Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-10
STATE NEWS J0TTINGs.

A Savage Dogs WOrk-The shelton
 Young Ladyss RecOvery-A Wesley.
 an Students Narrow Escape-Wa-
 terburyss New Convent-Kined in
 New Britain Burned to Death in
 Danbury-Knights of Columbus.
 A little six-year-old girl in Danbury, the daughter of widow named Heimer, was terribly bitten recently by a savage bull dog, which had been allowed to run at large. The dog tore away the entire calf of one leg and the condition of the girl is critical. If she should survive she will be taken to the Pasteur hospital in New York. Miss Woodward, the Shelton young lady who has been SO troubled with the hiecoughs for the last four or five weeks, was greatly improved yesterday. She commenced using nitrate of amyle Satur- day, which was recommended by New York editor. This is used by dropping two or three drops on the handkerchief and ! applying it to the nostrils. This advice she followed and experienced relief at l once. She has continued the treatment and it is thought it will effect permanent ! cure.
 A fire at Wesleyan college, Sunday l night, did s1,00O damage. Moore, last years foot ball player, awoke just in time | to escape being suffocated, as the fire was l in his room. Bishop McMahon, assisted by several | clergymen, laid the cornerstone of the new convent of Notre Dame at Water
 bury at o'clock Sunday afternoon. The
 ceremony was followed by reception
 given the bishop and clergy by the pupils of the convent.
 Park Commissioner Waldo Hutchins of
 New York, who died Sunday, was na-
 tive of Brooklyn, Conn.,, and a graduate
 of Amherst college. He was New York
 park commissioner from 1857 to 1870 and
 from 1887 to the time of his death. He
 served in congress six years.
 Frank Hetche, aged eighty-seven, fell
 down stairs at his home on Ash street
 New Britain, yesterday and was instantly
 killed.
 The clothing of Miss Coffey, dress
 maker in Danbury, caught fire Sunday
 night by an explosion of a can of ben zine
 Her body was terribly burned and she diec
 in painful agony yesterday morning. The supreme council of the Knights o ! Columbus have passed upon several deatl ! claims, and nine benefits of $1 ,O00 eacf
 have been ordered paid. These are to tn, | uolES Ol h0V. M. J. MCOlFuoy Ol uOudS
 ton, Rev. Joseph w. Zones of Waterbury Curtin of Wallingford, James F. McKier
 nan, Honor Quessy of Meriden, Patricl } Healey of Westerly, RI, and Thomas B ! Halfn of Danbury. The council refused to pay one benefit in Middletown to tn widow of a deceased member, as she is ad | dicted to drink A conservator will prob ably be appointed and the fund delivered } | to him to be held in trust for the family eI A meeting of the prominent manufac turers and business men of Rockville wa
 held Saturday evening to take action re garding the investing of S250,000 in tn r proposed United States Central railroa t from Hartford to Worcester, throug 7 | Rockville and Stratford and Spencer, Mass :, A committee consisting of Mayor Samut d Fitch, State Treasurer E. s. Henry, and H |, L. James, was appointed to investigat e the prospects of the road and report at 8 b adjourned meeting.
 Mrs. Nehitable S. Dayton of Sout f Glastonbury is the oldest person in th o state. Sbe was born May 1, 17S7, and CT 8 | joys good health.
 n The largest private electric light pla1 n in the state has been completed by u s Carpet company in Thompsonvllle. IT D number of lights is about 2,300.
 Some miscreant broke into the Congr
 | gational church at Mansfield the oth'
 l night, painted black tuck on the sanctl
 ary walls and drew indescent sketches C !. the other walls. Then he went throue
 the neighboring graveyard and draped u 0 marble headstones with sable paint. IT l. town is greatly excited over the depred
 Gons.
 A spectacle fraud has been selling gla r o1l oL Is ol>o 1t thirteen cents piece for $3.
 d Michael Murphy, a sailor on the schoon ,t Meteor, was drowned by the capsizing '1 sailboat at New London Saturday nigh d l It is suspected that it may prove case Il foul play. There were three men in u ,. boat, and all had been drinking. :, Charles Dellbert Egan, son of the la Charles Egan of Al River street, Wate d bury, left Saturday for Florida and Cub