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River, Mass., has just died at the age of 102, leaving a widow two years bis senior.-Mrs. Mary Trowbridge of Boston, aged 101, died Sunday-Mrs. A. R. Bigelow of Colchester, Conn., got into a feather-bed during a recent thunder storm to escape the lightning, but a stroke followed her up, set the pillow on fire, made her unconscious and badly burned her hands.-A high-life scandal is causing something of a sensation at Hartford, Ct. Rev. J. B. R. Walker, a retired minister, well-known throughout the state as a brilliant writer, thinker and preacher, has been sued for a divorce by his wife, who accuses him of adultery, cruelty and general misconduct. He has filed a CLOSS bill, and the trial will come off in the fall.-Henry J. Cornell of Petersham, Mass., committed suicide by hanging at Dana, Monday morning. Domestic unhappiness caused by his drinking habits is understood to be the cause, his wife, to whom he was fondly attached, having recently left him. The suicide followed immediately upon a visit to her at her mother's.-The Haydenville, Mass., savings bank, after a snspension of more than a year. resumed business Tuesday. The bank claims now not only to be able to pay its depositors in full but to have a surplus dividend for distribution next January.