Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-09-17
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

A laborer on the Boston & Maine i'm
provements at South Newmarket, wan
dered on the track Sunday night of last
week while intoxicated and was killed
by freight train.
The will of Phineas j. Stone gives the
town of Weare $4,000 to be expended
for the benefit of worthy and needy
widows and unmarried women, native
born inhabitants of the town.
Herbert Smith, freight conductor on
the Worcester division of the Boston &
Maine railroad, fell from his car at
Nashua September and was run over,
receiving injuries which resulted in his
death.
Steamboat men arriving at Lake Viii
lage reported that the steamer Lamprey,
owned by George r. Lamprey, was
burned to the waters edge Monday night
of last, week on Lake Winnipiseogee !;
loss $1,000; insurance $4,000.
Edwin B. Davis of Manchester, Dart
mouth graduate, class of SO, and in
structor in the Salt Lake City academy,
has been appointed instructor in modern
languages in the New Hampshire college
of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Harry Pretsel of Brockport, n. Y,
was arrested at Manchester for forging a
check on Griffin Bros. He had several
other checks in his possession on the
Merchants national and Amo skeag ma
tiOnal banks of Manchester, made pay
able to the order of S. r. Benton and
signed r. L. Stevens. 1t is thought that
other merchants are victims as he had
been working the city week.
The collegiate year at Dartmouth
opened at Hanover September 10. There
are about 80 freshmen, not quite so many
as last year, but the number will be in
creased by late arrivals. The entering
class in the New Hampshire college Of
agriculture and the mechanic arts num-
bers 10. A foot ball rush took place be-
tween the sophomores and freshmen,
and both classes claim the victory.
A party of New England congressman
had banquet at the Rockingham house
in Portsmouth September s by invitation
of Congressman Mckinney and Daniels
of New Hampshire. Among those pres
ent were Lewis Sperry and William f.
Wilcox of Connecticut, Charles H. Page
and Oscar Lapham of Rhode Island, and
M. F. Stevens of Massachusetts. Frank
Jones was, by special invitation, one of
the party.
Insurance Commissioner Linehan of
New Hampshire states that associations
and orders Incorporated under the laws
of Massachusetts or of any other state,
and doing business, cannot be admitted
to New Hampshire if their business is
conducted the same as orders and associ-
atiOns incorporated under New Hamp-
shire laws, which are refused admission
to those states. This is in accordance
with the retaliatory law enacted by the
last legislature.
John TObin and Frank Willis, prison
ers at the industrial school at Manchester,
nearly beat to death Albion Clough, a
Waterman, shortly after midnight Sep
TENDER s. Tobin placed some sleeping
powders in tumbler Of lemonade and
gave it to the Waterman. When Clough
was in stupor Tobin and Willis began
beating him with base ball bat and a
brass nozzle. Another prisoner heard
the noise and gave the alarm, preventing
further injury and the escape of the as
sailants, who were to have taken the
keys and left. Clough is in dangerous
condition, with many gaping wounds on
his head, and his chances for recovery
are doubtful. Tobin and Willis were
taken to the police station.
The monument which the state of New
Hampshire will erect at ThOrnton's Ferry
in memory of Matthew Thornton, sign
er of the Declaration of Independence,
will be of Concord granite and will cost
$1,000. The lot and foundation will be
presented by the town of Merrimac.
The memorial will be in the cottage style
of architecture, the base 615 feet square
and the total height little over Ii feet.
The appropriation for this object was
was made by the legislature several years
ago, the delay in erection being caused
mainly by the difficulty experienced by
the town authorities in establishing a
site satisfactory to its citizens. The