The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-10-11
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Items From Various Sec.
tons Of New England


The repor, OF Treasurer Clark re-
veals that the Harvard Union showed
deficit during the last academic
year Of $40 SCI 40.
Philip Orlick. so. senior memher
az a Boston wholesale boot and shoe
firm, was cranking his automob''e
when he collapsed. lie died in
few minutes.
His foot caught IN n frog. no ala
at hand. his shrieks unheard, VII
liam Beruse, l6. was killed hy
train at Fall River, Mass
A school OF military aeronantics ~
Yale university has been planned
and sanction now rests with the war
department.
Judge Morton. In the federal dis
trict court at Boston, permitted re
ceiyer Hustis Of the Boston ana
Maine to pay 500 600 interest on "
600 600 OF Connecticut River rail-
road notes. due Aug 81
Sixty percent OF Cape Gods cram
berry crop was ruined by frost, II
Is estimated. The money loss may
exceed 81 900 900.
A pile OF old newspapers three
quarters Of mile t5q60 feet htgh Is
the task that the high school STU
dents Of Melrose, Mass have SET
themselves to gather, The papers
will be sold for the beneat OF the
school athletic association
Dominic Larvolli, 4 was run over
and killed by grocery automobile
truck in front Of his home at 3os-
ton.
Fred Gibbons and ! y, Chisholm,
in the disabled motorhoat Gretchen
which was blown to sea. were picked
up forty miles southeast of Boston
Light by United states destroyer
and towed In to Nahant nearly ex-
hausted for lack of food.
The largest cargo Of molasses ever
brought to Boston arrived in spe-
cially constructed tanker, she had
900 900 gallons OF the cane prod
uct in her holds. i,
The number of inmates in the Mas
sachusetts state prison is 625, the
smallest IL mas ever Deen,
Isaac b Choate, "a, writer OF sew
eral books of verse, died at West
brook, Me. He was known widely
as a language student.
Thomas Harrington was killed and
his companion, Edward Larkin, sus-
tanned fractured skull, when they
were struck by an automobile at Fail
River Mass.
Viola Cerone, Z, was struck and
killed at Attleboro, Mass, by an
automobile.
Over 500 900 worth Of locally
grown vegetables and fruits we're sold
in the Boston farmers market the
past week.
William ] Power, a., lives to tell
the tale Of how he fell from the tor
Of a sixty Ave foot building at Bos-
ton.
In the largest raid conducted by
the Boston police in recent years
ninety five men, whom the officers
charge with gambling in Greek cot
fee houses, were arrested.
John Larsen, So, shoe worker
committed suicide at Everett, Mass
by cutting his throat.
The total number OF deaths In Bos
ton the past week was 1885,
The Chelsea, Mass. school board
officially recognized the Hebrew Ian
guage as a regular elective course o
the high school curriculum.
An engineer who worked on th'
Lee Huntington, Mass. trolley lin'
discovered an extensive bed OF pea
Of excellent quality.
A possible disaster was avertet
when IL was discovered that the en-
CINE crankshaft Of the steamship Ar
rlno was fractured, just as the BIZ
munition ship was about to put u
sea from Boston.
Charles Taft, son OF ex-Presiden
William II. Taft and Mrs. Taft, ant
Miss Eleanor Chase we're married
at the home OF the brides par
ents at Waterbury, Conn.
Lexington. Mass, parents VOL
their fight to compel the school com
mittee 10 restore barge service TO
the school children OF outlying dis
tricts.
A medical examiner found 1888 II
bills and 800 in gold In the pocket
} OF Ezekiel Buchanan. Al, Jamaical
sailor, who committed suicide a
Plymouth, Mass with razor.
| Frederick A. Foster, Jr., Of Bos
, ton, Harvard graduate and sec
! ond lieutenant. was killed when al
automobile overturned.
Mrs. Mary r. Lund, 60, was rul
down and killed at Concord, N. II.
by an automobile.
| The Second Unitarian church a
Salem, Mass. Is celebrating Its 2o0tl
anniversary.
James Murphy, 80, OF Haverhill
Mass. was killed when, In tryin
10 board a moving train, he fell be
meath the wheels.
!, Daniel T. CAVITY, As, a machinist
OF Reading. dropped dead In the ju
! ryroom OF the superior court q
Lowell, Mass.
George Davis was killed at NeV
Bedford, Mass. when an automobil
he was driving was In collision witt
! an electric car.
Authority 10 operate one mai
street cars was granted TO the Ba.
] State Street railways by the publ
| service commission.
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