Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-31
TO GO TO ALASKA.
Interesting Letter from Spencer Man
NoWin Seattle.

NOW III 0SdktCs
Spencer, March S0,-Peter j. Dufault
has received 8 letter today from his
brother. Charles L. Dufault. who left
Spencer four weeks ago for the Pacific
coast. Mr.. DufauIt has been in Seattle
the past few weeks, clerKng in gentle
mans furnishing goods store.
He will now go to Alaska. however
as he has Signed a contract for one year
with the Yukon Navigation and Com
mercial Company, and will be clerk and
bookeeper on the Northern Light steam.
ship. which carries passengers to Daw-
son city He will assume his duties in
one week, The vessel sails for Alaska
April 81.
The Alaskan line of steamers of the
Yukon Navigation Company will remain
at Dawson City after September /
throughout the winter, and will be used
for lodging purposes by travellers.
Mr. Dufault was formerly engaged In
the meat business in Spencer.
FUNERAL OF LOUIS FRIGON.
The funeral of Louis F'rigon was held
this forenoon at o'clock at ST., Mary's
Church Solemn high,mass was celebrat.
ed by Rev. A. A. Lamy Many friends
attended the funeral, and the st. Jean
Baptiste Society, F. A. Stearns Post and
the Sacre Coeur Society of St. Mary's
Church we're present in a body. The
floral tributes were numerous and beau
tiful
The bearers We're T. M. Bliss, Frank
M. Norcross and Charles B. Carpenter
from the G. A. R. Post, and Alfred Du-
hamel, Peter Comeau and Horace Char.
land from the st. Jean Baptiste Society
The burial was at St Mary's cemetery.
CHARGED WITH RAPE
John Deverny was arrested in Wor.
cester today and brought to Spencer by
Deputy Sheriff Henry P Draper
charged with attempted rape on Della
Goderre on the afternoon of February
26. Deverny was taken before Justice
A. w Curtis this afternoon and denied
the charge, saying that he had never
been in Spencer before today Della Go
derre was in court and identified Dew.
erny as the man who committed the as
sault.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The annual parish meeting of the Con
gregational Church will be held at the
church parlors Monday evening, April 4
at 7.3O O'Clock. The annual reports will
be read and parish officers will be elect.
ed for the ensuing year.
The subscription committee of the higi
school athletic association have raised
$40, and now has 800 for training expens
es. Over 500 will be required to defraJ
the expenses of the team for the coming
season.
There are 1927 names on the voting
list. The Naturalization Club has 40
voters registered.
Rev. George w. Bieknell, D. D., o.
Cambridge, lectured to q, large audience
at the town hall this evening. The lee
ture, entitled Down in Dixie was ex
tremely interesting, and the stereopticor
views were especially fine.
Water Commissioner Dexter Bullart
succeeded today in locating the break il
| the water main pipe on lower Mail
street 1t was in a joint, and water wa
! flowing from it at the rate Of 20 gallons
an hour.
| Henry w. Wheeler is at home from
| Worcester Academy for vacation.
| The hearing was continued until to
morrow morning at O'Clock. Sheriff
| Draper has been at work on the cast
for some time, and believes that Dew
erny is the man wanted for the assault
James Mccormick has commenced his
duties as base ball coach at Phillips Ex
| eter Academy. Mr.. Mccormick is ar
old League player, and well known il
| base ball circles
The David Prouty high school closes
Friday for a weeks vacation.