Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-13

Hayes, caught his arm in the winding ma chinery at Billiards mill at Buckland Fri day afternoon. His jumper became caught in the gears and his arm was pulled in with the cloth he was feeding, which saved it from being ground to pieces. As it was it was cut quite badly by the gears. WATERBURY MAN MISSING. The family and friends of Frank Sheri- dan of Waterbury are greatly alarmed over his disappearance since Tuesday morning | He was slightly demented and left the house without hat or coat. The city and | neighboring towns have been searched, but l he has not been found. Sheridan is about | ffty-fve years old, weighs about 150, and when last seen wore dark trousers and & gray coat.
 A STEERS TERRIBLE SUFFERING. MIDDLETowN, Oct. 11.-On Monday, Au- gust 4, c. G. Redfeld, Killingworth
 butcher, with one or two men attempted
 to lead wild steer to his slaughter house,
 but in some way it broke away and got
 into large tract of woods with a long l rope attached to it's neck. They failed to find it at the time and thinking it would
 come out of the woods to find other cattle
 with which it had lain through the sum-
 mer and which were at no great distance,
 they gave up the search. The steer, how
 ever, did not put in an appearance and
 further search did not reveal his where
 abouts until ThursdayAof last week, when
 some hunters came across him hitched to a
 tree, with which the rope was entangled
 and almost wasted away with starvation
 He had been missing fifty-nine days, but how long he had been without food or wa ter is uncertain.
 BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE GONE. Jehiel Tryon, Middletown, who was badly burned at the time his house was burned
 Monday night, died from the effects of hi injuries Friday afternoon. His wife wa . burned to crisp at the time of the fire.
 FOUND DEAD.
 George V. Daily, who was arrested il r Waterbury for drunkenness Friday, wa t | found dead in his cell at the station hous Saturday morning.
 8 TO START A PAPER.
 8 Nathan D. Bates, ex- United States mar . shal for this district and the present dem
 ocratic candidate for sheriff in New Lon
 don county, and several other democrati
 leaders in that section are about to start l. morning democratic paper in Norwich. a CLOSE OF THE BIG FAIR.
 Danbury's big fair, which closed Satur : day evening, was the biggest ever hell @ there and the most successful Durin, y the six days 75,O00 people attended, an 8 the gate receipts reached S32, 300. N - finer display of cattle was ever seen ii
 Connecticut. There were 20 per cent
 more entries this year than last. Darin
 Donald made balloon ascension and para l chute drop Saturday afternoon. Tn ]. racing was the feature Saturday. It com
 menced at 8 o'clock with the finishing 0
 the 2:32 class, postponed from Friday - purse $250. The race was won by Pilot r owned by E. F. Bass of Providence; Do h Carver, owned by J. J. Webster of Pitts ,- field, Mass, second. Time 2:334. In tn l, Friday, Ethel, owned by Charles Smart c o Meriden, won; Hazel, owned by G. W ?, Percy, Hoosac Falls, second. Time 2:351 F. In the 2:25 class for trotters and pacert tt & Whitney, nlion, N. Y., won, Eckford Q owned by Martin Payne, Troy, N. Y, see d ond. Time, 2:374.
 a4s sse se S.a:n R. e. and Sas
 nsrEs os Thoasto5 's each won two heats and first money wa @ divided between them. Time, 2:37l
 The race for foals of 'SS, purse $150, wa y postponed till Monday, but three heat e having been trotted at dark. Princesonia1
 owned by E. Swan of Knoxboro, N. Y O captured two heats. Best time 2:434. IS THE BACON DIVORCE CASE. l. The Bacon divorce case creates gener, attention in Middletown. The wife bring !, the suit charging intemperance and into F erable cruelty. She asks for the custod 'i of the three minor children and also for
 large alimony. The suit will cause har e contest. Bacon was at ono time leadin l. Middletown attorney and moved in th h best society.
 ia End Of the Intercollegiate Tenni n Tournament. le The intercollegiate tennis tournamer
 was completed Saturday, first place in th k singles and doubles being captured b !. l. Harvard, and thereby the $500 cup. Val Y takes the two seconds, but because other
 defaulted. The principal match playe 7- Saturday was between Chase and Sha7 [. and Hovey and Tallant, the two Harvar IS teams, for first place in doubles. Chas Il and Shaw won, after some desperate play
 ing, by scores of 3-6, 6-S, 3-6, GA, 6-( l, Their prize was two handsome Frenc W clocks.
 6 Tallant and Hovey did not care to pla 3, for second place and defaulted to the Pal # ker brothers of Yale, who thereby wo
 the second prizes, two piano lamps. n For second place in the singles Campbell r declined to play and defaulted, leaving : V Rowland and L. Parker, two Yale men, t d contest for it. The match between thes f two resulted in favor of Rowland by score r. of 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. Rowland, therefore, win
 the second prize in the singles, silve
 tray and cut glass inkstand. The fir
 Harvard, is silver coffee set. Larned C Q Cornell won the consolidation prize,
 osla l,.z Tallar,