Connecticut western news., 1888-10-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

i Steven c. Wheeler has been appoin- ted chief of police in Winsted.
 A Bridgeport sewing machine com pany employs 2000 workmen.
 To remove indelible ink apply strong i solution of cyanide of potassium and rince we'll.
 Several violations of the child labor law have been reported for prosecution at New Britian.
 | Dr William Pepper, consulting phy- 1 sician to General Sheriden in his illness, has generously declined to render bill for hIs servlces. r4e, 1 It is said that the managers of the Bay State fair at Springfield were great ly indebted for its successful showing to Connecticut exhibitors.
 Captain Alfred E. Moore. Of Winsted, is gathering carload of apples, which will be sent as & contribution to the | yellow fever sufferers in Florida. i Now is the time when the office holder pays a fifty dollar political assessment, and drops solitary penny on tn contri- button plate.- Norwalk Gazette.
 Tho Patrons of Husbandry about the state are planning to build a packing and trade house for the exclusive use of tobacco growers belonging to the order. The fourth annual conference of the Connecticut Christian Endeavor Union will be held Wednesday and Thursday, October 24 and 25, in the armory at Waterbury.
 The E. Ingraham Company of Bristol, are in rece1pt of an itemized bill twenty SIX feet and eight inches long, from @ local plumber. ;- a> ~'-=-.< .'
 Groton people believe they have in that village the largest horse to be found in the country. The animal stands eighteen hands high, and tips the scales at 400 pounds.
 The Concord grape harvest in the Hudson valley is said to be something marvelous-the largest ever known lar ger than that of last year by 15, 900 tons. Individual growers ship 100 tons, each. The Republican Senatorial convention for the twentieth district nominated Ed win McNeil, who Is general superinten- dent of the Hartford and Connecticut Western road, and president of the She paug. Litchfeld and Northern road.
 Editor Prindle, of the Bridgeport News, who was recently assaulted by W. P. Wren, has brought suit against the latter to recover $5,OOO damages. The writ is returnable to the superior court. November term.
 Mrs Mary Griffin, an insane woman sixty five years of age, died in the Meri- den almshouse on Wednesday. She is said to have eaten nothing for fifty five days and to have been without water the last six days.
 George Bradbury, heir to an estate of considerable value in England, and about whom there has been much in- quiry, mas been found as an employee of the Greenwood's company of New Hartford.
 George B. Leavenworth, for many years city editor of the Bridgeport Eve ming Farmer, and recently holding 8 similar position on the Morning News, comitted suicide at Bridgeport, Ct., Tuesday Oct 9th, by taking dose of laudanum. The cause was despondency. He was promising young man and a favorite among newspaper men.
 The Rev l.. H. Hallock and bride arrived in Winsted Wednesday, the guests of MT R.. H. Holmes of High street. Mir Hallock was several years the pastor of the Second Congregational church. and will occupy the pulpit of that church next Sunday Winsted Leader Oct 18th. .