The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-02-13
new ENGLAND NEWS.

a party OF New ORR capitalists purpose
| developing the asbestos quarries situated at
Reading, VT, providing the fibre OF the
stone proves large enough to satisfy them.
A new company l. TO build paper and
| pulp mill on the Penobscot at Rowland
| Me II will be l0-lon sulphide mill, the
building 225 by 100 feet, and the location is
such that 1t may lie Increased in size il the
| business proves profitable. The capital Of
the company is $4,000.
| Forty liquor saloons were recently raided
in Manchester, n, H., in one day,
A new odd-Fe.lows' building has been
dedicated at Concord, n, II,
John Rickaby l7year-old clerk at st.
| JOhnsbury, VT, lost & in a ooasting ac-
cident, The traverse ran into pos and his
| tight leg was SO badly uroken that amputa-
ton above he knee was necessary.
| A boy between two aud three wears ole, son
of Herman Morse OF Buck field, Me-, was
fatally burned.
| A, +, Parks lost a suan Of horses at Rich
mond, Me, They had broken through the
ice, and in getting them out were choked to
death.
John E. Rislev. Jr, 81 years old, law
yer, was found sutlucated in bed at Provi-
denee, X, l. The gas had by some means
been left turned on in the closed room.
Mr.. John Corbett of England has given
Harvard Univers ty a miniature on silver of
| George Washington, which he purchased at
a sale OF vertu III London,
by the will of the late Susan Messer of
Portland, Me, a beque,t of $500 is left to
the Portland Proridpnt Society and one of
$500 to the Widows Wood Society.
| According 10 the return of the school dis
trict clerk to he Town Clerk of st. Johns
bury, Vt, Mrs. NJ iry Brodie Clement, who
died September %, 1889, was Ia years, 4
months and ~ days old Though no one
over 100 years old.
The safe in the station of the Boston Il
Albany railroad at South Spencer, Mass,
was blown open by burglars and completely
wrecked, The burglars secured about $50.
Mrs. Julia Drisco of Concord, n. Ii
was terribly burned by the breaking of a
Ike osene lamp. Portions of her bouy were
burned to a crisp. She was taken to the
hospital, the physicians saying that she
could not live till morning.
The committee on High School of the
Lynn (Mass.) school board has formally
complained to the city marshal that conlec-
| and boys of the High School to such an eX-
! tent that the matter has become serious,
and the police are desired to stop the sale.
John Cearv, aged 20, was killed by the
cars at Holyoke Mass,
James II. Britton, retired Worcester
| (Mass.) foundryman, shot himself in fit of
mental alteration.
Two Belfast (Me.) youths who undertook
to monkey with an electric current in order
TO play practical joke upon an unoilend-
| ing dog, will never dabble in this kind of
humor again. The dog escaped unscathed,
but the two would-be funny men got shak-
en- up in manner they will not soon for
get.
Augustus Higgins, Dennis McAuliffe and
Bernard Remington were ont in q row boat
cunning, near Ragged Island, just off Mel
vile Garden Downer Landing, Mass, when
| a squat struck the boat, capsiZng it. Rem
ington chung to the boat, but the other two
quickly sunk. Remington was rescued by
some clamdiggers who witnessed the acct
dent
d. Edgar Clark cashier of the Parker
| House cafe, Boston, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with razor, at his resi-
dence i'll East Boston. He received an in
Jury to his head about Christmas time
which it is thought seriously affected his
brain. He was SO years of age and was un-
married.
Portland, Me-, has had $4,000 fire. 1t
was the most disastrous fire for years, three
large wharves, many buildings a schooner
and other property being destroyed.
George Il. Hunt Is years old, elevator boy
in C. Amy & Co.'S establishment at Provi-
dence, r. l., was crushed to death between
the elevator and door jamb.
Frank l.. Dray, brakeman. fell between
the cars while coupling at Windsor Locks,
Conn, and died soon after. He leaves a
widow and four children.
The agents of the Cunard Steamship Com.
pany admit that numerous irregularities
have cen discovered in the accounts of the
missing cashier, Hurd, but they refuse to
tell whether the irregularities showed a
heavy defalcation or not. They say it will
be month before any decisive statement
can be given out.
Arthur f. Dow, leading merchant of
Littleton, n. H., who had been missing
since last September, has been found near
Seattle, Washington, where he is ill.
Judge Mason of the superior civil court
at Dedham, Mass, has rendered decision
denying the motion for a new trial in the
famous Snow-Alley case. 1t is expected
that the amount of the last verdict, S54, 00C
and costs, will be paid at once and the case,
which has been tried five times thus final
ly sett ed
Edwin Wilder Goodel, 20 years old, sec
ond son of Gen. Arthur A. Goodell, shot
himself dead at Worcester, Mass. He
suffered severely from la grippe few weeks
ago and had had fits of dependency ever
since.
The will of the late Israel II. Bray of Free
man, Me-, bequeaths the largest amount OF
any will ever presented in Pennington
county. No public requests are made
Over $40 900 are given to relatives.
Otis Fisher, the treasurer of Putnam,
Conn, who is said to have detaulted, per
sists in declaring that he cannot find his
books and that they are all right
Mrs. A. c. Williams of Rutland, Vt, fell
down stairs while asleep and had her right
arm broken above the elbow, besides sus
tanning internal injuries.
The annual encampment of the Massa
chusetts department, g. A. r., has been
held at Boston. Gen. Russell A. Alger
comlnander-in chief Of the Grand Army
visited the encampment and made an ad
dress. George H. Innis of South Boston
was elected department commander.
The Boston Public Library secured many
of the rarest books in the Barlow collection
in New York.
Eta, the fou--year-old daughter OF Anton
Liebert, while playing in front Of her home
in Danburv, Conn. was attacked by mac
dog IAN English mastiff) and horribly
bitten being left in dying condition.
BY the death of Mrs. NJ. NJ. KelIoge
Montpelier. VT, will receive $4,000 for {
chapel in Green Mount Cemetery $4,000
for an ornamental gateway, and a sum suf
ficent to provide library building as gooC
as any in New England outside of Boston
to be built, furnished and maintained
A double drowning accident occurred a
Bramanvile tNiillbnrv) Mass, in Lapham
Pond, when Peter Gillin, aged 5. and Eddi
Cain, aged /, broke through theice.