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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
GLOOM IN ENGLAND.
NO JOY OF CHRIsTMAsTIDE IN MANY
HOMES.
LONDON WITHOUT NEWS.

Frienis aud Relatives of the soldiers and
Others In the Besieged Towns Nearly
Worn Out with Suspense Fears That
They Have Bccn Reduced to the Point
Of starvation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
Killed ON His First Day

W. A. Sloan, II brakeman,
frog In the Allegheny
'ards, Pittsburg. and was /
I was his first day as q rail-
IS years Of age and married.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28

Terrific gales aud snow storms swept the
Western lakes. 4 blizzard swept over Mich-
igan, Minnesota aud Wisconsin. In some
parts Of Minnesota railroad treins were
showed m.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
Toriurers' Victims

Mrs. Andrew Lock wood,
husband, was assaulted and
masked burglars, b In Il crlV
per homo In Bell's 'rupnel
She suffered u relapse.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
LAWTON KILLED,
THE AMERICAN GENERAL WAS SHOT
THROUGH THE BREAST.
WAS ON THE FIRING LINE.

He Laughed at Warnings a Moment Be-
fore-At the Head of His Mcn-Defeat
of the Insurgents at the Cost of the
Life of the Commanding GeneraI-Grlef
In Washington.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28

Drs Moines la., Especial. )--State Auditor
Merriam received telegraphic adylces that
Jeremiah Kendrick, defaulting cashier OF the
Citizens state Bank, had been captured ia
the East. Kendrick disappeared thr
months ago. sl4,O short In his cash, and
his capture Is through efforts ofthe Guaranty
surety Company Of New York. Mr.. Merriam
Is not informed whore the capture was made.
Kendrlck will be brought to Iowa TO, trial.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
KEYSTONE
LATEST NEWS GLE,v
Gus pAn
OUR EDUCATION

Annual Report of Or. \.
superintendent of pn
No Allusion to the q
the School Approprl,
Franklin Suddenly n.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
UNION HILL FAVORED.

Alderman Thomas ]. Barrett, who is
chairman Of the committee on fire de-
partment, tried to have a meeting of
that committee before he started for
Cuba to arrive at some understanding
relative Ito the sites for new engine
houses, but a sufficient number Of the
committee did not put in an appear
ance and the question is unsettled.
There are three sites before the COM
mittee, all of which have been given
considerable attention. They are Green
dale, Union hill, and East Kendall
street. The committee has reached one
conclusion which is that it won't re-
commend that three houses be started
this year. 1t may recommend that two
houses be built, and 1t may conclude
there is money enough for only one.
Whatever the recommendation is
East Kendall street has not as strong
a Following in the committee as the
other two. The members think East
Kendall street can wait better than
either of the others as there is not as
urgent demand for house there. If
there is any choice between the other
sites, Union hill and Greendale. II Is
in favor of the former. The property
interests are not alone considered The
dlthculty of reaching the top of Union
MIL unless under the most favorable
circumstances, appeals strongly to the
members of the committee. Alderman
-. Z. Kendall Of ward is watching
the committee with a jealous eve and
viii look after East Kendall street
when the question of fire engine house
reaches the city council.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
NUMBERING STREETS.

Councilman Wesley Merritt is not
overpleased at the disposition the board
of aldermen made of his order relative
to Remembering of streets. The order
was referred by the board to the COM
mittee on streets. Councilman Merritt
introduced it into the common council.
which body passed it. The order is an
instructive one to the city engineer to
report relative to the streets needing
remembering. 1t was held up in the
upper board by Alderman PhiIip !.
OConnell, who said he thought it meant
too great a task to be referred to the
city engineer without being first passed
on by the committee on streets.
The Spy man spoke to City Engineer
f. A. Mcclure concerning the order.
He said he has no special interest in
lt; II the council passes it he will at
tend TO that duty. He said the custom
has not been for the city council to take
action in this matter unless petitfoned
by residents Of streets. Residents desire
TO get along as long as they can
without any change of numbers. They
nave places Of business or residences
established and the numbers are adyer-
tised in some cases extensively. Their
friends know the numbers OF their
houses or places of business and act ac-
cordingly.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
BIDS TO BE OPENED.

