The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-17
new ENGLAND NEWS.

After the burning of the Whitman agri.
cultural works at Winthrop, Me-, a stock
company was formed TO rebuild, under the
name OF the Winthrop Factory Company,
After some months they were burned out
again, when the business was removed TO
Auburn, Me, The stockholders have held
meeting at winthrop and voted TO close up
the unfinished business connected with this
former company,
A young man named LancassO futile
was instantly killed at Bangor, Me, by the
accidental discharge OF a shotgun, He was
climbing TO the roof OF shed, dragging the
gun after him, and it is supposed the ham-
mer caught on a shingle, causing the gun to
be discharged
The contract for building the soldiers
monument at Saugus, which IL TO be COM
pleted by Oct. 10, and to cost $4,000, has
been awarded TO w, H. Moseman, the
Chicopee sculptor,
William Backman of Andover, CT,
while loading hay was thrown from his
load, causing paraysi from the effects of
which he died.
While at play at Springfield, Mass, an
Italian girl, four years of age, accidentally
rolled down an embankment into the Con-
necticut river, and was drowned. The body
was recovered,
Student Dickinson of the freshman class
of Trinity College Hartford, Conn, when
Informed that he had been left a fortune by
Leon Dickinson Of France, was astonished
and overioyed. He had previously heard
nothing o, bis good luck He is is years
old, and comes from Essex, Conn, where
his father, Thomas \, Dickinson, isengaged
in the manufacture OF essential OILS. He has
no conception ofthe probable amount which
he will receive, but has heard that his great
uncle had large estates and abundant
means
The tow cars on the Cambridge (Mass)
division of the West End street railway, re-
Gently abolished were, at the regular meet
ing of the Cambridge aldermen, allowed to
be re-estahlished, provided that men be
placed in charge of the brakes of each car
that the South Boston line be re-established
that tenders be placed on the electric cars as
early as possible.
-Four of the largest woollen mills in New
England, representing an annual output of
So 100000, have combined for the purpose
of selling their own merchandise in New
York, thus doing away with the middle
man and saving his commission These
mills are the Hockanum, New England and
Springvale, of Rockville, CT, and the North
Adams of North Adams, Mass.
Herbert b. March, 80 years old an oil
dealer of Boston, who resided in Cambridge,
Mass, while attempting to board an out
ward bound train in the Old Colony depot,
slipped and fell beneath the wheels, and
was so badly crushed that he died while
being taken to the hospital. Deceased was
son Of ex-Alderman March of Cambridge.
Senator Blair has introduced bill APP
propriating $4,000 for the erection of an
equestrian statute of Maor-Gsn. John
Stark at Manchester, n, II.
A large public meeting has been held to
demand that the city clocas of Bath, Me-,
be set on local instead Of standard time
Three years ago it was decided at a public
meeting to do this, but Mayor Wakefield
said that it could not legally be done.
The jury in the superior court at Lowell,
Mass, returned a verdict of 5000 for the
plaintiff in the lit of Richard Heath
against the Boston & Maine railroad to re-
cover damages for personal injuries sustained
in collision on the grade crossing at School
street last summer
The Faulkner Mills of Lowell Mass, have
begun the practice of shutting down all day
Saturdays, on account of dizziness in the
wooden business.
Arrangements have been completed for
supplying Hartford, CT, with electric power
from the Pennington river, using the water
power below Tarffville. 1t will light the
streets and supply motors.
The government building in Manchester
n. H., is to be finished in accordance with
the original designs, an additional congress
ssional appropriation having been secured
for this purpose in the urgent deficiency bill.
Luzon Marshall of New York tried to
lard a train at Manchester, Ct He fell
der the wheels, and was dragged consid-
able distance. He died.
Doughty Bros, proprietors of the iron
undry at Aver Junction, Mass, are to re.
owe their plant to Lowell.