Connecticut western news., 1898-04-07

ans from Wednesday of last week until Monday of this week.
 The wheelmen and wheelwomen are patiently waiting for the selectmen to build the bicycle paths for which this town appropriated S10C last fall.
 Charles A. Boinay, the murderer of George Marcus Nichols at Daniels Farms, will be hanged in the state prison at Wethersfeld next Thursday, April II.
 The frame for G A Adams new house was raised last Thursday and all can now see for themselves that the house will be large, convenient, and ornamental one.
 A house and barn in South Sandis- field. Mass, owned by John G. Hall, were destroyed by fire one night last week. Origin of fire unknown. Loss about 5000, insurance s400.
 Main street might appropriately be called Yellow street if 1t had any more yellow buildings. Yellow Is pleasing color. but did you ever count the vel low buildings on Main street?
 A horse race was trotted last Satur- day afternoon at Riverside track be- tween colts belonging to Wm. O'Brien, Edw. Fitzgerald and Joseph Owen. O'Brien easily won the purse of S15.
 A new postal law went into opera ton March 1, to the effect that mail matter addressed to "the leading dry goods merchant" or ''the leading phy- sician," will not be delivered by the postmaster,
 Salisbury is agitating the question of a band stand for use of its K. of P. band for summer night concerts. Ca- naan has good band stand that it will sell them cheap and it could be carried on two flat cars.
 Frank Allen, while cutting wood for E. D. Benedict on Monday, cut 8 terrible gash in his left instep with the axe MT Benedict bandaged the cut as best he could and hastily drove to the village with Allen where doctors services were procured.
 There were only six instead of six teen of Perkins, Colored Troubadours at the Town Hall Tuesday night, but they gave first rate performance, the singing being good, the dancing great, and the program far better than the or dinary jubilee troupe. The audience was small.
 Weather report for the past week: Thursday 29' above zero, showing; Fri day 24, clear and windy; Saturday 9. clear and windy in the morning but showed in afternoon; Sunday 9, clear and windy; Monday 20, clear; Tuesday 20, showing; yesterday 15, clear with four inches of snow on level in the morning. and more snow fell in the afternoon.
 -J. l.. Bragg's store on Elm street is roomy and we'll lighted, and is stock ed with a complete line of groceries and a variety of general merchandise. The front room is 25 feet square, and there are two back rooms and large cellar. The meat market, cooler and the ice house are conveniently arranged in a building in the rear of the store. Mir Bragg Is already having larger trade than he expected in his new location.
 -E. W. Adams is better equipped than ever to do bicycle repairing. He recently enlarged his shop and put in steam engine of his own manufactur- ing. He has facility for enameling, brazing and vulcanizing, and repairing of every description. He can even build wheel to order; in fact last season he built tandem. He keeps on hand large supply of bicycle sun dries, and does work at short notice. Give him call.
 The NEWS has received & copy of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. of the 2nd inst, with its Easter Souven- ir supplement. The supplement con- tains views of places and buildings that are characteristic of Boston and its civilization, business enterprise and aesthetic taste Tapes 50 and 51 of the the Souvenir are devoted to views and description of the interior of the Ga. zette plant, which is equipped with eight linotypes and every machin e needed for conducting newspaper, job printing, and book bindery.
 The Winsted Evening Citizen is- sued an extra, a morning edition, at a. ID. last Saturday which contained all the very latest war news to be had up to 5 o'clock that morning. The news was at least three hours later than that published by metropolitan journals or other state papers. The extras WAS placed on sale in Winsted, Torrington New Hartford, Collinsville, Norfolk Canaan. It was an exemplifcation ot newspaper enterprise, more especially so because the proprieters of the paper could hardly expect the sales would cover expenses.
 -Arnont Cannon, aged 5S years, com mitted suicide at Poughkeepsie, N. Y | last Thursday by shooting himsel through the heart with 32 calibre re volver. He had been in poor healtt for more than two years, and he left letter directed to Coroner Frost, saying II live in dread of going to an insan, asylum. I am in such poor health tha I feel as if was on the verge of insan ity" Mir Cannon was noted architec and builder. He was veteran of ths late war, having enlisted August 186; in Go. D. of the 12Sth N. Y. Vols, tn,