Connecticut western news., 1889-08-14
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

The building operations tnrOuSnOut lue stdtc aggregate over $2OO,OOO for the week.
 Bridgeport people gave P. T. Barnum an ovation last week on the occasion of his fare we'll visit to the city before going to Europe with his show.
 The annual conference of county commls- sioners of the state of Connecticut was held at Hartford last week. The principal object of the meeting was discussion of the license laws. A uniform fee of $4OO was decided on for the state. The next meeting will be held at Bridgeport.
 The Derby railroad extension was reopened few days ago after being closed week. There was a large amount of freight to be handled.
 The expense attending the reception to President Harrison on the part of the city of Boston will be less than the cost of the printing in the Kapiolani junket and less than one-half the florists bill for the same event.
 The pay of the employees at the shoe fac tory of Smith and Baker, North Leominster, Mass, was cut down several weeks ago with the understanding, it is claimed, that it would be restored Aug. 1st: But that time passed without the restoration, and Saturday trouble began, and eliminated in a general strike. The employees will return to work with the understanding that the old wages will be paid on and after October 1st.
 The striking weavers at Locustville, R. l., mill resumed work with hopes of an advance in wages, although no agreement has been made.
 A Mrs. Zone, while bathing at Crescent Beach, recently startled the crowd on shore by loudly calling for help. Henry Belgard swan cut to where was struggling and held her up until boat came to their assistance. When they got ashore the woman was found to be all right and began to laugh at what she thought was good joke. The crowd hooted and jeered her heartily. George, alias Harold Courtney, an actor, summering at Rockville, Conn.,, was placed under $500 bonds, charged by the Homer Manufacturing Company, of Homer, N. Y., with criminal conspiracy in fradulently ob- taining carriages after x. H. Scherf, car riage dealer, had absconded to Montreal. It is claimed the carriages belonged to the creditors.
 The announcement is made that Prof. Ed ward G: Coy, instructor ill Greek at Philips Academy, Andover, has been appointed prin- cipal of the academy at Exeter, N. H., and has accepted the position. Prof. Coy has been at Andover for 15 years.
 The wife of Gideon P. Brown of the firm of Brown, Steese & Clark, wool dealers of Boston, lately failed, is in an almost insane fear caused by the continued absence of her husband The brother of the missing wool dealer expresses the opinion that the affairs of the firm have driven him crazy.
 The contract for furnishing the granite | work on the new Whitney building in l Detroit, Mich., has been awarded to Mannix Bros., of Portland, Me.
 | At the court of probate Tuesday the l trustees of the assigned estate of the Yer | sailes Conn. Woolen Co.,, agreed upon James Henry as the person to operate the | mills of the company. Judge HOlbrOOk ls- | sued an order for the immediate starting up | of the mills under James Heery's supervi- | sion, to put in more marketable form the | stock on hand.
 Dea. David Stiles of Middleton went to New York city a few days ago on his first vacation in 60 years and telegram has been received from that city announcing his death. l He was v years old and leaves son and two l daughters. He had written several articles on horse-shoeing and mechanical industries.
 The Narragansett mill at Fall River is to be furnished with new steam plant for which a new engine room and boiler house are be- ing built north of the old one. The new boil CTS and engine will be of the Corliss make.
 The Chesire Shoe Co. at Pittsfeld, Mass, will erect factory which will be 20OX1O0 feet and one story high.
 The Old Town Me. Electric Co. is negotia- ting with the Bodwell Water Power Co. for | water for its electric plant. The power will be taken from the dam at Milford. F. E. Perrin, manager for the Standard | Electric Light Co. of Vermont, is fitting up the extensive works of the Parker X Young | manufacturing Co. at Lisbon with complete electric plant for lighting purposes.
 The weavers in the Mechanics mills at Fall River, resumed work after all enforced yaca. tion of ? 1-2 days, caused by shortage o1 filling yarn.
 The wooden building which was destroyed by fire at the manufactory of Robert Drum mond & Co.,, at Amesbury, Mass, is to be replaced by brick structure.
 A new electric light dynamo of 30-light ca pacity was put in the Lake Pleasant station by the Thompson-Houston Co.,, and the grounds are now illuminated in satisfactory | manner.
 Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, Conn.,, will start on it's annual excursion Monday, Sep tember 9, and will reach home the Saturday following. The trip this year will be Roches- ter and Niagara Falls, and side excursions will be made to Canada or the Thousand Islands. Special trains will be engaged, and the cost will be $35 to such outsiders as wish to take the trip.
 The new aerial truck will be exhibited at Hartford by trained New Haven firemen. A banquet will be held at the United States hotel in honor of the visiting firemen.
 Patsey Smith, a 12-year old newsboy o1 Hartford, broke both of his wrists by falling three stories from a tackle with which he was being drawn up by other boys. He struck on some stone steps and was badly injured. His father is in the hospital, and the family is supported by the mother and one daughter.
 The incendiary fires at Danbury, Conn.,, are still troubling the people there. Three fires broke out in one night last week. Two | barns were burned, and in one of them three horses were destroyed.
 The police arrested an insane man who was creating a disturbance on the street at New Haven the other day. He gave his 1 pafriaE Raymond and Sai6 that he lived at Pawtucket, R. l., where he had worked for his father, gardener. A book inscribed John Hession, No. 1907 High street Pawtucket, R. l., was found in his pocket | He also had papers showing that he belonged to the Knights of Labor.
 The date for the Vermont officers reunion i at Middebury has been changed to Nov. 20.
 It is now expected that operations will be- | gin in the new mill of the Vermont Marble Company at Centre Rutland on Sept. 1.
 Earl, the 10-year-old son of A. H. Mitchell was drowned while bathing in Whetstone Brook, near the Estlcy sawmill, Brattleboro' on saturday.
 The 54th anniversary of Black River Acad- emy at Ludlow, Vt., will be observed Tues day, Aug. 27. The new academy buildings will be dedicated at that time. l Mir. I. H. Frost, who for the past 31 years has been in the employ of the Fairbanks Scale Company at St. Johnsbury, Vt., has resigned | there to accept position as superintendent of the local electric light company. | The White Mountain Madi Gras festival will occur at Bethlehem oil Sept. 3.
 John A. Barnes, for many years hotel proprietor at North Conway, died recently.
 Stock has been subscribed for guaranty savings bank which will De organized at Hills boro' Bridge, N. H.
 Melville Smart formerly of Bidde ford, Me-, has been elected Principal of the Stevens High School at Claremont, N. H. | FNbo Soou..;+x, V.,of Hop,pnpr with cap-