The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31
News and Gossip from +
the New England St ates
BY r. G. Larsen.

wrecking of the Farmers bank Mr..
Watts spends most of his time in New
York, while the condition of his wife g
health is such that she is obliged to
live in Vermont. They purchased fine
place in Vergennes few years ago.
Mr.. Watts went to Vergennes to spend
Thanksgiving with his wife, and just
before dinner Deputy Sheriff W. H.
Cobb of Middlebury put in an appear
ance. AS Cobb is also keeper of the jail
where Ketchum is confined, nothing was
thought of the visit by Mr.. Watts, and
Cobb was invited to dinner. After din
ner Cobb handed to Watts the papers
in his wife IS petition for divorce. The
matter was kept quiet; and in the mean
time Mrs. Watts friends induced her to
reconsider, with the result that recon
Citation was effected on Christmas Day.
Christmas in New England has be-
come the most generally observed of all
holidays, and coming on Monday there
were more family
Christmas reunions in the
small cities and
Family towns than usual.
Thousands lief
Reunions Boston to add to
the family circles;
and in the hub the observance Of the
day was general. One of the biggest
features of it was the dinner given by
the Salvation Army to IL, 900 homeless,
and nearly every church did something
along the same line. The weather has
been anything but seasonable, at times
being as mild as late spring. In and
around Boston there is an entire alb
sence of snow, and it is not cold enough
for skating; but despite the unseason-
ableness the stores report a good Christ
mas trade. The people generally ap-
pear to be very prosperous, and it was
not necessary to- offer as many induce
ments to bring them out as in some
recent years.. .."o
Mayor Elect John F. Fitzgerald has
already given some idea of what he
intends to accomplish as soon as he
assumes office.
New City Hall One of his pet
schemes is a new
For city hall. When
Patrick A. Col
Boston Inns was first
elected mayor it
was generally supposed that before he
| retired from office he would have a
| new city hall as a monument to his adj
ministration, but he found that the
finances of Boston were in such condi-
ton that he could best serve the city
by practicing economy instead of add
ing to the burdens of the taxpayers.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, however, figures that
with the city paying so much office
rent outside, the erection Of new
building would really result in a saw
ing, and he has intimated that the
Public Garden would be good site.
The very mention Of this has raised A
storm of protest, for next to Boston
Common, the Public Garden is the one
place that the citizens generally regard
as almost sacred.
! Mrs. Martha S. Munsey Of Pittsfeld
N. H., who has been prominently be.
fore the public during the past three
years in connec.
Curious Charges tion with wills
she is alleged to
Of have forged il
order to secure
Forgery the estate of the
late Samuel Welcl
Of Lowell, and who was indicted. BY
the Middlesex, Mass, grand jury, has
defaulted $4,000 bail This case is one
/ of the most curious that has ever come
up in the courts of New England, am
| has been fought at every point by Mrs