The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-08-23
NEWS CONDENSED
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Happenings In Various Parts
Of New England

sixteen hufHee were burned 10 ueat
in a fire al Boston caused by light
ming.
Dr. Richard II. Mansur, so, @
Chelsea. Mass was held In 5000
bail on a charge of Illegal surgery.
Mrs. Plandilla Iavobucci OF Quin
cy, Mass, charged with practisin
medicine without being registered
was fined 500.
Charged with numbering his wife
Olive. by shooting, Carl o. Will
was held at Dedham, Mass. for tn,
grand jury without bail.
Charles w. Bancroft, president o
the international Trust company, wa
appointed receiver for the w. & A
Bacon company of Boston.
Joseph NJ. Russell, Jr. 90, assist
ant receiving teller of the New Eng
land Trust company, Boston, wa
drowned in Boston harbor.
Louie Pantella, a laborer, was
killed In the cave-in of a portion of 8
cellar wall Of theatre under con-
struction at Waltham. Mass.
Plans are being considered by the
naval authorities to prohibit operation
OF pleasure craft and excursion boats
In Boston harbor during heavy fog.
Former Attorney General Dana Ma
lone, So, died at Greenfield, Mass. !,
from a fractured skull. received when
he was thrown from his mount while
horseback riding.
There is work for many men at the
Boston navy yard, There are places
for common laborers, boat builders
wood caulkers, shipfltters, steel
molders and meters.
Huntley n. Spaulding of Rochester
has been approved as food admins
traitor of New Hampshire by Presi-
dent Wilson. Spaulding was named
by Herbert c. Hoover.
Two soldiers at Fort Mckinley, on
Great Diamond island, Portland,
Me-, harbor, who were in detention
for military offenses, broke out of the
guard house and escaped.
Adelbert H. Bicknell, naval re-
servist, of Everett, who was in train
ing at the naval reserve station on
pumpkin island, Boston harbor, was
drowned while swimming.
DR.. d. A. Sargent, director OF
gymnastics at Harvard university,
has been appointed by the navy de-
partment to train the members of the
naval reserve radio school.
Leo Folsom, youthful Corinna,
Me-. farmer of draft age, shot and
killed his 16-year old wife and him
self because she planned to leave him
without cause for exemption.
Mrs. Marion Corner plunged six
stories to instant death at Holyoke,
Mass. She had been i'll for nearly
two years. Recently she had been
constantly attended by nurse.
Charles NJ. Bailey, who was en-
gagged in the manufacture of oilcloth
for seventy five years, died at Win
.hrop, Me-, at the age of 81. He was
said to be worth nearly $40, 900 900.
Seated in an office chair in the
hardware store at Gloucester, Mass.
where he had worked for forty -seven
years, Frank E. Smothers, 65, its
owner, committed suicide by gas poi
;oning.
James Golden, a patrolman, plead
ID guilty to the murder Of his faith
sr, Nicholas Golden, at Bristol, r.
=, by shooting. The patrolman said
his father first struck him with a
The body of Charles w. Laban, As,
/ farmer, was found hanging to the
alters of a barn at Quincy, Mass.
II health is said to be the cause or
he suicide.
George Moody, so, who had been
leld for the Grand jury on a statutory
,harge, committed suicide at Port
and, Me. by shooting He left q
tote declaring that the case against
lin was trumped up.
The worst electrical storm for many
'ears swept over Portsmouth, N. II.
.ausing four fires, burning out tele
hone wires and covering car tracks |
With washed out sand Lightning |
truck in many places.
David I. Walsh, former governor
u Massachusetts. was appointed re-
.eiver of the New England Equitable |
insurance company, to take the place |
# Dana Malone, who recently was
.illed by fall from his horse.
Lieutenant George H. Paul of the
United States naval reserve was dis
Ionorably discharged from service
nd escorted from the Boston navy
ard for absenting himself without
cave and for conduct unbecoming an
fiicer.
The first pastor OF New England 20
ffier his services to the United
,tates navy for active duty was Rev.