Connecticut western news., 1895-02-07
STATE NEWS.

There is talk of organizing a choral union in Torrington nnder the leader ship of J. Edmund Skiff
 The Salvation Army is to establish two barracks in Bridgeport
 The Berlin Iron Bridge company will increase it's capital stock from S3O0, 900 to $500, 00O
 The League Cycle company of Hart | ford, manufacturers of the cbainless wheel, has made an assignment 10 Andrew F. Bates.
 Joseph Clark. 24 years old. who was 1 struck by train near Burrville on the Naugatuck division Friday afternoon. died Saturday morning, having not re- gained conscinusness. He was un- married aud lived in New Hartford. Litchfield ladies have organized 8 co"king club called the ''Crapford Club"
 There are now 900 members of the Daughters of tue American Revolution in this state. John F. Simmons has been reelected manager of the Wiusted base ball club, Eugene Mccarthy assistant manager.
 Twenty-four thousand eight hundred i and thirty Diue inventions have been patented from fT90 to 1894, inclusive by men who have come from Connecti- cut.
 Prominent merchants of Sharon are to petition the legislature for a charter to conduct a banking business in the town, which has never had a bank. hut now proposes to start one with S25, 900 capital. @
 Among Connecticut's sturdiest old men is Horace Staples, aged over 90, who is yet in active service AS the presi- dent of the First National bank in Vest port. Recently he was reelected president of the institution for the forty second consecutive tims.
 J. R Montgomery cotton mill at Windsor Locks is running A hours day.
 German, Wixted < Grove of Bethel, hat manufacturers, whose factory was recently burned, have resumed business iu another building. E-t
 The Middlesex Rubber Works Co.,, of Miial-town will increase ita capital stock and go into the manufacturing of rubber tires.
 The Metropolitan Rubber Works of Wallingford are working three nights a week, on account of an increase in their business.
 The grand list of Bridgeport for the year 1894 shows an increase of about S.. 300, GOO over the previous year. In 1893 the taxable property of the city amounted to.S54, 301. 1O7. while in 1894 the valuation WAS $56 660 976.
 A public-spirited citizen of Danbury has made conditional fir of Sl5 900 for memorial building for the Ynnng Mems Christian Association. An effort will be made to raise the necessary ad- dlti nal sum, when a hands me home will be erected for the association.
 Last Saturday morning fire destroyed the root and gutted the upper story of donble tenement house, belonging to Allen Alderman, in Collinsville.
 Hartford seems likely to have. in the not far distant future. a suitable opera house. Last Saturday an agreement was signed giving certain Hartford gentlemen years option to purchase tue present opera house property. Within that time 1t is hoped that stock company will be formed and the pro- perty purchased and the building re- modelled, decorated and transformed into a satisfactory ground fl or opera house. The Post advocates the project.
 Mgr. Satolli dedicated St Micharl's Italian church at New Haven on Sun- day morning.
 An injunction was issued on Satur. day restraining the Consolidated road from crossing the Norwalk Tramway Co tracks on the Wilson Point road at Norwalk in order to reach the Standard Oil Go. plant.
 A fire in Wilmot & Hobbs iron works in Bridgeport on Tuesday night did S75, 900 worth of damage.
 The charges brought against Warden Woodbridge, of the state prison, by President Tracy, of the state board of the warden of furnishing poor and in- sufficient food and of being guilty of cruelty tn the prisoners, were investiga- ted on Tuesday at meeting of the hoartf of state prison directors. held at the prison, and the result was com plete exoneration of the warden.