Connecticut western news., 1889-10-23
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

,500, ,0OO bricks, and will use 5OO,OOO more to finish the mills, 300 ,00O for the wheel pit, and more than ,GO0, ,000 additional for the eXten- sion.
 The bootmakers in the Colchester, Conn. Rubber Works returned to work at pay of 13 cents per pair. Former price was IA cents and their demand 16 cents. Seven of the leaders were not taken back.
 Good authority states that new evening paper will be established at New Haven, Conn.,, within week. It vii be formed and conducted by an Irish faction of the Demo- cratic party which is at present out of favor with the rest of the party.
 John Linnehan of Fall River, serving sen tence for drunkenness in Taunton jail, hanged himself in his cell.
 Robbins, Kellogg & Co.'s shoe shop at Pitts field, Mass, is to receive an addition in the shape of q new building. The capacity will be increased to 135 dozen pairs of shoes day.
 The fishermen of Cuttyhunk dragged the harbor to find the bodies of Capt. Flanders and the crew of the wrecked schooner Quilp. A hat that undoubtedly belonged to one of wreck.
 Many Maine fisherman has come home from the Grand Banks this season without enough fare to pay of the men.
 MT. Charles Triton, principal of the high and grammar schools at Fairfield, Me-, has been elected principal of the Bangor grammar schools.
 The Boston & Albany freight station at Webster, Mass, was burned few days ago and an investigation has shown that the safe in the office had been blown open. The con- tents, including $500 in negotiable checks and $100 in money, were gone. There is no clew to the burglars.
 An incoming freight on the Rochester & Nashua R. R. left the iron at Hampstead, i, N. H; Quite number of the cars were badly wrecked. The fireman jumped and the en- gineer escaped with slight injuries.
 R. D. Drown, member of the Yale fresh- man class, died at New Haven of typhoid fever. This fact has caused some uneasiness in college circles. Brown roomed two blocks away from the college buildings, and there does not appear to be anything in the case to indicate that the disease is likely to spread among the students, although there have been several cases of mild type and others of a malarial character.
 Insurance men have been Inspecting Skow- hegan's Water Works and there will be re- duction in the rates of insurance from to 20 per cent.
 The Portland and Kennebec Coal Mining Company will begin operations at Fort Pop ham Me-, at once. The full amount of g. 800 has now been raised, several prominent coal men having subscribed to the limit, $100.
 The revival in the shipbuilding has reach ed Perry Me. Mir. J. R. Mutt will go to work immediately to get out the frame for nine- hundred ton schooner. The vessel will be a three-master, and will be owned by the build CT. J. B. Mutt, Captain Laughton and others.
 Many of the locomotive patterns of the Mason Machine Works at Taunton Mass, are being sent to the Baldwin Locomotive Works for use, the Mason Machine Co. hav- ing practically given up that branch of it's business, owing to low prices and press of work in other departments.
 The ladies of the Relief Corps at Penna- cook, N. H., have presented the Grand Army Post in that place with handsome flag made of Lyons silk, trimmed with gold fringe and having gold cord and tassels.
 Clara Germany, the substitute telegraph operator who absconded from the office at Great Harrington, Mass, taking ten days receipts and was caught in Hawleyville, Ct., was arraigned in court. A large crowd, in- cluding number of ladies, assembled in the court room to witness the trial. A portion of the stolen money was found in the lining of her coat She retained her self-posession during the trial save when counsel alluded to her incarceration in jail, when she broke down.
 A Birmingham, Conn. man has invented a metal that can hardly be distinguished from gold. It is like the precious metal in all it's best points, can be hammered and drawn equally well and presents a good wearing surface. It is not compound and gains it's gold color from the action of a chemical. The inventor has placed samples of his discovery on the market and expects to begin it's manufacture soon. It can be made for 60 cents pound, and may be used extensively ill the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
 A Canadian -Frenchman has been travelling through Maine in cart drawn by three dogs, two at the pole and one as leader. A Lewiston man matched his horse against the team the other day and was beaten.
 Nathaniel Adams of Biddeford, Me-, was badly bitten by 8 savage dog. The dog came up behind him and grabbed him by the cali of the leg. He came against him with such force as to throw him down, and before he could get up the dog had bitten his other leg in half dozen places.
 The bleachery and dye works of the Lons. dale Co. at LOnsdale are being equipped throughout with the Grinnell automatic fire sprinklers. Employees of the Providence Steam and Gas Pipe Co. are doing the work which will require fully eight weeks.
 A stock company has been formed to run the Holt bobbin factory at Burlington, Vt. and the concern will hereafter be known as the Burlington Spool and Bobbin Co. MT Holt has accepted a position in Pennsylvania
 At Pepperell, Mass, the new card an6 paper company is building factory 1G0 by 60 feet. two stories.
 The new mill at Fort Point in Winslow Me-, will cost S50,000, being 136x52 feet or the ground, two stories high; band saws vii be used instead of up-and-down saws, and il is planned to have the mill in operation nex spring.
 The scheme of establishing new tannery in Bucksport, Me-, has materialized, and the old steel works, with the three acres of lanl situated on Indian Point, has been purchased by syndicate represented by Capt. George Blodgett, and work has already been com menced to put the property in order for { frst-class tannery.
 vicinity of Pembroke, Me. Four have beer killed in the past week within two miles o1 the post office at the West village, and a! many as five have been seen feeding together in the pastures at one time. Partridge, too are very plentiful, and good shooting can b. had within half mile of the town. Maine has two venerable survivors of thu of Foxcroft and Hon. A. W. Fl. Clapp o. Portland. MT. Wiley visited Mir. Clapp re recently and the two old gentlemen had good time talking over the old James K. Poll days.
 Mildred Robb, the 14-year-old daughter o1 W. F. Robb of the Chase House, Portland Me-, slept in parlor on cot with the win dows and doors closed. and large coal stove in the room. The draughts of the stove wer, shut, and next morning the little girl wa found dead from coal gas.
 The preliminary survey of the second sec tion of the Suncook Valley Extension Rail road, between Barnstead Centre and Gilman ton Iron Works, shows distance of GA miles and total rise of 4.34 feet. Every dollar of the needed $15O, ,OOO bein, l subscribed, Yale College is soon to have new gymnasium building of brick aud ston trimmings, or of stone only. The lot chosel | for the structure on Elm street has a deptl of 320 feet and frontage of 13S feet. Tn have depth of so feet.
 1 Charles E. Chaffee, of Windsor Locks Conn.,, has pledged $15, ,00O for Grand Arm, Hall, the lot for which will be paid for witt | the proceeds of a fair just closed.