fine is $1,000
II is proposed to build big new mill in
Lowell, Mass, the capital in which will be
invested by men of mo lerate means.
James B. Reynolds of Glenns Falls, N Y,
has been chosen managing editor, and f. d.
Woods of West Hennker business manager
of next years Dartmouth.
The Lowell, Mass, base ball team has COM
pleted its team by tie signing of Walter
H, Hackett as short stop and field player.
Hackett played with the Troys of the Inter-
national association last year and stood
second in fielding among l3 men in that po-
! sition, with an average of SS7. His batting
average was .2lS. He is regarded as a cool
headed, reliable man, thoroughly informed
in the fine points of the game.
The Dante society of Cambridge Mass,
has now on exhibition an elegantly bound
concordance of "Divina Commedia" which
itproposes to send to the queen of Italy.
A committee of weavers at Sawyer's mills
at Dover, N. H., called on Gov Sawyer and
| interviewed him in regard to having the
wages of the weavers readiusted to the new
work on worsteds that is being done there.
Gov. Sawyer finally settled the matter in a
satisfactory manner by change in the price
which practically increased the price per
yard about two cents. The governor finally
told them that they might compare his price
with that paid by other manufacturers, and
how do, E,,I l.; oil ;,l,t l,a
slider the matter again.
Daring thieves worked an old fashioned
jewelry store game in Fall River, Mass, very
successfully They tied the store door by a
rope to hydrant, then burst the window
and stole $500 worth of jewelry and watches,
and skipped.
The term of State Liquor Commissioner
Col, Nelson Howard, of Lewiston, Me-, is
about expiring, and Gov. Burleigh has ap-
pointed Joseph E. Fairbanks of Lewiston to
be his successor. The appointment caused
such a surprise to Col. Howard and his
| friends that numerous protests are being
sent to the governor. The governor has left
the matter to a special committee of his
counsel to settle. 1t is rumored that this
committee is tn make thorough investiga-
ton of the affairs of the agency as managed
by Col. Howard The Office is said TO be a
very lucrative one The salary is fixed by
l
worth several thousand year above the
salary.
The dead body of a man was picked up in
the Merrimac river at Amesbury, Mass, one
| day last week. 1t had been in the water a
| long time. The man was six feet tall, dark
hair and eyes, small moustache, about 30
years of age, and had 60 cents in money, a
knife, watch chain and key in his pocket, nc
| coat, dark pants and vest, rubber boots and
| Thnpn n IN, hig polya f
apparently pres ription blank. Writ ten
on it was, CDR. Mason, see if you can find
anything the matter with him, l can't
signed Dr. Jones'" 1t is supposed to be the
body of one of the men lost from the bridge
at Hooksett N. H., early in the winter.
A syndicate of Boston capitalists has beer
formed for the purpose of forming an organ.
ization for purchasing and controlling rea
estate in Boston. The club, it is understood
will be similar to the Fifty Associates" ant
will be limited in number to so. The pal
value of the shares in the association is $40
The American Waltham Watch Co. ha
voted to increase its capital stock from 50,
900, 900 to S3000000. AS there is 1900, 00t
surplus, 81, 900, 600 will BE- distributed among
the stockholders with which they will be al
lowed to buy the 81, 000, 900 new stock at par
although the market rate is 100.
Letters received at Provincetown, Mass
lTOIl odpu. DullndHl Oh whaling schooner
VIM. A. Grozier, reports he arrived at st
Vincents, West Indis Feb. "a, sighted
wreck which proved to be the Boston bari
Albert Russell New York for Australia
Rescued two sailors who had been on tn
wreck 13 days. The balance of the crew to
gether with the captain Is wife and two chill
dren were all lost. One man will probabl,
die
The Beverly & Danvers, Mass, street rail
stock from $50, 900 to $4,000.
The new shoe factory of French, McDuffe
& Co. in Gambia, N. H., wi be finished an
ready for occupancy early in April. 1t is
feet long, 26 wide and three stories in height
The places of the 60 men who recent
struck in the Nicholson File Co.'S works a
Providence, r. l., have been filed athoug
the laborers secured are not as skilful as tn
strikers were The cause was reduction O
25 per cen. in wages. The reduction wa
causei by overproduction
The Chelsea, Mas, Wire Fabric Rubbe
Co., with capital of 100000, have bough
land 10000 feet and are to erect factor
for the manufacture of wire fabric rubbe
hose and betting The building will be o
brick, 127x42 feet and two stories in height
G.. A. Gage and Frank Butterworth 0
Somerset Mass, have disappeared under
cloud. Several notes endorsed by Gage
mother, one to the amount of $50, on whic
Gage raised money, are pronounced forgel
les. Butterworth is thought to have write
the notes.
1t is said that H n. Jonathan Bourne @
New Bedford, Mass, has given to each of HI
childreni(ne has FIVE 100000
A R. Sawyer, son of Jefferson Sawyer @
Charlestown Mass, fell overload from tn
brig Eugene Hale, of which he was mate, i
the Sur nam River, South America, Feb. q
and was drowned.
BOLD ROBBERY.
A Denver Bank President EOrced 1