News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-01-12
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Happenings In Various Parts Of
New England States

NOW ENGlQliu Ol0tGS
The Waltham, Mass, authorities
who have been conducting the search
for ex-Mayor Kearns came to the
conclusion that there is nothing more
they can do to bring the mystery OF
his disappearance to an end.
Heinie Wagner was given his out
right release by the Boston Red Sox.
He will secure a berth as an Inter-
national league manager.
Winthrop T. Hodges, United States
appraiser at Boston, and William H.
Parker, assistant United States ap-
praiser, were requested to resign in
consequence of the change in the ma
tional administration.
The matter of petitioning the legis-
lature for city charter will be the
subject of discussion at the Gardner,
Mass, annual town meeting in
| March.
During nine days there have been
1O4 deaths from pneumonia and tif-
teen from grip in Boston, according
| to the figures OF the health depart
ment.
His head entangled in the bed
clothing, 5-year-old Norman Crois-
SAINT was found smothered in his bed
at Worcester, Mass.
st. Mary's church, Spencer,
Mass. has been bequeathed $4,000 in
the will OF the late Rev. Antoine A.
Lamy.
A mortality record of ten veterans
in one week has been established at
the Soldiers Home, Chelsea, Mass.
With gas flowing freely from an open
jet Thomas McGrane, so, was found
dead in bed at Boston.
The bill to prohibit the transporta
tion Of liquor into no-license cities
and towns, which was vetoed by
Governor Walsh last year, was filed
in the Massachusetts house again.
The funeral of Rt. Rev. Thomas
Doran, auxiliary bishop of Provi
dence. took place at Providence.
The pontitical mass was attended by
thousands of persons.
William A. Andrews, rs, a Civil
war veteran, died at his home at
West Boylston, Mass. of wounds re-
ceived fifty -four years ago. Blood
poisoning, caused from bullet in his
head, was responsible for his death.
Charles, Henry and Elmer Harris
celebrated their birthday at Salem,
Conn. They're brothers, though not !
triplets. They were born in 1866, !
1872 and 1873, respectively, on
Jan. 7.
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Street railway, New Bedford, Mass,
asked for an increase in wages and
improved working conditions.
Edgar Lord, banker, who was sem
fenced to state prison to from twelve
to fifteen years for larceny from CO.
operative banks in New Bedford. !
Mass. was freed on parole.
George Jelineau, %, was drowned, |
and three women were rescued in a
skating accident at Worcester, Mass.
o. M. Gallup, 81, big real estate
holder and lumberman of Vermont,
died at st. Johnsbury. He had con-
structed many railroads.
Failing from the rear OF an express
train David T. Rose, brakeman.
was killed at Dorchester, Mass.
Joseph Chase, the oldest native or
Boston in the country, died at his
home at Vineyard Haven, Mass. in
mis- 99th year.
Receivers were appointed for the
Blackstone Hotel company of Provi-
dence when several creditors in
stituted insolvency proceedings.
With the thermometer at zero the
Rockland, Mass, fire department
fought fire in two blocks in the heart
of the business district. The nre
started from a defective fiue.
DR.. Merritt G. Fernald. president
of the University of Maine, died at
Orono. Me. He was Is years old.
The body of Wolf Simon was found
hanging in a barn at Auburn, Me.
Veronica Jusefowcz. 3, set fire to
her clothes with a match at North
ampton. Mass. and burned to death.
Another big cranberry company TO
do business on Cape Cod was granted
, charter at the Massachusetts state
house. The company is Incorporated
for $500, 600.
Veronica Tamashumas, 5. set tre
10 her clothing while alone in her
nome at Somerville, Mass. and was
fatally burned.