Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-01-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
new ENGLAND HAPPENINGS.
FRIDAY, JAN. IA.

FRIDAY, JAN. IA.
George Lloyd, Gloucester, Mass, was
drowned While tending travis.
Explosion Of Illuminating gas caused
injury to five members of a Boston fam.
lily.
There was $4,000 blaze in the picker
room of the Hamlet mill, Woonsocket
r. 1.
Fire burned Taylor & Barker's chem
ical factory in Wameset, near Lowell,
Mass.
Weavers in the Androscoggin mill,
Lewiston. Me-, voted to resist the cut
down.
George Smith, Wakefield, Mass, was
caught between trains in Melrose and
killed
SATURDAY, JAN. 10.
Insurance rates in Boston may be re-
vised.
An unknown man was killed by train
near Augusta, Me.
Lemon w. Rowell of Eddington, Me-,
committed suicide.
The will of Mrs. Mardelina Lubee OF
Bath, Me-, is to be contested.
Ravages of the insect pest known as
the brown-tail moth in Cambridge, Mass.
Charles E. Patterson, postoftice clerk,
was arrested at Boston for stealing let
tiers, and confessed the theft.
SUNDAY JAN. &c.
Brandon, VT, italian Marble COM
pany's plant was destroyed by flames.
Summer home of exzPresident Cleve-
land in Buzzard's Bay, Mass, was
robbed.
Louis Whitmore and William Abbott
were" drowned near Bucksport Me-.
while fishing.
Mrs. William McKenna was burned
fatally in Bridgeport, Conn, by grease
catching fire.
Carbolic acid was taken by Sarah
Holm, Newport, R. l., girl, who was
slightly denlented.
Reward Of $500 is offered for the appre-
hension Of Miller, the alleged murderer
of Brookfeld, Mass
Unknown assailant committed a muir
derous assault upon Samuel Harrison
Of Manchester, N. H. ~
Proprietor and two customers were
robbed of $50 in a Brockton, Mass, store
by three masked men.
Catharine Golwin, q years, ended her
dependency on account of idleness by
swallowing carbolic acid in Boston.
MONDAY, JAN. II.
Joel Putnam, aged Danvers, Mass.
resident, shot himself in the right temple
and is not expected to live.
j. A. Thurston, Lynn, Mass, enioys the
distinction of being the oldest policeman
in the country, his service extending over
SO years.
State Detective Murray returned to
Worcester with no clue to whereabouts
OF Paul Muller, the suspected murderer
OF the Newton family in Brookfield.
Mass.
'Lynchfng is liable to abuse, for mis-
takes are sometimes made, but I be-
lleVe, said G. j. Bonaparte of Baltimore
In an address in Boston, few innocent
men are lynched, and those that are so
are not desirable members of society
and the custom is certainly a great de-
terrent of crime"
In the annual report of the state SUD-
erintendent of schools that official saws
that the greatest needs of Maine schools
today are better physical SURROUNDINGS
more complete and competent SUPER
vision, better equipped teachers. more
intelligent arrangement and thorough
of subjects studied, better in
struction in manners, morals, economy
and citizenship, and higher literary and
are ideals.
TUESDAY, JAN. IS.
Three children were suffocated hv eas
at Boston.
The Franklin Typographical society Of
Boston celebrated it's 18th birthday.
The Somerville (Mass) RepubIican
city committee is between $500 and 5000
in debt.
An unknown man, aged about 2S. was
fatally injured by a passenger train at
New Haven.
Edward A. Knight is alleged to have
stolen about $4,000 worth of valuables
from loan office in Boston that he man
aged
The Republicans swept Mfddletown.
Conn, in the annual city election. The
collector was the only exception to a.
unanimous Republican victory.
F1fteen thousand cotton mill opera-
tlves are on strike at New Bedford.
Biddeford, Saco and Lewiston. Stones
were hurled at two superintendent and
windows broken in mills of New Bed
ford.
WEDNESDAY. JAN. 10.
Samuel c. Bennett has been appointed
acting dean of the Boston university law
school.
Colored woman of Lynn, Mass, was
on charge of assaulting her
mother with razor.
Mass meeting of Harvard students
passes resolution in favor of a uni
versity club, with the idea of promoting
q more united spirit in the university.
New Bedford manufacturers and oper-
atives prepare for long, stubborn labor
battle: weavers make fines question an
ssue; Biddeford (Me. strikers pelt cloth
hall help with snowballs.
Officers of the elevated railroad in
Boston say that the motive power will !
be electricity. and will be obtained from
a third rail. and that free transfers sys.
tenn win be more general than now.