Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-22
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ALL AROUND THE STATE.

ALL AROUND THE STATE.
Death of a Yale Law school Graduate
death of a Former Prominent
Banker-Arrested for Attempting a
Waterbury,s Races-Old COlOny,s
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Terribly In-
jured-General Notes.
George w. Smith, judge of the Meriden |
probate court, died of Bright's disease at
his rooms in the Winthrop hotel, in that I
city, yesterday morning, aged 60. Judge |
Smith was well known among the legal |
fraternity of the state. He was a graduate |
of the Yale law school and one of the old |
Forty-niners.
A New Britain dispatch yesterday says:
Michael Farley was killed on the NewYork
and New England track at Clayton, last
evening while Intoxicated.
WINsTED, Conn, Aug. 21.-Edward
Camp, prominent many years in the mer-
camille banking life in western Connecti-
cut, died last night, aged 81. He had
| been member of the legislature and was
prominent in local politics.
PUTNAM, Conn, Aug. Dir. E. Dough-
erty. aged fifty, ARRESTED here to-day for
attempting bunco game on a Catholic
priest, the principal of Notre Dame acad-
! envy here. He presented forged draft on
Drexel, Morgan & Co., of Philadelphia.
place his daughter in the institution He
! was accompanied by female who left i'm
| mediately on his arrest. Dougherty is
| jailed awaiting developments He is
man of good address and a fine converse
| tionalist.
A Bridgeport dispatch yesterday says:
| Thomas ONeill of North Bridgeport was
arrested by Detective Cronin this morning
| A day OF two ago a valuable horse belong
| ing to Percy Ryan was found dead in the
| pasture. 1t is now claimed that O'Neill
killed the horse. Evidence has been Sc
| cured that led the authorities to believe
! that he put halter around the horses
| neck and tied it TO the fence, and placing
! a rifle at the horses head fired two shots
| into the poor animal. The horse was
| worth about $500. There has been trouble
between the two men over liquor prose-
| cution some time ago.
Mr.. Robert L. link of bridgeport,
| graduate of Wesleyan university, is to sue
coed Mr.. Blaisdell as principal of Litchfeld
| schools. He is O married man and brings
his wife with him.
| The total receipts of the Waterbury
Driving company, at their late meeting
were about Sc, 300. This was obtained
| from the following sources: Entrance fees,
| something over 81 800; privileges, between
| 81 900 and 81 100, and the gate receipts
! made up the balance. The expenses were
about $4,000, the purses amounting to
| 50, 400, SO that the net profit to the COM
| pany will amount to between 800 and $500.
| The profit was not large but the races were
/ good and satisfied the public, and the COM
pany will no doubt make more money next
! time.
George Richards of Litchfield returned
from his trip to Europe by the Teutonic
on Wednesday which made the shortest
passage ever known, and is now with his
family on Prospect street.
/ M. Il. w. Vessels of Litchfeld left yes
terday for an extended tour west He will
| first go to Mantle where the National
guards are in camp, for short visit. He
then attends the meeting of the National
commandery, Sons of Veterans, at ST.
Joseph, Mo-, where he will represent the
| state division, of which he is colonel
Thence he will go out to Colorado, paying
a visit to DR.. Gates family at Colorado
Springs.
I Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Morse and Mrs H.
O. Morse of. Litchfeld are at Short Beach,
Branford.
lue Irlenos OF Ine late John II. II. Has
sard, the noted Tribune editor and writer,
have decided to found a scholarship to his
memory, and to be called by his name, at
st. Johns college, Fordhan, where he
graduated in 1885. A large part of Mr..
Hassard's childhood was passed in Litch-
field, Conn, and he was frequent visitor
with his mother, Mrs. A. S. Hassard, who
has been summer resident in Litchfield
for many years. It was there that he did
ff,fI HI II
ing the Tilden kilograms. Mr.. Hassard's
memory richly deserves the honor his col
1ege proposes. His literary work was of
the very best quality, and his life above
reproach.
Mrs. Lucretia Miller died in Hartford on
Tuesday. She was the mother of Charles
Miller of the firm of Miller & Peck of Wa
terbury. The funeral was held yesterday
in Middletown at 2 o'clock
The United States lighthouse steamer
Putnam, Captain French, came up the river
to. Hartford about o'clock Tuesday after
noon and started back about O'Clock next
morning. The object of the visit was to
inspect and put in order the stake lights
and the Ave small frame lighthouses which
the government maintains at dangerous
points along the Connecticut river. -
Yesterdays Hartford Courant saws:
Mrs. Olcott Allen, who was killed in the
Old Colony accident on Tuesday, was on
her way to visit friends, the Tracys, in
Hartford. Mrs.JI Al. Allen, president of
the Hartford. Steam Boiler Insurance com
pany, y s1ephew of the late Olcott Allen,
and ills thought Mrs. Allen had been Wis
ltiEg at his summer home in Falmouth
fshe lived in Hartford many years. Her
oldest son, Captain Edward p. Allen, was
Major Rathbun's partner in the drug bust
ness under the Allyn house, when Allen &
Rathbun had for years the store now owned
by Mr.. Newton. Captain Allen served in
the First heavy artillery and died year
after the war. Her other children
all survive her, Frank Olcott Al
len, who Is in the insurance business in
Philadelphia, William L. Allen, now CON
nected with the Illustrated American and
Mrs. Leroy, wife of the Rev. Jacob Leroy,
} Trinity graduate Of 1869. Mr.. Leroy, nm
Episcopal clergyman, has lately accepted a
call to Philadelphia, and much pleasure
} was anticipated In 30 many of the family
J living near each other. Mrs Bessie Allen,
: who was with Mrs. Olcott Allen and was
} also killed, was her granddaughter, asd
lived with her Her father is Frank o.
! Allen. Mrs. Allen lived in his family
when she first went to Philadelphia, but
subsequently bought house close by, and
lived there with Miss Bessie Allen az her
, companion. In Hartford the two families
} had lived side by side, the mother at 875
Asylum avenue, and the son next east In
what is now DIR. Shepherds home.
Now that the officers of the defllnct cleo
trio light company (whose ashes are at Ken
} sington) have received the $4,000 insur-
ance money they do not seem very anxious
to rebuild the plant.
The early crop of potatoes has been
mostly gathered in Roskville's vicinity.
! The crop, both in quantity and quality, is
full 90 per cent. above last seasons. The
potatoes are large, smooth and superior in
quality
Thomas Coleman, a brakeman on the
, Berlin branch, was dangerously hurt
Wednesday evening. He was riding ON
| the top of Q freight car, and while passing
under the Ellis street bridge at New Brit
!. ain his head struck the timbers and was
: badly smashed. The chances for his re-
{ covery are slight.
AT SAvIN ROCK.
: The SOlOns of 1885 Hold Their Fifth
Annual Reunion at Sayin Rock.