Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
New potatoes were dug at Marblehead this

The annual meeting of,Boston Young Mems Christian Association was held Jan. 9, and encouraging reports were presented by the various committees on the years work.
 The Middlesex County Convention of Good Templars met at Melrose, Mass., Jan.9.
 The Maiden, Mass, Board of Trade held it's annual meeting Jan.9
 The gingham mill at Walpoe, Mass., was burned Jan. 9; loss, S5O000.
 The commission appointed by the Secre- tary of War to take testimony in regard to Ihe proposed changes in the Charles River bridges met in Boston Jan. 9, and listened to vigorous protests against carrying out the order of ex-Secretary Endicott.
 IIaverhil shoe shipments for the week ending J-n. 9, 5266 cases; corresponding week in 1889, 6O80 cases.
 The store of J. T. Lodge at Ware, Mass. was entered by burglars Jan. 10, and $500 worth of watches and jewelry stolen.
 Perley, the eight-year-old son of J hn Dag gett of Aiedford, Me-, was drowned while skating recently.
 A school in Oxford county, Me-, took vacation last week on account of the poultry show at Lewiston.
 At the annual meeting of She stockholders of the Burlington (Vt.) Shirt Company, the fOliOwing-nanled officers were elected: Pres ident, G. F. Pope; Vice President, G. w. Peck; Treasurer, John A. Clapp; Secretary, C. C. Miller.
 The 10th annual meeting and banquet of the Rhode Island Homeopathic Society was held in Providence Jan. II. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Charles A. Barnard of Centredale; Vice President, Dr. II. A. Whtnarsb; Secretary, Dr. w. H. Stone; Treasurer, Dr. George B. Peck; Censors, Dr. Charles Hayes, Dr. Robert Hall and Dr. Charles l.. Greene.
 A grpsack containing over s1OO worth of tlpnflSt'S tl stolen dental rooms of Dr. J. w. Davis at South Paris, Me-, recently.
 Charles c. Bradstreet of Palermo. Me-, aged 19, while gunning slipped on the ice and accidentally shot himself fatally.
 At Gardner, Mass, Jan. II, James Barry, 80 years old, flagman on the Fitchburg Rail- road, was killed by freight train. He leaves widow and even grown up children.
 The Edgar Robinson Wareham, Mass, nail works have shut down on account of the epidemic, which has disabled so large force of men that it is impossible to fill their places.
 Hartford, Conn.,, will spend S6OOO more on her memorial arch. Six statues will be placed on the tower
 The Pillsbury woolen mill at Hilton, N. H., has been shut down on account of g dull market.
 As soon as the insurance is adjusted on the mills of A. N. Cram at Walpole, Mass, which were recently burned, work will be begun on the erection of 8 new mill with capacity of 100 looms for the manufacturing of shirtings.
 The tracks of the Old Colony Railroad on the branch from South Walpole to AttleborO'. Mass, have been all laid SO that trains have the depots and the grading of tracks will be pushed and trains will be running regularly in the spring.
 Lawyer Edward A. Sowles of St. Albans, Yt., was fined $2OO and costs, insall 5000, for contempt of court Jan. 10 by Judge Wheeler in the United States Court. The case arose on the sale by United States Marshal Robin son of property belonging to Sowle's wife.
 Principal Jackson of the Oakland, Me-, High School was taken suddenly and violent ly ill with Ia grippe, Jan. $, and tainted and fell through window, badly cutting his face.
 Jan. 5, while Chester Allen and wife of West Sumner, Me-, were absent from home, closet loaded gun, shot his little sister, ? years old, in the face, taking away about half of the under lip and cutting a furrow two inches wide across the cheek. A doctor was summoned, and the child is doing well.
 Two women and two children at Bangor, Me-, nearly suffocated Dy coal gas, Jan. II.
 Business is booming at the Massachusetts Rules considered the order of Representative Wardwell curtailing the privileges of the floor, and limiting it as most other States did, with the view of checking the lobby nuisance.
 The City Government of Lewiston, Me-, proceeds upon the policy of not insuring any of it's public buildings, so it is said. Hence the destruction by fire on Tuesday night of the beautiful City Hall at Lewiston was total loss to it's municipal government. And it is reported, moreover, that Lewiston has reached its debt limit.
 Two hundred looms are silent at the Whit tenton Mills, Taunton, Mass, because of the spread of Ia grippe.
 The new span of the Androscoggin Bridge at Brunswick, Me-. is completed and the bridge again opened for travel
 Peabody, Mass, tanners are wetting more hides at the present time than for several years before at the corresponding period of the year.
 There has been an increase of 400 per cent. in the taxes since the highway was opened to Popham Beach, Me-, by the County Commis- siOners.
 Mrs. Oliver C.. Hutchins of Worcester, Mass, has accepted $10.00O in full settlement for injuries received in the New Haven rail- road accident last June.
 A stock company with capital of $50,00O will put in system of water works at Lancaster, N. H.
 WI Glow & Sons have removed their hosiery manufacturing business from Lake Village to Candid, N. H.
 Barres (Vt) new directory gives the town population of 75O0, with 68 granite dealers, p quarries and polishing mills.
 H. Monk of Island Pond, Vt., has contract ed to ship from Island Pond to Liverpool, England, 20 or more car loads of hard wood lumber by steamer from Portland.
 Houlton, Me-, has a population of coco, and is talking of city charter.
 The fur season in Maine is now well open oI khof fo1I ofnh i, nhoy,t 1oto
 James B. Straw has been elected to fill the newly-establshed office of City Auditor in Manchester, N. H. at salary of 5000.
 The repairs on the Unitarian parsonage at Peterboro', N. H., caused by the recent fire, are nearly completed. The insurance will cover all loss.
 At Nonquitt, Mass, a new hotel, 150 feet by 45 feet, which was being built by Samuel Davis of South Dartmouth, was demolished by the gale of the 9th inst. The damage is about $2, 900.
 A Castine, Me-, resident is the possessor of a curious violin. It is made from wood taken from two very old vessels. The body is of redwood and the neck of bird's-eye maple made from an old top timber taken out of the first brig ever built on the Bagaduce River, | while the bridge is made of oak taken from an old gun carriage used on board the old | revenue cutter Veto, the first cutter ever on the Castine station.
 During the gale the 9th, the block in pro- cess of erection for the Wylie Brothers in Warren, R. l., was raised from its foundation and blown over and demolished. The con- tractor and builder, MT. William B. Nichols, was in the building at the time, and was struck by falling timbers in his back and on his face, causing serious wounds. breaking his nose and, it is thought, several ribs and iniuring him internally, so that his case is | considered quite critical.
 Frederick Candee, 70, a well-known citizen | of Middlebury, Conn.,, was killed Wednesday | by the fall of 2 tree which he was cutting.