Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-18
GATHERED FROM
MANY SECTIONS
Happenings In New England
Told In Brief Items

The bodies of Martin Dunn of Troy,
N H.. a railroad section foreman,
and William McGill, a trackman, were
found on the railroad tracks at Athol.
Mass.
Rev. Henry Blanchard, "a, one Of
the best known UniversaliSt ministers
in New England, died at Portland,
Me.
Two elderly sisters, Miss Belle Sum
ner and Miss Lucy s. Sumner, we're
founded dead In bed at their home
at Somervlle, Mass. All the windows
and doors in the room were stuffed
with papers and clothes and the gas
jets were turned on full.
Zenas Crane, late of Dalton, Mass,
left an estate of $5,O00,0OO, according
to bonds filed by his brother, former
Senator Crane, in probate court.
Safe breakers blew the door off the
safe in the pOstoffice at East Green
wich, K. J., and secured approximate
ly $1,000 in stamps and money.
Annie Ames, 13, was killed at NAL
den, Mass, when the sled upon which
she was coasting down a hill crashed
into pole.
Miss Nellie Donovan, 80, "A domestic,
fell down an elevator shaft at Bos-
ton and was killed.
Mrs. Lucy Atwood, 50. while going
r., q, tbnutra of prnoEtnp Macs
on the ice and received injuries from
which she died.
Edward f. Thompson. 81, died at
Woburn, Mass. He was the city's
| Office in 1892.
The war department, at the request
Of Congressman Tague, will undertake
an investigation of health and com
| fort conditions at Fort StandiSh, BOS-
ton harbor.
A close friend Of former Lieut..
Gov. rockingham of Massachusetts
made the prediction that the latter
will be candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor to succeed
| Gov. Mccall.
Armed robbers held up two all
night restaurants at Boston, throwing
the diners into a state of panic and
incidentally taking the nights re-
ceipts. In each case the robbers
escaped.
A petition was put in circulation by
| 1,
asking for wage increases totalling
| $500 annually.
John James of Boston died from
injuries sustained when he struck
against a pole as he jumped from an
auto truck.
The Massachusetts state board Of
charity recommended that the Suf-
folk school for boys on Rainsford
island be abandoned.
Walter Regan, %, was crushed to
death in freight yard at Somerville,
Mass.
Patrick Bergin jumped to his death
from the roof of a house at Boston.
| The cause of his act is not known.
The new double track railroad
bridge of the Maine Central across
the KennebaC river between Fairfield
and Benton, Me, was completed.
Ihe cost was $1,000,00
At the annual meeting of the Chill
1ren's Protective society of Maine, A.
Pettingell of Portland was elected
president.
Three hundred employees of the
Pacific Mills prints works, Lawrence
Mass, struck for 10 percent in
crease in wages.
Andrew j. Wilcox, 81, sheriff OF
Providence county, died at North
Providence, r. l., from complications
resulting from fall on the ice.
Goldfish sold at the highest price on
record at the Boston fish pier, 20 to
"a cents q pound being the quotations
on steak cod.
Just one short of 5000 animals, be-
sides those at the stock yards, were
examined by the Massachusetts Soc-
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals in the month of December.
An investigation was ordered into
the circumstances surrounding the or
tgin of a fire that caused considerable
damage to the passenger repair shop
of the Vermont Central Railway at
st Adams, Vt,
They are taking in landlubbers and
turning on; sailors by the hundreds
at Uncle Sans newest merchant ma =
rine war college aboard the Calvin
! Austin a Boston.
Arkalis tpOstolos, 4, was killed at
Woburn, Mass, when he coasted un =
der heavy truck.
One person of every $50 in Mas
sachusetts Is insane, declares the
Massachusetts commission on mental
diseases 10 its latest annual report
The body of Miss Florence Bale,
%, Of Lawrence, Mass, who had ueen