Connecticut western news., 1875-10-29


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 Il New Locomotive.-A locomotive built on new, and it is claimed an improved, principle, has been run. on the Conn West lern road the past few days,4to demonstrate it's superiority over those made on the old plan. Its boiler is very much larger, and fits internal arrangements are such as to lget greater heating surface, anc more lcomplete utilization of the heat, thereby effecting an important saving of coal. The builders of this engine clam it will gene- rate a third more steam force with given amount of coal than other locomotives or in other words will do third more work with ton of coal than other engines of the same weight. This locomotive has been run on the Boston & Albany road short time, and last Thursday was introduced to the Conn. Western road, making its first trip with Conductor Elmore's train. It ! was afterward tried with stated amounts of coal and it's work compared with that of the other locomotives of the same trains. At this writing the experimenting is still l going on, and of course the result is not de- termined. sss. 5>:ss, ...-Es at5 .
 A Hotel at Twin Lakes.-The Twin lakes in this town are rapidly becoming mo- torious as one of the most delightful places of resort in the country. Excursion parties came out from Hartford on short visit to these lakes last Friday and Saturday, and returned to their homes in an ecstacy of delight at what they had seen and enjoyed. The season is much too far advanced for the greatest beauty of the foliage, but with the delightful weather of last week, visit there, would never fail to afford vast amount of pleasure. Arrangements are made for excursions from Hartford again Friday and Saturday of this present week, should the weather prove favorable; the Hartford train, connecting with an eKcur- sion train on the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill road, bringing parties from Water. bury, New Britain and other stations on that portion of that road. The Hartford Post says: ---... .~...-.. s.. -....'.
 i f It is proposed to erect hotel of oneghun- dred apartments at Twin Lakes, to be open Fed next summer and conducted on the Flu lropean plan. It will be located on the strip tof land between the two lakes, immediate ly adjoining the railroad track, and the rear l of the building will project over the water, affording facilities for bathing without go- ling away from the house, while boating parties can step directly into the boats, and | if laZily inclined, fishermen can cast their Hines from the windows of their own rooms. The intention is to conduct this as family hotel, where Hartford people can spend the summer months within easy reach of the city. ir,.E,s:. .,sizf ta E..ss4 ., | Crime in Danbury.-It seems as if the devil himself had been loose and on ben der" in Danbury. On Saturday night (16th) seller of eighty rod whiskey filled man l by the name. of George H. Flager with bis liquid death, and the man complaining soon after of not feeling we'll, and desiring toslie down, the accommodating barkeeper gave hlm a board to lay upon out of doors and in the rain back of his saloon, and told him to go to bed there. He went, and was l tound dead in the morning. To comment Ieupon such case as the above is entirely funcalled for. The facts themselves are about as strong lecture on temperance as can we'll be imagined. 5 .r ~,.... ,-r.-l. Another little Danbury incident on the same night mentioned above occurred on the railway track. A man by the name of Boil, while walking on the track in the evening toward his home, was attacked by two ruf1ars, one of whom knocked him senseless with club, after which they robbed him and fled. It is said Boil was also drunk. or he perhaps could have better defended himself
 | The same night the station of the Hons- 1 atomic railroad company in Danbury was broken open by burglars, but nothing of much value stolen. This ends the cata- logue of crime for that Saturday night, but Monday night some of the gang, .(for it ap- pears to have been gang of burglars ope- rating there) entered the residence of Peter Holmes and stole six hundred dollars, the work evidently being done by professional burglars. The mode ot capturing this haul is detailed in the Danbury Ne,es asfollows:
 On the west side of the house is flight of stairs, near the top of which, and about ithe .heighth of Q man from the steps. is window opening into small sleeping room adioining the sleeping apartment of couple living there. In thls small room at the time of the burglary. was sleeping a twelve months old child of theirs. The foot of the bed on which the child lay part ly obstructs the window. r' -@.55 .t
 The burglars went first to the back of the house and procured a box upon which they stood to enable them to open the win dow. It was not fastened. Carefully rais- ing it the burglars threw chloroform upon the bed of the sleeping child, and after it of the bed. A door leads out of this room in to the hall, at the end of which is door which opens out upon the head of the stairs. The first action on the part of the burglars was to go through the first men, tioned door into the hall and open the out Eside door to make the means of escape easy. They then returned to the room of the parents, and finding apair of stockings near the bed, saturated them with chloro- form and put them to the nostrils of the sleepers. v.ss5..t s....f..ss. -s E --E .szs& After doing this they removed the vest of the man from under his head. The vest
 contained some four hundred and fifty dol
 lars in bills and check made payable to . order for two hundred more. Here the burglars met with a mishap, for in taking the vest they either dropped or knocked the bottle of chloroform to the !, floor. The noise awoke the wife, who had l not been SO heavily drugged, and she, after considerable difficulty, awoke her husband. When he sawoke she remarked about the odor of the chloroform, and now thorough ) ly aroused, he arose and discovered his 9 loss. k ..r- ..f. .. ....-.. ! The loss. IS quite heavy one to the gen tleman who is wholesale grocer in New