Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-11-23
news REDUCED
TO A MINIMUM
Recent Happenings of Interest
to New EngIandGrS

which she was playing with matches
at Lee, Mass.
Gov. Mccall nominated F. Il. Ham
mond of Cambridge to succeed C. U.
Bell, resigned, as an associate judge
of the Massachusetts superior court.
Mrs. Irving L. Sanborn, so, of Lewis
ton, Me-, committed suicide by hang
ing. She was respondent because Of
long illness.
Mayor Curley granted sixty-four
printers, compositors and others con-
nected with the Boston City printing
department, a raise of 81 a week.
Jacob Cohn, &c, founder of J. Cohn
& Co, tobacco packers, of New York,
died at Hartford from injuries re-
ceived when his automobile was
struck by a train.
In the Boston stock market the
price of Boston Elevated Railway
shares fell to 80, new low record.
Fred Macdonald, SO, a chauffeur,
died at Lynn, Mass, as the result of
breaking a small pimple on his neck
while his hands were covered with
gasoline and Oil.
The argument 81 "no appropria-
lions" is said by Providence club
women, who have been striving for
the appointment Of pOlicewomen, to
mean that the cause is lost, at least
for the present.
Capt. Hamilton of the steamship H.
f. Dim0ck was found guilty by fed
eral shipping inspectors at Boston of
operating his vessel at too great a
speed in a fog when his ship collid-
ed with the steamship Stemstad. Ham
ilton was suspended for ninety days.
Frederick w. Cole, 60, inventor of
many devices connected with fire
alarm systems, died at his home at
Newton, Mass, where he was born.
Lawyers who are selected by par
ties in litigation or appointed by the
Massachusetts superior court to sit
as master or auditor to hear the facts,
will hereafter receive $50 a day for
their services, instead of $15 as has
been the custom since 1878.
Samuel Ralby, for nearly ten years
confidential clerk and boOkkeeper for
J. w. Howard, a Somerville, Mass
florist, who paid him SO a week, was
arrested for the alleged larceny of
$4,000 from his employer.
The body of man taken from the
! Spicket river at Lawrence, Mass, was
identified as that of Richard w. DAILY,
40, of Haverhill.
A five-tOn casting swinging on a
crane broke from it's holdings at the
Reed, Prentice Machine company
plant, Worcester, Mass, and fell on
the head of Olivia Tessier, killing him
instantly.
At meeting of the New Bedford
Mass, Textile Council, it was voted to
request an advance of 10 percent in
wages.
The clothing of Mrs. Annie Balch,
30, of Lynn, Mass, caught fire as she
was lighting a fire and she was burned
to death.
A petition for the appointment of
a receiver Tor the Barre and Montpe-
lier Traction and Power company was
filed at Montpelier, Vt.
Mrs. Margaret Wyatt, "a, of Ports
mouth, n. H., was killed when an au-
tom )bile in which she was a passen-
ger shiddeG and went over an en-
banknent.
John Barron, an oiler employed by
the American Writing Paper company
at iOlyohe, Mass, was caught in a
shaft, wh'rled against the ceiling and
instantly killed.
The go men employed by the Syl-
vester Iron Works, Danvers, Mass,
who have been on strike, returned to
| work, following the announcement Of
20 percent increase in wages.
Rev. Thomas f. Butler, pastor of
st. Joseph's Catholic church, Lewis
ton, Me-, is dead at the age of II.
Joseph Crothers, exalted ruler of
Clinton, Mass, lodge of Elks, was
killed by falling from a touring car.
Judge Charles U. Bell of the Mas
sachusetts superior court sent his res
ignation to Governor Mccall Bell
was appointed to the bench of the SUI
pefior court in 1898.
Three immigration inspectors of the
Boston station returned from New
Haven with five German seamen, de-
serters of the German steamer Vat.
erland. They were arrested while
working in a brickyard.
Mrs. Sarah e. Bennett, 10 of Cam
bridge, Mass. died of injuries re-
ceived when she was struck by an
electric street car.
Frederick Daley died at Somerville,
Mass, with a bullet in : brain,
after disagreement with Il young
woman with whom he had been keep
ing company.
Horatio Colony, the first mayor of
Keene, N. H., and one of the richest
men in that city, was killed when his
automobile overturned and tOppled
into q brook at Goshen, N. II.