Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-07
LATEST ConuEor1our NEWS.

LATEST CONNECTICUT NEWS. Reports From All Parts of the State.
 By Connecticut Associated Press1 MASONIC.
 TWISTED, May 6.-About sixty Masons at tended the Masonic meeting in Torrington tonight. .
 REFORM SCHOOL.
 ROCKVILLE, May 6.-Charles Burns, aged fourteen, was to-day sent to the reform school until he is fwenty-one. He refused to go to school and drinks liquor to intoxica- tion.
 IMMORAL SHOWS.
 ROCKVILLE, May Notwithstanding the petition of the W. 0. T. U. sgainst female minstrels and so.called immoral shows, an- other company is billed to appear here next week. se s + TWISTED, May GA truck on . coal oar of freight train on the Central New Eng land and Western railroad slid from under the car tonight and traffic was delayed for two hours.
 CHARGED WITH ISLANDER.
 MER1DEN, May 6.-Charles Taylor, who printed a card in the-Sunday Journal charg- ing Officer Tolles with brutally clubbing prisoner Saturday night, was arrested to-day on the charge of islander and will have hearing tomorrow.
 DEATH OF NORWICH BANK CASHIER.
 NORWICH, May 6.-Charles M. Tracy, the cashier of the Uncas national bank, died at his home here this morning after three days illness. He was thirty-seven years old and very well known man.
 A STRIKE.
 MER1DEN, May 6.-The eight sand buffers employed at the factory of O. Rogers & Bros, manufacturers of coffin trimmings, have struck for an increase in wages. The men demand an increase averaging about 25 cents per day for each man.
 PASTOR INSTALLED. ToRR1NGToN, May 6.-The Congregational church was crowded here tonight, when the Rev. H. D. Roberts, formerly of East Hart- ford, was installed as pastor. The exercises lasted until about 9 o'clock. MT. Roberts succeeds the Rev. MT. Andrews.
 THEY WILL NOT STRIKE. THoMPsoNv1LLE, May 6.-The employees of the Hartford Carpet company who objected so strongly to the recent reduction in wages have abandoned all idea of strike. The men are slowly leaving as fast as they can secure situations elsewhere. About sixty men have thus far left.
 SURRENDERED HIMSELF. WnL1MANT1c, May Civilian Geary, who escaped from an officer in going to jail, gave himself up this morning to Lawyer J. | T. Lynch. He was taken to Putnam before 1 the superior court in session there. It is ex. pected that he will testify against Maddox and Daniels and implicate other boys. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN JAIL.
 HARTFORD, May 6.-John Farley, a prisoner at the Hartford county jail, attempted tc commit suicide last night by cutting his throat with razor. He was convicted oi drunkenness on May and had smuggled the razor into jail in a spectacle case. Ferry was at one time member of the Hartford police force.
 l FUNERAL OF MIR. HARRINGTON.
 NORWICH, May 6.-The funeral services over the remains of E. w. Warrington, the well-known sharp shooter, took place from his late residence on Laurel hill this after noon at o'clock. The Rev. Leonard WoolseJ Bacon of6ciated, and as the local gun clut as well as shooters from several cities in the state attended. The remains were buried ir the Gantic cemetery.
 THE STAMFORD CONTESTED ELECTION CASE
 BRIDGEPORT, May 6.-Shortly after o'clock the Stamford contested election case came up in the superior court before Judge Fenn. This is the second appearance of thi somewhat famous case. Attorney J. H Olmstead of Stamford and Attorney Georg W. Wheeler of this city appeared for Bell and State Attorney Fessenden and Lawye Downes represented Weed. The hearing was adjourned until to-day. It will probabl. occupy ten days more.
 GIRLS QUEER STORY.
 BRIDGEPORT, May 6.-The police have ap prehended girl eighteen years old name Della Cotter to-day. The girls story is queer one. She was an inmate of the count home in Burlington. Vt., some time ago Finally she was bound out to family name , Kelly. This family have since moved to thl city, bringing the Cotter girl wit them. In some way this was objec tiouable to the matron of the county home i Vermont, who is a Mrs. Cole. She came her to Bridgeport and placed the girl in the fam fly of Mrs. Beers on Fairfield avenue. Tn girl ran away and was yesterday found Twin with family named Abercrombie in Eaa } Bridgeport. Mrs. Cole has again apperae , and demands that she be given possession c the girl that she may take her back to Vel mont. Prosecuting Attorney Chamberlai objects and says the girl, he thinks cannot h held. Mrs. Cole promises to make ful about it and to-day left for Vermont to se 3 what she can do in legal way. The girl the meantime remain in East Bridgeports. BRUTAL ASSAULT IN HARTFORD. B HARTFORD, May 6-Lsst evening Thomt 2 Hamilton, an ex-saloon keeper, walked up
 Major P. H. Smith ss he was standing c
 the steps of his livery stable, and without l word struck him 8 severe blow in the fac
 A heavy seal ring which the assailant wo . inflicted deep cut, and the force of tf b blow broke the victims nose. Major Shit r fell, striking the curb stone heavily upon u head, inficting further bruises. Hamilton e :. capped from the crowd and stepped into lunt f room opposite. Here he was followed by Il @ infuriated brother of Major Smith and tw X hack drivers, who punished him severel :. The cause of the trouble dates back to { ' election parade. Hamilton was also forc. e to close mp his saloon for violating Il - license law, and it is said he planes Maj a Smith for this. Alderman Patrick McGo
 ern is also mixed up in the affair. Hami
 ton was arraigned in the police court to, ,da
 charged with assault. The case was CO ! tlnueQ until may 1V, hS tuo mh1Ors 5 luJuEl @ were such as to prevent him from appearil ,. in court.
 o STAMFORD MAN BLOWN OUT TO SEA-
 WAS PROBABLY DROWNED.
 STAMFORD, Conn.,, May 6.-Thom le Roberts has been missing from his hor IS here since last Thursday, and there is eve J. reason to believe that he has found gra ,s beneath the sea. Thursday afternoon he W .. fishing at the south of the harbor il v z, small skiff. When the thunder storm a y squall blew up he was blown out to sea, a ,a though experienced in handling boats it as feared the force of the storm was so grt 7. m that email boat couldn't live through h h The lighthouse keeper at Stratford Pc nf saw Roberts in the skiff about t oA miles south of the lighthouse al
 ing the squall, but owing to
 high sea that was running at the time co, ed render him no aid. The storm was tf tn forcing him out into the sound, though