Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-28
GATHERED FROM
MANY SECTIONS
Happenings In New England
Told In Brief Items

Gov. Mccall nominated Lawrence B..
Evans of Medford to be state librarian
of Massachusetts to succeed Foster
w. Stearns, resigned.
Caleb Saunders, 70, former mayor
of Lawrence, Mass, and member of
the school board and one of the most
prominent Masons in the state, died
at his home. He had always lived
in the same house in which he was
born.
Giving as his reason that he can
not make his income meet expenses,
Sheriff Mann mailed to Governor Ora
ham as resignation as sheriff of
Windham county, VT.
Word was received at Brookline,
Mass, his home, that Phillips w.
Page, an aviator with the American
naval forces and a former Boston
newspaper man, was drowned in
France.
Arnold f. Salisbury, a Pawtucket,
r. l., photographer, died at the age of
"a. He was veteran Of the Civil
war, Free Mason and Odd Fellow and
was wealthy.
Henry Lanzillo, 16, employed on an
electric switch at a Somerville, Mass,
factory, received a shock while at
his work which resulted in almost in
slant death.
The Cambridge, Mass, board of IT,
brary trustees elected Thomas H
Cummings, lecturer and writer, libra
rian of the Cambridge public library
to succeed Matthew r. Copithorne
who was discharged for alleged insub-
ordination.
Henry ]. Wesslng of Boston was
ordained priest of the Jesuit order by
Cardinal O'Connell. Wessling is blind
and his ordination marks an epoch in
the Catholic church history.
Fire did $4,000 damage to the in
terror of the old Friends Meeting
House at New Bedford, Mass. The
meeting house was a landmark.
Three fingers and the thumb were
blown from the left hand of JOSEPH
Moretti, 10, of Lexington Mass, wher
a cartridge he had been picking tC
pieces exploded as he sat at his desk
in school.
Samuel Adams, IS, was killed al
Woburn, Mass, by being run over by
a truck.
Henry Il. King, Democrat, was elect
ed mayor of MeriIen, Conr. TIE Re.
publicans elected eleven candidates to
the city council aid the Democrats
four.
Antonio Or'an IL, a IaAorer, was
killed at Maiden, Mass, When ne fell
into the hopper Of a stone crllsher
and was suffocated.
The death Of Wainwright Merrill
of Cambridge, Mass, in the Canadian
expeditionary fore, advances Har
ward universitys number Of Service
deaths since the war to frrty-siy.
Everett j. Wallace, 81, WHO for six
teen years hal been identified witt
the Montreal branch of the United
States immigration service as assist
ant commissioner, died at lis home al
White Mountain Junction. Vt.
Henry c. Davis. a hos4man, wa;
killed at a fire at Springiie Id, Mass
when he was strllk by a hose blow
ing off hydrant or by the stream OF
water resulting thcrefrom.
The new $7J, 100 concl ote primer
building at the torpedo station a
! Newport, r. l., has been Il rned Owe
to the government.
Disaster overlook The iishin:
schooner Ruth Tc1lber while return
ing from a tile fishing tr;p south o
Nantucket, Mass. The vessel ccllid
ed with a submerged scow and sank
The entire crew were rescued.
Fred A. Houdlette, 56, head Of tn,
iron and steel concern, lIoudlei;e {
Son, Inc, dropped dead at Boston
as he was about to take train 70
Newton, where he lived.
Conrad J. Rueter, for more thar
twenty years a trustee Of the Boston
city hospital, died In thar insti ltiol
following an operation tor aplendi
citis. He was In active legal prac
tice in Boston.
Frank Everett, 45, WAS foun I'm
conscious from accidental gas poison
ing in his home ut Boston AMI die,
soon afterward.
William c. Plunkett, widely know
cotton manufacturer, died at Adams
Mass, where he was born in 1875.
Manuel Isidor and John Tanes, be
lieved to have been lost in a terrif
storm, returned home at Province
town, Mass, after trying experience
of being tossed by the seas
Zenas Crane, II, Berkshire county
most eminent business man and phil
anthropist, and a millionaire, die,
suddenly in his home at Dalton
Mass, of heart failure.
The schedule in bankruptcy of Ma
than 2. Clifford, lumber dealer Of Sa
lem, Mass, shows liabilities o
$2OS,691.
Frank YOGI, charged with man