Connecticut western news., 1889-07-31
STATE ITEMS.

to be serious matter. Fresh outbreaks are reported every little while.
 The New Haven and Derby railroad has carried over $500 passengers thus far this season to Parlor Rock.
 MT George w. Williams, formerly a wholesale druggist on State street in Hartford, died at Chicago last Thursday night.
 Frank B. Fyler, of New Haven, is under arrest for sending cheap stuff through the mails in answer to adYer- tisements.
 People living near the New Haven base ball grounds are trying to have a street extended through it, as they say the ball ground is nuisance.
 The annual camp meeting at Willi- mantle opens on Monday evening, Aug. 18th, with discourse by Presiding Elder Tirrel. Every cottage on the camp ground is already occupied or leased.
 The sixth annual picnic of the Cigar Makers Union, No. Az, was held Mon day afternoon at Union Grove, near
 
 Weeds full band.
 There is plan for making use of the old library building at Yale college for student dining hall. The building has been built about 30 years and is in a very convenient location.
 N w. Remedy of the Windham County Standard. will deliver the essay In Defense of Foreign Advertising, ; at the next meeting of the Connecticut weekly press association at Highland lake, Winsted, in September.
 Thomas McGuan, of Meriden, who was recently shut up in the asylum, has been released, and claims that he was put in confinement by mistake, and that there is another Thomas McGuan, who should have been locked up.
 The wife of Prof B. Perrin, of Glove. land, Ohio, formerly of Hartford, Ct., died last Thursday after long and hopeless struggle against consumption Professor Perrin's father and mother were both killed in the Park Centra hotel disaster at Harsford last February Mrs Perrin leaves two little boys.
 The Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co.'S inspectors visited 9062 boilers in the month of May, inspected 3941. reported 11,30s defects of which 9Os were considered dangerous This statement shows the value of the york; [Torrington Register. Connecticut now has 352 local socie ties of Christian Endeavor, with ar approximate membership of 5000 There are in the state twenty-thre' local unions Six years ago Connecti cut sent to the first National conven tion in Portland one delegate. At tn, recent convention at Philadelphia sh. was represented by 520 delegates, more in proportion to her population than any state in the Union. .-[New Hartford Tribune.
 A Connecticut newspaper in relating the adventures Of New Haven driver who tried to cross the track Saturday ahead of train, parallels the adven ture of Ed Wells near Whiting river It says:
 "The locomotive carried the wago1 about 100 feet down the track, smash ing it to pieces and finally banging il up against board fence at one side O. the track. By the time the wagon land ed against the fence it was nothing but 8 mass of wreckage piled up in a heap the driver of the wagon, Adam German who lives on Chapel street, was los sight of when the collision took place and as soon as the train stopped those who had seen the accident hurried up expecting to find his dead and mutt lated body under the wreck Great therefore, was their astonishment wher a moment later German stuck his heac up through the mass of debris and call ed out "I'm all right; ain't hurt. And he wasn't.