Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-13
General state News.

CUTTING ICE. The Rogers Ice company of New London began yesterday.
 IN THIRTY MINUTES. Carl Morinsky of Meriden, laborer, fell on an icy sidewalk this morning A blood vessel at the in thirty minutes.
 WOODS SOLD. Douglass woods on the outskirts of New London are said to have been sold to syndicate of Mystic men, who will convert the woods into timber to be used for shipbuilding
 EoRwALK GIRL
 Charlotte Keith, a NorwaIk school girl who re- prize of S20 offered by the Pitsbur Press for the school. HIS w1FE's DEATH.
 Robert Rogers of Waterbury, has been arrested pending an investigation by the coroner of the means of Mrs. Rogers death. Evidence has been produced to show that she wss brutally neglected and beaten while seriously ill BADLY BURNED. Mr. George H. Wente, principal of the German school at Danbury, has been badly burned by the he will lose leg the burns extending from the iD to the knee and Inflammation having Set in. ONCE LIVED IN BRANFoRD.
 fordldied last Tuesday in New York. He was an oid-time merchant and retired wealthy some twenty years ago. Hewas prominent in Odd Fellow cir cles A widow and four children are left.
 FATHER sYNoTT RESIGNS.
 Rev. Father Synott assistant at St. Augustine's necon with that parish haS teTuatsd haI n1s He % shortly assume charge of parish in another part Of the diocese. This reduces the number of clergy men at St. Augustine's to two
 THE NEW TEXTBOOK.
 One hundred and fifty copies of the new State tS S en PhysologX were at first procured for trict in Wilimantic being Tbs nneer ESs h., ds insufficient. Professor Webster the principal applied day
 TERRIBLY scALDED.
 BRIDeEPoRT, Jan. 12,-Peter Petersen young c W a WSF g fe oee Ss & f @ h Eith hot water this morning lost his balance and hospital.
 FIFE POOR INDIAN.
 The annual meeting of the State Indian associa- tion will be held in Hartford on or about the 25th of fnls month; Among the speakers will be the Rev. kota, Joshua Givens, an Indian of the Kiowa tribe and Mrs Quinton, president of the National Indian z,,A At Stockholders neeting of the Norwich and the oown boa if drectors Was esced T f9r the ensuing I, m year; The Hon Edward l. Davis, ca9P snS 5 F4ans EaSO1 Jos1sh Bayard Cutting, New York; Lorenzo Biackstone and William A. Slater Norwich; George H. Bal, THE RATHER REHARKABLE SHOT OF FRANK MILLER Frank Miller of Danbury, who is employed at the Union depot, was amusing himself and alarming others with an unoaded pistol on Tuesday when it went off as generally happens. The Danbury News says: The ball passed through the floor about two inches from the feet of his companion MT. Rapp. On the floor below, directly beneath the spot where the ball passed through,Was Christian Hefnzlemann working at a machine. The ball struck upon his ! breast, which was covered with heavy apron and this being greasy caused it to glance of and strike his right arm, the sleeve of which was up. The ball cut channel through the fieshy part an eighth of an inch in depth and two inches long and struck post and dropped to the door.'i
 INsURANCE-THE ABERDEEN FIRE.
 The insurance which was given at $25,O00 is thus reported in detail: Liverpool, London and Globe ,50O, Aeriden $260O, Franklin of Philadelphia S2,o00, Providence Washington of Providence, R. pioeS|ix | of % New York Ss,soO. d1srdisn dUar Oao Of England $2,0O0 Springfield $20o0, Traders of Chi ;ago Sl500 Union of Philadelphia S1 5e0 Fire asso siation of Philadelphia &, ,500 Meriden Con o1ce) s1 O9O, North American (Squires agency on dwell ng house) $500; total $24, 500 The insurance was 1ivlded as to application as follows: Buildings sa 900. horses and mules $7,O05, cars 5,000 har- ,ess stc c $1 900 hay and grain $l 600, ohce build lng lsgeso Sl9OO dwelling house $500, barn tools Ihe loss is now estimated at $45,000 to $50.00o The fourteen cars burned cost about $16OOO and he horses probably about $l0,O00 to $II GOO Moth Dg further has been learned to the origin of the Ire. Fire broke out in the ruins about o'clock Wednesday morning and burned so dercely that an II the hor5o railroad company have met ard ap- 'ointed committee to arrange for immediate re- uilding. Out of town companies have offered to end cars and it is hoped to have the road in opera ion again in schedule time within week.