Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-12-11
MONDAY.

MONDAY, Dec. 7, 1908.
Investigation Of the disastrous wreck
leaves the responsibility on either En-
gineer Webster or Brakeman McNam-
ara
Mrs. Catherine Lima Is years old.
kills herself in her home in South
Boston.
Secretary Of War Root reports army
in excellent condition and 1907 men
available in state militia
BY stroke Of diplomacy Dowie es-
tablshes harmony between Zion and
| its creditors.
Cardinal Gibbons makes q plea for
the toilers, condemning the sweat
shop"
Burglar beats down two men in Buff
falo and escapes.
Congress probably won't get mile
age for regular session this time.
Fall River boys accused by the po-
lice OF several schoolhouse burglaries.
Three alarm fire in Lowell lumber
and box manufacturing plant causes
loss of about $4,000
Secret service agents discover some
Impressions Of counterfeit money, COM
pleting the chain OF evidence against
the men caught in Revere, Mass.
Coast artilleryman at Newport, ar
rested as deserter, says he left army
because comrades threatened to kill
him for marrying a colored girl.
Mob at little New Jersey village
storms town hall in attempt to lynch
man who is charged with numbering
11-year-old girl.
End of Colorado miners strike dis
tant as ever.
Pistol duel between Patrolman De-
we'll and Thomas Cox in Nashville;
former fatally wounded
Heath says he will not resign secre-
taryship of Republican national COM
mittee
Miss Emerline Mansfield, for so years
a school teacher in Lynn, Mass, OBJ
serves her saith birthday.
Fifty-eighth congress begins its ses-
sion.
Merino, Mass, baker held up and
robbed of $50 by highwaymen.
Venice flooded and gondolas are used
in shopping.
TUESDAY, Dec. 8. 1909.
Young man calling himself Grosven-
or Aldrich Of Readville, Mass, locked
up in Poughkeepsie N Y, as dement,
ed.
Seven more men to be arrested in
connection with the Grand Rapids.
Mich, water scandal.
Total number Of cotton mill opera
tives in New England whose wages
have been cut is now 10000.
The society in Dedham, Mass. for
Approhending Horse Thieves holds its
93d annual meeting.
Three coal companies in Pennsyl.
vania propose to reduce wages of min
ers.
President Taft of the Boston Cab
Company declines the offer of the state
board to settle the strike.
Some mystery about Bouminblitt
and Novak, two of the Revere counter
letters; secret service agents want to
bring two Of those arrested in New
York to Boston.
President Roosevelt again refuses to
interfere in the miners dispute in COL
orado.
China concluding an agreement with
Russia which will give Muscovite prac-
tical control of Manchuria.
Bucksport, Me-. boy trudging to Bos-
ton to see his mother.
Motorman and driver hurt in COL
lision of furniture van and electric car
at West Newbury, Mass.
President sends Panama canal treaty.
TO the senate; document signed by
Panama junta at Colon, and will start
Tor Washington today; rumor of in
Vasion of isthmus by Colombia.
Dowie submits statement of the
affairs OF Zion City, together with an
offer of settlement Of the claims If bio
merchandise creditors, which amount
o $452,267.
Count Maurice de Pradel, French
writer and lecturer, dies at home for
aged poor at Pawtucket, R. /.
Crew of American ship BENJAMIN
'ewail attacked by savages near For
nosa
ing on their gloves, nor Of q Iod1
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