Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01
new ENGLAND NEWS.

a a14-yeaf-old son of FranF spinney Of Eliot,
Me, received dangerous wound The wad
was driven through one hand and the arm
was Shattered by the shot
There are twelve factories in Franklin
County, Me-, for the canning of corn. This
yebr 1910 acres of corn were raised in the
county for canning purposes and 100000
cans put up.
Statistics recently published by the Port
land (Me) board of trade show that the
manufacturing establishments of the CITY
number more than 300, including locomo-
tive and car works, rolling mills, five tan
neries, Is boot and shoe factories, 13 machine
shops and fQundries, two lead and color
works, Is carriage factories and over 130
other leading branches of manufacture. The
niimber employed is 5000, thesum ofS1, ,547,-
375 being paid in wages. The annual pro-
duct is 50, 569, SOB, oman invested capital Of
$3.50, 375. The annual 2svysl of vessels of
all classes, 1921, including 736 steamers.
Value of exports by sea annually 81, 4,50306t.
Louis wager son of Prof. Granville Yager
of Middlebury, VT, college, had his collar
bone broken while playing base ball.
The state university at Burlington, Vt,
has received bequest of $1,000 from the late
Charles W. Rich to found a scholarship for
students from other towns if more come
from there.
The public library of Spencer, Mass, has
received from Hon. John E. Russell gift
of 1913 bound volumes OF Littelps Living
Age, from the beginning to 1874. The IL
brary is also indebted to Mr.. Russell for
many government publications which he
has secured for it.
Joseph Rice of Lake View, near Worces-
ter Mass, committed suicide with a shot
gun. He was 70 years old and despondent
from long illness,
Few towns in Maine can boast ofso hand
some monument as that of the town Of
Warren. This monument is constructed
from fund made up by town appropria-
ton and personal subscriptions. 1t is of st.
George granite. The height of the monu-
ment is "a feet and its weight 30 tons. 1t is
of black granite, and abounds in intricate
carved work and emblematic carved work
and emblematic designs.
A very clever larceny was performed at
the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, the loser being
the wife of proprietor of the hotel. Their
apartments were left unlocked, when the
lady returned her diamond earrings valued
at $500 were missing. Nothing else was dis
turbed,
Merrimack County Pomona Grange IN.
H has held public meeting at Bradford to
discuss the repopulation Of abandoned
farms. The prevailing sentiment was in
favor of encouraging the work of repopu-
lating the farms.
Francis Leonard, crazy Italian, nearly
caused a panic in Jordan & Marsh's dry
goods store, Boston, by rushing through the
aisles flOurishing razor in each hand and
yelling all the while The saleswomen and
shoppers were driven about the place like a
flock Of sheep, and a deafening scream for
help startled the city for blocks around, In
cVNpn nf1r t-o 1o1 h. Isl En
was cutting the rope of the cash car system
and disarmed him. He was locked up. He
is the same man who on Monday night cut
the ropes of the open air gymnasium.
The first section of the Sunoook Valley
railroad extension from Pittsfield to Barn
stead Centre, N. H., has been opened.
An agreement mas been entered into, it is
said, by which the distance between Bos.
ton and New York, via the New York &
New England, will be considerably short
ened.
David Warren tor years led the life of
hermit in a little vine-covered cottage near
Danbury, Conn. His house was burned re-
Gently, and as Warren has not been seen
since, it is supposed that he was burned to
death.
A class of boys left the Methodist Sunday
school at Holbrook because a teacher who
was a 'scab' workman in a shoe factory
was appointed as a substitute in the absence
of their regular teacher, One of the boys
said that they had decided that man who
would take the place of workman out on q
strike was not capable of directing them in
the paths of Christian duty.
A quarrel over one dollar occurred on
North Market street, Boston, as result of
which RhoderiCk McKennon, a hotel
waiter was stabbed to death. The man
who did the stabbing has surrendered.
1t is rumored that the Vanderbilt system
is about to absorb the Ftchburg road.
The body of James Gray, who was
drowned in the seconed level canal at Hol-
yoke, Mass, was found about 50 yards from
where he fell in.
Nantucket (Mass.) people expect to have a
street railway in operation by next summer.
The New Bedford (Mass.) street railroad
carried 2,879, i3l passengers the past year,
and the number of miles run was 496,015
Its total income was $l0i, 472, and its net in
come $27,SlS. 1t was expended, for interest
$4S00, dividend 5 per cent. S129S5, surplus
$40, ,055,
A single train of cars took 1900 bushels
of potatoes from Aroostook county, Me-, re-
Gently.
The Dirigo Mutual Accident association
of Lewiston, Me-, has voted to discontinue
its business.
a legacy of $4,000 the first of December
from her grandfather in England.
Hon. Noah Brooks, editor of the Newark
N. J. Advertiser, native of Castine Me-.
has presented to the Castine town library 40
new books.
1t is proposed to rebuild next season the
Mount Mansfield house at Stowe, Vt, The
new hotel will be considerably smaller than
the one recently burned.
The 45th annual meeting of Che Rhode Is
land Institute of instruction has been opened
in Infantry hall, Providence. There was a
large attendance of teachers from all parts
of the state, and a variety eff interesting pa
pers on special educational topics were read,
The new Cambridge (Mass.) bridge will
probably not be formally opened until
spring.
The tallest chimney in America is nearly
finished for the Fall River Iron works mill.
1t is from the foundation 366 feet high. 1t
is the fifth largest in the world.
The largest four masted schooner ever
built, has been launched at Camden, Me.
Frederick e. Whitcomb and Mrs. Helen
+. Moore have been arrested, on warrants of
murder, charged with administering poison
TO one John D, Moore, an aged, retired
farmer, residing at Sodom near Wilbraham,
Mass, He died mysteriously, and an
autopsy indicates death from poisoning.
Deceased possessed considerable property,
and had been married to Mrs Moore but two
weeks. Frederick +, Whitcomb, her
brother, lived with them, and is victim OF
opium habits She has been married thref
times, and the fact that her second husband
died mysteriously is one of the authorities
reasons for investigating this case, which is
more complicated, but similar. They both
pleaded not guilty to the charge and had
their cases continued.
The VanderbfIts Furnish $3.50 900.
Chauncy Nj Depew led Off the subsorip,