Connecticut western news., 1878-09-12
STATE NEWS.

In the absence of the depot agent at Union City, Naugatuck, on Friday night, the office was broken into and the drawer rifled of about sixty-fve dollars. No trace of the thief has been foun6
 An Indian mound recently discovered in Newtown, contained human bones, ar- row heads and other relics, besides com plete skeleton in sitting posture, and with the face turned toward the west.
 There was a severe thunder storm in Bridgeport and vicinity Tuesday afternoon. The house of A. c. Parker, on Nichols St. was struck, and considerably damaged. The inmates escaped injury.
 A little daughter of Michael Fertian, living at Boston Neck (suffield,) fell off a load of tobacco on which she was riding the other day, and one ot the wagon wheels passing over her body, she was seriously hurt.
 A Voluntown clergyman married 8 couple, not long since, in an adjoining town, whose names were respectively Ben jamin and Ann. On being asked how they appeared during the ceremony, ''They ap- peared," said the clergyman, 'both an, niemated and benniefitted."
 Miss Olga Klauser was drowned while bathing in the Pennington rlver at Farm. ington, last Thursday afternoon. She was a young lady of rare endowments, sunny disposition, and was beloved by all who knew her, and her sad fate has thrown the community in which she lived, into intense excitement and deep gloom.
 There has been reduction of wages of spinners, at the Foxville mill, Stafford, in consequence of which, some of the work men have struck, and others have giver mo- tice of intention of leaving. At the Con- yerseville mill, the hours of labor have been increased to fourteen daily, with in- crease of pay, and the mill is to be driven sharp to catch up with orders. .........
 The wooden frame building at South Norwalk, occupied by Adams Bros hat factory, situated opposite the N. Y., N. H..
 
 Thursday night, together with wooden building adjoining, occupied by H. lilly as a carriage repairing and blacksmithing shop. Both buildings were levelled to the ground. A two story dwelling house in the rear of the hat factory was considerably damaged on one side by the fire. The pro- prietors of the hat fsptory were about put ting on the whole force of 300 men.
 A remarkable thunder storm visited Wallingford Thursday morning. The storm began to gather about two o'clock, and at four was at it's heIght. Flashes of lightning and terrible detonatiops followed each other in rapid succession until six i; then at intervals it was continued until eight. There has been since the cyclone nervous apprehension in the minds of many, and that morning CThursday) the thought uppermost in the mind was that the day of judgment had come. As peal on peal succeeded each other, many a prayer was sent upward, and many one tried to make his peace with God. A little child awakened by the nose bounded out of bed md running to it's mother cried: Mother, let's all get in the cellar" But few cases of damage by lightning are re- ported. A cross was knocked from the tower of the Episcopal church, a COW owned by Mir. Paddock, east of the center was killed, trees near John Atwater's and F. T. Ives's were shattered, barn on West Farms was burned, the stephen Moorse house was struck with slight damage.