The competition for supplying the
water department with gates and NV
drants and with cast-iron pipe will
close today, and bids will be opened
as soon as convenient. There are four
bidders in the competition for supply
ing the department with gates and
hydrants Two are in the city. One
telegraphed from Albany late yester-
day afternoon that he would get here
last evening" and the fourth tele-
graphed Water Commissioner John G..
Brady from Neponset that he will
come to Worcester on an early morning
train today. The water commissioner
expects to open the bids in that compe-
tition about 10 o'clock.
In the competition for supplying the
city with cast-iron pipe, the biggest
competition of the year, involving
about $4,000, there are six bidders.
Four of them are in Worcester. An
other will reach Worcester this morn
ing. The sixth is at a great distance,
and in all previous competitions has
been up among the singers. Water
Commissioner Brady thinks his bid
will not be within several of the low
est, and his arrival viii not be waited
for. The bids Will be open when the
fifth man comes.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
ALL FULL MEASURE.

Variety is the spice of life with C.
Herbert DeFosse, sealer of weights
and measures. Yesterday somebody
stacked a load of tin measures up
against the door of his work house, in
the rear of the city hall building, for
him to seal. His work with tin meas
ures Is not as difficult as it used to
be. When he began to seal them for
the various stores in which they are
sold he-eondemned q large number.
The store keepers We're losers. They
at once notified the manufacturers they
didn't intend TO purchase measures
which did not give what the law re-
quires and have them destroyed. The
manufacturers have been more careful
since, and the sealer seldom meets a
faulty measure now.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
A FINE TRIP.
Worcester Men Start TO Southern Chimes
by Land and Sea.

by Land and Sea.
When the 1O2 o'clock train for New
York pulled out of the Union station,
yesterday, it had on board three pleas
ure seekers who will spend the next
four weeks in Journeys which would
delight anybody in Worcester. They
were Alderman Thomas j. Barrett.
DR.. Thomas A. o'Callaghan and Rich
ard Healy,, and they are bound for
Cuba They will visit places made IA
nous by the recent war and others of
historic interest. They sail from New
York today on the Santiago of the
Ward line of steamers.
The first stop will be made at Mas
sau, on the island of New Providence.
IN the Bahama group. They intend to
take side trip to San Salvador and
take in the reef where the Maria Tere-
sa foundered. Their first hating place
in Cuba will be Guantanamo. Thence
they will go by water to Santiago, in
which place they expect to stay sew
eral days visiting the fields which
American troops made famous in the
Cuban campaign. They look forward
to that visit with interest, for they
expect to be at Santiago during the
eXhuming of the bodies of American
heroes. They will attempt to locate
the Worcester men engaged in that
work.
From Santiago they will go by
steamer to Cienfuegos, where they will
make a short stay. They will then
cross the island by rail to Matanzas
and will end their journey according
to their present plans in Havana. They
started prepared to make any side
trips which may offer interest, and it
would not surprise their friends if they
took a run over to Porto Rico before
they start for home. DR.. O'Callaghan
was armed with a large camera, and
intends to snap 1t on everything of
especial interest. He is an expert am
ateur photographer, and on a visit to
Key West, a year ago, brought home
many fine views. Several were of such
excellence that they were chosen for
the stereopticon exhibition given by
the Volunteers Aid Association last
spring.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
ALL WORKED, NONE WANTED

While other cities are complaining of
great suffering among the poor on ac-
count of the blizzard, Worcester is
free from any such complaint, judging
by the transactions at the office of the
overseers Of the poor. The demands
at that Office have not been any more
extensive than they We're before the
storm came on, As the city almoner's
office Is the best place to secure in
formation regarding the condition Of
the poor, it is pretty safe to say that
Worcester has not such destitute cases
as have been reported from other cities.
The reason is that the storm has Civ
en- work to scores who might otherwise
seek aid from the city. Anybody who
could handle a shovel could find en-
ployment this week, and, Judging by
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
DIpHrHHR1A CASES DECREASING.

