Connecticut western news., 1889-12-18
| NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

system on its Forest Park extension until the aldermen of Lowell come to decision re- garding its use in that city, the latter having thoroughly investigated the system in use in Cleveland and Cincinnati.
 George F. Richards has sold his haf-inter- est in the Exeter, N. H. Gazette printing establishment to James D. P. Wingate, for mer proprietor. The business will hereafter be conducted under the firm name of Win gate & Evans.
 who is about to succeed John B. Stcbbins as president of the IIolyoke Water Power Com pany, says that the company will erect . $100, ,OO0 electric light plant next year.
 John Hurley of New Haven, aged 55, who WAS run into by a team and badly injured, died from the effect of his injuries.
 James Hines of Springfield, Mass, released on payment of fine for stealing gripsack at the depot. was at once rearrested by Hartford police officer for the larceny of bank book and money in the latter city.
 A new company, under the name of the Cape Ann Drop Forge Works, has recently been incorporated in Gloucester with capital stock of S20,OO0. The building will be on the opposite side of the track from the already been laid. They will make all kinds of iron blocks and small anchors. Edward Jones of Pittsfield, Mass. charged with larceny, broke jail and escaped in Sep tember, 1882. Officer White saw him on the street recently and arrested him. Otis Nudd and bis wife Annie, who com mitted a brutal assault upon the mother of the former in East Concord, \. H., several weeks since, were, respectively, sentenced to four and three months in the house of cor rection last week.
 The 18th was gala day for Beverly, Mass., and business generally was suspended. The occasion was the floating of the American f1uSyf ph n hp ion the town amid the firing of cannon and the strains of music.
 It Is reported that the Naumkeag Cotton | Mill in Ashburnham, Mass, is to start up Jan. l, with an increased force of help. The | machinery Is now being repaired for this 1 purpose. Shoe shipments from Haverhill for the | week ending Dec. F, 540O cases; correspond | ing week last year, 42l4 cases. Hat ship l ments for the week, 242 cases; correspond ing week in 1858, 225 cases. | Lumbermen in the Dead River region, Me-, | report from 10 to 20 inches of snow on the | ground.
 E. H. tS H. Rollins of Brewer, Me-, have done the greatest business this season In their blaming and molding mill since they built in | 1869.
 Thomas B. Curran, aged 65, walked off the end of the ferry slip at South Portland, last | week, and was drowned. Heleaves widow and six children.
 The Concord and Montreal Railroad will build passenger station at Grovetown ViL | lage, N. H.
 Col. Seth NJ. Richards has been elected President of the Horse Breeders Association | in Newport, N. H.
 John P. Goggin of Topeka, Kan.. has been elected Treasurer of the newly organized trust company in Nashua, N. H. l A shipment of rubber shoes to Austria was made last week by the rubber company at Bristol, K. I.
 The Maine Historical Society is to publish 5 magazine, beginning with the new year. The editor is Hon. Geo. F. Talbot; assistant editor, Wm. NJ. Sargent; publication commit. tee, the editors, Dr. Lapham of Augusta and Prot. H. I. Chapman of Bowdoin College.
 Aroostook county, Me-, promises to have an interesting test case of the state game laws A man there has given public notice that aI deer found tresspassing on his timber land. hereafter will be killed, whether In close time or not, and shipped out of the state. He claims that the game laws are unconstitution al, and proposes to assert his rights.
 It now appears that John Goodwin o1 Lawrence who was supposed to have fallen overheard from the City of Macon while ol his way to Florida, committed suicide; $l4Oi | in money and checks were found in tht pockets of his clothing which he left upon the boat.
 Suit has been begun by E. R. Hard, ad ministrator of the estate of the late Andrew Wheeler of Fitchburg. against the Centra Vermont Road to recover damages to the amount of 5000 as the result of the death of the deceased from injuries sustained in the Hartford accident about eleven months after occurrence, ill February, 1887.
 The State Reform School at Vergennes
 Vt., opens this winter with 84 boys and l; girls.
 Over O00 has been invested, in new
 buildings and improvements in West Ran dolph, Vt., during the past year.
 Efforts are being made to induce the manu lecturers of furniture in Brookline recently
 burned down to iocnte i'll Nashua. The stock of the Nashua Driving Park As sociation has all been subscribed and 40 acre of land purchased for trotting purposes. Howard Locke, greatly respected citizel Commandery of Knights Templars of Dover N. H., died lately, aged 70 years. Frank Dale and Sewell Brown were in stantly killed In lumber mill ut Barre, Vt 2 last week. by the bursting of balanc 7 wheel.
 The recent trouble with the spinners of tn
 merino mill in Winooski, Vt., has been am
 cably settled, and most of the old help hay
 returned to work. The recent improvement
 to the mills are about finished.
 The Bay State Club entertained the Soutl
 ern visitors at the Parker House, Boston, las
 week. Ex-President Cleveland was als
 present and made speech.
 Yale College buildings have been examine
 by a sanitary engineer, who makes favo
 able report.
 The body of young woman was recOverc 5 from 8 pond in Norton, Mass., last week an z there are suspicious of foul play. e The applications of Dr. Burden and Ho, s A. w. Beard for the Boston Collectorshi }. have been presented to the President, Sem d tors Hoar and Dawes presenting the paper ?. of MT. Beard.
 V V The insurance adjusters have paid DO 4 tion of the losses caused by the recent Lyn '. fire.
 d J. Howard Burnham of Ipswich, Mass Il was recently sentenced to the New York Pe1 A itentiary for two years and three months, ft a swindling man out of $500. s Henry Faxon has distributed e9II amor ,aa the Protestant churches of Quincy for tt 'H purchase of Christmas presents for the Su
 day School scholars, the amount given eac
 church depending on the number of "no-
 cense" votes cast in the ward in which Il I church is located.
 The big tredser used in the construction 'b the Cape Cod canal Is at work again. r. Abel Erickson, an employe of the Loi 'o Cove Granite Company, St. George, Me, hs 'e 'e both legs broken by boulder of granite fa " ing on him. He will die. ts- l, The Connecticut railroad commissions er have ordered the New York, New Haven SC Hartford Railroad Company to remove u J. turnstiles which prevent entrance to the el P. vated platform, except through the depot g Hartford. A new grade and cross-walk t. ordered at Union place. D.