Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-25
ooNrCrroUr eLKAN1nes.

E. General News From All Parts of the
 State.
 The death watch has bean setupon Jacob Scheele, the New Canaan murderer, who will be executed June IS. Scheale's con- duct is greatly changed and he spends most of his time reading German papers and the German Bible. He still has hope of escaping the gallows.
 HIS BODY FOUND.
 wuLIxANT1c, May 23.-The body of Timothy Sullivan, aged thirty, who has been missing since Saturday, was found in the raceway of the Wilimantic Linen com- pany's mill No. 3 this morning.
 STRAWBERRIES.
 Ex-Congressman Simons is farming for cranberries this year at his farm in Can ton, having some twelve or fourteen acres under cultivation.
 OUT IN THE WORLD AGAIN.
 Governor Bulkeley's requisition for L. Y. Carroll, the embedding ex-manager of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, wasn't honored yesterday by Governor Russell of Massachusetts, because of informalities in the document Carroll was released from the Worcester jail Saturday morning. BROKE THE WILL. A Putnam jury has broken the will of Elizabeth R. Dean of Sterling. She owned | SIG, 900 worth of property and her brother | induced her to draw out $7,O0O from the 1 bank Afterwards he induced her to make 1 a will giving him the rest of it. The heirs contested the will and have won. l ,rYrr roNrrcr tpopARTE
 ROCKVILLE, May 22.-It is probable that the will of late Mr. Hyde, leaving $25, ,000 his entire estate, to the Stafford Spring public library, will be contested by some 1 of the heirs The will was made aftel long consideration in the matter and it is not thought that the contest will be of any avail. The library was legally crganizee and was founded eighteen years ago. Il has fund of $2, 500 and a goodly collec ton of books.
 DIED OF THE GRIP.
 Mrs. Catharine Pickett of Ansonia, rel jet of the late David Pickett, died, Fri day, of the grip, aged seyenty-four years She was an old resident. With her hus band she immigrated to this country man. years ago. Mrs. Pickett leaves three son Matthew, David and Thomas.
 BURIAL TO-DAY IN DERBY.
 Mrs. Lucy Curtis, wife of Capt. E. F Curtis of Lafayette, N. J., died at he home in that place Friday morning at , o'clock. Interment will take place thi morning at 1O:30 in the Old Town ceme tery, Derby. Mrs. Curtis was 8 daughte : of John S. Moshier, who built the Sey , mour house in Seymour, Ct., and conduct , ed the hotel for twenty-five years unt his death, and sister of Howard Moshiel BURIAL IN WOODBRIDGE TO-DAY. , Horace Wheeler of Woodbridge die : about o'clock, Friday afternoon, of pneu monia, aged 53 years. Interment will b made in the Woodbridge cemetery, Nor afternoon at 20.
 coNNEcTIcUT's SMALL DEBT BURDEN.
 Census bureau figures regarding stat
 and county indebtedness show that th
 state debt Cess sinking fund) per capita i Connecticut is s5.O1: Adding the count
 the per capita. The indebtedness of th . Connecticut counties is $30, LAY, divided Hartford, $21 ,O00; Windham, $9, 800, an | Holland, SAY. The remaining countie
 being out of debt.
 GOLDEN WEDDING. MT. and Mrs. Samuel O. Silliman cell
 brated the fftieth anniversary of the marriage, Thursday last. at their home e Davenport Ridge, near Stamford. Abo1 @ seventy five of their relatives and friend f were present.
 STAMFORD oRAToRIo SOCIETY. y The Stamford Oratorio society will gi, t "The Captivity" in the Presbyteria @ church in that place Friday evening, Jur D 5. The chorus will number about o1 l hundred and fifty voices, and the Orator a | society will be strengthened by the Metr # politan Musical society of New York ar
 and the New Rochelle Choral club. IT X soloists are as follows: Soprano, Madam 1t Vogrich, wife of the composer, Max Vo n rich; contralto, Miss Emily Lawlor if New York; tenor, William Reigor of Ne n York; basso, Albert F. Arveschour. Vii D jam E. Mulligan of New York will presit j. at the organ and Miss Finney at the plan e Alfred Hallam of Stamford will condu v the concert, which will be the best wo1 :- ever given by the Stamford Oratorio g }, ciety.
 y HOME WooLEN MILL LOOMS. !. The Crompton loom works of Worce !. ter, Mass, are removing twenty-seve s looms from the woolen mills at Beaco