The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-12-14
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
happenings In Various Parts Of
New England

600 600 mark.
William Canayan. 73, OF Brockton,
Mass. died two hours after he had
been run over by an automobile.
Miss Annie f. McKissock, ~, OF
Lowell, Mass. was accidentally as
phyxiated by fumes from gas stove.
The body of Mrs. Hjalmar We're,
81, a suicide, was found hanging from
the limb of tree at Worcester,
Mass.
Billy Sunday promised Providence
men and women that he would con-
duet campaign in the Rhode Island
capital in 1918.
Governor Mccall appointed five men
as members OF the commission to in
vestigate the high cost of living in
Massachusetts.
Receipt OF SIS, 175. 81 and expendi-
lures Of SIS, 1876 So are shown by the
campaign returns of the Hughes alli-
ance of Massachusetts.
Cotton mill operatives in virtually
all the mills in Maine viii! receive an
Increase of 10 percent in wages, to
become effective Jan. /.
The desire to kill fox cost Thomas
Lloyd, %, of Melrose, Mass. his life.
He accidentally shot himself while
walking through woods.
Phenomenal growth of large indus
trial centres in Connecticut is indi-
Gated in the annual report of the state
public utilities commission.
Mayor Chapman of Portland, Me-,
Republican, was reelected by vote
Of 5727 to APO for James E. McDon-
aid, the Democratic candidate.
John II. Bowman of Pittstield,
Mass. died of injuries received when
an automobile in which he was rid
ing crashed down an embankment.
Charles e. Donnell, 67, an employe
of the Portsmouth, n. H., public
works department, placed shotgun
In his mouth and blew his head off.
Mrs. Martha Wigglesworth, 76, OF
New Britain, Conn. was married to
her longtime sweetheart, Stephen
also 76, of Hartland. Conn.
Work at the munitions factory OF
the International Paper Box Ma
chinery company, Nashua, N. H., is
suspended as result OF
a fire.
John Gilland, 60, was found dead
sitting in a chair in the kitchen OF
his home at Maiden, Mass. where
he lived alone. He had been dead
several days.
Mrs. Agnes G Blake, for twenty
three years connected with the state
board of education, assumed the
iuties of dean of the state normal art
school of Boston.
TIE launching Of the torpedo de-
stroyer Allen from the Bath, Me-, |
ron Works added another valuable
craft to Uncle Sans navy. The boat
rad two sponsors.
Pernard Farley, cotton mill
operative, after hearing at Nashua,
\. H., was held for the sNperior
,ourt without bail on charge of hay-
ng murdered his wife.
Alexander Lowe, soccer football
)layer, was electrocuted at the Lud-
ow Manufacturing Associates mill,
ludlow, Mass, when he came In
,Cntact with a transformer.
Charles 2. Stone, 50, the veteran
,ublic carriage driver at Brunswick,
ie., retired from active business,
hereby removing what was consid-
red almost an institution In Bruns-
yick.
While at work on train of milk
ars being backed onto the siding st
he milk station at Someryllle, 4
lass Richard r. McVey, %, ieil
eneath the cars and was run over
nd killed
The William p. Coffin house on
cotland road. Newbury. Mass built
! 1920 and known far and wide as
ne Of the finest examples OF Colonial
in New England, was
estroyed by fire.
Michael ] Claushsey was killed
nd his two daughters and a niece
ere seriously hurt at New Britain,
onn.. when an express train ran
own carriage in which they were
ding al funeral.
Wrecking contractors with divers
nd apparatus arrived at New Bed
,rd, Mass, to begin operations for
ie raising Of the cruiser Yankee.
iat has lain at the bottom OF Buz-
ards bay since 1909.
Police and medical authorities
greed that Miss Maria Paradls, 2g.
hose body was found in mill !
lutte at Greenland. n. H.. took her
sn life because OF dependency (
'oaght on by illness,
The Haverhi:.. aiass municipal