Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-09
General State News.
 GIVEN &2nn.

General State News. GIVEN $500. The Rev. Dr. J. Allen Maxwell completed his first year as pastor of the Congregational church at Danbury last week and was given a purse of $500 by his parishoners. NEW DRESS. The Meriden Journal came out on Monday as an eight page paper printed from new type. It announces other improvements, and all this gives an impression of earned pros- perity.
 FIRE IN DAEBURY. The barn of James L. Burr of Danbury was burned on Saturday evening with ten head of cattle. The total loss is put at $1 800. There was insurance of $500 on the building.
 ANOTHER HUSBAND MISSING. Mrs. Plude, of West Hartford, reports that her husband, George Plude, has been miss l ing for four weeks, leaving her and eight children destitute. She states that she knows of no reason for the desertion. DEATH OF A soLoN. Captain Wellington S. Coe, prominent citizen of Portland, died Saturday evening. He was native of Madison where he was born in 1917, but came to Portland when a young man. He was a member of the legis- lature in 1881.
 EXCITEMENT IN CANTON. Howard Higley and Washburn G. Mills, of Canton village, had fine flock of eighteen valuable sheep, and they have all been killed recently by dogs. A portion of them were killed in the town of Avon, and that town pays for them. Canton must pay for the
 remainder There are too many vicious,
 worthless dogs allowed to prowl around, and they will soon exterminate all the sheep in
 the vicinity.
 A TWISTED SCANDAL.
 Another chapter in the Winsted scandal
 case was passed yesterday in the arraign-
 ment of Mrs. Milton B. Walker, charged with
 adultery with George E. Wight. She was
 held in $500 for the Superior court, and bonds
 were furnished. The woman was arrested at midnight Saturday by persons holding no authority, an act that has been much criti- cised. Wight's hearing takes place to-day, and will probably be disposed Of in the same manner. The defense promises some inter- esting disclosures.
 ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN wILLIMANTIC. The Willimantic Electric Light company is preparing for tho introduction of electric l lights as per vote of the borough. The base. ment of the old Morrison machine shop is to | be utilized for this purpose, power being fur ! nished by the one hundred horse power en- zine now in>use by the machine company, | who will procure new fifty horse power en- zine in it's place.. The poles will be procured l soon and placed in position, the wires put uI ! and the light in running order probably by July 1.
 DOG POISONING. 1 Hartford is just now agitatsd by the way | valuable dogs are being poisoned. The l Courant says: If the dog poisoner would | only select some of the miserable unlicensed CUTS that are roaming about the street for his victims, instead of the most costly and yalu able dogs, he would not be an unmixed evil. | But he fails to do this and the result is that | gentlemen who own pet dogs, and who pay for their license fees and the good care oi I their property, are the sufferers by this W, .olesale poisoning on the part of some one l who walks about the premises and distrib- utes poison. The community could better spare him than the dogs that he makes away with