Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-03
State News.

Levi W. Butler. farmer of Wethersfeld, was struck by 8 train on the Valley road nat- urday evening and killed.
 The railroad commissioners are to .inves- tigate the collision in Hartford Saturday. Each railroad company planes the other
 Rev Dr. Parker, of Hartford, sails for Europe on the Bothnia this week, and will be accompanied by Charles Fl. Clark, of the Courant, on two months vacation trip.
 William Lahey, while practising with Wal lace & Sons hose carriage In Ansonla Satur- day evening, fell, one of the wheels going over-h him, breaking his left arm. Dr. Welch attended him.
 At meeting of the directors of the Con necticut Humane society in Hartford Satur- day, it was voted that the Governor be re- quested to reappoint Henry B. Burton prose- cutting agent of the society.
 Mrs. Thomas McOaffrey, of Waterbury, had some family trouble Saturday and at tempted suicide by taking paris green enough to kill twelve men. Doctors pumped her out and she will probably recover.
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad has settled with the friends of Ar thur Lord and Patrick Cane, who were killed by the Langtry special train at Thompson vile about six months ago, by paying about
 $3, 800 each. Suits were pending.
 Aaron Pinney, jr., of Tarifville, aged
  the Treasury department, Washington, fell from a cherry tree Friday and died from his injuries the next day. MT. Pinney had studied at Yale, and was & graduate of the Columbia Law school.
 Professor Daniels, formerly principal of the institute of Guilford, now of Oliet col
 lege, Michigan, preached very interesting discourse in the Third Congregational church in that town Sunday forenoon. He also spoke at the sacramental services In the First church in the afternoon, at which time there were number of young people added to the church.
 Saturday the Wallingford water commis- sioner settled with Allison Bartholomew for right of way through his land. Arrange ments have been made to settle with Frank Busse of New Haven, George W. Cooke and Mrs. Dwight Williams. No agreement has been made with Ebert Hall and Mrs. Orrin Hall, and the probabilities are that commits ! sioners will have to be appointed. Jacob Wurtz, the Hartford saloon keeper, 1 who brutally beat his daughter until she was unconscious on Friday last and fled the city, { has returned and given himself up. He says l he went to New York, but his conscience ! troubled him so that he determined to sur render himself to the police. He adds that | he was crazy when he committed the out l rage, and thinks that eighteen months in l States prison would be none too severe 8 punishment for his act. At Sundays services in the Corner Con gregational church, Meriden, Professor Pratt ! referred to the death of Miss Edda Morse in ! a very touching manner. He repeated the ! last song Miss Morse sang as solo in the church, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought, etc. Y"
 The chair always occupied by Miss Morse was
 heavily draped in mourning. On it was 8 1 floral wreath, while in front was an elegant cross of flowers. Miss Pease, of Spring l field, occupied Miss Morse's place in the ! choir.
 Irving Sugden, young man of 19, was drowned last Friday evening while bathing \ in section of what was formerly the old Pennington canal in Huntsville. In it he went | bathing with Norton Blodgett about his own age. Neither of them were good swim mers. After swimming across deep hole 1 in the canal, in attempting to return, Sug- ! den commenced to turn round as if bewilder- | ed Blodgett went to his rescue and at. ! tempted to seize him by his hair, which was ! short, but lost his hold. He then seized 8 | stick which he reached to Sugden, who took hold of it and drew Blodgett into the water beyond his depth and he was compelled to ! IeF go of it to save himself, when Sugden sank to the bottom.