Connecticut western news., 1889-08-28
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

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 The Farmers and Mechanics Fair at Ridge, N. H., will be held on Sept. %.
 The berry crop about Peterboro', N. H., exceeds that of any season for many years.
 B. Purmort of Hartford, Vt., has been elected Principal of Union Academy at Ca naan, N. H.
 At recent sale by auction of shares in the new Citizens Nation Bank of Newport, N. H., the average price brought was $111.10 each.
 The Cheshire Railroad will put in a new railroad yard at Cold River in Walpole, where sidings will be built for the accommo- dation of 200 cars.
 The Patriarchs Militant of Nashua, N. H., will invite the cantons at Portland, Me-, Fitchburg, Mass, and Dover to be their guests on grand field day on Sept. 12.
 Josiah G. Thompson of Nashua, N. H., member of the last graduating class at Dart mouth, has accepted position in the High school in Montana, at salary of $12OO.
 Alexander w. Ross, who has one wife at Hartford and another at New Haven, has left the state to avoid arrest. He carried with him a gold watch belonging to the New Haven wife.
 Frank Davis, of Windsor Locks, Conn.,, who cut his throat at Granby, Aug. 13, will probably die. He has been under treatment at the Hartford hospital
 A meeting of persons interested in free text books for New Haven schools was held last week, and ticket for school cOmmis- sioners nominated. The ticket is made up by James HOwarth, Alderman Avis and Max Adler.
 G. Slope, German, died at Windermere, Conn. last week from the effects of laudanum taken with suicidal intent. w. F. York, of Waterbury, Conn.,, fur ,l liabilities of $15, ,OOO and assets at about the same amount
 The creditors of the estate of the fOrger Scharf of Rockville, Conn.,, have secured all the carriages sold by Scharf before he left town. .
 The largest class in the history of the in- stitution will enter Yale university in Sep tember, and some of the lowest candidates will be refused admission. Rockland's valuation consists of $1 SIT 1915 in real estate and $524, ,796 in personal prop erty. Whitman has $2,334 ,12O in real estate and $612, ,2SO in personal property. Haverhill shipments of shoes for the week ending Aug. P, 449S cases; corresponding week in 1888, 4595 cases. Shipment of hats for the week, 264 cases; corresponding week last year, 414 cases.
 An organization has been formed at North | ampton, Mass. to stock the streams in the vi- cinity with fish. These are the officers: President B e. Davis; Secretary and Treas | urer, Dana Pearson: Executive Committee, H. A. Maynard, Arthur Nutting and J. E. Riley.
 Braintree has been completed. The build ing is B by 76 feet in dimensions and is of | brick, with trimmings of brownstone. The roof is slated. The main waiting room is B by AT feet in size. The platforms are pro tected by slate-roofed awnings, supported by hard pine posts. These awnings are respect lively 29O and 175 feet in length. The cost of the station was about $25,OOO.
 Pascula Francolangia, an Italian, just out of the New Haven Jail, where he was confined for serious stabbing affray, on Sunday stabbed Michael Kennedy, without prOvoca- tiOn. The wounds are in the breast and left leg, and are serious. The culprit was ar- rested. There is number of cases of diphtheria in | Walpole, Mass, and it is feared it will be epi- demic. Extra precautions are being taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
 Mir. I. w. Douglas and wife of Dover, N. H. were seriously injured Saturday night while returning from the camp ground to the village by the wagon seat breaking, and throwing them upon their heads in the road.
 The body of William B. Beardsley of Mon- roe, Conn.,, was found on Saturday afternoon | in the Sound about six miles from Bridge port by Captain Clark of the Penfield Reef Lighthouse. Mir. Beardsley was an uncle of ex-Mayor Morgan of Bridgeport. He was Il years of age, and when he was last seen had a very large amount of money in his possess ion. MT. Beardsley was not thought capable of caring for himself.
 | Wm. A. Parsons of Peterboro', N. H., who was seriously injured in saw mill August 12, died Friday, aged 61. He had remained un- conscious since the accident.
 The large iron chimney connected with | .G- s, mill lot fo1l Saturday afternoon, entailing loss of $1 ,0OO
 The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company ot | Manchester, has petitiOned the city of Con. cord for an abatement of taxes on their property at Garvin's Falls. The appraisal was made at $6O,OOO, double what the com. pany claims the property is worth.
 The extension of the Maine Central Rail road between Fabyan's and Scott's, is fast nearing completion. The largest portion o1 laborers employed in shoveling and grading have already been discharged, and the laying of the steel on the entire extension is now only . matter of few days.
 The annual meeting of the Essex County Grange will be held at Amesbury, Mass, or Dec. 5.
 George Hall of South Royalston, Mass. aged I9, was struck by train and instantly killed.
 The starrett Tool Works at Athol, Mass.
 are increasing their capacity by the addition
 of 900 square feet of floor space. Work in the locomotive department at tht Taunton Locomotive works are very dull
 and several moulders have been dismissed.
 Edward Hogan of Hopkinton, Mass, while walking on the railway track the other day was struck by train and badly, but no fatally, injured.
 Mrs. Wood, wife of Elbridge Wood, Cash , fer of the First National Bank of Haverhill was seriously injured by being thrown iron l a carriage.
 ] The body found in the water near Methuer proves to be that of Edward Kennedy O. Lowell, who disappeared last week whil, laboring under mental depression. FLOODS AND EARTHQUAKES