Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-07
General State News.

ToRRINGToN. Torrington Republicans talk of retaining Charles McNeil as postmaster there. AN EYE BURNED. James L. Eaton, employed in the Morgan silver plate factory, Winsted, was seriously burned in one eye tuesday by some melted metal.
 Business in the Wheeler SI Wilson factory, Bridgeport, seems to be on the decline. Within the past few days there has been an- other large number of the hands laid of. The l reason of this slackening is said to be lack | of orders.
 CRUSHED TO DEATH. Walter Smith, an eighteen year old son of | James Smith of winsted, died Tuesday af- I ternoon. He had suffered from diseased I leg for some time, and on Monday a loaded l wagon came against this leg, crushing it hor- | ribly. Amputatien was resorted to, but in l vain.
 THE SIXTH DEATH. l D. E. Deming of New Boston, Mass, | treasurer of the Berkshire Creamery conn., pany and we'll known in Winsted, died at I his house in New Boston on Tuesday of 1 diphtheria after an illness of only four days | This is the sixth death from the same disease 1 in that place within four months. DIXON R. cowIE IN MERIpEN. Dixon R. Cowie, who was for some time in | | at Webster, Mass, recently wrote to Meriden I to apply for his old position in the Bond Harness company. There was no place for him, but he visited the city on Tuesday and
 called on various people whom he knew. PETROLEUM OIL FOR FUEL. l The Rogers Brothers of MerideR have de- I cided to put in petroleum oil as fuel for l their factory in the place of coal, and work ! has been begun digging trences from the rail- 1 road track to the factory for the pipes. Their l boilers will hold about 1,500 gallons, while ! the tank they have built will hold about | 5000 gallons.
 | FOR $1, ,060 DAMAGES. BRIDGEPORT, Dec. 6.-On complaint of the Peoples Industrial Insurance company for &1 900 damages in islander suit against Wm. Mclaughlin of Stamford, agent for the | Metropolitan Life Insurance company, the body of Mclaughlin was attached and in de- l fault of $1 ,600 bail was committed to the County jail in this city yesterday. THE NEXT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. The Hon. John H. Perry of Fairfield will be the Speaker of the next House, as we pointed out some time ago, and it may be that he will be nominated without even 6 contest. He is we'll qualified for the position -one of the leading lawyers of Fairfield county, of legislative experience, a cultivated gentleman, graduated at Yale almost twenty years ago, and 6 man of high personal char- aoter.-Courant.
 THE CONSOLIDATION PROJECT IN BRIDGEPORT. A meeting of the committee appointed by the town of Bridgeport and the committee appointed by the city to consider eonsolidat- ing the two governments, met in the mayors office Wednesday night. The committees consisted of Mayor Coughlin, the Hon. Nathaniel Wheeler, ex-Mayor Fones, Alder men Lee, Dutton and Phelan, Curtis Thomp- son, Daniel Davenport, Councilman Hughes and City Clerk Mooney. After full discus sion the committees voted unanimously in favor of consolidation. This action will be reported to the city council and an adjourned town meeting, and will corsle before the next legislature.
 AN INDIAN WOMAN IN DURHAM. There is living in the town of Durham an old Indian squaw who is believed to be the last living representative of the Aattabesset tribe of Indians, which had it's territory on the Connecticut river ,Et Middletown. The
 hunting grounds of tlnese Indians included
 the towns of Middlefeid, Haddam, Durham, part of North Guilford. Madison and con-
 siderable territory to the north. The name
 of the squaw ia Mrs. Beaumont and she is
 nearly ninety years of age Her father and
 mother formerly lived near MiadIetown and
 her present name she took from negro
 whom she married. Mrs. Beaumont is fully
 six feet tall and possesses the features, com-
 plexion and straight black hair of her snces-
 tors. Even at her advanced age she thinks
 nothing of walking to Middletown, dis
 tance of nearly eight miles from her home,
 and returning the same day. She re-
 Durham in a little house which stands
 on tbe old New Haven and 1ld-
 dletown turnpike. The plot of land on which \
 hax houea etanGg helonRs to the eRtsNe ns