Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-04

Mass, family, was found on the beach
at Clifton, Mass. On three other &C.
casions he had attempted to take his
life. He had recently escaped from
an insane institution.
With a revolver clutched in her
right hand and a bullet wound in
her head, the body of Mrs. Adele
Mock, 40, was found, covered with ice
and snow, in Franklin Park, Boston.
She had been misglng from her home
since Dec. &.
Col. Arnold A. Rand, So leader Of
the Fourth Massachusetts cavalry in
| the Civil war and vice president and
general counsel for the John Hancock
Mutual Life Insurance company for
the last twenty years. died at his
home at BroOkliDe, Mass.
Harve Buker, wOOdsman, shot
himself fatally in remOrse for the ac-
cidental shooting and killing of Mrs.
John SecOr in lumber camp at SOM
erSet, Die.
The Boston and Maine railroad Sus-
| tanned u heavy loss when seven loco
motives were wrecked by fire at
Lawrence, Mass. The blaze is sup
posed to have been started by spark
| from one of the engines.
The plant of the Madison Wooden
company, Madison, Me-, which is max
ing overcoaL cloth for the government,
was closed by d strike.
1octinp GOnn nnn bovc,
been completed by the New Haven
| Railroad company at Providence en-
CINE houses in preparation for caring
for additional traffic.
Maiden, Mass, had an explosion
scare when 500 gallons of gasoline i'm
tank in the rear of the Boston Dye
House blew up with roar that was
heard all over the city.
The Me ford, Mass, board of alder
men passed the new salary ordinance
providing for increases in salaries,
totaIing about $500.
james Nj. OImstead, one of the
referees in bankruptcy for Suffolk,
county, Mass, was reelected presi-
| y
! the New England states.
After more than sixty years con-
'InuCdS service as barber in Ames-
| bury, Mass, Samuel A. Felch has re-
tired. He is thought TO be the Oldest
barber in point of service in New
| England.
Wi'IiStOn Hall, one of the recita-
ton buildings at Mt Holyoke college,
South HadIey, Mass, was destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000.
Miss Harriet A. Varney, acquitted
on a charge of killing Mrs. George II.
Reyes, collected 500 from Norfolk,
Mass, county, it representing 80 cents
day during the six months she was
confined in Jail.
Some very fine specimens of Maine.
| Shipbuilding have been sent overheard
recently, and a lot more are nearly
ready to take the water.
More than 100 naval reserves are
now in training at the Newport, II. l.,
naval training station.
Thomas w. Lamont, of the firm of
]. p. Morgan & Co., New York, has
| purchased a 100-acre farm on the,
north shore of North Haven. Me.
The sum of $500 is bequeathed to-
the Rhode island hospital, Providence
in the will of Mrs. Martha A. Cum
mings of Brookline. Mass.
| Kenneth and Earl Dow, brothers,
were Instantly killed near Montpelier,
| VT, when their team was hit by a
train on the Central Vermont railroad.
| II. r. Small a fireman, was killed
and three other trainmcn injured when
- passenger train cOllidcd with a
| switching engine, head,On, near New
| Haven.
Andrew T. RaggiO, professor of
| Spanish and italian languages at the
University of Maine, died at OrOno
1cemen are getting ready to harvest
the ice crop at North Beverly and
| Hamilton, Mass. This is the earliest
for years that the harvesting has been
| commenced.
Fire, which caught from a machine,
swept through the two upper floors OF
mill of the w S. Libby company,
| Lewiston, Me. The loss is S5O,00O and
| sixty operatives are thrown out Of em-
ployment.
Mrs. Julia Flynn, so, died at Wal
| than, Mass, from burns received
| when a lounge upon which she was
lying caught fire.
An arbitration board granted the
demand of the Portland, Me-, Long
shoremen's union for an increase Of
wages.
Increased acreage of oats and the
more extensive breeding of sheep were
| urged by ]. A. Roberts, state commits
sioner of agriculture, in an address
| before the Maine State Grange.
The $4,000 breach of promise suit
brought by Miss Georgia r. Ames
| against Henry c. Luce, Boston broker,
was settled without it's coming up