Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-08-16
new ENGLAND NEWS
In TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of YankeeIand

Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and
daughter arrived at Bar Harbor, Me-
from Lenox, Mass. They have taken
apartments at hotel and expect t6
remain six weeks.
Names State house has elevator
girls; they are giving entire salts
elevator they collec: and deliver all
the mail in the building.
Two firemen were slightly injured
and five horses were burned to death
in a two alarm fire, in a livery stable
occupied by Harry c. Bell at Brook
line, Mass. The damage is estimated
at $4,000.
Joseph Gasselin, aged 13 years, Leo
Peteau, aged 10 years and kldeSc
Gagne, aged s years were drowned
while swimming i'll Bond brook, a
tributary Of the Kennebec river near
Augusta, Me.
James Haley, IA years old, of Som
erville, who was employed as a mes
senger at the Office of the S. M. Nc
fntyre Brass Works, Boston, was killed
by falling down the elevator shaft
In the building.
The Winchendon, Mass, town farm
was destroyed by fire started by light
ming, causing a loss estimated at $25-
900. The inmates, many Of them old
and feeble, were removed to safety
by Warden Edgar S. Chase and his
wife.
Milk at 16B cents a quart during
August is the latest plan of the milk
handlers, who have asked permits
sion to charge that rate in Boston.
The present price, 14h cents a quart,
gives the producer Sc cents as his
| share.
Mary Dorothy Roman, one Of the
three children of Mr.. and Mrs Patrick
Roman Of Hough's Neck, Mass, who
were poisoned from eating cherries
picked from tree that had been
sprayed for bugs, died from the effects
OF the poison.
Six persons were injured, two fatal
ly, when their automobile was hit by
a Central Vermont passenger train at
a blind crossing at West Berlin, Vt.
George Brown and Percy Goethe died
soon after they had been removed to
Montpelier, VT.
Lightning struck a tobacco shed in
Thomsonville, Ct, in which 33 persons
were at work hanging tobacco, and
all of them were affected by the bolt
Six women suffered so severely as to
call for the services Of physicians
All will recover.
Five arrests were made In Paw
sucket, r. l., as result Of a demon
stration that occurred during a par
ade Of 1000 or more textile strikers,
some of whom became especially
noisy near the plant Of the Royal
Weaving company.
By an agreement reached between
counsel, Judge Wait in the superior
court, ordered George r. Armstrong,
wealthy clubman living at the Hotel
Tourane, Boston, to pay his former
wife, Virginia G. Armstrong, the sum
Of 100000 almony
Isl Linn, the Chinese student who
attempted to kill Miss Christine Shaw
of Orono, Me-, in 1911 and who is
serving Is years in the state prison,
was pardoned by the governor and
council on condition that he be de-
ported cut of the United States.
The Boston Record has undergone
reorganization, NJ. Douglar Flattery,
managing director of Loews Theatre
company, is to become president of
the new corporation, and Thomas F.
Eaton its treasurer. Louis C. Page re-
fires from active management to en-
ter war work.
Thomas P. Cox, manager of large
grocery store on fremont street, Bos-
ton. is suffering from a buile: wound
In the mouth inflicted by John Smar-
aki, former employe. who whipped
out revolver in the crowded store
after demanding money he claimed
due him, and fired one shot
EXPIRES. Charles S. Mellen of the
New YorN, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, has filed in the Berkshire
probate court a petition asking for a
decree of desertion and living apart
from his wife, Katherine Lloyd Liv-
lngston, now of New York Mr.. Mel
len lives at Stcckbridge, Mass.
1t Gov. Coolidge's vote in the ex-
scutive council enabled the members
Of the six Massachusetts legislative
recess committees and commissions
TO win their long fight to obtain the
customary compensation of $1,000, in
stead of $500, which several members
of the council insisted was enough.
Forty-five Cambridge men who ar
rived at Camp Devens, last week pro-
tested when they learned they had
been classified as conscientious OBJ
jectors by their draft board. They
Immediately applied for overseas SER