Connecticut western news., 1889-08-07
PERSONALITIES,

The late ex-Senator ollins of Concord N. H., left an estate estimated at more than half a million dollars.
 Prof. John V. Hagen, c. E., of Dartmouth College has arrived home from an extended tour through EOrope.
 Wilkie Collins, the novelist, who has been ill for some time, has had a relapse.
 Senators Dawes of Massachusetts and Stockbridge of Michigan, of the committee to investigate Indian affairs in Alaska, arrived in Chicago on Sunday, after travelling five weeks in Alaska. While they declined to talk freely of the probable report of the committee, Senator Dawes stated that the stories of Indian outrages had been greatly exaggerated.
 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tichenor, who was taken suddenly i'll at his office few days ago, is reported by his physician to be steadily improving.
 Prof. Arthur s. Hardy. Ph. D., of Dart mouth College, is making carriage tour of White Mountains.
 The late Professor John Kendrick, IL. D., who died at Marietta, O., was the last sur mouth College, which numbered 36 at gradu- ation.
 1The Empress of Germany did not accom- pany her husband to England because there is a terrible quarrel between the ladies of the English and German Courts, and no effort HAS Dcen uduc CO pdCCl lC up.
 It is said that eX-Senator Dorsey gets $90O- 900 from the American Meat Company for his New Mexico ranches and cattle.
 Dr. Schreiber, a chemist of Cologne, has discovered an explosive more powerful than dynamite, and at the same time cheaper and safer. He calls it ''petragit."
 Professor Vambery, in private letter to Hungarian friend now visiting New York, thus expresses his desire to see the United +nta two rpoxy hrnf hnr rly f<- fha of the great republic and tell the Americans the Dervish will not die before having seen them"
 Capt. l.. G. Shepard, the commander of the revenue cutter Rush, whose recent seizures of sealing vessels in Behring Sea are attract ing attention, is q native of Massachusetts, and has been in the Revenue Marine Service since 1866.
 A few days ago, H. V. Neal, of Auburn, Me-, left home for a walk up the Little An droscoggin River. He had walked but a short distance when bullet whizzed by his site shore. He was startled, but, thinking it was an accident, kept on his path, and in a few moments another bullet struck the bank within a few feet of him. The report indi- cated the direction of the bullet, and looking across the river he saw two men with rifles, about 800 feet distant, resting their firearms on rail and aiming them at him. He waved his hands and hat and told them to stop, but they paid no attention to him and replied with jeering remarks. He turned to go, and they followed him with bullets. The police will investigate the matter.
 David l.. Stevens of Manchester, N. H., has entered upon his 34th year of continuous service as Sheriff or Deputy sheriff.
 Miss Malinda Rankin, native of Lttleton- N. H., who opened the first Protestant mis sion school in Mexico, died recently at Bloomington, III.
 George Van Dyke of Lancaster, N. H., will open a carriage road to the summit of Mon adnock Mountain, in the upper Connecticut Valley, near Colebrook. Col. James B. Wallace, an ex-officer of an Ohio regiment, is on visit to Epson, his na- tive place. He is commander of West Post of the Grand Army at Milford, o.
 A State Convention of Odd Fellows Relief Associations will be held at Manchester, N. H., on the evening of August 29 for the pur- pose of discussing the subject of consolida- tion.