Connecticut western news., 1889-09-25
STATE ITEMS.


 New Haven hospital $sO, 900 by her will.
 The State fair, at Meriden, closed on Saturday. The receipts were $7,00O. Expenses $12,000.
 Another Peoples Course of popular entertainments will be given in Winsted this fall and winter.
 In Guilford from 14,O0O to 10000 cans of tomatoes are filled daily. One order is for eighteen car loads.
 The 2d c. H. A. will hold it's reunion next year in connection with the dedica- tion of the Winchester soldiers memo rial tower September 10, 1890.
 In Haddam Wednesday David Ven Urea died at the age of ninety -four. He was the oldest Knight Templar in the state and possibly the oldest in the United States.
 Expert Accountant John H. Keep, of Norwich, reports deficiency of 5000 in the accounts of the Sprague butter and cheese company, of Sprague. The stockholders will meet Saturday.
 The county commissioners have re- yoked the license granted to Hinckley & Walsh of the Gridley House, Bristol. The recent conviction of Walsh for sale on Sunday was the ground of this | action.
 Boring for oil in Southbury is to be resumed. The shaft is 1,800 feet deep, and an effort will be made to sink it to 5000 feet. A vein of gold, found at 8 depth of 1900 feet, will also be investi- gated.
 The Second Cong'l church at North Mansfield was entered and desecrated recently, by vandals who broke down doors and damaged the pulpit. The church was similarly treated some weeks ago.
 Mrs James Costello, residing on Railroad avenue, New Haven, was found dead by the side of her husband in bed last Wednesday morning. Medi- cal Examiner White is of the opinion that death resulted from the excessive use of liquor. She was 43 years old.
 A member of either Sheridan or Car rollton Council, Knights of Columbus, of Waterbury, recently divulged in 8 newspaper the doings of one of the councils concerning Rev Father Me- Giveny of Thomaston. The Knights of Columbus of Waterbury are greatly ex- cited and incensed in consequence.
 State Attorney J. J. Penrose was taken violently ill during the session of the superior court on Friday. He was attended by pr Parker and conveyed to his home in Central Village on the 3:25 p. m. train. Considerable anxiety was felt by his friends, as he appeared to be worse in the afternoon Hartford Courant.
 Mir Stevens, of Norfolk, has rented his hotel to F. A. Moulthrop, of Torring- ton, who will take possession October l. Mir Moulthrop comes we'll recommend ed, and there is every prospect that the reputation of the house will be kept good. Mir and Mrs Stevens, we under stand, will make quite an extended Western trip, and on their return will board with MT Moulthrop.
 Tallmadge & Martin, New York print CTS and stationers, have sued ex-Gov P. c. Lounsbury, as treasurer of the state republican league, for $11, ASA, for supplies during the last presidential campaign. The printers state that the ex-governor admits the justice of the bill, but deferred payment so long that suit had to be brought.
 The ticket that drew the $1, ,OO0 prize at the recent fair of Williams Post at Mystic has not yet been presented. Captain Scott, the wrecker, thinks he has it. His ticket was lost Tn some manner between the partition in the pilot house of the tug, and he is going to have the wood work pulled down and find out how he stands Citizen. Captain Scott, the wrecker, has torn out part of the ceiling of his vessel and found his missing fair ticket, but it is not the one that claims $1, GOO after all.
 The Women's Christian Temperance Union of Connecticut will hold state mass meeting in Armory Hall, Hartford Wednesday, October 2d, during the day and evening. Rev Alpheus Winter, secretary of the state amendment com. mittee, and Mrs s. s. Fessenden will speak in the morning. Rev Graham Taylor, D. D., of Hartford, Mrs Clara 0. Hoffman, president of the Missouri w. 0. T. U., and Ex-Gov StJ ohn, of Kansas will speak in the afternoon Frances B. Willard, president of the national w. C. T. U., will speak in the evening. Lily Runals, the well-knowr soprano, will sing in the afternoon and evening.
 A large number of people assembled in front of the post-office in Meriden Saturday afternoon. to witness the pub lie mind reading test of Lena Leob, the "electric girl" '" A reporter had hidder cabinet photograph of Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the law office safe of O. H. & J. P. Platt. At the appointed time the young lady, blindfolded and accompan jed by the reporter, started in search O. l the hidden nicture She at once led ths