The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-07-22
new ENGLAND NEWS
IN TABLOID FORM
Items of Interest From All
Sections of Yankeeland

state prison for the murder or MS
two months old child, George, Jr
Riendeau and his wife were tried on
a charge of poisoning the infant
The mother was acquitted.
After choking his bride of months
TO death at their home in Roxbury,
Mass, John Henry, colored, long
shoreman, slept in bed beside the
body all night and sauntered over to
the Roxbury court house and made
known the tragedy, according to the
police.
Harold D. Wilson, displaced as pro-
hibition director under the recent re-
organization of the enforcement otflce
In Massachusetts, has decided to ac-
cept the post as assistant to Elmer G.
Potter in charge of the field service.
The salary for supervising field depu-
hes is $4,000
John D. Camp, aged "a, with only
une leg, giving his address as ga Ok
ford ST., Portland, Me-, was held
m Richmond, Virginia, on suspi'
zion of having murdered John t.
Minson, aged night Waterman, in a
shanty on the banks of the James
River the night of Jan. last.
Trial of the eviction cases brought
by the Bigelow.Hartford Carpet Com
pany, Thompsonville, Ct, against
striking brussels weavers who live in
ahe company's houses was again post
poned when attorney William j. NULL:
gan, counsel for the weavers, entered
demand for trial of the cases by jury
Stillman E. Woodman, nominated
by President Harding to be United
States Marshal for the Maine district,
was sheriff of Washington county for
ten years, retiring last January. His,
home is in Machias. He will succeed
John s. P. H. Wilson of Auburn,
Democrat, appointed seven years ago.
Worcester, Mass. union paper
hangers affiliated with Local 4S3 that
includes practically all men engaged
In the business in the city, notified
their employers that they will take a
voluntary cut in wages of 10 cents
an hour or so cents a day, making
the hourly wage 80 cents instead OF
81
Bobby" Schleber, kidnapped by
his father, Major Louis Schebler, on
Feb. IA last, and more than two
months ago sent to the Massachu-
sets School for Feeble Minded at
waverley for observation, has been
adjudged normal, and turned over to
his mother Mrs Myrtle NJ. Schleber,
of Winthrop, Mass.
Gerald and Donald Kennette, boys
of 13 and years, respectively, who
had been held by the authorities since
che shooting of their ten-year- sis
ter Doris at Montgomery, VT on July
q, have been committed to the state
Industrial school at Vergennes. The
older boy was sentenced for involun-
tary manslaughter and his brother as
o delinquent.
Property loss OF $12,257,OS7 result
ing from Gill fires in 1920 was re-
ported by State Fire Marshal George
c. Neal of Massachusetts. The loss
was the third highest in any year in
the history of the state and represent
ed an increase of $1.176, ITO over 1919.
FIfty-one of the fires were of incen-
diary origin. They caused loss esti-
mated at $1S3,314.
An estate valued at nearly one mil
lion dollars was left by Seth NJ. Milf
ken, a New York financial leader and
former Portland, Me-, business man
who died in New York, March, 1920,
at the age of S4 years, according to
an inventory filed in the probate court
by administrators and appraisers.
Rights and credits aggregate $S63,l39
and real estate, S50,256.
The East Bridgewater, Mass. town
officials estimate that the damage
from the recent thunder storm will
reach 100000, or even more. In
some sections of the town the road
bed is washed completely away.
Grove street simply doesn't exist.
Sections Of that street for several
hundreds OF yards had been washed
away to a depth of from three to FIVE
feet
A settlement Of the suit of Ralph E.
Foorbes OF Milton against Dan r
Hanna of Stockbridge. Mass. over a
dam at the lower end OF Lake Nah
keenac, on the shore of which stand
the estates of the late Andrew Car
negis and many other wealthy per-
sons. was brought to light when the
County Commissioners were called
20 consider the present state Of the
hale. Mr.. Hanna destroyed his dam
and Lake Mahkeenac was thereby
lowered about u feet. In the Superior
CCIrt was filed an agreement for
sc0oo damages for the plaintiff. with
out costs.
/ Curiosity as to the nature Of a
erumpled piece OF paper which John
McIachlan Of Methuen. Mass. OBJ
served on the sidewalk as, one OF
hundreds OF Saturday afternoon shop