Connecticut western news., 1893-11-30
STATE NE WS.

All of Rockville's woolen mills have receiv- ed awards for their exhibits at the Worlds Fair
 The 27th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Connec-
 tiout, will be held in Hartford. February 14 and 15.
 Mrs Ellen Battell Eldridge, of Yarmouth
 port. Mass, lately deceased sister of Robbins
 Battell, of Norfolk. bequeathed to Yale s2o.- 900 for the foundation of the Battell professor
 ship of music, now held by pr Stoeckel; S24, : OOO for the foundation of two graduate schol-
 arships, or fellowships in the academical de. partment, to be named In memory of the don- or's late husband, Rev Dr Azariah Eldridge,
 and s15, ,00J for the fund for the university H.
 brary. During her life she gave the chime of
 bells on Batten chapel.
 JudgeA. D. Warner, of Woodbury, is about to build a summer cottage at Milford. Ninety-one thousand pounds of cheese have
 been made at Norton's factory in East Goshen
 this season.
 The New Milford Gazette has received word from County Commissioner Soule that the | time of his return from Europe is indefinite. There are 311 soldiers on the roll at the Soldiers Home in Noroton. At wedding in East Litchtield recently a collection was taken up among the guests | and presented to the bride.
 The Episcopal arch-deaconry of Litchheld
 county will meet in January in Pine Meadow.
 They will be entertained by the ladies of the
 St. Johns church.
 Mrs Margaret Kane of Birmingham, who
 died suddenly, was a queer woman. After her death her son found hidden in an old chair in his mothers bedroom $700 in gold. $500 in bills was found in a kitchen table also bank book with 5000 credited to his moth- CT secreted under the frame of the table. The son will not yet give up the search. The New England Homestead states that there never has been such a complete stagna- | ton in the. e.domestic tobacco trade as now and there has not been a single bona fide
 sale of '93 tobacco in either the Connecticut or Housatonic valleys. The Windsor Locks Journal takes exception to this statement and asks the Homestead man" to come out there and learn the truth, before 1t plays into the hands of the tobacco dealers. | John White, Pennington man who was | injured in foot ball game with the Yale sen-
 iors recently, is in a peculiar condition. His body from the neck down is paralyzed. He Is perfectly conscious and rational and is able to take nourishment. His body is abso- | lutely devoid of sensation. The doctors gay
 that the organs of digestion may work auto-
 matically, not being dependent upon the will,
 but that White will ultimately waste away He may live for few months.
 The hat shops in Danbury have sll shut
 down. The employers could not conform to
 the Union schedule and could not effect a | compromise with the employees. The shops
 when they open again will be non-union. dog distempeI Is prevalent at Winsted and many valuable canines are sick with 1t. The lowest tide ever known in Bridgeport | harbor is said to have occurred there Satur- | day night.
 Rev Edwayd O. Dyer, of Whitman, Mass has received and accepted a call to become pastor of the Cong1 church at sharon.
 mad dog in Thomaston bit Michael Hen- | ley and Wm. McGafrney and several dogs last Monday before he was shot and killed.