The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-31
new ENGLAND NEWS.

County, Me-, for the canning OF corn, lnls
wear 1910 acres of corn were raised IN the
county for canning purposes and l.dloooo
cansput up.
Statistics recently published by the Port
land (Me) board of trade show that the
manufacturing establishments of the city
number more than 500, including locomo-
tive and car works rolling mills, five tam
ncres, IS boot and shoe factories, IS machine
shops and foundries, two lead and color
works, Is carriage factories and over 1870
other leading branches of manufacture The
number employed is 5000 the sum ofSl ,5i7,-
375 being paid in wages. The annual pro-
duct is 50 500, 52S, on an invested capital of
s4,6io,375, The annual arrival of vessels of
all classes 1921, including 736 steamers,
Value of exports by sea annually Si,5OS, DOL.
Louis wager, son of Prof Granville Wager
Of Middlebury, Vt, college, had his collar
bone broken while playing base ball.
The state university at Burlington, Vt,
has received a bequeSt Of $1,000 from the late
Charles w, Rich to found a scholarship for
students from other towns if none come
from there.
The public library of Spencer, Mass, has
received from Hon. John f. Russell gift
ofi23 bound volumes of Littells Living
Age, from the beginning to 1874, The Ii
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 20 years old and respondent
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 appropra-
ton and personal subscriptions. It is of st.
George granite. The height OF the monu-
mont is "a feet and its weight IS 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, (N
H,) has held public meeting at Bradford to
discuss the repopulatlon of abandoned
farms. The prevailing sentiment was in
favor of encouraging the work of repopu-
lating the farms.
Francis Leonard, crazy Italian. nearly
caused panic in Jordan & Marsh's dry
goods store, Boston, by rushing through the
aisles tlourishing 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
spector Knox tackled the maniac while he
was cutting the rope of the cash car system
and disarmed him. He was locked ur. He
is the same man who on Monday night cut
the ropes of the open air gymnasium.
The first section of the Suncook Valley
railroad extension from Pittsfeld to Barn
stead Centre, n. H., has been opened.
An agreement has been entered into, it is
by wi, hot
ton and New York via the 1New York &
New England, will be considerably short
ened.
David Warren tor years led the life ola
hermit in 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 "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 a man who
would take the place of workman out on a
strike was not capable Of directing them in
the paths of Christian duty.
quarrel over one dollar occurred on
North Market street, Boston, as a 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 Fitchburg road.
The body of James Gray, who was
drowned in the seroned level canal at Hol-
yoke, Mass, was found about SO yards from
where he fell in.
Nantucket (Mass.) people expect to have
street railway in operation by next summer.
The New Bedford (Mass) street railroad
riaI . tha
and the number of miles run was 496,015.
Its total income was S104, Az, and its net in
come S27, S4S. 1t was expended, for interest
$500, dividend 5 per cent. $12,9S5, surplus
sl0,055.
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.
Mrs. C. Whitlock of Bath Me-, will receive
a legacy of $4,000 the first of December
from her grandfather in England.
Hon. Noah Brooks, editor of the Newark,
n. J. Advertiser, a 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 the 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 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
MI
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 f. Whitcomb, her
brother, lived with Them and is victim of
opium habits. She has been married three
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.
Express train 81, from east, went off the
track at Haverhill, Mass, Saturday. The
trouble was caused by the switch being left
open by the brakeman on gravel train. No
one was injured.
The governor of Massachusetts, has APP
pointed Thursday, Nov. 2sth, as Thanks
giving day.
Grandma Brown" of Winsted Conn,
whose Tooth birthday occurred on the 22d,
died on the 18th. She was three times mar
ried. Her father was a revolutionary sol
dier, and served with Washington at Valley
Forge. She has been bright and active un-
til within a few weeks. She had fall about
two weeks ago, which Frustrated her, and it
was not expected she would round out her
century Of existence.
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