There has been a noticeable drop in
the number of diphtherla cases report
ed to the board Of health. Last month
there were So cases in the city, 16 OF
them in a single ward. During the
winter months the number is high, the
record for November, which was the
20 cases. Half of February Is gone and
only nine cases have beea lNnorted
at the office of the board of health
thus far. OF this number, three cases
have been closed up and the houses
fumigated, the last act in connection
with the finding of case OF diphtheria.
so that there are now only half doz-
en- cases Of the dreaded disease in the
city. II is an excellent record, and
speaks well for the sanitary conditions
of Worcester.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
LECTURE ON HARMONY.
Mr. j. Wallace Goodrich at the Worces
ter Pianoforte School.

Mr.. J. Wallace Goodrich gave a lucid,
sensible and practical talk on the value
of the study of harmony, yesterday af-
ternoon at the Worcester Pianoforte
School, In the bank building on Foster
street. The audience consisted Of
pupils and numerous friends who had
been invited by Miss Mary +. Tucker,
director of the school.
Mr.. Goodrich's years Of study in Ger
many have not only made him an ac-
complished organist as was proved at
the last festival, but also q frst-rate,
all-round musician, as is shown by his
various activities in Boston, chief
among which may be mentioned his
position as instructor of harmony at
the New England Conservatory. Miss
Tucker is fortunate in securing him
to teach harmony in her own music
school.
Mr.. Goodrich gave a brief but clear
outline of the modern system of har-
mony and showed how the study of it,
essential as it is to the composer may
be also of especial assistance to the
pianist, the singer and the violinist,
and even to the mere listener who as
pires to discriminating musical taste
and more thorough enjoyment of
music. His talk was illustrated both
at the piano and the blackboard AS
a demonstration of the value of har-
mony to a general musical education,
it was decidedly enlightening.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
OXFORD,

oxford, Feb. 15.--The roads on the hills
and outlying districts were broken out to-
day.
Little Carrie Vickers returned from the
Memorial Hospital, Worcester, today She
has fully recovered.
Most of the schools were in session to-
day, for the first time this week.
Evangelist Morton has returned from
Hartford, and will hold meetings at the
M. e. Church Thursday and Friday eve
nings of this week.
The Spy arrived in town today nearly
three hours ahead of any other paper.
Jonathan P. Dana is critically ill.
The dancing school will meet Monday
evening.
Sumner Sparhawk is sick with grip.
The Ladies' Social Circle of the North
Trains were nearly on time TODAY
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
PROBABLY RE-APPoINTED.

The terms Of the license commissions
ers expire March J. There has been
no talk concerning a change, as the
board was appointed by Mayor Rufus
y. Dodge, Jr., last wear. Gen. Josiah
Pickett and NJ. V. b. Jefferson have
held office since the creation of the
commission under :he new charter.
James Early, secretary of the board,
was appointed last year by Mayor
Dodge, taking the place Of NJ. b. Lamb,
whose term expired. The chances are
in favor Of the reappointment Of the
board.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
EMERGENCY MEN.

The law is off on labor registration
when there is a blizzard. Under the
law, before a man can be engaged for
the city departments he must be regis
tered in the city bureau, which is pre-
sided over by John NJ. Gallagher, clerk
in the office Of the superintendent of
lighting streets. But for emergency
work no registration is required. The
law allows the heads of city depart
ments to engage men for five days
without registration, so the big force
of men now at work is not neces-
sarilV registered
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
BOYS SWING SHOVELS.
Every Available Laborer Was at Work in
Brookfield.

