News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-02-16
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts Of
New England States

In the annual meeting OF the new
England Shorthorn Breeders associa-
lion George e. Taylor, Jr., of Shell
burne was reelected president and
Walter S. Pratt of Brattleboro, Vt. !,
was chosen vice president.
Employees Of the Vermont Marble
company at Dandy quit work, causing
the shutdown of the three quarries
The men want a nine-hou day and an
increase in wages.
Twenty or more male inmates OF
the house of correction, Rutland,
VT, are confined to their cells by
the grip.
The Vermont and Chicago Granite
company OF Hardwick, VT, against
which an involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed, states that it's liza
bilities are $50, 7S9. 65.
Invitations have been issued for a
convention Of sportsmen at Burling-
ton, VT, Feb. 20 and March l.
John Davis of East Roxbury, VT,
has a cow which gave birth to calf
with six legs. The calf did not live.
The population of Burlington, VT.
decreased by fourteen during the
month of January, there being that
number more deaths than births.
The grammar school at F'reeport,
Me-. caugh. fre while eighty pupils
were seated in its two rooms but IA
miliarity with fire drill resulted in the
orderly escape OF all The building
was destroyed.
Burns received while pouring oil
from a kerosene lamp into heated
stove caused the death at Manchester,
N. H., of Mrs Odile Kandar.
After enjoying just one year of tenn
perance, Maynard, Mass. once again
the annual town election by major
ity of IL votes. Last year the major
ity for dry" was 1902.
James E. Hill, member of the ia
nous Sixth Massachusetts regiment
that was mobbed on it's way through
Baltimore, died at Lowell, Mass. ;,
aged 70.
The body of Charles Daily, 40, who
has been missing since the fire two
weeks ago in a storehouse at Lowell,
Mass. was found in the fire ruins.
Frank A. Westworth, 4S, for many
years town clerk of Greenland, N.
H., and formerly member of the
New Hampshire legislature, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat. He
was under a delusion that he was suf-
fering from cancer.
That no hope can be held out for
lower price of milk is one of the i'm
portant conclusions reached by the
milk board of the Massachusetts state
department of health.
The Massachusetts senate passed the
bill providing for the abolition of the
state house building commission.
Wilfred L. Jillson of Otisfield,
Me-, charged with being an accessory
before the fact to arson, was bound
over to the May term of the supreme
court under SzUUU Oall.
Labor leaders contend that the
"sauntering and lettering" ordinance
of the city of Boston deprives them
of some of the picketing privileges
that the state law accords them, and
they intend to ask the city council to /
change the ordinance.
Fire which destroyed the ST. Jean
Baptiste building at Marlboro, Mass.
one of the largest buildings in the
city, caused a loss of $40 900.
The fish famine in Boston was
broken when eleven schooners and
five steam trawlers arrived with S45, |
900 pounds of fish.
John Cochrane, so, one of the old /
est active textile manufacturers in .
New England, died at Maiden, Mass. !,
A small fire in the cellar of the
Cowles' private sanitarium, Ports
mouth, N. H., caused some excite
ment among the patients before it
was put out.
Fire destroyed the factory of the
Anchor Paper company at Windsor
Locks, Conn, entailing a loss OF
800 900.
The New England Belgian relief
fund. reports the total contributions
10 date to the fund to be $95, $50. II.
Rubin Seletzky, a Boston carpen-
.er, filed voluntary petition in bank
-uptcy in the United States district
court. He owes Sill 1888. He has
40 assets.
Harold Craft has been indicted for
murder in connection with the death
If his cousin, Aileen Kern, years
I'D who had been left in his care
Turing the mothers absence. When
he latter returned she found the
,hild unconscious from the effects OF
beating.
Werner Horn, an officer of the Ger
nan Landwehr, who is accused OF
,aving attempted to wreck a railroad
fridge across the International ]
boundary at Vanceboro, Me-, has
zen pronounced sane by three ply
icians who recently examined him at
Boston.
Albert Holt, "a. who retired in
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