The Press., 1891-08-27

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 Thursday, August s7, 1891.
 JANEs MCLAUGHLIN 2 SON, PUBLISHERS
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 THE governor of Vermont has notified Secretary Proctor that he will tender hin the appointment to sncceed U. s. Senatol Edmunds.
 THERE isn't much said about This grandfather's hat" nowadays. The hal Is getting to be deemed none too large, 1T fact needs considerable letting out tC make fit.
 THoMPsoNvILLK toughs destroyed the tent and property of Harper Brothers cir GUS last Saturday evening, and the owners ask the town to pay them $10,000 for the property. It Is time that town authori ties were made to feel 8 responsibility fol the acts of outlaw element within theil borders, and that mill owners who pay taxes get hint that 1t is for their pecuni ary interest to employ law-abiding mer to run their looms. An appeal via the poeketbook has great reasoning force.
 IP 1t is true, as stated, that there Is g steady advancement of wages paid to op. eratives in England, and if there be nc corresponding increase in this country the time is the more rapidly approaching when America will not need protective tariff, as it is mainly the matter of wages that creates need of it. It Is better that it come by Improving the condition of the working classes of Europe than by mak- ing worse that of our own wofkpeople- the method that free traders advocate.
 WILLIMANTio's new daily, the Herald, Is not the first venture of the kind that borough has known, but Publisher Afford Is a hustler, and means that it shall be 8 go this time. But 1t has two established weeklies, and there are. men connected with these who will be quick to catch the idea that the place has become big enough for daily. Willimantic is lively place and there Is lots of local news to be pick ed up there every day, though it is moi quite every day that 8 man gets killed in it's Depot-st. death trap; we can't just see why 1t isn't. ~ y
 
 ioh to tho Park Central Hotel collapse in Hartford, occurred in New York on Saturday after. noon. A big building collapsed and fell burying occupants in It's ruins. At first 1t was supposed to be from 8 like cause with the Park Central disaster,- ex- plosion of a boiler, but now 1t is thought that the over-weighting of a fiimsy build. ing with heavy machinery was the sole reason for ik In the building was res, tauIant filed with patrons. Various kinds of business was carried on in the building. Many occupants escaped, oth, CTS were crushed or held fast and pitiless. ly burned by the inevitable ensuing fire. In sll, including outside people killed by the falling walls. the loss of life Is esti- mated at 100.
 JOHN E. SoANLAN, editor of the Con- necticut Catholic, ,.and representative from Hartford in 1886 and 1887, died after a worry brief illness on Monday. He was a man of unusual ability. The Hartford Post says "One of those souls whose Influence Is never realized until too late, passed away when John E. Scanlan died this morning. MT. ;Scanlan possessed the traits of the late Major Kinney to re- markable degree. Like the major, his circle of friends was large, and his kindly nature upconsciously made their lives the brighter. He had pleasant word for ev. rybody- smile for all. He was rep rrssntative of all that was good in the Irish-American people-a people that is famed for it's intelligence and goodness of haGrte As a lawyer, an editor and a legis- lator he was equally successful. His death will cast cloud wherever in the st,.:s the Irish race is represented"
 The State Agricultural Society is mak- i,.L treat preparations for the 22d annual fair to be held in Meriden the 18th, 18th, 1.th and 18th of September, 1891. The will include the state tourna- ment of the volunteer firemen. The wo- mans day will be Thursday, under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Tem- pcrance Union, and Woman's Political Equality Club. Several noted lady speak CTS i'll be in attendance, and will be we'll worth hearing. Bicycle contests will take place on Tuesday, and governors day Wednesday. There will be horse Facing each day. Concerts day and even- ing by two good bands and orchestras. Ol,., of the exhibits at the rink will be 3Ol varieties of dahlias, imported from Europe and grown expressly for the com- ins state fairs to be held in Connecticut and Rhode Island. There will be many other special attractions. The main ex- hibition hall will be 400xSO, with other tents. The poultry exhi- bition will be in commodious quarters. rka grange show, as usual, will be one uf tho features of the fair.
 Tho Mass. state board of agriculture is 10 priat and circulate catalog of aban- 1oued farms in Massachusetts without expc.,se to the. owners of the property. Namss of holders of such farms have been through the town assessors, and care to dispose of their proper y. and most of them probably do, will be .ciluired to make statement of acreage and how divided, as into meadow-land, WOOL land and paaturage of the extent