Brookfield, Feb. S. - The town is SHOW
elled out at last. The sidewalks and
roads are passable. The electric road got
communication in the afternoon late.
There were plenty of shovellers ready for
work both Tuesday and today for the
town, but the electric road was obliged to
take boys. Fred Adams started to Fisk
dale at l O'Clock yesterday, and reached
there in about five hours with the mail
He came back this morning on time. The
factories started UP this morning after a
loaf since Monday afternoon.
The time of the afternoon mail train
has been changed from $50 TO AIS. The
mail leaves on train % instead of train 49,.
Two mails leave now for the east and
west at 4.25.
Services were held at the st. Mary s
Catholic Church ais morning and eve
ming to celebrate Ash Wednesday.
Mrs Mary Mellen Mclaughlin is very
sick at her home on River street.
Il. e. Pierce committed suicide in Bos-
ton Saturday night. He is brother to
George Pierce of this town. The body
will be brought here tomorrow for burial.
The funeral will be at the NJ. e. Church
at o'clock. The Rev. j. f. Sutherland
will Officiate.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
EAST BROOKFIELD.

East Brookfield, Feb. 15.-James Cor
coran returned home from Worcester,
where he has been undergoing an opera
ton at the City Hospital.
The large flags on Hotel Pilgrim and
the Hodgkins school building were at half
mast today in commemoration of the
death of the Maine sailors.
The thermometers about town showed
very low temperature this morning, the
one at Hammond's refrigerator register
ing 20 below zero.
Miss Belle Banister has returned from
her visit to Springfield.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
A BIG DEAL.
Land Bought in Rutland
For Private Hospital.

Rutland, Feb. 15.-Harvey Harding of
IL. Harding &c Co., real estate and mining
brokers Of Cambridge, purchased of Maria
l.. Miles of Rutland the large Miles estate
on the north side of the Boston and Maine
Railroad today. The property, which
contains about 217 acres with buildings,
was purchased for stock company, for
the purpose Of erecting private santa
rum for consumptives.
This institution will have accommoda-
tons for 400 patients, and will cost about
$25OoOO. The Miles property is valued at
about $4,000 The company expects to
break ground this summer. 1t is COM
posed of men in Boston and vicinity.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
BOTH FEET WERE FROZEN.

Webster, Feb. Is. - John Stethnic of
Perryville "a years of age, was found this
morning with his feet very badly frozen.
Stethnic, whose home is in Perryville,
started to walk to Webster. He appar-
emily lost his mind for he was not seen in
Webster, and about 10 o'clock this morn
ing was found in Perryville. He had
evidently been walking all night. DR..
Fred A. Brown was called, and, finding
the case so serious, ordered the mans re-
moYal to the City Hospital at Worcester.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
BUILDING PERMITS.

Two building permits were issued
yesterday at the ONCE Of the superin-
tendent Of public buildings:
John ]. Sullivan. himself 10 build, on
Burncoat street, near James, a wooden
piazza, By %.
0. II. Howard, himself to build, on
clean street, near Mower, one and
one-half story dwelling house, "a by 40.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
FOR AsSAULTING MILLER.

Marlboro, Feb. 15.-John McManus was
arrested this evening by Officer Kennedy
on charge Of having assaulted John
Miller on the evening of January 80. Miller
worked in the Middlesex factory, and the
alleged assault was committed just out
side MillerS house on the evening named.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
COOKED MEATS.

ferred to it by the city council. The
matter Of street watering, authorizing
the street commissioner to make q con-
tract for the watering Of streets and
the naming Of streets which will be
watered, will be acted on by the COM
,,aftfaa
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
STREET WATERING.

