The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1904-03-18
NEW ENGLAND BRIEFS

The Franklin, N. H., city council
voted to accept Andrew Carnegie's re
cent offer of $4,000 for a free public
library, under the usual conditions
Franklin is the only city in New
Hampshire without a free public
| library.
John II. Fellows of Exeter, N. H.
aged 81, was stricken with apoplexy or
the street and died almost instantly
He owned an extensive business, in.
Guiding large paper mills He formerly
sat in the legislature.
While skating on the Connecticut
river near Hartford David Callahan
aged 10, and William Barnard, aged IL
broke through the ice and were
drowned.
Three new shoe factories, which will
give employment to 1000 hands, are to
be established at Manchester, N. H.
The factories will be operated by the
w. HI. McElwain Shoe company.
Sparks from passing locomotive set
fire to number Of freight cars on sid.
ing at Walpole, Mass, and the cars,
together with portion of the f. w
Bird & Sons Paper company's store
house, were burned. The loss will ex-
coed $4,000.
William Wilcox died at Middletown,
Conn, aged So. He was the inventor of
the rotary key hub and the fat key
now in common use.
DR.. Dan Peaslee, Civil war surgeon
and formerly Vermont state senator.
died at Brattleboro, VT, aged 81. He
was prominent in Masonic affairs
Reports presented at the annual
meeting Of the New Hampshire Y. M.
G. A. show that the assoca ton owns
property valued at $137 500, with an In
debtedness of $4,000. The member
ship is 2G26
Rev. Edmund Dowse, D. D., who has
but recently entered on the 9th year
of his pastorate of the Pilgrim Congre.
gabional church at Sherborn, Mass, has
resigned on account of declining health.
The shoe firm of Frank & Duston.
Marlboro, Mass, employing 125 hands
has assigned. No statement of the
III III
The bingham, Mass, Agricultural
and Horticultural society presented to
the town its three-story building,
valued at $4,000, and six acres of land
for use as a town hall. The gift was
accepted by the town.
Fire in a building in the heart of the
shoe district of Haverhill caused dam.
age of about $1,000 to the structure and
occupants The heaviest damage was
sustained by Curtis & Knight, who op.
Grated stitching rooms.
The Cote block at Berlin, N. H., one
of the largest business structures in
the city and occupied by a number OF
firms, was destroyed by fire, with a total
loss of $4,000.
AT the Ladd prize exhibition in heavy
gymnastics at Amherst college the gold
medal for the best work was won by A.
+. Westphal, '05, of Michigan City, Ind.
Fishing schooner Appomattox lost
one of her crew, Walter Present, who
W drowned by the capsizing Of dory
off Provincetown, Mass
Mrs. Sarah B. Chapman, the daugh-
ter of Revolutionary soldier died at
her home at Bethel, VT, aged 101 years.
She was born at Plainfield, N. III.
A new see, to be formed by the
division Of the Hartford Catholic do
cese, will, 1t is said, be placed in charge
of Bishop Brady, at present auxiliary
bishop of Boston. He will have his
episcopal residence at Norwich.
A business block at Whitefield, N.
H., was burned, resulting in loss of
$4,000. The cause of the fire is I'M
known.
BY the will of Edward r. Lambert
offered for probate at Bridgeport, Conn,
Yale university is given property
worth $4,000 after the death of the
persons having life interest in it. II
Yale does not accept the gift In FIVE
years it will go to Harvard.
Rockland, Me-, harbor is again navi- |
gable, the ice which has bottled it up |
tight for several weeks having gone out. |
Gilmore d. Alvord, a real estate |
dealer, has filed a petition In bank. |
ruptcy at Hartford, showing liabilities
of over $25O.O0O
George Rozwoski. %. cut his throat
at Webster, Mass, and died within an
hour. He was deformed cripple and
had had spells Of dependency.
The Church Of the Sacred Heart Of
Jesus was dedicated at New Britain,
Conn. This is Polish Catholic church
and was erected at cost Of 100000.
The body Of Arthur Corey, a lumber
surveyor, 30. was found on the railroad
tracks at a crossing at Nashua, N. Il.