Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-05
AY1,AnoUND THE STATE.

ALL AROUND THE STATE.
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 gI.r-A VIII that Proves Invalid H.rtrord Lawn Club-Church Am- ,,rovement in Wallfngford-Trot- fling and County Fairs-West Foint Examinations. Mystic is suffering from widespread | epidemic of the 3grip." The will of the late Mrs. Hills of Hart | ford mentioned yesterday was invalid. Itis understood that Mrs. Hills drew her own 1 will and the document is vitiated through l her ignorance of the law, so that it has no binding effect except so far as the declara- tion of her wishes may affect the con sciences of her heirs at-law. But the les l son of the incident is plain, that people who wish to bequeath property should m take legal advice in drawing up their wills.
 Governor Bulkeley has appointed Gen. eral s. E. Chamberlain, the warden at the state prison, and John c. Taylor of Hart ford representatives to the national prison convention in Cincinnati September 9.
 A gang of burglars who have been the cause of much annoyance to merchants in the East End, Waterbury, will probably be broken up now, their leader, Jonn Reardon, having been bound over yester- day morning by Judge Bradstreet for bur glary. John Whalen, grocer, set trap . for the burglars the night before and caught Reardon in his store. The lad had broken in through g cellar window. An other youth named Murphy also effected
 an entrance, but escaped.
 The. Rev. G. M. Stone, D. D., pastor of the Asylum avenue Baptist church of : Hartford, has declined the call recently v extended to him by the Central Baptist . church of Minneapolis. This action greatly e pleases not only the church, where he has O ministered for eleven years, but host of j. friends throughout the city and state. d The annual tournament of the Hartford Il Lawn club will begin Monday, September
 9, at 10 a. m., open to Hartford county. 4 = challenge cup will be offered for the first
 time. which must be won three times to 3 become the property of the winner. En tries for gentlemen's singles and doubles
 ladies singles and doubles and mixed
 doubles must be handed to F. R. Cooley
 (box 64) before 12 noon, Saturday, Sep
 tember 6. No prizes will be offered for al
 event unless there are at least six entrie
 for singles or five entries for doubles. n Internal Revenue Collector Hutchinson & has seized about 3O,OOO cigars, the pro | ducS of Augusta Winkler's factory i, # HartforS Mrs. Winkler was caugh running o.-e blockade' by Deputy Col
 lector Wilson a m na.h,aw lev Britain. She is al
 old ohender ana nae',sen in the tolls be ! fore.
 Frank heas Gsds a Montsua. aoa Ra shin1
 ~-dinary sea bass gear, hooked I' sbarI a u, He W. voung and lusty and made aAsia ;a, -;sa,tx but Ihere were crafty fishermen at u $ to men;d agsmend of the line, and by skillful ma
 Hs neasnreeX downed him and landed hll E, weighed TO poqafqnn. proSqan feet eight inches al The contract for II, ,,.,u ,,o,; house for St. Paul's chuTg 'ne nHm pe,, . has been awarded to Horace tnfasd a.s
 the mason work and Newton O. OolJ Wood;
 the carpenter work. The contracts amo
 to something like $7, 900.
 '. Professor Milcke and family of Walli
 ford are expected home from Germs
 September 15.
 - A delegation from New Haven and M, oC' den are to shoot at Company Ks ran . Wallingford, tomorrow.
 ss The two days trotting meeting at Wo sE land park, Manchester, opened yestert
 afternoon.
 nga- A single blast in Litchfeld cou, rife quarry the other day dislodged 200 t i''' of rock, including one section weigh lish. seventy five tons.
 Mrs. Lucy Coix was arrested in Brid )uIa' port yesterday by an officer from
 Milford, who was armed with warr sumt charging her with infdelity.
 "George Ii. Shelton Of seymour has
 unable to pass the rigid examination DE West Point, and John G. Walsh of Mid NE. town, who stood second inthe local comp c.. tion, will try to undergo the ordeal.
 of twenty boys examined at the milit - academy Monday only four were adI AN ted" The foregoing is from an exchar ,av The facts are that he has had his preli ter nary examination and has been ordered md report at West Point June 13, 1891, for am, final examination.
 The biggest big tomato was repo, Of Wednesday by MT. M. H. Sisson of P -- ton and it weighed just two pounds.
 cessful seasons Watch Hill has seen
 many years, and as a result the hotel , already talk of enlargements. P S-'" have been drawn for the enlargement he the Ocean house, and Westerly built ges, are figuring the probable cost" in The Ashford Baptist association ope ma. it's sixtieth annual session at Willin
 tic Wednesday morning with Rev. F. res, Knapp of Danielsonv1lle presiding as t ,e porary chairman. The association
 organized with the following officers: N md orator, Rev. J. R. Stubbert of Putin
 clerk and treasurer, N. w. Kenne When the moderator had delivered the |RE dress of welcome Rev C. H. Hickok 'n.. Thompson delivered the first discourse nd naah IS "Christ, the Worlds Messiah" j. The thirty-eighth annual fair of rk Holland County Agricultural society ,,, Rockville Tuesday, Wednesday and Tn,
 day of next week promises to be by success and one of the best agricult,
 exhibitions ever held in eastern Come ,s out.