The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-06-22
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts Of
New England

| Ton.
Moses G., Shirley, the poet of IN,
Uncanoonus, died at Goffstown, n
H., aged 81
Edison j Pratt, 63. sheriff o
Franklin county, died at his home a
Millers Falls. Mass.
Rev. Francis e, Clark, founder o
Christian Endeavor, has returned &
Boston from his long trip to tn,
Orient.
Miss Mary Lynch, 80. who resided
with her mother and sister at Man
chester, n. H., was burned to death
at her home
Six persons were injured and ten
others shaken when car jumped the
| track and crashed head -on into tree
at Hanson, Mass.
Mrs, Sarah Carr slipped on the roof
OF her home at Gloucester, Mass. as
she stood watching parade and fell
fifty feet to death.
Fred A. Sanborn, AZ, Belfast
Me. policeman, was found in bed
with bullet wound in his temple,
having shot himself.
The Boston city council, in the
shortest session of its career, met and
passed loan orders aggregating nearly
81 900 900 in one minute.
Disappointment over poor invest
ment in a farm which he bought at
EPSON, N. H., caused Charles A.
Reid to commit suicide by shooting.
The immediate development of up
ward OF 900, 900 feet of land ideal
for manufacturing sites is predicted
by the Boston industrial development
board.
OF the 100 steerage passengers
who we're brought into Boston on the
White Star liner Canopic, 261 have
been detained by the immigration au-
thorities.
Notices were sent out by the Bos-
ton and Maine railroad notifying the
employees of the stations of the per-
cent Increase in wages allowed them
by the road. 80 @
Rev Mitchell Andrews. 80, OF
Searsport, Me-. and Mrs. Cassie
Roberts, 50, OF Belfast, Me-. were
at the home OF the bride by
Dr.. Luther w. Hammons.
Collegiate training for matrimony
receives encouragement at Radcliffe |
college, where seven seniors, six or |
them Massachusetts girls, have an
nounced their engagements.
Stella Moors, 3, and her sister,
Nellie, II months, were burned to
ieath at their home at Hartford. Their
was pouring oil in the kitchen
'ange when flames leaped up.
John Quinland, SO, horse breed
n, was killed and Edward Lessor
perhaps fatally injured, as the result
" collision between an automobile
nd horse at Burlington, vt.
Dennis F. Hinchey, 43, street
ar conductor, was killed at Lexing
on, Mass, when, in leaning from
he rear step Of his car, his head
truck the wheel of steam roller.
Contracts for building operations in
lew England awarded from the first
I the year to June ii reach the enor-
lous total Of 1913 249 900, which is
he high water mark for this period
John +. Malley, internal revenue
ollector for Boston, has been sued
,r $40 900 by the New York Central
abroad, which claims that Malley
objected revenue in violation of the
w.
The Harvard faculty called halt
n the students preparedness program |
hen II refused to sanction the plan
'r a summer school to instruct mem | &
srs Of the Harvard flying corps in I
ration.
kilograms from alumni in all parts Z
the country were received at
anover, N. H., expressing approval
the election OF Ernest NJ. Hopkins =
Newton, Mass, as president or 9
artmouth. b
Mrs Grace lie Baron Upham died J
her home at Boston She had been | n
r many years a writer OF verse and s
ories and she was the author OF
Imerous books. She was born at u
well in 1S45. r
William II. Cronin OF Maiden, So. N
officer In the Boston customs ser tc
ee, was found dead from accidental d
S poisoning in his summer home at II
The body was discov-
ed by his wife. 10
John Di salyo. %, died at Quincy. 10
lss. from the effect OF bullet b
sent into the base Of his brain a hi
3 hours after he attacked Mrs, May VI
vie with razor She is perrna- pe
ntly disHgured di
4 fund OF 5000 will be available
en- box at Cushing academy, Ash In
rnham, Mass. Is opened in 20i5. 10
! this sum viii be used for ceie- ha
ting the event. The box is under up
elm tree just planted mi
rhe reconstruction OF Hampton di,
ach N II from the fire that mi