Connecticut western news., 1889-11-06
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

It is said that no new buildings will be erected at Bar Harbor this winter, but con- siderable work will be done in repairing and improving property.
 The new woo'en mill at Flanders Mills, in Dexter, is all ready for the machinery. The building is very substantial structure, with a capacity for four setts of machinery.
 Benjamin Hunter, prominent resident of Strong, Me-. died recently, aged 79 years. He had been Town Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Selectmen for many years. He also represented his district in the Legis- lature.
 The syndicate which has purchased the Eagle Hotel in Concord consists of Samuel s. Kimball, Samuel c. Eastman, Henry J. Crippen, Edson c. Eastman, William B. Fiske and Rufus P. Staniels, who will organ ize stock company.
 Hon. c. W. Collins of Bridgewater, Mass. has operated four starch factories this fall, all of which are now closed. He has bought about 65, 900 bushels of potatoes, for which shingle mills, and will this year ship twelve million shingles.
 News has been received in Hartford of the death in Springfield, Mo-, of Henry Q. White: formerly lieutenant commander in the United States navy. He resigned several years ago..
 Dr. Albion E. Cobb, who was arrested in Biddeford. Me-, on the charge of crimina! assault, was arraigned in the Municipal Court waived examination and furnished bonds for his appearance for trial. Arthur s. Hamilton and City Marshal Tarbox fur nished bail.
 Frank Kibbe, aged IT, son of Randall! Kibbe of Somers, Conn.,, was instantly killed the other day while hunting by the acciden- tai discharge of gun, which was dropped by companion.
 One of the landmarks of Hartford, the great palace built and owned by Cornelius J Vanderbilt, is again to be occupied as a resi- dence. Ira Dimock, Preside of the Mono. tuck Silk Company, is the purchaser, and his family.
 The Nashua Saddlery and Hardware Com. pany has been organized with a capital o1 $50, 1000, and will begin business on Eas, Hollis street in that city. The Cheshire Improvement Company o1 Rindge, N. H., has erected vinegar factory 100 feet long by 40 wide and three stories high, including basement. w. D. Caldwell and E. M. Snow, agents o1 the cotton manufacturing companies a Nashua, have gone on a long Southern trip to inspect the mills in that section.
 It is estimated that the town of Gilmanton in Belkrap county, N. H., has 5000 barrels o1 cho ice apples this season to put on to tht market, mostly of the Baldwin variety.
 The Wood Manufacturing Company hal been organized at Groveton, N. H., with T c. McNally, President, and one-third of the power at Soule's dam purchased to be util fzed.
 The Kimball Brothers of East Manchester shoe manufacturers, employing over 2O( hands, are to have an additional factory bui with a capacity double that of their present shop.
 George A. Comins. furniture manufac 1 turer of Concord, will erect at Beecher Falls l in West Stewartstown, on a plant of five | acres, hard wood lumber min, with a ca pacity of 6,O00,00 feet year. | MT. Albert A. Payne, formerly . well known merchant of Portsmouth, died ir Worcester, Mass, at the residence of his son | in-law, MT. H. B Putnam, where MT. Payne had resided since 1844.
 The Trustees of Pittsield, N. H. Academy l have received $1276 from the estate of the lat, Mrs. Frances French of that town. The in. stitution now has property and cash pledges | to the amount of $11 900. The soldiers monument which Is soon tt be placed in the park a. Cornish Flat, N. HI. will cost about $1OOO. It is composed O. Sunapee granite, is six feet high above tn, base, and represents soldier standing at pa rade rest.
 Governor Burleigh has nominated Hon John l.. Cutler of Bangor member of th' commission authorized by the last Legisla ture to inquire into the system of taxation O. Maine and other States.