Connecticut western news., 1895-09-26
Local News.

Miss Eddy has returned from her visit of several weeks in New York state.
 Mrs R J. Lake, of Chatham, N. r., has been a guest at J. s. News several days.
 Largest assortment parlor heaters for wood or coal at lowest prices. AL worlds. Winsted, Ct.
 The P. R. & N. E. road will soon lay 800 tons of new steel rails between Canaan and Norfolk.
 -Mr and Mrs Thomas Abbe and children returned to their home Tn Abilene, Kans. on Tuesday.
 Where, oh where, was Prof. Wig gins big storm which was to last from the l7th to the 2lst of this month? Mrs Brooks and her son and daugh- ter, from Belleville. N. J.. have been guests at 8. W. Barnes since Saturday. Mrs Mary Newton, of Elmwood, visited her brother, J. l.. Bragg, in this village, from Friday until Tuesday. The funeral of the fve-montlis-old son of MT and Mrs William Mcclure was held Monday afternoon. Burial in St. Joseph's cemetery.
 -Wm Moore, of Ashley Falls, was overcome by the hea. while cradling buck wheat last Saturday. He had to be carried from the lot, and proper restorations applied. He will fully re- cover in time.
 -George Wollison, clerk at H. P. Lucas agricultural store in Pittsfeld. Mass, is ill with typhoid fever at his home in Pittsfeld. Mir Wollison's wife Is . sister of Mrs Lcrrain, Mrs Holt and Ms Stewart, of Canaan.
 Read the list of special attractions at the Great Harrington Fair, and do not fail to observe that the double team race comes on Friday instead of on Thursday as announced last week. Ex- cursion rates on both F. R. & N. E. and N. r.. N. H. & Fl. railroads.
 Owing to the kindness and generos- ity of Dr Ross. the editor and family lived high last Sunday in fact lived oD venison steak, and jerked or smoked venison. If Dr Ross enjoyed deer hunting ss much as we enjoyed the venison. we do not wonder that he goes to the Adirondacks every season.
 Mrs Adeline Beckley started for Minneapolis, Minn., last Saturday to visit her grandson. Frederick G. Hunt, and his wife. A letter received yester- day from Mrs Hunt states that Mrs Beckley arrived there safely Monday morning and is feeling very we'll indeed after the long. warm and tiresome trip
 Late Saturday afternoon while Nor man Benson was saving wood by steam power. near the Canaan Lime company's storehouse in this village, bis hand slipped and the buzz saw cut of the in- dex finger of his right hand at the sec ond joint. Dr. Lee temporarily dressed the wound and on Sunday morning am putated the finger close to the hand.
 Editor Rodemeyer was in town ovel Sunday. He has apparently recovered from the kicking the gun gave hin when he shot the Adirondack deer. and which he so humorously described 1T his letter to the Danbury Dispatch. ", presume the gun is yet kicking up ther' in the Adirondacks inasmuch al ''Rhody" carried no gun on his shoulde last Sunday, but the deer has go through kicking.
 The free concerts given by tn, Kickapoo Indian Medicine O. in Towl Hall,a are appreciated by large audiences Their remedies are we'll known and ar, having large sales. They will be her for two weeks. Free concerts ever, evening, and advice and consolidation given free by the Indian doctor ever, day from 9 a. m. to p. m. in the Tow Hall building. If you are in ill health take the opportunity of being mad well by the Indian remedies.
 An exchange says: Some sneer @ local items as being too trivial; but the may interest others. Our local pape, circulate largely amongst former res dents. now far away. To see even tn name of an old and dear friend ma afford them much pleasure. The adag, "Vsriety is the spice of life," is em ph.tically true of a local journal. Sue paper filled with only one kind reading would be a flat failure Henc local editors require versatility in marked degree.
 James and Edward Fitzgerald wei arrested late Saturday evening by Col stable Callender, of this village, assiste by John K; Simmons and ex -Deput Sheriff Middlebrooks, of Winsted, vi brought warrants issued by Justi' Roberts on the application of Prosec ting Agent Wellington B. Smith,
 Winsted. The prosecution is on reput ton. The Fitzgeralds gave bonds
 $10O each with Patrick Finnegan,
 Reed street, as surety. The trial W be held next Monday, 3Oth inst.
 Tuesday. morning sparks from engine set fire to the dry grass on q
 east side of the Housatonic railro
 near Edw 0. Wards house. The
 was stiff breeze blowing from t
 northwest at the time and the fam spread rapidly through the grass al