Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-06-21
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Ho elk . Ordnance company of Provi-
dence are CJmpleting a torp do outfit, which
will be taken to England within few US
for exhibition of its power and efficiency as
destructive agent in the naval warfare. The
torpedo is the one invent, d by Capt j. A.
Howell. The gear was quite successfully ex-
perimented with in Newport hartor before
the fticers of the torpedo station a few
weeks ago. improvements sugge ted by
that tr al have been made upon it, and be
fore taking it to England another test will
be made. The machine ej cts the torpedo
silently by means Of compressed air.
There is considerable excitement in lps-
wich, M S., about mad dogs. A dog sup
posed to be mad ran through the streets last
week and was finally killed in the New Bos-
ton district but it is said that it bit large
number of dogs. A young child of VIM.
Stone was also badly bitten on the SHOULDER.
BY the falling of 20 feet of embanlzment at
the Pu'sifer gravel pit, Newtonville, Mass,
Thomas Earle was buried alive, and he re-
mainod their several hours before his body
could lie reached. Twenty men labored sew
eral hours before the body was reached.
The horse and cart were also partially
buried but were extricated. He was %
years of age and unmarried. The remains
were removed to the employers hous1 at
Newton.
W. Elgar Phillips, superintendent of let
ter carriers and candida'e for postmaster
at Fall River Mass, has been arrested,
charged with larceny from the mails.
The Connec icut house has refused to ex-
tend the time for the construction of the
New York d Connecticut Air Limo road
uhe old Olmstead parallel. The vote was
35 yeas to "a nays.
The Hartford, Ct, Wheel club have voted
to give bicyc tournament at Charter Oak
park Sept. 4 and s. the races to be for anna
teurs only.
The Haynes mill at Wiscasset, Me-, has
started up with a force of about Is men.
Between 5000 and 1000 logs were towed
down last week. 1t is probable that 1L0, 000
logs will be sawed at the mill during the sea-
son.
The foundation is laid for new building,
40x6O, to be built for the West Paris Artistic
Manufacturing Co., at West Paris, Me-, and
the builling will be put up at once.
A party of Williams col ege students were
struck by train ON the Fitchburg railroad
at Braytonville crossing, near North Adams,
Mass. A four-hOrse wagon was smashed
and one no So injured. The students were
all thrown high in the air but escaped with
their lives, though badly bruised. The cross
ing is near a curve and it is said the train
did not whistle, the fagman having gone for
the night
H. E. Robinson, a student at Tufts col
lege, was taken sick with supposed rheumat-
ic fev'r. A council of physicians have now
announced it to be a case Of small pox A
large number of people have been caring for
him, and they naturally feel panicky.
Joshua Follen. bee of Pawtucket R. q
currier, committed suicide by shooting.
Gardiner G. Vose, for years one OF the
most brilliant members of the legal profess
sion in Au ,usta, died recently aged S. He
was graduate from Bowdoin college in the
class of '55.
J. T. Grady a tailor who suddenly dis
appeared from Beverly, Mass about q
month ago, is at st. Andrews, n B. He
has written a letter to a sister saying that he
will pay his b lis as soon as possible.
John Newcomb of Ewaldo cottage, Ocean
Per, Revere Mass, was attacked by large
seal while out in dory off the pier. When
first seen at distance Of somo 300 yards it
resembled a human body lying quiet on the
water. Then it slowly approached the boat,
! and when only 12 feet away made fierce
plunge out OF the water and tried to capsize
the boat. Newcomb pulled for the beach,
the seal pursuing him into shoal water, and
got ashore all right
At Saccarappa, Me- E. ]. Kimball slept in
his store, having a double -barrelled gun by
his side. A burglar crept into the store at
midnight Mr.. Kimball seized his gun, shot
the burglar in the hip, called for help and
the fellow was jailed.