Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-02-15

Capt. Francis w. Ring of the
SOmerville. Mass, fire department
dropped dead from a heart attack
while fighting a $500 fire.
Miss Mary Hazelton. 81, was found
dead at Somerville, Mass. from gas
| asphyXiation. II is thought her
death was accidental.
Twenty passengers were injured
of a suburban passenger train stand
ing at the Bristol, Conn, station of
the New Haven road.
Hundreds of wild ducks are dying
cause their feeding grounds have
been obliterated by the unpreced-
ented ice fields.
1t cost $l04, 55S. 1853 to run the
cities and towns of Massachusetts in
1915, according to the tabulation just
made public by Director Gettemy of
the bureau of statistics.
William II. Casey, the first pur-
chasing agent of Me1fOrd, Mass. {.
was sworn into office and Immediate
Iv took charge of the purchase of all
the city's supplies.
John Dolan, 30, was found dead in
his bed at Boston. An unlighted
burner in gas heater WAS open.
cargo of 4 100000 pounds Of raw
sugar reached Boston from Antilla in
the steamship Coosa.
Mrs. Cecilya Dzikowicz, %, died
! of burns suffered in trying to put ont
flames in her two children's clothes
after they had overturned an oil stove
| at their home at HOuSatOnic, Mass.
She saved the chiIdrens lives, but
inhaled flames.
Boston's death roll took a drop
of deaths was 262.
William +. RogCTSon. u, super
| intendent of the Forbes Lithograph
/ company, was found dead in the gar
age at his home at Winchester
Mass. the victim of gasoline fumes.
Boston's representative Jews COM
| pleted initial plans for the launching
of campaign to raise 1898 333}3 as
Greater BOstOn'S share of the nation
wide fund for destitute victims III the
devastated regions of Europe. and
for welfare work in the United
States army and navy.
William F. Shedden IS, of the firm
| of William f. Shedden q Co. sole
feather, Boston, took his own life by
said, cansed his act.
The entire working force of the
| Holmes Confectionery company,
Portland. Me. struck because the
manager Of the factory, Arthur II.
Bailey, had been displaced by new
| manager.
James Calvin, "a was killed at
Boston when large pile of coke,
under which he was digging, caved
in and buried him.
The Cumberland County Power and
Light company. owners Of the Port
land, Me, street railroad system,
announced that it would apply to the
| public utilities commission of the
state for general increase in fares.
Riveters. numbering l25 men
struck at the ship building plant of
the Texas Steamship company. Bath
Me. because of dissatisfaction with
their rating and a desire for more
pay.
Seven raCe horses, owned by i.
W. McBurnie, were burned to death
at Pressure Isle, Me. They were
valued at 5000
Gen. Johnston, commander of the
department of the northeast, con-
firme1 the sentence Of Private Petro
Romano OF Lynn, Mass, to fifteen
years Imprisonment in the Atlanta
penitentiary for failure to report I'M
der the draft law.
Sergt. Gustav Auring. for thir-
ty years in the United States army,
and recently assigned to the recruit
| 'hS OthNO az ia "uSS', " ds
relieved from duty and retired be-
cause of alleged pro-German utter
ances. Auring is a German by birth.
Arthur d. Lawrence. 60, for
m ny years prominent in Boston SPORT
ing circles, was found dead in bed. Ac-
cidental gas poisoning was given as
the cause
Since the country entered the war
the city of Boston has paid out $500, =
900 to dependent families.
William NJ. Weber, for twenty
year grand instructor of the grand
lodge of ODD Fellows of Massachu
Setts, died at Boston in his Goth
year.
The Bath. Me-, Iron Works, EN-
plOying hundreds of men on the con-
,struction of government craft, and
the Hyde Windlass company. also of
Bath, announced that their plants
must shut down through lack of
coal.
Portland, Me. schools will take