Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-15
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The Bridgewater Mass.) public library
has record of all the deaths in that town
which have occurred for the last 200 years.
The record is complete to July l ofth
year. and was compiled by the late Thomas
CuShman.
AT Madison, Me-, a gentleman walking
through the woods was surprised to find
himself tangled up of sudden in painful
manner with 40-pound bear trap. He was
beginning to get pretty thoroughly scared
when his yells finally brought assistance
and rescue.
1t is proposed to erect in Bangor, Me-, a
memorial building dedicated to the memory
OF the soldiers who fell, and fitted for the
use of the soldiers who are left.
A man in Aroostook county, Me-, claims
to have spent three days in the top of a
pine tree without food or water. He climbed
up 9Ofeet to get an eagles nest. 1t was a
Norway pine, with very smooth bark, and
he used climbers similar to those used by
telegraph linemen. When he got to the
nest he was taken sick and dared not
descend for fear of falling, as he tells the
story.
+. B. Shedd of Lowell, Mass, has given
$50 the public library at Tilton, N. II.
The yards in Dover, N. H., and vicinity
have manufactured this season %, 800, 600
brick.
The treasurer of Chase Home for Children
in Portsmouth, N. H., has received $3.50, be-
queathed by the late Mrs. Fannie NJ. S. Jen-
kins of Brooklyn, N. Y, and $50 from the
estate of the late Thomas e. Call of Ports
mouth.
The Connecticut River railroad has re-
placed the trestle bridge in Keene, n. H..
with an iron structure leaving no wooden
bridge on the line Of that corporation.
Swautop boc ,ro4o1 - 1 ls.--
lighted by electricity.
Hon. Charles p. Marsh of Woodstock.
Vt, has donated 100 books for the establish
ment of public library in Perkinsvile
The Bennington (Vt) battle monument
has now reached height of 275 feet, and
the contractor expects to complete the shaft
the present season.
The Vermont State Fish commissioners
are soon to receive a quantity of German
carp Tor distribution amongthe ponds in the
state st. Albans will be the distributing
point.
Louise Dolphin, formerly an actress in the
Theatre COmique at Providence, II. l.. has
sued Herbert A. Sanborn of that city for
S2o,O0O for alleged breach of promise of
IN rriage.
Counting all classes, Boston has about
l20,OOO unskille laborers.
peorSe ElllOtt, VINO had just completed
term III the Providence Or. I) county iail
lor larceny was arrested while in the act of
passing counterfeit halfdollar pieces. He
had worked them off on tradespeople for
several days and when apprehended had 50
more Of the base coins with him. The coun-
terfeits are excellent in every way and
would readily be taken in the course of Or
dinary business.
The first fatal accident on the new Dexter
& Piscataquis railroad occurred on the 7th.
train of empty gravel cars without loco
motive, in charge of one brakeman, was
running on down grade, when it was met
by another train pushed by a locomotive.
Three cars were badly smashed and piled up
at the foot of an embankment 10 or Is feet
below the track
mortal exercises in commemoration of the
Chicago anarchists, which, in the circulars
distributed, is alluded to as the murder of
the leaders OF the worklngmen." Speeches
were made in German and Bohemian.
Horace Whitcomb of Bath, N H.. aged
60, was probably fatally injured by his team
running away and going over an embank-
ment.
Whistling noises on the Boston and Al
bany railroad tracks have been pronounced
nuisance by Back Bay people of Boston.
1t has been determined that the proceed
ings of the Cambridge, (Mass.) city govern
ment, whereby the West End Street Rail
way company was granted a location for
tracks on the approach to the new Harvard
bridge were irregular, inasmuch as the right
was given when the city did not own the
land, which was subsequently taken. 1t is
said that notice has been served on the
company forbidding it occupying the street.