Connecticut western news., 1895-11-21
STATE NEWS.

Tf6Sluonb OQArleS T. O1hIk, Oi suo Consolidated road. has been chosen pre- sident of the New England road. He has previously been president and re- ceiver of the road and it is said, has made the road more profitable than any other manager.
 The servants in school for girls in Connecticut, while cleaning up the rooms after the school had closed, dis covered 3 CTS wads of chewing gum stuck in various places. The steamer, Puritan, sailed from New London for New York on Thurs day. She was leaking considerably but the pumps kept CT free of water. She will be put in dry dock. A recent letter to the Litchfeld En- qurirer suggesting that the ringing of the church bells be stopped has called | out several letters expressing strong dissent.
 Maud Baxter. aged Is, has been ap- pointed mail messenger betwees Tlti- GUS and Ridgefield. The girl ie prob ably the youngest messenger in the service of the postal department. The salary is S10O year.
 Goshen's new town hall was formally opened recently with a dance and a supper.
 The request of the Yale faculty for permission to erect 8 pest hospital within the city limits was denied last week.
 There are 2.216 names ou the "to be | lob l.at 1aI ,,, ok town clerks office last week.
 An east-bound freight train on the P k < N. B was wrecked at Barkham. sted, two miles east of Winsted, las, Thursday morning. The train parted on down grade and afterward the sec tions came together. Five cars loaded with coal and three loaded with cottor were piled up in heap and badly damaged.
 Ten head of cattle on the farm o Wadham Brothers were found to have tuberculosis and were killed. Other cases were found in Goshen.
 The bronze statue of Col. Thoma, Knowltou of Ashford. who commanded tue Connecticut troops at the battle O Bunker Hill was unveiled on the capi tol grounds at Hartford last week Wed Woods. of Hartford, and Is said to be fine work of art The same day an as sociation of decendants of Col. Knowl ton was formed.
 The two-year-old child of Franl Cook, Azel Cook, was drowned in tn backward of its fathers residence il West Torrington, last week. The chil, was playing in the yard. and in som unknown manner fell into a ditcl which contained three feet of water.
 Rev John H. Dixon, of the Montvill Congregational church, after year pastorate there. .denounces the church a "a sink of he'll" People in the nea neighborhood ought to feel relieve, that the Rev John will not be permitte, to slop over from that sink again. Shore Line Times.
 Diphtheria is epidemic in Ne, Britain. Seven new cases were discoy cred there last week Tuesday.
 Deputy Dairy Commissioner E. F Bates says that the law prohibiting tn sale of oleomargarine colored to re semble butter has driven that article ou of the markets of this state. The plain white butterine is sold by four concerns I Some old tobacco growers insist ths no soil is so good to use for sproutin tobacco seed as that obtained from tn stumps of rotten apple trees If that so, supply should be secured befor winter locks it up.
 The New England tobacco crop C 1892, according to a published state ment, was worth six million dollars Many believe that tobacco farmers wi realize, an equal sum from the crop C '95.
 A dangerous counterfeit 25 cent piec has made it's appearance It is beleive to be m inufactured in Norwich.
 The Connecticut Pharmaceutical a, sociatiop will hold it's annual conver tion on February f and 5 at Bridg, port.
 Eleven liquor licenses have bee granted in Torrington.
 A new Catholic weekly eight-pae paper has just been established in Da' | ly" and is published by Francis s. Kie nan.
 The Lakeville Water Go. Lakevill will bu'ld a storage reservoir. IT dam will be 200 feet long and 24 fe high, and the reservoir will have capacity of 8.50O,000 gallons. Wor will rot be started until spring.
 City Engineer E. B. Moss of Mer den. has made maps for the new sto age reservoir The dam will be 5t feet long and All feet high. and tl capacity will be 40. .000, 900 gallon The cost will be about $44 QUO. Wol will probably be begun in the sprin
 Martin Sheehan, 60, died at the Hal ford hospital, Saturday night from tl effects of inhaling gas at the America House in Hartford Nov.7.
 Several cases of dephtheria are repo ted from Union City. The publ schools have closed.
 The speritualists of Bridgeport W build an edifice in which to worshi Money is now being raised for the pr iect.
 Hartford has appointed a commit to ascertain wether the typhoid cases the city are due to impure milk.
 The Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, of NJ Haven. has given S2 300 towards pa ing off the debt of Yankton college South Dakota.
 Tue railroad station of the Philad, y pia. Reading and New England col B. pany at New Hartford was entered x- burglars last Thursday night, but d booty was secured.