The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-09
Charges DR.. Fiske
With Assaulting
His Son.
\ BREEZY time PROMISED.
Massachusetts Highway
Association in
Town.


Clinton, Aug. S.-Determined to Sc
cure the arrest of DR.. jeremiah Fiske,
If possible, Louis Gigure consulted
counsel, this evening. Gigure claims
that Dr. Fiske committed an assault
upon his S-year-old son, Fred Gigure, at
1890 o'clock yesterday morning.
DR.. Fiske is a man we'll advanced in
years. He is one of the leading citizens
of the town. He owns the block next
door to the basement where the Gigures
live.
The trouble began when DR.. Fiske
nghted fire in the rear of his block
Dr. F1ske has been much annoyed by
the children playing with the fire. He
determined to punish some of the Of
lenders and started after Fred Gigure
The boy is small and nervous. He was
i badly frightened and ran away. He ran
through the kitchen of the Gigure
home into room used for storage pur-
poses.
DR.. Fiske, according to the story told
by Mrs. Gigure, Fred's sister Lucy and
the children in the neighborhood, ran
| through the house and into the room
Where the boy was concealed. The
Glgures say he seized the boy by the
neck and chol1ed bin. The little boy
screamed so as to attract the attention
% mrs. Gig9re, who engaged in a
struggle with DR.. Fiske and tried to put
him out of the house DR.. Fiske left.
! Ihey die not get warrant this morn
4 Ing. Court Officer Abijah Brown con-
veyed the news TO them that they could
not have it. Mr.. Gigure came home
this evening, and upon hearing the
story of his wife and Mrs. Draleau, de-
terminec to press the matter. Mrs. ORA
leau accompanied by Mrs. Gigure to act
as interpreter.
The correspondent Of The Spy talked
with Gigure this evening. He said he
was determined to proceed against
Fisks, by civil process if he could not
do it otherwise. Mrs. Gigure called in
the boy. He is very small for lad of
his age. His mother said his growth had
been stopped because he is subject to
fits.
The incident creates much interest
here, because DR.. Fiske is so we'll
: known. Gigure is employed in the foun-
dry of Judge G. c. Stone.
Great town, and great enterprise,
was the condensed opinion of so mem
bers of the Massachusetts, Highway as
ISOLATION, of this town, and the big
Wachusett reservoir on the visit here
today. The members were met by eight
bargeS and driven to many points of
interest, both in this town and in Ian
caster. There was dinner at the Gin
ton house at l o'clock, a lunch at the
residence of Harold Parker, of Lancas-
ter, and visit to the aqueduct that
takes the waters of the Nashua to
; Boston, for chief amusements.
The itinerary was arranged by Mr.
Parker in consultation with Warren
Goodale, president of the Clinton
Business Mems association, and other
. members of the association.
The journey into the tunnel was most
fascinating of all to the road builders
This matter had been engineered by
Department Engineer Miller. He caused
the water to be shut off from the tun-
mel, until there was no more than an
inch and half in the lowest part of the
great underground thoroughfare
Entrance was made through the shaft
opposite the dam. Most of the party fol-
, | lowed Engineer Miller into the tunnel
an eighth of a mile. But nearly every
body was willing to return when Mr..
Miller gave the word. The fishing af-
forded amusement to the least fearful
OF the party. The water flowed out of
the tunnel SO rapidly that the suckers
forgot to flow with It. Not enough fluid
| ASAtA@AilSO " ilOdl LIl6 ldFB6Sl OIL the
; | fish. suckers frequently floundered to
the feet Of the visitors and invited cap
ture. President Goodale captured two
large fellows with his hands, and his
example was. enulated by Others One
Of Mr.. Goodales fish was at least g.
foot long ana must have weighed al
least pound. The tunnel was lighted
with gasoline lamps The illumination
is excellent. The tallest man in the
party found that he could walk upright
in the big acquduct. 1t is II feet from
the top to the bottom of it. Ordinarily
the aqueduct holds about 6 feet Of
water.
The visitors were taken to the north
dixie, where they left their conveyances
and walked across on the big banks Of
sand that form the face of the wall the
metropolitan engineers are raising be-
tween Clinton and the waters They
could appreciate the magnitude of the
dixie, even in it's far from completed
state.
Like everybody else who sees the
work that is being done on the reservoir
for the first time, the visitors We're
struck with establishment at the mag
nitade of the work.
The contract for the construction of
the new schoolhouse at Walnut and
Church street, has been awarded to
Selectman Horace H. Lowe, whose re-
NlSSu Dlu was 35D,tfS MI. Lowe mad a
close call for the bid of the Clinton
Wall Trunk Mfg. Co. was but $2.41
higher. In order to bring the structure
within the appropriation the commit
tee has found it necessary to have the
plans and specifications changed
somewhat. The school rooms will be
% by 80 feet each instead of 80 by "a
: feet. The inside finish will be in pine
for the most part instead of quartered
oak, and less plate copper will be used
on the exterior.
William Cornell has abandoned his
hope of hearing from his missing wife
Today he disposed of the bulk of his
J household furniture, and has gone to a
boarding house. Mr.. Connel says that
he is totally unable to account for Mrs.
ConnelPs disappearance. She told him
that she was going on a visit the morn
ing that she left home. Until recently
D he was confident she would be heard
2 from. Mr.. Council is a ball player and
is well known to many of the those who
take an interest in the national game
He has played in Worcester and in
+ most of the cities and towns of the
, county.
James McDermott, William McOuaid
and Alexander Dood were fined $40
, each in the district court, this morn
, ing, for being drunk. They couldn't
pay and were taken to Fltchburg
Henry Thompson and Joseph Thomp-
son, brothers, were fined IS each for an
. assault committed upon Frank Mengal
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