Connecticut western news., 1890-02-12
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

The strike in Chick Brothers shoe manu- factory at Haverhill has been settled.
 The free delivery postal service will be ex- tended to Clinton, Mass, on March l. the recent letter of the New York Life In- surance Company, announcing that it had retired from businl ss in Massachusetts.
 George II. Innis was elected Department Commander, G. A. R., of Mass. The en- campment closed with banquet in Faneuil Hall.
 The experiment of flushing Washington street, Boston, north of Summer, to clear it of accumulated filth, was tried recently.
 Major Joseph B. Walker of Concord, N. H., says that the creation of puthc parks is necessary to the preservation of New Hamp-
 hire forests.
 The Para Rubber Shoe Company is to start up its factory at South Birmingham, Mass, it is reported. on Monday, Feb. II. There were 26 candidates at the scmi-an nual examination for admission to the Bridge water, Mass, State Normal School, and 23 were admitted.
 the old Adriatic Mills at South Worcester, Mass, have resumed operations. The ROch- dale Mills have also resumed. A boy between two and three years old, son of Herman Morse of Buckfeld, Me-, was fatally burned lately. Mir. A. F. Parks lost span of horses at Richmond, Me-, recently. They had broken through the ice, and in getting them out were choked to death.
 Manchester, N. H., has 66 secret societies.
 The capacity of the O'Shea hosiery mill at Laconia, N. H., has been doubled.
 The tax rate in Manchester, \. H., will be $19 on 5000.
 A party of New York capitalists purpose developing the asbestos quarries situated at Reading, Vt., providing the fibre of the stone proves large enough to satisfy them. Earnest B. Morse shot wild deer in St. Johnsbury, Vt. lately. His father. Rev. c. voluntarily paid the full penalty of the law of $50.
 The safe of Peckham Brothers, Providence coal dealers, was blow open the other night, but the robbers got only S20 for their pains.
 The late Sumner Wilder of Surrey, N. H.. bequea.hed that town S200 for school pur- puOses.
 The Spot Pond Ice Company of Lancaster, N. II , harvested from Holton Pond about 10000 cakes nearly IT inches thick, and said to be the finest ice ever gathered in that town.
 The Brown Lumber Company at White field, N. H., will rebuild its kindling wood factory, recently burned, on a larger scale and with three kilns or more Instead of o.e, as heretofore. Messrs. Mann & Hubbard of Pennsylvania and Bxby of Nashua, N. H., are the pur- chasers of the Douglas Axe Works at East Douglas, Mass. The price paid is $15O 900. The Worcester Home for Aged Women has elected these officers: President, Charles F. WasfbNrn; Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Albert Holman; Treasurers, A. N. | Currier, P. l.. Moen, Rev. H. T. Cheeyer. George c. Whitney, F. B. Knowles. Ex-Congressman Carlos French has given | his fellow-tOwnsmen at Seymour, Conn.,, q | public reading-room.
 | A free scholarship at the Birmingham, | (Conn.) Hi h school has been founded by H.. who died in Colorado last fall. The scholar ship consists of free tuition to the high school to the pupil who passes the best en- | trance examination.
 The Laconia, N. H., Car company will | erect foundcry building 200 feet in length, and also another structure 150 feet long for | various uses. It Is stated that Busiel Broth CTS of that town will erect an additional | hosiery mill.
 The new mill erected by Geo. T. Comins of Concord, N. H., near West Stewartstown, | employs 30 men, and will manufacture B. l OO0,0 feet of hard wood lumber annually, which wi be worked up at the State Prison | Il Concord. According to the return of the school dis l trct clerk to the Town Clerk of St. Johnsbury, l Vt., Mrs. Mary Brodie Clement, who died | September 9, 1889, was 114 years, months and 20 days old. Though no one knew her exact age, she was undoubtedly over 100 years old.
 The State Library in Concord, N. H., has received ''Fac-similes of manuscripts in European archives relating to America, 17I3- 17s3, with descriptions, editorial notes, colla- tions, references and translations," teing vol umes one and two of 8 series which R. K. Stevens of London is preparing for the State of New Hampshire.
 The 1900 employees of the Nashua, N. H., Manufacturing Company are out on a strike.
 Forty liquor saloons were raided in Man. chester, N. H., Feb. B.. Dr. Geo. Emerson of Dover, N. H., died l Feb. ,, aged 36.. He was born in Barnstead. Rev. John c. Thompson, one of the pio- ncer missionary preachers, died at Holyoke lately. He was born in Heath. Sept. P, 1894.
 Dr. George Henry Nichols, died in Boston
 on the 5th inst. He was born in Portland,
 Me-, August 26, 1915. | Hon. Frederick Eaton, a millionaire mer-
 chant. who died lately ahToledo, Ohio, was g
 native of Sutton, N. H.