Connecticut western news., 1882-05-31
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\ nockVHe new button Snop IS expecLe1 to -tart in few days.
 It is said the escape and capture of An dersen cost Dr. Shew $4O0
 Rudolph Hauser of Westport was killed oy the cars at Fairfield last week.
 The Plainville camp meeting begins Au. gust 2I and lasts till August 36.
 A seymourits named George " Burrough has been awarded pension of $500.
 A man in Clinton has been fined $50. for not giving his live stock proper care. l Rev. MT Perry ofNew Milford admitted ten persons to membership in his church the 2ist. A Rockville boy eight years old came home from Hartford the other morning too drunk to walk.
 A woman died in Waterbury last Friday ofa tnmor which when removed weighed l 30 pounds.
 Mike Hans ahan of Unionville is held in 5000 for assaulting young school girl named Ayers.
 Joseph Kopp Bridgeport tailor, commit ted sulcids last week by shooting, on account If poor health.
 Excursion tickets were sold by the Housa- ,onic Railroad Company for Barnum's circus in Danbury Monday.
 Michael Fox was killed at New Haven last Saturday by a train on the New Haven and Northampton road.
 The Sedgwlck Guards of Waterbury lose a good member in the death of Corporal James McCarty. He was 68 years old.
 MT. and Mrs. D. H. Terry and Dr. F M. Wilson and mother of Bridgeport, sailed for Europe last week, to be absent about three months.
 Andrew M. Warner, a New Haven youth, l. reported violently insane on account of love affair, and is to be taken to the Middle town retreat.
 The former pastor of the Congregational church. in Sharon, Rev. A. B. Bullion, fell dead in Lansingburgh, N. r.. on Tuesday last, of heart disease.
 Mir. Dwight N. Granger is again at his old post in the Young America clothing house in Winsted, where the multitude of custom CTS of that store will be glad to see him. <.
 The betrothal of son of Max Witstein and daughter of-Adolt Witsteln was legally made at Hartford last week. The prospec-; tive bride and groom are each one week old.
 The parlor opera house in Bridgeport IS giving the citizens ofthat lively city g va- riety of excellent performances now a-days, or only 10 cents. It is 8 permanent insti. tuition. aud well supported ,...
 Mrsi Mary c. Archer of Norwich, celebrat- ed her seventy-eighth birthday last Monday. She gees to Greenville daily. and performs ten .hours' work in the mill of the Chelsea paper Company Next October she will have been in the employ of the company forty. three years.
 It is claimed that the largest steam. whistle on earth has just been turned out at Bridge port It is of brass, four feet nine inches long. weighs 400 pounds and to blow it takes
 
 boiler. It can be heard 50 miles, and is to adorn Canada saw.milf.
 A drunken rowdy on conductor Coles, train last Monday p. m was so utterly disgusted with his inability to beat the conductor out of s5 cents fare, that he slapped down 8 dollar bill and refused to take the change which MT. Cole gave him. He threw the silver chink violently across the car and gave vent to his rage by keeping up 6 continual storm of curses, which furnished the other passengers with truthful picture of @ Fools Revenge.' !
 Postmaster Pearson of the New York of. | flee. has captured postal card containing highly incendiary matter addressed to Presi- dent Arthur. Itwas a narrow escape for the | President for had he received it serious con- might have occurred, but as it is I he will never know how near he came to be \ ing assassinated. Postmaster Pearson should | he at once made Anthony Comstock's suc- cessor, and eligible to all of the perquisites and emoluments of the office -Bpt Eagle,
 A family from New Jersey consisting of husband and wife and six children recently novod into Winsted and took rather ex- oensive rent on the flat Their household outfit consisted solely of hen and six chick ems, which they brought with them A hen md six chickens will go good ways Gin zarden) if allowed to- but this one was con- ined to one room, and though she attended strictly to business the neighbors below com. Dlaihed about the noise of footsteps on the pare floor above and wouldn't give the hen imel So the family. and the hen moved put. - Press Officers Arnold and Taylor have returned rom their trip after the Big Injun and they eturned alone The Big Injun IS still up n Lltchheld county and has scored another , ally in his favor. It is said that he had { 'een housed in @ place called Milton. about our miles west of Itchield. The officers vent up to bring him down. As the story ! 'oes they secured the services of two Litch 1 eld officers to assist, not SO much Tn mak az the arrest but to help surround the house nd prevent his escape as well as pilot the r r ray. They found the house and surrounded j. Everything was still and quiet there. lrnold and the two Litch6eld officers staid urside while Taylor proceeded to disturb ac Big Injun whether he found the doors pen or not we cannot say, but Taylor got to here he was supposed to be just in time to 'e something vanish out of the window here was several pistol shots heard and T., en considerable small talk but no Injun 0 sible One of the Litchfeld officers cotn- n n aimed of having been hit in the eye with t,