Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-04-03
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

Sales have been made at New Bedford
Mass, Of 1000 pounds Of Arrtic whaebon
at $3.50 per pound. and 1000 pounds O
northwest bone ct S. per pound, the highcs
| prices ever paid.
The building committee Of the BenninR
ton, Vt, Battle Monument, Of which Mr.
A. b. Valentine Is chairman, have decide,
upon q stairway for the monument Tn
| stairway will be buit with the appropri stiol
of tlI, 600 recently made by Congress foi IN,
purpose, and will be completed before n,
| dedication OF the monument in August
A despatch at Gloucester, Mass, from
United States Consul Malley, at st. Johns
n. f., 10 0akes & Foster, states that bait u
censes this season for American vessels vii
be free.
John Lee Gallagher, a discharged inmat,
of the state insane asylum at Cranston, Il
l., brings charges OF cruelty against watch
man at the institution.
Hon. William NJ. Chase OF Concord, y
H., having accepted an appointment as jus
tice Of the supreme court, has rendered his
resignation as clerk OF the Concord aud
Montreal corporation.
The 4-year-old child OF Fred Salmon 81
st. Johnsbury Centre. VT, was chokel to
death by piece Of dried apple lodging in his
windpipe.
The flags on all the public buildings in
Fall River, Mass. were half-mastcd in re-
spect to the memory Of the late Mrs. Mary
II. Young. The schools were closed during
funeral services, and the city government
met and passed suitable resolutions.
The New Bedford city council have just
made a special appropriation OF $50, O0O for 4
trunk sewer In Sawyer street. II wns voted
that liquor licenses be granted the ensuing
year and fees were fixed ut $1,000 for first
class, $3.50 each for second aud the third
classes, $500 for fourth class and $3.50 for
fifth class.
George p Clifford fell down a flight of
stairs at the rooms Of the Cosmopolitan
Club, No. Is Boylston place Boston. twas
found that the injured man had received a
bad fracture of the skull over the right eye,
and that the eye itself had been forced from
the socket.
Persons who are interested in some Of the
smaller telegraph lines of Vermont are COM
pluining of an injustice done them by the
legislature OF the state in assessing them
under the corporation tax law, ten per cent.
Of their gross receipts, when telephone COM
panics are assessed but three per cent
The house of Mrs. Caroline Tuck at
Haynesyillc, Me-, was burned and Mrs.
Tuck persisted in the flames. She was alone
in the house at the time. Her son, who
lives in an adjoining house, discovered the
fer, but was unable to rescue his mother.
She was burned to death In her bed before
his eyes.
Henry Waite, a trainman. was run over
and horribly crushed so that he died in
stantly, in the Concord freight yard at
Nashua, \. II. lie had been on the road
only about 10 days. He was making a con-
nection, when he fell from the top of box
car. Panpra his indicate Int bn
was from Fitchburg, Mass.
Ida Miller died at Rockland, Me, under
SUSPICIOUS circumstances. George l.. York
has been arrested to await the result of the
coroners inquest.
The vital statistics of the city Of Salem.
Mass, for the year 1890 show that ~ mar.
riagcs were solemnizcd and that there were
Soj births and T3S deaths.
Two boys at Jamaica Plain, a suburb Of
Bottom, while erecting hut in the woods
discovered portions OF two human skulls,
two sets of teeth and a number OF other
bones from human bodies The bones were
those Of adults, and had the appearance of
having lain on the ground for several years
The executive committee OF the worlds
fair board of lady managers has been
chosen. Tho'e from New England are Mrs.
Jonas II. French, Boston; Miss Ives, New
Haven. CT; Miss Amy Starkweather, Paw.
tucket, r, |. The first meeting OF the COM
mittee will be held April Il.
Duringa row among some drunken Swcdes
at the Bradford, Conn, quarry Charles
W alstrom, one of the party. aged ~ was
hit on the head with an iron bar and in
stantly killed. -Four OF the Swejes are under
arrest.
Miss Ella q. Learned OF Hartford, Conn.
who was bitten by pet dog about two
weeks ago, is dead. Since last Thursday
she has had all the symptoms Of bydropho.
bia.
The ll.month-old daughter OF George Lee
of Providence, X. l., was fatally burned BY
her clothing catching fire from stove, the
child dying few hours afterward
James f. Estabrook, who retires from the
Office OF postmaster of Worcester Mass J
was presented with valuable gold watch by |
the employees Of the Office.
\ large and enthusiastic meeting was held
At Pressure Isle, Me-, IN favor of the Bangor
Aroostcok railroad, and unanimous
vote was passed In favor OF the county rails.
ing 100000 to aid the road
The New England Porteectric Company
Is reported to have so nearly perfected its
system and demonstrated the practicabilitv |
OF running cars conveying mail matter
~ tbo iuit vi wv HlltN minute tnat IL Is
about to erect practical line for business
purposes. Its experimental plant is located |
N the Dorchester district of Boston.
Congressman Jerry Simpson and Ralph
Beaumont addressed Farmers Alliance
meeting at the Portland (Mc.) civ Hall.
There was not q large audience Iresent,
ma the two speakers introduced them.
selves.
Mr.. Lemuel Mellett, formerly OF North
Milford, Mass, and the inventor OF the Pull
'ion telephone, Is now In South America in
reducing another OF his inventions. A few
years ago he Is said 10 have been without
money, but that bis inventions have brought
him in $4,000.
The Pittslicld, Mass, street railway is to
DC equipped with electric cars. The contract
mas been awarded to the Westinghouse Flee.
re Manufacturing Company, and the road
WI begin running with the new power on
June | next.
The electric freight railway of Fall River
las obtained its charter In Massachusetts
md on March 10 4 bill was introduced into the
Rhode Island senate to incorporate the Fall
RIVER electric freight railway, wholly within