The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-08-02

Mass.
City Marshal Charles Wallace OF
Bath, Me, IS. hanged himself after
a period Of IN health.
Rita bernstein, 3, was killed al
Boston when she fell thirty feet from
an open window at her home.
Daniel Pastor OF New York. a gar
ment designer. committed suicide by
gas asphyxiation in Boston hotel.
Antonio Plourde, telegraph operator
ut Bethel. Me-, was drowned by
slipping of ledge while. bathing.
Charles Reed. CO. Darlington
n. H., farmer. was killed by a
| freight train after falling asleep on
the track.
Thomas Ableson was killed when
the motor cycle on which he was rid
inng was run into by an automobile
at Beverly. Mass.
While chasing a kitten on the root
OF a five-story house at Boston 4
year-old Eva Monis tumbled on and
fell to her death.
Edmund Murphy, druggist, was
killed when an automobile struck an
abutment bridge over Little river at
Middletown. Conn.
Monster icebergs were sighted d.
rectly In the path OF navigation. about
400 miles east Of Boston, by ships
from North sea ports.
The strike which for ten days
paralyzed the Remington Arms COM
pany's plant at Bridgeport, Conn.
was satisfactorily settled.
Howard w. Stafford, so, one Of the
most prominent business men in
Aroostook county, Me-, dropped dead
at his home at Mars Hill.
Over 800 900 young bass have been
distributed this season from the
Palmer, Mass. hatchery of the state
fish and game commission.
John Frizzell, a farmer, arrested
for intoxication at Portsmouth, N.
H. had a gold watch, $1,000 cash and
ticket for Boston in his pockets.
Antonio Gonsalbas Of New Bedford,
Mass, was arrested at Manchester.
n. H., after his wife, Albina. had
been shot and killed in lodging
house.
As Frank Simonds, 81, rail-
road conductor, alighted from
freight engine at Boston he stepped
directly in the path of 'switcher"
and was killed.
The twenty seventh annual conven-
ton of the Army and Navy Medal OF
Honor Legion of the United States OF
America will be conducted in Boston
Aug. % and 90.
Napoleon Brothers, 40, and Edward
Denning, go, serving sentences in
the house of correction, escaped from
the Berkshire county war garden at
Pittsfield, Mass.
Through the, efforts of the state
bord of Cancellation and arbitration the
strike of millwrights of the American
Writing Paper company, Holyoke,
Mass. was settled.
The Brookline, Mass, public IL
brary offers course Of twelve French
lessons without charge to any persons
who are going to France in the SER
vice of their county.
One woman and FIVE men narrowly
escaped death or serious injury when
wind blew down a barn at Greene,
Me-. in which they had taken shelter
from thunder storm.
The Milliken regiment OF heavy ar
tillery has been accepted officially by |
the war department as part of the |
Maine National Guard and ordered |
into service on July 25.
Miss Lily +. Darcy Of New Bed
ford, Mass was appointed by Con-
gresham Walsh as his secretary to |
succeed George w. B. Britt, who re-
signed to join the army.
Three German steamships, the
Kronprinzessin Cecile, the Cincinnati
and the America, were placed in
commission under the American flag
at the Boston navy yard.
Bernard M. Murphy, known in
Cambridge, Mass, sporting circles
as Bunny" dove to his death from
the top OF a seventy-foot derrick on
wharf into the Charles river.
Frank Lewis, owner OF the Lewis
wool securing plant at Lawrence,
Mass. marked his fiftieth wedding
by presenting to each OF
his 500 operatives at the mill a IS gold
piece.
Governor Graham OF Vermont ac-
cepted the resignation of Guy w.
for eight years secretary OF
state, which Bailey rendered In Or
der to accept the office Of comptroller
Of the University of Vermont.
More than eighty members OF the
Sheriffs' association