The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1903-09-25
NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS

IorCy Higgins WIS SellJeICGN ut BEL
fast, Me, 10 serve three years at hard
labor in state prison for breaking and
entering a cigar mandatory.
The board appointed to examine the
competitive plans for the public build
ing at Providence have selected those
made by Clarke & Howe of Providence.
who will supervise the construction of
the building, which will cost 81, 5000
Henry c. Smith, few years ago
the Prohibition candidate for lieu
tenant governor of Massa chusetts, died
at Haydenville, Mass.
Citizen Frank Hobart, prominent
resident of Braintree, Mass, is critically
i'll. He has held many offices and is
prominently known in political circles.
The main factory building of Bourne,
Hadley & Co., Templeton, Mass, was
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $780,
600 It's products were chamber suits
and pOstotfice furnishings.
w. w. Bennett Of Portsmouth, N.
H., won the state championship and
the Rollins cup in the 36-hOle tourna-
ment at the Concord Golf club W it'll
score of 112.
DR.. Clinton A. Stewart of Clinton,
Mass, aged 80, was drowned while
bathing short distance from his sum-
mer residence at West BroOkfield, Me.
He was very athletic and a strong
swimmer. 1t is supposed that he struck
his head on a rock.
The dead body of John A. Boyce
was found in a room at the Marshall
house, Boston. In the right hand was
cIutched revolver and there was
hole in the head.
George b. Sawyer, one of the best
known citizens Of Wiscasset, Me-, is
dead, aged 60 He has been clerk If
the supreme judicial court of Lincoln
county, collector of customs .,nu presi-
dent of Wiscasset Savings bank.
A trolley car crowded with pas
sengers ''straddled' a switch at West
boro. Mass. The front truck followed
the main track and the rear truck took
a siding, the car running in this man
ner 100 feet The passengers were
greatly excited, but no one was hurt.
The principal buildings of Bacon
Bros. felt and wool wadding manu-
fac Glory at Winchester, Mass, We're
completely destroyed by fire. The loss
iG estimated at $4,000.
The Haverhill New England league
baseball team has been sold to a local
syndicate. The price paid for the
franchise and the team is $1,000
During a period of dependency
Henry G. Longley, SO, of Peterboro, y.
H., shot himself, death ensuing a few
hours later.
John G. Jewett, a descendant of the
pioneer settlers of the Winnipesaukee
valley, and a man of much influence in
the social and political life of Laconia,
n. H, died of paralysis, aged 10 For
eight years he had been an invalid.
An Italian named Miesti was run
over by gravel car near Hudson, Mass.
both legs being cut off at the hips, kill
ing him instantly.
Walter j. Abbott, one of the proprie-
tors of the Abbott wooden mills at Dex-
ter, Me-, died suddenly while, with a
party of friends, he was engaged in
duck hunting
Tufts college entered upon its 4Sth
academic year with Freshman class
of 104 students. The enrolment in the
department of arts and sciences is the
largest in the history of the college.
Another dOrmitory has been given to
the Sheffield Scientific school by Fred
erick w. Vanderbilt of New York. The
gift has been made to the trustees.
Erold Goodwin, 7 years old, died at
Dexter, Me-, from burns. The boy set
his clothes on fire while smoking a pipe
that he had filed with paper.
While riding on a freight train at
Beverly, Mass, John Collins, 81 years
old, fell on the track and the wheels
of the train ran over both feet.
Walter G. Jewett, car inspector. was
crushed to death while coupling cars at
Northampton, Mass.
Ovila Demers, %, of Fall River, Mass,
was on a sailbOat picking up moorlng
when he was struck by the boom and
knocked overheard and drowned.
A dwelling house on the O'Connell
farm, Nantucket, Mass, which had
been unoccupied for many years, was
burned by a fire supposed to have been
incendiary.
Theodore Bolio, 75, of Keene, y. H.,
went to Southbridge, Mass, and at
tended the funeral of his brother, Will
liam Bolio. Theodore was greatly af-
fectedi at the funeral and died three
hours after the funeral from grief.