Connecticut western news., 1891-02-25
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It Is expected that Sufield anf
 Thompsonville will soon be connected
 ny bridge. Surveys have alread,
 been made l Mrs E H. Harris of Columbia. while
 assisting her husband at his arist.mi
 recently canght her dress in the shaft | ing and was carried around several
 times. killing her instantly and terribly
 mutilating her body. Captain George Bartlett of Guilford nlnety-three years of age walked to New
 Haven. seventeen miles. Feb 18th and has made the same trip every year since he was eighty years old. The Beardsley Library, Winsted numbers 5000 volumes. The Torrington Co operative Co did s62 0OO worth of business in 1890, a considerable increase. ...l.-
 There will be contest for the De- morest silver medal at the Chapel of the Ed Congregational church at Wipsted. on Wednesday evening of next week.
 The Bethlehem board of health has ordered the closing of the Center School on account of scarlet fever.
 Mrs Mary H. Grant of Hartford was ninety-three years old Monday, Feb 16. She is in perfect health and attends the Pearl Street Congregational church regularly. E
 Willimantic is excited over a rumor that an English syndicate is to establish a plant for the manufacture of thread and lace.
 The Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad company has declared a dividend of $1 per share, payable Feb 2S. D'
 Eighty-three days ago Captain P. L. Norton. his wife, niece and seven men left New London for Toulon, France. In small steam life boat. No tidinos from the party have been received since 1t set sail, and the boat and all on board are supposed to be lost.
 A petition that the Housatonic road extend the Shepaug road to connect with the Central New England near Winsted is in circulation.
 Having almost no money in the town treasury arkhamsted probably will ask the legislature for aid in repairino roads and bridges damaged by recent freshets
 While playing near bank of earth Fred Schmidt, Waterbury boy of ten years, was buried by falling earth. He was uncovered as soon as possible but life was extinct.
 Litchfeld's grand list for 1890 is Sl 1882, 161.
 Grippe is epidemic at East Cornwall Harwlnton and Pine Meadow.
 There are thirty-ni Congregational churches In the State, at present without settled pastors.
 Mrs N. J. Leach, of New York City. intends to build ssnitarium in Bristol | next summer.
 Out of fifteen pupils in a private 'chooi ln Cheshire, only one could 1 'ttend week before last, the other fonr- cen being sick with measles.
 Windsor is to have a new Uniyersalist church at cost of $50 GOO.
 The Sons of Veterans will encamp lext year at Thompsonville.
 A committee from Robert O. Tyler Post of Hartford have been appointed o draft legislative bill providing for n equestrian statue to the late Major 3eneral Alfred H. Terry.
 William Ezra Munson, the Haddam ermit, who died m January, left pro- srty to the amount of S7,OOO. It was onnd Tn two glass fruit jars under the GOT of the miserable shanty in which @ lived
 small triangular tract of land lying ist east of tue river in Pleasant Valley, nd b"undsd on each of it's three sides 7 highway, coutalns seven dwelling ouses five of which are occupied by idoas, one is tensntless. and one is oc- 1pled by John How'd and family, MT owd being the only man on the scalene. unfortunately, or, rather rinconveniently 1T these. they must cross the river in boat to procure their mail and store , 'pplies. the bridge being still in . agmentsry condition. packed in ice : down the river. Winsted Herald.