Connecticut western news., 1890-07-09
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT.
Items of Interest to Inhabitants
 of the Nutmeg State.
THR HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS.


 Elsewhere Briefly Told for the Benefit
 of People Whose Time Is Valuable.
 WATERBURY, Conn.,, June 3O.-Professor Herbert Smith, of Yale, state chemist, has finished his investigation into the typhoid fever cases. He finds that there are forty pronounced cases, almost every one of which is traceable to the impure milk sold from the farm of MT. Dibble in Middle bury, and retailed in this city by Mr. Blakely at the rate of 150 quarts day, Mr. Dibble and one daughter are now sick with the disease and a man employed by him is dead During four days there have been five deaths. City Engineer F. Floyd Weld, 40 years old died Saturday. He was poisoned by the impure milk. He was president of the Connecticut Associa- tion of Civil Engineers. Dr. J. M. Bene- dict, one of the hospital surgeons, has suc- cumbed to the disease. Two or three prom inent boarding places have been broken dp. One doctor says he is sure there are at least eighty pronounced cases The lives of six we'll known people, including one of Engineer Weld's daughters, are despaired of tonight.
 To Make His Aim Sure.
 MRRIDEN, June 3O-Anthony Lang, aged 60, employed in the Meriden Cutlery com pany's factory, shot himself in the head with a pistol at his home on New Hanover avenue. He lay down on the bed and with the aid of hand mirror directed the fatal bullet. He had been mentally unsound for some time.
 Crushed His Skull In.
 WATERBURY, June 3O.-Patrick Cole man, painter, fell from 8 scaffoldipg while at work on smokestack at the Electric Light company's plant and struck on his head. His head was crushed in, and his injuries will result fatally. Coleman fell forty feet He is 25 years of age and has a brother living in this city.
 Could Not Swim and Was Drowned.
 NORWICH, July 1.-Johnnie Delenton, 8 13-year-old boy, with several companions, went in swimming in the Shetucket river. The beach at this point is good for bathing purposes, but the current is strong. Johnnie could not swim and ventured out too far. He was carried down the stream and drowned, although his companions and others made efforts to save him.:
 Brakeman Horribly Mangled.
 MERlDEN, July Frank Fay, brake man on the freight train leaving this city at 6O6 a. m., was struck by bridge today, about mile north of Meriden, thrown under the wheels and mangled almost be- yond recognition.
 His Pooling Caused Mans Death.
 NEW MILFORD, July 2.-Yesterday af- ternoon Gustave Kumrow, a Swede, 40 years of age, lost his life. Early in the afternoon party of four men, one colored, went up the Housatonic river in row boat to so in swimming. All but Kum- row went in bathing. Kumrow rowed the boat ashore and watched the men enjoying their bath. When the men in the water concluded that they had enough Kumrow got into the boat and rowed out to take them in. As the men were climbing into the boat it was upset, and Kumrow, who had his clothes on, was precipitated jpto the water. All the men struggled to grasp the boat, which was now bottom side up.
 Kumrow was an expert swimmer, but sank, and was not seen again until his body was recovered last evening quite distance down the river by boating party. It is supposed that he was struck by some part of the boat and stunned. The upsetting of the boat was piece of carelessness on the part of Talman, the colored man, and soon after the accident he was arrested and a charge of manslaughter preferred against him by the brother of the drowned man, who was in the boat when the accident oc- cured. The other men in the boat told Talman to stop his fooling or the boat would be upset, but he continued and finally rocked the little craft so violently that it was overturned.
 Can't Agree and the City Suffers.
 NORWICH, July 2.-It looks very doubtful for this city having an electric street rail road after all This morning the commit tee of the common council and President Cunningham, of the Norwich street rail way, had conference, but were unable to agree upon terms by which the deadlock existing between the company and the city could be broken. President Cunningham was willing to sign that part of the agree ment which stipulated that the cars must be run to the top of West Side hill, but re- fused to sign the fourteen conditions the common council insist on, apd which relAte mostly to the manner in which the tracks must be laid and how often the cars must be run, etc. President Cunningham told the committee that as they own the road they propose to run it as they saw it, and would continue to use the horses than comply with what he termed unreasonable conditions. The people of the city all want to see electricity introduced in connection with the street cars and are not inclined tc favor the action of the common council in the matter.
 Not Up to Expectations.
 ROCKVILLE, July 2.-Supervisor Nc Laughlin today made public his estimate of the population of the town of Vernon | The figures fall below expectations. Ht says that in the town there are about ,sO( people, Of that number probably 5000 arf in the city of Rockville. When Rockville was given city charter by the legislatur' it was generally conceded that there were at least 10000 or 12,OOO people within tho limits of the proposed city. If the correct population of the city is now 5000 there has been gain during the last ten years o1 33 1-3 per cent. In l845 the population o Rockville was only 851.
 MT. Bowen's Twentieth Celebration. PUTNAM, Conn.,, July 5.-The twentieth annnal celebration of the day at MT. Henry | c. Bowen's country seat at Woodstock was we'll attended A feature of the days ex ercises was the gathering together of large numbers of Sunday school children iron | this place and numerous other towns 1T | Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Senator Hawley and others spoke Negro's Hero1sm.
 WnKEsBARRE Pa., July 7.-John Moody | (colored) was drowned Sunday in the Sus 1 quehanna while trying to save child from drowning. Moody had put two little children who were in his charge into g boat and was pushing the boat around te amuse the little ones when one of them 1 fell overheard Moody jumped in, but | being poor swimmer, was caught by an eddy and carried down. His body was afterward found standing upright in tho water with outstretched arms. The child