The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-16
new ENGLAND NEWS.


for moro than 40 years an employe OF the
Concord railroad, was instantly killed by a
train in the yard of the Concord and Mon
tIeal railroad at Concord, N. III.
Arthur Rogers, 10 years old, was arrested
at Dayisville, II, l., for the alleged poisoning
of the well of Mr.. Chaee by throwing
paris green, blue vitriol and kerosene into
II, Ii Is said he quarelled with Chace and
threatened TO kill him because Chaee was
doing passenger transportation business
which interlered with the boys finances as
the custodian of the little railroad station at
that village,
The inquest ON the bodies of Engineer
Slate and Fireman Gibson, killed in the re-
cent railroad llision at Keene, n, H.,
showed that the accident was caused by the
error of the telegraph operator at Westmore-
land in copying an order substituting SUM
nit for Tenth station as the place where the
local freight should pass the wild train, The
operator received and repeated the train des-
patcher's order correctly, but uneonsciously
made the fatal error in copying it, The OPP
orator Miss Cook, has been employed there
10 years without making mistake before.
Edward Schade,a German, hanged himself
in the lookup in Adams, Mass, with his
suspenders. He is thought to have been in
sane,
Inv iatNlsttui Nts,NltN peNii
destroyed by fire, 1t was a handsome high
brick structure, 200 feet by 60, with an
annex about 75 by 80, and was occupied by
the postoitice, public library, armories of
military companies, city prison and city
offices. The loss exceeds $25o,Oo0.
There were So deaths in Boston one day
recently, the largest number that ever oc-
Cured in that chy in one day,
The inques, in the case of Stephen La
Plant, who murdered his grandson, and
brutally assaulted his granddaughter, at
Haverhill, n. H. revealed the fact that
there was no liquor directly connected with
the murder that La Plant was perfectly
sane u few minutes before the deed was
commit d, aud that uglness and bad tenn
per were the direct causes of the crime.
A fellow snatched pocketbook from a
lady in Boston and escaped. The
pocketbook contained two theatre tickets,
which the thief was unwise enough to use,
and his arrest soon followed.
The bingham mill at Walpole, Mass, has
been burned. Loss $4,000,
Citizens of Chicopee, Mass, have petit
toned the legislature for a charter for city
government
Little Dollie Dutton, the once famous
midget died recently in Worcester, Mass,
at the insane asylum. Alice NJ. Sawin was
her married name and she was native OF
Sudbury Mass. Her weight was but Is
pounds and her height but 20 inches.
A freight train from Portland to Boston,
was wrecked at Lawrence, Mass, by some
distractions being struck by the locomotive.
The engine jumped in the air, broke from
the tender and went bounding along the
track. Engineer George Connolly and Fire
man Alma Manchester jumped with Brake
Tn1 II ! hsl ott n
leg. The engine tender broke from the
train, while the locomotive turned right
angles to the track and stopped. Six cars
We're piled on themselves in huge mass on
top OF the balance of the train remaining on
the track Two hundred feet of track was
torn up. The accident is thought to have
been caused by sleeper across the track as
there are no switches at this point.
The war against illegal liquor selling is
being wsged holly in Bangor, Me-, by the
temperance people, who are bursting open
liquor saloons and contiscating coptraband
stocks. The excitement is intense. 1t seems
that the city has been great storing and
distributing point for some of the leading
Boston wholesale houses.
In Manchester, n. H., there are 37S7 pu-
pills recorded in the public schools, 1897
in the parochial and So under private in
struction.
The Belfast (Me.) board of trade is deter
mined to have another shoe factory, and as
inducements the city has offered to release
any manufacturing company with more
than $4,000 capital which will locate there
from taxation for ten years, while private
contributions enable the board to offer a
suitable building.
Mrs. VIM. Calagan, 101, the oldest citi-
zen of Ansonia, Conn, is dead.
David Morrissey and George Rowling,
aged IA and II, broke through the ice at
Hurricane Island, Me-, and were drowned.
A fortune of S1,o0000O worth of real
estate, located near Bangor, Me-, is reported
to have fallen to Mrs. l.. b. Burr of Buffalo
N. Y.
Hon. C. H. Upper, Canadian minister oi
marine, is sending through President Harri
son to each of the three fishermen of South
Bristol, Me-, named respectively Brewer
Marden and Thorp, gold watch, suitably
inscribed, as token of their courageous
conduct in saving the lives Of five of the
crew of the schooner Ocean Belle, of Digby
n. s., on the 2Sth of November last, under
circumstances of unusual bravery.
Walter Judlins of Lowell Mass, a freight
brakeman on the Boston & Lowell railroad,
was instantly killed in endeavoring to step
from one car to another. He was about q
years of age, and was married about yeal
ago,