Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-05-01
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

The fr.t Rhode Island French sp0lialion
claims have been paid 20 William q. Glad
ding OF Newport, x. l., administrator on the
estates Of J. W Russell. Allen Monroe and
Nathaniel Rowland Of Bristol. The amount
was s7lSj.a0.
A warrant for the repayment OF the direes
tax fund has teen issued from the nlted
States treasury department in favor OF Mas
sachusctts for S6s6,lU1.
The Concord & Montreal Railroad has
leased from the Old Colony for ninetv-nlne
wears the siX-miles Ink between North Ac-
ton and Concord Junction. Mass, and the
former will run all its summer mountain
trains via Acton branch. Heretofore the
through mountain travel has been via
Lowell.
The remains Of the late Rear Admiral
TAYLOR were placed in Oak Hill cemetery
Washington, and later in the year VIII be IN
TERED at Portsmouth, y. h.
Both branches Of the New Bedford city
government have cOncurred in an order hN-
ing the mayors salary at 5000 for the year
1892. The present salary is $500
warrant will soon be issued from the
treasury department at Washington iof
SlSI, sol in favor of the state of New lamp
shire. this amount being that states share OF
the direct tax fund, minus 1854 withheld by
the treasury for arms supplied the state
The body Of a man, supposed to be that OF
Andrew Robes OF Someryille, Mass, was
found dead in the old pasture northeast OF
the Salem reservoir in North Beverly a
loaded musket was found near the body
The trustees OF the New Hampshire state
Agricultural College have found that they
can take no formal action looking to the re-
moval of the college to Durham until the
property has been legally transferred to the
( state.
| A sensation has been created in New
| Haven. Conn.,, by the announcement that
| &. w. Eyarts a rich old man has married
| Miss Lucy HOtchkiss, n charming society
! girl. who is considerably less than half ms
| age Mr. Evarts is one of the best-known
men in the town, and Is about sixty years oil
| age.
| The CITY of w oonsocket, X. l., which was
| the defendant in rather peculiar suit for
! damages in the supreme court has been
muIcted in $500 by lady who hit her foot
! on an old htching post and fractured bone
| The city workmen left the bottom of the
post standing in order to save a small piece
of the curbstone from destruction.
At town meeting at Rochester, y. H.,
the city charter, recently granted by the
legislature, was accepted by 392 majority
1t will go into effect Jan. |.
Hattie +. Elliot, aged 16, daughter of the
late Charles A. Elliot, NJ. D., of Great Fall
\. H., died at her mothers home under
mysterious and uneX planned circumstances.
| A post m )rtem examination conducted by
| Drs. Hubbard and BlaZo has proved that
death was due to other than natural causes,
the symptoms of sickness and the appearance
! Of the internal organs indicating arSenlc1I
poisoning. An investigation is to be made
n l., haa
been appointed by the president member
of the board of visitors TO West Point, vice
S. ;. PCcle, resigned.
James McDuffee, who was lodged in the
Dover N. H. Jail for the murder Of Kate
Lawrence in Rochester, is giving Jailcl
pngrce good deal Of trouble. He acts like
a crazy man, and shouts and talks nearly
all the time. The authorities are puzzled tC
know whether McDutiec is really insane OF
is only pretending.
In the superior court at Augusta, Me.
James Foley, convicted of manslaughter II
causing the death OF John Cronin during
drunken row on March 1t, was SENTENCED
to 81 months imprisonment
Mrs. Ebenezer Wyatt, ~ wears of age, wa
burned to death at her residence in Ports
mouth, y. II. She had fallen against tabl,
on which vas lighted lamp.
An unknown man, between 30 and H.
years OF age was found drowned in thu
1iockanum river in East Hartford Conn
He probably fell from the highwa!
bridge.
Royal Ingraham, Scituatc Or. ~ farmer
has been arrested for defrauding the govern
mcnt by false return OF the expense o
caring for and buryng his mother, a pen
sionCr.
1t is thought that the body found in tn
Chicopce river is that of ID. Il. French,
book agent Of Willimantic, Ct.
! William Closson, sailor, 26 years of age
fell from the schooner William Daughter n
Spruce Head, Me-, and was drowned.
The man killed at the Broad street railwa,
crossing, Pawtucket, Il. H. has been idc nti
fed as Patrick McKenna Of South Boston.
The sentence OF John +. Davis. serving
six years sentence for larceny at Nortl
Haven, has been COMMITTED to three years b.
Coy. Burleigh OF Maine.