Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-07-11
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

fng the breskwater AZ the mouth OF the : &c
riNe- has become exhausted and worl
stopped. Eight hundred feet have been com
pleted and - feet more have been partialll
built.
George Meredith OF Greenfield. II year
old, fell through the ties on the Connection
River railroad drawbridge at the entrance /,
Hampton Park, Springfield. Mas. and il
thought TO have sustained internal iuurie.
which will prove fatal.
A French hoy at Bidde ord, Me-. was ac
cidentally shot in the right eve bv a man
who was handling revolver. II was
thought at first that the revolver was loaded
with blank cartridges. but II was learned
Yesterday that bail penetrated the eye. Ii
Is feared the boy cannot recover.
John W. Novel;. merchant NJ Eliot, Me-,
whose store was burned May -, has been
arraiGned on a charge OF arson.
The bedroom OF Charles Fowler. Of West
field, Mass, was entered by burglar, who
escaped with SO watch and $2j in money.
Win Lamb. aged Il. West Randolph,
VT, accidentally shot himself with re-
yolver. He pointed it at young lady
twice, but 1t did not work; then he pointed
II at himself when it was discharged, the
ball entering his eye. He lived but short
time.
New Auburn (Mc.l man took novel
way Of advertising the other day. lie man
aged to catch large snipe, and placed him
in his store window among n lot of gaudy
looking fireworks, with a p'acard about its
neck bearing the following inscription: "A
genuine Australian duck"
". H. Brown, an elderly farmer of Keith
Hill, Grafton, Mass, while driving Il loaded
wagon, was struck and thrown out by
freight train at the Wilkinsonville crossing
or the Providence e Worcester road, and
probably fatally hurt.
A factory with an output OF 20 tons day
is to be established at Fair Haven. Ct, fol-
the manufacture of artificial ice.
A crowd OF drunken French Canadians
assaulted Conductor Thomes on the White
Mountain division of the Maine Central rail-
road Two Portland officers arrested II Of
the assailants.
George Galley, who fell on an iron bar
which ran through his body, at West Bill.
erica, Mass, about week ago, has died
from internal hemorrhage resulting from
his INJURIES
Some Rhode Island farmers complain of
potato rot, which has attacked many fields
The disease has attacked the late varieties
even before the vines have blasted which is
an unusual occurrence.
The office OF Hiram Clark's carriage shop,
Augusta, Me, was burglariZcd a night or
Two ago and S74 taken. The safe was
broken open.
Deputy Sheriff Graham through John j.
McDonough, placed an attachment upon the
Tribune Publishing COmpanys plant ut Fall
Rlver, to recover 5000 which Eugene SUI.
Ivan, president Of the Progressive Viewers
Association, demands because John Coonlev,
a laborer agitator, called him names IN n
communication which the Tribune recently
printed.
If one-half the charges Of corruption made
by the Rutland Herald are true. Vermont
politics are in an exceptionally tad cond-
ton. The Herald is n widc-awake paper and
claims to have positive evidence of bribery
IN the congressional fight between Power and
Batchelder.
The heavy raft is still at Rockland, Me,
and the exact date Of its departure has not
yet been decided upon.
There is quite furry Of excitement in
Treat harrington, Mass, over the supposed
discovery OF a tin mine, an English miner of
experience having tested the ore and pro.
nounced 1t to be very rich.
A fire in the dry house and one OF the dvo
houses OF the Slater mill at Jcwett CITY. Ct,
caused loss of $4,000; insured.
A tramp with literary turn Of mind ar.
rived in Bangor, Me-, recently from Kinco
on his way to Bar Harbor. His only bag.
gage consisted of small satchcl which con. |
tanned according TO the Eangor News, |
"Ine Confessions of Jean Jacques ROuy. |
seau, " the works of Balzac. Dumas ,Clay- |
erinS Case" copy Of Shakes care ard |
Homer's Had
An examination Of the scales used bv tho |
ice dealers at liolyokc, Mass, showed thn, |
one was short anywhere frIm ID to ~ |
pounds, and another was short half n poupd |
In nNg nOllnuq Mono of
were found to overweight the fractional part
of an ounce.
Union, in Tolland county, Ct. has no doc.
tor, no lawyer, and no minister in charge of
n PARISH; the only minister Is an "eldcr.n
with license to preach, who deyotes him.
self to agriculture.
The rumor that English svndicates are nj.
tempting to buy up Rhode island industrial.
is diseredited by the Providence journal.
Farmers in southeastern Massachusetts, re-
port that prospects are good for a large hav
crop IN that section
The scheme to introduce electric stree,
cars at Norwich, CT, has fallen through for
the present. '''
Deputy Sheriff Stackpolc and CITY Mar.
shal Iarboxo: 8iddcford Me-. made nm cX
tensiVe seizure of liquors from the BRYANT
Rouse ga orchard, recently. James Nor.
49," Va N"''"'oh 10 I''c pIoITltlOf.
The new county bjiliing at Dover, y. H..
has been thoroughly examined and accented
by the county commissioners. While in
process OF construction the walls OF the
o1uilulng Tell last spring, and there was some
doubts whether the building would be &C.
,epted.
f; c. German of North Adams. Mass.
'ged 81 years, took arsenic with suicidal in
ent ana died few hours later. He was
married. but left his wife some time ago.
Mrs. Henry Burr Ogden, Fairfield. CT
Jumped from sccOndstory window during
NJ OF temporary insanity. Her spine was
INJURED. left ankle broken. and she also 70.
elved internal injuries. 1t is thought She
The body Of an unknown man was follnt
n field near Winchester, n. II. There was
nothing to Indicate the cause of death.
John Olsen, a Swcdc, 81 wears Old was
'uled at Norwich, c., by tree he was fell
ng. lie was knocked down on n ledge on
'aurel bill, and the trunk crashed lis brains
ut.