Connecticut western news., 1890-10-29
Local News.

Miss Symonds. of Morristown, N. J, is visiting Miss Sarah A. Eddy.
 Our Salisbury correspondent gives a good report of the railroad wreck which occurred there last Friday.
 Eighty new books have recently been added to the Sunday school libra ry of the Congregational church at East Canaan.
 The 0. N. E. < W. engines which were demolished and then burned at Salisbury last Friday were Nos 21 and 23. Seven cars were also burned.
 For first-class organ, fully war ranted for six years, at lowest living prices, call on or address W. A. DUN HAM, Gen1 Agent, Ashley Falls, Mass.
 Miss K. c. Lawrence's new house on Prospect Avenue will be completed in about a week. Builder Lorrain and his carpenters are finishing up the in- terior, and J. B. Messenger is painting the exterior.
 One of the Mother Hubbard en- zines and Hog engine No 25 collided on the approach to the Poughkeepsie bridge about clock last Friday. No one was seriously hurt and no great damage done.
 The freight office of the O. N, D. x W. road at this station has been equip ped with new desks and railing put up to keep the public from sitting on the elbows of Agent Root and "Brownie" while they are writing.
 Another accident took place on the c. N. E. & W. road on Monday. This time it occurred at Canton, where two freight cars loaded with timber, blocks and iack-screws ran off the track and scattered the material in all directions.
 This item is to remind Methodists of the vote being taken today on the question of the admission of women as lay delegates to the electoral and general conferences. The polls will be open in the basement of the M. B. church in this village from to o'clock and from 6.3O to S.3O o'clock.
 About 23O last Friday afternoon an axle broke on one of the Mother Hub- bard engines which was drawing an east-bound freight train on the O. N. E. & w. road near Stanfordville. The track was torn up, three cars loaded with coal were derailed and the coal scattered in all directions.
 At the next meeting of the Scien- ti6c Society, Nov 4th., the mechanism of the human eye will be described, and 8 paper on "Lght win be read. We understand that the lectures that are to be given under the auspices of the Society will not take the place of the regular monthly meetings.
 -Superintendents Hopson and Payne of the Housatonic system have been investigating the causes and responsi- bility for the accident on the Derby ex- tension Oct 21. As result of the in- vestigation Conductor Damon of the Botsford freight, Conductor Lynch of the Wilson Point freight, Engineer Shepard of the Wilson Point freight, and the tail brakeman of the Botsford freight, were discharged from the service of the company.-Hartford Courant.
 -The following item, clipped from yesterdays New York Tribune, refers to the Salisbury Cutlery Handle Co:
 A factory In Litchfeld County, en- gagged in the manufacture of shells, or handles, for pocket knives and other cutlery, has recently received unprece- dently large orders from hardware manufacturers, the increase being from 1000 down every three months to 5000 monthly, with promises of l5, OOO dozen monthly within few months. The firm says the increased tariff on cutlery is the only reason for this sudden expan- sion of business.
 A syndicate of capitalists has quite recently been looking at the property of the Falls Village Water Power Co.,, at Falls Village, with view of purchas- ing 1t and utilizing the same for manu featuring purposes. If this water power (which is said to be one of the best ir New England) can be brought into use this section of the Housatonie valley will fairly hum with manufacturing in dustries, and the prediction, which has often been made, that our neighborine village will become second Lynn ol Lowell will be fully realized.
 The body of James Higgins, O East Hampton, the brakeman who wa killed in the railroad accident at Sails bury, was brought here last Frida. night Undertaken Scoville, of Norfolk was summoned and came here Saturda. morning and prepared the remains fo removal to East Hampton. Telegram were soon received from relatives sayinl it was decided to temporarily bury tn remains at Canaan. Then MT Scoviil went home after q nice casket and re turned with 1t Sunday morning and tn interment took place about Il o'cloc in the Catholic cemetery north of thi village. The deceased was only l years of age. His mother and brothe
 were present at the burial
 A collision occurred on the Derb
 extension of the Housatonic railroad g
 Round Hill last Wednesday, which WI
 doubtless cost one man his life. By tf
 neglect of hagman to do his duty, tt
 annine of file Wilson Point train crasl