Ossipee Valley fair opens with cattle show and horse display
The Ossipee Valley fair opened at Cornish on Tuesday with a strong cattle show and a brilliant Wednesday horse show. Fuller Boy won the 2:45 race with a time of 2 48 4. The fourth Maine regiment and second Maine battery held a reunion at Rockland with 150 participants including Gen. James A. Hall and Col. Elijah Walker. Next year the group will meet at Damarscotta.
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Drunken brawl in Rochester ends with stabbing. Dover woman ends life
In Rochester, Benj. Ellis was stabbed by Jake Baker during a drunken brawl on Tuesday night, likely fatally injuring Ellis. Mrs. Joshua Parker of Dover, aged 60, rose Wednesday, secured two razors, and killed herself before a mirror. Reese Owen of Sel brook faced Portsmouth court on three counts of selling beer and cider, fined on one charge and agreeing to quit the business on others. The New Hampshire Historical Society hosted its annual field day in Portsmouth with visits to Odierne Point and the Gov. Benning Wentworth mansion, a Rockingham house dinner, and a Contoocook fair opening with large attendance. Over 110 oxen and notable Devon and short horn herds were shown, with prizes awarded to Webster for best jokes. The horse and foot races were won by local residents.
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Bradford fair draws large crowd and racing winners
About two thousand five hundred attended the Bradford fair on Wednesday. Newbury took the first premium for town terms followed by Bradford with fourteen yokes each. The end driving race was won by Leroy Rowe from Formath, with Roswell Hunt of Pierpoint second. Six entries competed. Gen W W Grout delivered a farm education address. The Sheldon purse of $100 went to Jet, owned by Fred Smith of Chelsea, in three straight heats with a best time of 2:50. The 2:50 class purse of $150 was won by Dix, owned by J M Quimby of Boston, with a best time of 2:33.
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Multiple local incidents and events reported in brief
Henry Fay of Hopedale was thrown from a bicycle and seriously injured on Wednesday. Old Colony railroad plans steam interlocking switches at Mansfield. Eight year old Wesley Foster died after being struck by a passenger train at Adams. Abiather Williams of Taunton reported a burglary during a catue show, with $600 stolen. The Twenty Fifth Regiment held a Worcester reunion electing Col. O Moulton of Boston as president. Mrs Giuseppe Corseglia died from burns sustained in a lamp explosion at North Adams. Upton town fair opened with about 3,000 attendees. Burglaries at H P Briggs woollen manfacturer North Adams yielded two gold watches, jewelry, silverware valued at $500. clothes taken to yard. Barnstable cattle show and fair opened two days with strong livestock display. fruit and vegetables praised. Dr Azariah Eldredge reelected president of Barnstable County Agricultural Society. large crowd attended with speeches by Geo A Marden and others. A bicycle race, horse trot and dance concluded day’s events.
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Fifteenth Annual Convention of Irish Catholic Benevolent Unions Opens
The fifteenth annual convention of Irish Catholic Benevolent Unions began in Providence on Wednesday. G. P. Pomeroy, assignee of the Quidnick Company, has petitioned the Rhode Island Supreme Court for a writ of assistance to gain possession of the Quidnick Company.
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Thomaston man probed after companion kills him during chant
Dennis Dwyer of Thomaston is reported fatally injured by a companion during a chanting session. In Seymour, 14 year old Fila Hill shot herself with a double barreled shotgun and died instantly. She had told classmates days earlier she planned suicide due to trouble with her stepmother.
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Seymour
Frosty Nebraska Night Reports Across State
A frost lingered through Nebraska on Tuesday night. A telegram from Shasta California reports the death of 5 8 Montague chief engineer of the Central Pacific railroad aged 46 3 Stephen 8S Rice indicted in Philadelphia for embezzling 87 600 as executor of Thomas Richardson estate jewelry store George E Cam Johnstown Fulton NY robbed safe opened $4 000 in money and 50 watches taken robbers escaped Mrs Parnell mother of Irish home rule leader left Ironsides Monday to visit Bordentown NJ en route to New York she walked onto railroad tracks and was helped off by switchman Flynn who barely saved himself as the engineer braked and reversed the lever.
City notes and social items from the Adams hotel scene
Officer Frank T. Mitchell has retired to take his new position as constable in the municipal court room. Henry E. Abbey, the New York impresario, and A. J. Dam Jr of the Hotel Dam in New York, have rooms at the Adams. Land of the Inman line steamship City of Chester is in town at the Adams. Land survived the City of Brussels wreck. James N. Buffum of Lynn lost a wallet with checks notes and money worth between 4000 and 25000. Miss Mary Dorr found and returned it. Mrs Henry Cummings, Boston druggist, married Miss Roberta M Sneden in Philadelphia. reception attended by about 300. couple to tour the East then reside at the Norfolk house.
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Boston
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Father shoots son in accidental front yard tragedy
In Grafton West Virginia on Monday evening B G Mountz fired at a figure in his yard thinking a thief. He struck his son who lay motionless. the ball entered the forehead an inch above the eye. The tragedy left the father overwhelmed with remorse.
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Democratic Convention in Springfield Promotes Massachusetts Leaders
A Massachusetts Democratic state convention in Springfield opened with Col. Jonas H. French presiding. Speakers denounced Republican conduct, defended Governor and reforms, and named Butler and Pringe as Secretary and Treasurer candidates, with Hopkins and Cummings for Auditor and Attorney General.
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Millbury
Butler's Mass convention speech critiques officials and pledges reform
A Boston governor candidate delivers a prolonged address defending his record, blasting corruption and waste in the state administration. He recounts probes into prisons, the insurance department, Tewksbury, and the militia, touting reforms and economy while urging voters to back his reform agenda and future governance.
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