Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
GREAT HARRINGTON,

The annual meeting of the fire district occurs at the town hall in this village, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. There are nine articles in the warrant These articles relate to the election of officers; hearing reports and the usual appropri- ations for the maintenance of street lamps; the raising of money for the re- pairs of reservoirs or hydrants; the pur- chase of hose; the care of the steamer and other fire apparatus and for the purchase of ladders, or the payment of any indebtedness of the district Arti- cle is to see if the district will vote to extend the water mains of the Mansfield Lake Acqueduct company, south from where it now ends, provide hydrants for the same, raise money therefor and appoint any committee and give it any authority in the premises.
 A sad accident occurred in this village last Thursday afternoon. It appears that Mungus Oshman,a a young man about Is years old, who had been out on the Housatonic river meadows in boat with two companions shooting muskrats was returning to the shore when he reached for one of the guns by the muzzle. The hammer of the gun came in contact with the side of the boat, when in an instant the weapon was discharged and the entire contents entered the thigh of Oshman near the groin. He fell in moment. with the blood flowing a stream. The alarm was given a. mat tress was procured and the sufferer was taken to the, residence of his father. not far away. Physicians were summoned and everything possible was done. At this writing the young man is alive with but little hopes of his recovery. .,- After we closed our communication last week, William Dowd while intoxi- cated fell down stairs from house where he was spending the evening and was found dead in the morning, with his feet on the bottom stair and his head on the ground. It is thought his death resulted more from strangulation than from the bruises on the head. ''
 The quarterly report of the district court ending April shows the number of cases presented for trial to have been Assault, 7; liquor nuisance, 4; drunken ness, 5; illegal liquor sale, 2; keeping unlicensed dog, 1; peddling without 8 license, 2; night walking, 9; adultery, l j; vagrancy, 10; disorderly house, 1; fel-. oneous assault, 3; lewd conduct, 2. s:s'
 Charles Hinckley of East Canaan re- moves to this town where he will occu- py the Sanford farm west of the village.
 Ida Winters and her sister, Jennie. were arrested Friday morning for lewd conduct, and being brought before the court were sentenced to the Industrial school at Lancaster, Mass, during their minority Thomas B. Norton, visiting agent for the state board of health, lunacy and charity, was present to con- duct the prosecution, the details of which are unfit for publication. The girls were members of the Winters tribe l who have lived In the hOvel on Christian hill the past winter. The testimony shows they have kept @ house of bad repute. The old woman was sent to the woman's prison at Shelburne few days previous for night walking.
 All the rooms in the Berkshire House are to be lighted with the Stanley cleo tric light, and in fact almost the entire village will soon be lighted either with the Stanley or Edison light.
 Andrew J. Baldwin, who has resided on farm on Boardman street in the upper part of Sheffield, has removed to this village.
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