The committee on streets Of the city
council will meet tomorrow evening to
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
ATHOL'S NEW MAN.
H. R. 6arber's Appointment as Postmas-
ter Confirmed.

ter Confirmed.
Washington, D. c., Feb. 15.-President
Mckinley today confirmed the appoint
ment of II. R. Barber as postmaster for
Athol, Mass.
Harding R. Barber is a native of War
wick. He left home when boy about II
years of age to become clerk in a coun-
try store and post office at Irving, and
was also clerk in store at Greenfield and
South Royalston. He came to Athol be-
fore the war of the rebellion, and enlisted
in Co. E, Fifty-third Massachusetts vol
unteers. After the war he purchased a
harness business in Athol, in which i he
has ever since been engaged; He has
been a prominent worker in the republic
can party, and REPRESENTED the fist ., Wor-
ture, and served two terms in the Senate
from the third Worcester district. He is
a prominent member of the Grand Army,
of the Masons and of the Second Unita-
rian Church.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

the lack of demands at the almoner's
office, those who needed work sought it
and got it.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

Jack Frost is leaving his trade mark on
several persons. Dennis Fleming was one
of the victims, having his hands frozen
Frank Cromb had his ears frozen, and Jo-
seph Nolan, gateman at the fax mills, had
both of his hands frozen.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

That Millbury had as much snow as its
neighboring towns is in evidence by the
height On Providence hill, Upsala street
and Vernon hill in Worcester the cars en-
countered drifts over six feet deep, and
for distance of half a mile the snow is
above the car windows.
Mrs John McHenry of North Main
street went to Biddeford, Me-, today.
Jope and Sullivan of the Newburyport
basket ball team have been engaged to
play with the NJ. B. B.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
COULD TAKE THEIR CHOICE.
Electric and Steam Cars Both Running
in Millbury.

Millbury, Feb. 15.-The cars on the Mill
bury division of the Worcester and Su-
burban electric line have made record
which has scarcely been surpassed by
cars on tho steam roads. This morning
the people of the town awoke to find the
electric cars and the steam road running
cars. Last evening the electric road was
opened from the car barn to the city, and
this morning the cars got into the city on
trips as early as $50 o'clock. The road
has done remarkably well this year. not
only in keeping the cars running on the
scheduled time.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
MARRIAGE LICENSE.

James A Rhodes, 81; Eva A. Reed, p.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
NORTH GRAFTON,

North Grafton, Feb. Is. = Miss Lavina
McFadyen is critically i'll at her home on
Main street. Miss McFadyen was con-
fined to her home on account of sickness
several weeks ago. She recovered and
started to her work again, and was at her
post up to Friday, when she had a re-
lapse and is not expected to live.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

Soft coal is scarce. The dye house and
worsted mill of the Bigelow Carpet
Company has shut down besause they
lave not coal enough. The Clinton Wire
Cloth Company is well supplied. The
Lancaster mills cannot hold out many
days, unless the railroads from the coal
regions move the product rapidly.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

The directors of the Clinton & Hudson
Street Railway Company have accept
ed the franchise granted by the board
of selectmen.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

Delayed mails from all directions
have been filing into the postoffice to-
day Postmaster John w. McNaTnara's
sYorce has been rushed in consequence,
especially the carriers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-30
Church Notices.

Or, Schafer Will give an address. at :
o'clock tomorrow evening. at the Uni
versalist church On National Grounds
for Believing in Miracles"
A First Baptist church: Preaching III
ls2.s9 BY Evangelist Harry Taylor. sun
day School ana evening services at
tasual hours. BY request thc pro-
'gramme Of Christmas music given. lash
Sunday. will be repeated. THE NAM
bers include anthems. TN Silent
Night, There's Song IN the Air" ana
The Anglers Message solo, "cradoleJ
in Manager Lowly." Otto L. Anderson
Methodist Episcopal church: Preach
ing at 1870. by the pastor, Rev. D. +.
Miller. Subject The Record, ser
mon suited 20 the close of the year.
Sunday School at l1.i5; League meet
ing at $50, subject. The IlcavC My
Record" Miss Kelso. leader Prayer
meeting at I o'clock. subject God is
Calling Ne" Dwight l.. Moodys last
words. Praise and prayer service APP
propriate to the last day Of the year.