Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
Bellows Falls Times
Thursday MARCH I, 1901.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Mrs. Jemima Obrery and Mrs. Frank
Powell of Portsmouth will receive 1872,
900 each by the will of brother who re-
Gently died in Honolulu.
Portsmouth harbor has been open al
winter, while every other port from Port
land to Baltimore is unsafe on account
of ice. The water at Portsmouth is toe
| deep to freeze.
| The town of Gilmanton will receive
! $4,000 from the estate of Isaiah S. Rob.
inson of Boston, the annual income OF
which is to be expended for the improve
ment of the village.
Frank Pollard, the 16-year-old boy
who was accused of the murder of Mrs.
Josephine Jenkins at her home in Lee
Hook, two weeks ago, by shooting, was
discharged, the case having been mol
pressed by the county solicitor.
Col. and Mrs. II. B. Quinby of Lake
port sailed from New York, last week,
for two months tour of the continent
and trip to Naples. Upon his return
home it is generally understood that Col.
Quinby will actively enter the canvass
for the United States senatorship in 1908.
The Nashua Trust company has re-
Gently been selected by the trustees of
Colby academy of New London, to hold
in trust the permanent endowment fund
of that school. The fund amounts to
some $4,000, and up to the present time
has been held by individual trustees liv
ing in New York.
County Solicitor Frank NJ Beckford of
Lakeport is actively at work on new
clew, which, in his opinion, may lead to
tho Iatactinn Of tho ri mi
responsible for the murder of George
Hurlbut in the town of Belmont in the
night of September 26 last. At the time of
the murder several clews were run down,
but without result, and the authorities
have been steadily and quietly at work
upon the case ever since.
Phillips Exeter students, who contem-
plate entering Yale, have organized a
Yale club, which now has about 40 men,
bers. The belief has strongly obtained
in student circles that of late
years Exeter athletes have been dis
eliminated against at Harvard, and
Captain Hogan of the eleven and
other leading athletes and scholars, who
have planned to enter Harvard, now
strongly incline or have actually decided
to go instead to Yale.
By action of the legislature, the policy
of the state in the matter of fish culture
has been changed. An act passed re-
Gently empowers the fish and game com
missionerS to abolish and dispose of
such of the fish hatcherieS of the state
as in the opinion of the governor and
council, should be abolished The COM
missioners are also authorized, with the
approval of the governor and council, to
so change and improve the remaining
hatcheres as to enable them to rear the
fry Matched therein to fingerlings before
placing them in the waters of the state.
The proceeds of the sales of the hatch
cries that are to be abolished will be
turned into the state treasury The state
hatchery at Lake Sunapee will be one of
the number to be discontinued, but as
the United States fish commission desires
to secure it's output of eggs, it will prob
ably be operated under government
auspices.
Grand Recorder Frank D. Woodbury.
of the grand commandery of Knights
Templar of New Hampshire has received
a letter from one of the officers of the
Old Dominion line which tells of mys-
terry. The letter, dated at Norfolk, Va,
February %, says that on the 21st
passenger on board one of the steamers
of the line, bound from New York to
Norfolk, committed suicide by shooting
in the head. He registered for berth
as &c. L.. Warren, New Hampshire"
He is described as about 70 years of age,
5 feet, s or inches tall, smooth face, fine
head of pure white hair, black eyebrows.
His arms were tattoed with Masonic en-
blemS from entered apnrentice to knight
Templar. On the right arm was an eagle
with two crossed United States flags and
crossed cannon. There was also the pic
ture of what is supposed to be Mexican
veterans badge. On the left arm was
wreath with &C. L. W." in it. There
were also three links with battle axe in