Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-11-23

l to 3 cents above the increase
necessitated by the new war tax.
Six enemy aliens We're removed
from the New Haven plant Of the
Winchester Repeating Arms company
| because they did not have permits to
| go into restricted zones. They will
be sent to a detention camp for the
| duration of the war.
Alfonso Deluci, night Waterman at
the Springfield Mass, telephone CEN
trail Office, was held by the police as
| the result of the death of Bryan D.
Meier, 10, whom Deluci shot.
Abner A. Kingman, 50, designer of
the plates, labels and catalogues for
| Harvard university and many Boston
institutions, died at his home at Wake
field, Mass. He was an old-tme
printer.
An investigation into the increase of
telephone rates from pay stations in
Boston hotels is to he made by the
public service commission.
Realizing, evidently, that he was
being stricken with heart trouble, DR..
John z. Currie of Cambridge, Mass,
drove his auto to the house of an
other doctor and then expired.
Boston Marine insurance UNDER
writer's announced further reductions
in marine insurance, following opti-
mistic reports concerning the German
submarine warfare.
After shooting three men, two per-
haps fatally, during an alteration at
Seymour, Conn.,, Tony Dorathes held
a crowd at bay for a while, but was
finally captured.
An offer from a group of oestopaths
to give their services for hospital
work during the war has been declined
by Boston hospitals.
a steamer arriving at Boston
brought 600 tons of salt shipped to
relieve a threatened famine.
A grand jury is investigating the
death of 10-year-old Harry Wells,
who was shot and killed and his
body buried by Clyde Woodward, II,
at Enosburg, vt. Woodward is held
without bail.
Boston will receive S3,513, 1858,
from the state as it's share of the in
come tax for 1917, this sum represent
ing $S42,937.15 more than the city
would have netted under the old sys--
tenn.
Mrs. Ray Bloom, 81, died at Boston
of burns received while she was light
ing a kitchen fire.
Mrs. Archie Patterson of Bangor,
Me-, received a letter from Los
Angeles, Cal, informing her that she
was one of the heirs of an estate of an
uncle, estimated at nearly $2,OO0,000.
The body Of Miss Minnie Drake, A,
of Little Bears Head, n. H., was found
on the railroad tracks in that town.
She had been hit by train.
Eighty-seven postof1ice employees in
the Boston district are benefited by
the 10 percent increase in salary an
nOunced by the department recently.
A strike which threatened govern
ment work was averted at the tannery
of Creese & Cook, Danvers, Mass,
was granted just as the men were
about to walk out.
Two hundred male employees of the,
Continental Paper Bag company,
RumfOrd, Me-, are idle as a result Of
a strike of $50 girl operatives for a
wage increase of 81 a week.
The smallpox epidemic at Gardiner.
Me-, where there are more than sew
enty-tive cases in a form SO mild
thai until recently it was supposde to,
be chicken pOX, is well in hand.
Four hundred employees of the
Smith Paper Company, Lee Mass, the.
largest makers of cigarette paper in
the United States, were granted wage
increases ranging from 5 to 10 per-
cent.
Notices were posted at the Water.
vile repair shops of tue Maine Gem
trail railroad announcing a hat rate,
increase of cents an hour. About
$50 men are affected.
A verdict for $4,000 in the suit Of
Albert LapOinte, against the Monad-
mock Paper company, Nashua, n. H.,
on account of injuries from being run
over by a roll of paper, was returned
by jury.
The Maine Public utilities commits
sion ordered the physical connection
of the steam and electric railway
tracks in Portland, the work to be
completed by Jan. l. 1918.
Miss Hilda Siipola was awarded
$5675 by jury at Fitchburg, Mass,
for injuries sustained while passen-
ger on a Fitchburg and Leominster
street railway car which iran away"
from mOtorman.
Harvard university officials am
nounced the receipt of gift of
$4,000 from Mrs. S. 2. Blake of Bos-
ton. The income from this sum will
be used for the care of the college
grounds.
Frederick Collins was scalded to
dooth whom a volVa in tho ON Uina