Connecticut western news., 1890-01-01
GLADSTONE IS EIGHTY.

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 Courtesy of the Boston Daily Gobc.)
 GLADSTONE IS EIGHTY.
 He Receives a Flood of Telegrams and
 Congratulations.
 MT. Gladstone was 80 years old Dec. %, and flood of congratulations and presents are pouring in at Hawarden, where the au- thorities keep the telegraph and postofices open all day for the receipt of congratuia- tions. The usual Gladstone banquet will be given at Chester by the party leaders. The Grand Old Man is in splendid health, and is already preparing for the parliamentary cam- pagn, having taken house in St. James square for the season. .5. Springfield, had banquet last week, at the Glendower Hotel, in Springfield, Mass, in honor of the SOth birthday of William E. Gladstone. Among the gentlemen present were: Mayor B. s: Bradford, Rev. John B. Griffin, John shipley, Col. H. M. Phillips, gan, Timothy M. Brown, Edward P. Kendrick, David Power, J. B. Carroll, Charles l.. Long, Simon Brooks, W. B. Stone, A. B. Wallace, A. B. Forbes, B. HI. Phelps, c. A. Nichols, James O'Keefe, H. M. Brewster, E.. H. Lathrop and Gurdon Bill. MT. Lathrop presided, and in his opening speech remarked that this was the only gathering tonight on this side of the ocean to do honor to the great Commoner, st atesman and democratic citizen of the mother country. The following telegram was wired: SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 28, 1889. To Hon. Wllliam E. Gladstone, Ha,oar- den, Eng.::
 Seventy citizens of this city, including the Mayor, your admirers and sympathizers, celebrate by supper and sentiment your 80th birthday. God bless and help you. ENv~Nrr Hhnyr Recent New England Deaths, John c. Cate of Deerfeld, N. H., member | of the Board of Selectmen and an eX-Post- master, died recently, aged 2S years. Joseph P. Trefethen of Rye, N. H., for | many years prominently identified with ship building in Portsmouth, died lately, aged 75 years.
 Matt NJ. Gloss, business man of Canaan ], Conn.,, died recently from injuries received from carriage accident, aged 37 years.
 Nathan T. Robinson, Overseer of the Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N. H., during the past 20 years, committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the head lately.
 Col. Robert J. Stevens, United States Con- sul at Victoria, died suddenly from apopleNy | recently in Seattle, Wash. He was born ill Newport, R. l., in 1924. NIT. Samuel Parkman Blake, one of Bos- tons well-known merchants in former days, | died at his home, No. Thornton street, Roxbury, the other day.
 Mir. Lysander F. Babcock. known in com mercial circles as a large varnish manufac- turer, and long resident of Cambridge, died | last week at his home in that city,
 Mir. Emory Barrister, who was Postmaster of Worcester in 1854 and several years after wards, died in Worcester last week, aged 80 years, ...
 MT, Samuel Morrill,, well known citizen of Warner, N. H., died of apoplexy the 26th of pec., aged 90.
 Miss Augusta c, Partridge of the firm o1 A. c. & c. A. Partridge, Boston, died sud- Park, Mass., last week. She was born July ?, 1e43, in West Medway.
 Dr, Benjamin Fearing of Wareham, Mass, died suddenly last week of heart disease.
 Captain Felix Hatch, of Phelps, N. Y., the only brother of Colonel A. D, Hatch of New Bedford and Boston, died on the 24th of Dec. aged 30, He was native of Falmouth | Mass,
 MT: John H. Krey, a lawyer of Boston died last week, aged 29. e-... -....
 MT. Geo, Stuart, a prominent farmer o: North Saeo, Mo-, died of heart disease on hil hay rack while driving home from Pine Point last week.
 The death of Mir. George w. Sawin, A. M. Instructor in Mathematics at Harvard College occurred at a Boston hospital Sunday morn ing, Dec. 29. He was the support of wid owed mother and several sisters, who live il Natick, where he was born in 1860.
 Mir. Arthur w. Benson, a prominent citizel of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died in Florida ol Dec. P, was born in Maine in 1872.
 Mrs. Maria H., wife of Rev. J. B. Green pastor of the Unitarian Church in Gloucester Mass, died on Sunday, Dec. 2y. She was 5 years old and was d native of Bernardston Mass.
 MT. Quincy Stoddard died in Hingham Dec. 2s, at the age of 9l years.
 MT. w. L. Bracket of San Francisco diet in his native city, Quincy, Mass, last week He was an uncle of Governor-elect J. Q. A Bracket.
 MT. Charles Williams, who died at Bev erly Farms, Mass, Saturday, Dec. 2S, aget 73, was in early days captain of fisherman and for nine years succeeding the war keepe of the lighthouse on Bakers Island.
 MT. J. H. Clarke, salesman for William Skinner < Sons, of New York and Holyoke died from malaria at his home in Buckand Dec. 29.
 MT. Albert k. Hummer, a conductor or the Old Colony Railroad, died in Mattapar Friday, Dec. 27. aged about 35. He was native of New Hampshire.
 Miss Susan l.. Stanwood, of Augusta dieC Saturday, Dec. 2S. aged 76 years. She was sister of Mrs. Blaine, and had resided with the Blaine family for much of their life.
 Mrs. Aurinda G. Cowdn died at the resi- dence of her son-in-law, Mir. w. Hayward Natick, Mass, Sunday, Dec. %. at the age o1 s4 years. She was a native of North Attic l hOrO