Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-01-25
NEWS CONDENSED
FOR BUSY READERS
Brief items From Various Sec.
tons Of New England

IT is reported that grand jury will
make an investigation to determine if
there was violation of the city
charter by the Lawrence, Mass, city
council in permitting an overdraft of
approximately $140, 900.
Fishing shippers arriving at Boston
report the worst weather outside
which they have encountered in TWEEN
ty years.
Raymond F. DAILY, 10, died at Wor-
cester, Mass. of tetanus resulting
from a slight cut made with a nail
file.
Mary Heffernan, rs, died at Boston
from accidental gas poisoning.
Rev. Martha C. Aitken, Unitarian,
died at WOllaston, Mass. She was
born at Montpelier, VT, and was or
dained in 1894. She is survived by
two sons and a daughter.
On account of the war, the Massa-
chusetts state convention of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles scheduled for
July has been Indefinitely postponed.
Arthur j. Roberts of Waterville,
Me, president of Colby college, has
been appointed temporary chairman of
the Maine branch of the League to
Enforce Peace.
A lump of platinum, the size of
Il, 10 -n1, af
stolen from crucible in a lecture
room at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
George w. Fowle, Massachusetts
veteran journalist, died at his home
in Boston, aged SO.
Gov. Mccall called upon the legis-
lature, in a special message, to make
an investigation of the uses of peat
and deposits in Massachusetts with
view of ascertaining whether it can
be used as substitute for coal.
Erastus b. Badger, founder of the
E. b. Badger X Sons company, one
OF the largest chemical engineering
and chemical apparatus manufacture
ing plants in the country, died at his
home at Boston liz his Goth year.
Ida Angelo, AZ, died at Marlboro,
Mass, from the effects of burns re-
ceived when she tipped over u
pail of hot water which scaded her.
Men who join the Third Maine in
fantry, now being organized, will es-
cape the selective draft, if they are of
draft age.
The government free wireless school
now in the customs building, Boston,
is to be enlarged to accommodatGs3H
students.
Samuel Ralby, charged with the
larceny of $4,000 from his employer,
Il Somerville, Mass, florist, pleaded
guilty in court and was held in $1,000.
For the partial destruction of its
church editice by fire, the Second So
ciety of Universalists of Boston re-
ceives SJS,O0O insurance, instead of
$4,000 which it claimed, by de-
CiSiOn of the full bench of the supreme
court.
Because he thought the Teutons
would lose the war with America
against them Joseph Atwys, an Aus
trian, of tifty-fve years residence in
this country, committed suicide at
New Bedford. Mass, by inhalng gas.
Mrs. Johanna NJ. Mumzeit, 50,
threw herself under q tunnel train in
the Boston subway and died of her
injuries.
Moses w. Clifford, president of the
First National Bank, Provincetown,
Mass, for twenty mine years and
prominent in local affairs, died of
pneumonia.
Victor DavidOnia, 6h, drove his sled
in front Of Il truck at Lawrence,
Mass, and was crushed to death I'M
der the wheels.
Mrs. Carrie H. Patten, 50, died al
Boston as IA result of being severely
burned when her night dress caught
fire from "a gas heater.
AS the result of drinking a power
ful acid, Miss Ida Carlevale, IS, died
at Providence.
In an effort further to conserve the
fuel supply, the Boston and Maine
railroad ordered that no special cars
of any kind, except federal or state
government cars, will be carried.
1t is intimated that Boston will soon
be the home of an immense concrete
shipping plant.
A big drive for men for the flying
section was started at Boston by the
department of the northeast. -
A falling steel beam at the New
England Structural Steel company's
plant at Everett, Mass, struck ant
killed f. e. Mckenzie, a workman.
Work of building the new immigra
ton station at Boston, which has beer
under consideration for the past ter
years, will begin April /.
Gen. Augustus B. Farham, re, for.
mer adjutant general of Maine, ant
for nearly quarter of century
postmaster of Bangor, died in thai
city, where he was born.