Connecticut western news., 1897-08-26
THURSDAY. AUGUST 26, 1897
Local News.

are at Jas. l.. Bragg's.
 Charlie Bell, of Chatham, N. Y., is visiting relatives in town.
 Miss Macphie, of New Haven, is the guest of Mrs Dr Adams.
 Several from here went to Savin Rock on the excursion yesterday.
 -Barnum Richardson Go started the East Canaan furnace Monday.
 Miss Mabel l.. Watson, of Hart ford, is visiting at Mrs M. w. Wards. HI. B. Ives and wife left Monday for trip to Saratoga and the Thousand Islands.
 Genuine camp meeting weather rained powerfully Monday night and Tuesday.
 Jarvis T. Messenger, of Hartford, visited his brother, Jury B., in town the last few days.
 -The sum of $45 was cleared at the Christ church lawn party last week Wednesday evening.
 Miss Nellie Kane, of Pittsfeld, Mass !, is visiting the Misses Mary and Catherine B. Finnegan.
 George Brown, who has been seri- ously i'll for a month at Mrs .Scott's, is slowly improving and now sits up few minutes at time.
 Whatever apprehension Boinay may have that he will be caught in time, he may rest assured that he will not be taken for Weeks.
 Albert P. Briggs left on Monday to attend the National G. A. R. encamp ment at Buffalo, N. r., going by way of Montreal, where he will make short stay.
 Mrs l.. A. Caldwell and Mrs A. E. Evans are visiting friends at Buffalo, N Y, this week, and attending the national encampment of the G. A. R. and Woman's Relief Corps.
 Mrs William Nunan died at her home in Winsted on Saturday at the age of 55, from stroke of paralysis sustained on the previous Tuesday. She leaves husband and seven child ren, four sons and three daughters. Much sympathy is expressed for the beieaved family.
 The Russian Soldier" show troupe which played in Millerton last week were so exceedingly bum that the mana gers of the play houses in Lakeville and Lime Rock cancelled their dates. The company stranded in Millerton and the Telegram of that place gives them mo- tices that will not be used next season by the press agent.
 -Gross, Hyde & Shipman, of Hart ford, counsel for J. K. O. Sherwood, receiver of the P. R. & N. E. road, took an appeal on Tuesday to the Supreme court from the order of Judge Elmer directing the restoration of the engine ers' and firemen's wages. The ground of the appeal is that Judge Elmer's or der takes cognizance of the line of rail road operated by the Receiver both in Connecticut and New York state.
 The unique and expensive blue dolomite monument in the lower ceme- tery, which was erected about two years ago in memory of the late Julius Corbit, was described in the NEWS at that time together with the blue dolo- mite fence or coping which surrounds the yard in which the monument stands. Mrs Mary 0. Corbit is now expending several hundred dollars in adding quarter round blue dolomitt base to the outside of said coping. It requires sixty-ive tons of stone for the foundation alone. M. Lux, of Great Harrington, Mass, who furnished the monument, is also doing the present work in a most substantial and artistic manner.
 A stranger with an oily tongue called at the residence of James H Dean in Winsted Monday afternoon and offered for sale sure cure for headache or neuralgia. Mrs Dean, who was not feeling very we'll, allowed the stranger to try his medicine on sher. The stranger sprinkled something on a handkerchief and holding it to Mrs Deans nose told her to breathe and see how quick it would relieve he1 headache. Mrs Dean followed the in. structions and was soon fast asleep. The scoundrel then rifled her pockets and got gold watch and $5 and fled. Mrs Dean, as soon as she awoke, dis covered the theft and immediately re. ported the case to the police. Citizen
 Edwin McNeil, receiver of the Oregon Railway and Navigation com. pany, has terminated his services with that company, whose property has been purchased by syndicate of connecting railways. When Mir McNeill accepted the receivership the property was ''run ming behind" but during the four years or whereabouts of his management he entirely changed the complexion of its finances so that the holders of its secur ities sold out to good advantage. This makes the fifth railway property M, McNeill has brought up to good figures from the region of zero standpoint marking him as invariably successful manager. He now goes abroad for { three months sojourn, combining busi ness with pleasure. Winsted Herald Aug 18. MT McNeill was at one tim, superintendent of the Hartford & Conn Westarn R. R.