Connecticut western news., 1891-12-31
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO INHABITANTS.
 OF THE NUTMEG SLATE. =

Colonel George M. White Dead.' y
 NEW HAVEN, Dec. |24-Colonel George M. White, assistant adjutant general of Connecticut, died at his home in this city Dec 23, aged ifty-seven. -
 Ex-NIayor Lewis Dead. :... =.
 NEW HAVEN, Dec. 26.-Ex- Mayor Henry c. Lewis, of this city, died last night of pneumonia. He was seventy-one years old.
 Driven to Suicide by the Grip.
 NEW BRITAIN, Dec. 26.-Mrs. Christina -Diebold, wife of Michael Diebold, a brass molder of this city, committed suicide at her home on Chestnut street between and 8 o'clock yesterday morning by hanging her self Mrs. Diebold had been sick with he grip but was better in the morning, and suggested to her husband that some French brandy would be good for her. MT. Diebold left his wife at work getting breakfast and went to drug store for the brandy, and upon his return home found her hanging from beam in an open chamber in the rear of his house dead. During a fit of tempo rary insanity she had taken her own life, and her husband after having realized the terrible fact became almost frantic. His means attracted the people passing by and help came to his assistance at once. Sympa- thizing neighbors came in and did every thing possible to comfort the bereaved bus band
 Fined for Smoking Cigarette. -'
 M1DDLETowN, Dec. 2S.-Chief of Police Chapman arrested boy on Christmas day for smoking a cigarette. He gave h1s name as William Hayes, and said that he had lived too long to be arrested for smok- ing. In court he was fined. z: ., *|"
 His Demand Complied With.
 NoRwALK, Dec. 29.-A, very. tall, stoutly hr1i1 Vxyith a in carrying black bag, stepped into the office of T. Cousins shoe factory on Hoyt street, and approaching Manager J. B. Sayre ,ex- claimed, sGive me $25, 900 or Twill drop this bag" Visions of Russell Sage, danced be- fore MT. Sayre's eyes, and he quickly gave the man check, payable to G. A. Franze, and bowed his visitor out. ..:$ ,: ss
 She Wants S5, 900 Damages. at.
 NEW LONDON, Dec 29.-Miss Josephine Monroe has sued Horace O. Birch for $5,OOO damages for injuries she received while driving along Waller street. Her carriage top was caught by, guy rope which the defendant had stretched across the street. She was thrown out and hurt
 Cut His Throat with a Razor
 DANBURY,. Dec 29-Henry Scott, aged thirty-fve, an employe of the Brewster silk factory, quarreled with his wife, and picking up razor rushed furiously at her. She managed to escape from the house. and Scott then drew the razor across his own throat. He will die. .n
 Mayor Baldwin Wins.
 WATERBURY, Dec. 29.-The demurrer interposed in the suit of A. J. Kelly against Mayor Baldwin has been sustained by Judge Fenn, of the superior court. The complaint was demurred to on the ground of it's insuficiency. - A Statue for Ex-Mayor Lewis. ,-..
 NEW HAVEN, Dec. 29-It is now proposed to erect statue to the memory of ex-Mayor Henry G. Lewis, who died Friday. He was foremost in advocating the construction of numerous Connecticut railroads. . ...
 Attached for @sO,ooo. F s..
 BRIDGEPORT, Dec. g. The George hotel and thirty-one acres of land surrounding it, at Black Rock, together with the St.. Mares hotel, at Fairfield, were attached for $2O, 900, at the suit of William Thaison, of Austin, Tex. = Goodrich Leaves the Courant. : HARTFORD, Dec. 29.-William M. Good rich, who for a quarter of a century was the business manager of the Hartford Cour- ant, has retired and sold his interest to his associates, Senator Hawley, Charles Dudley Warner and Charles H. Clark. ~7' Rev. A. H. Hall Dead. ,'
 MER1DEN, Dec. 29.-Rev. A. H. Hall pastor of the Center Congregations church, of this city, and one of the most popular clergymen in the state, died Satur day evening from pneumonia. He wa forty-six years old and a graduate of .Har yard university. He was frequent contrib utor to leading periodicals. The Decision in the Case.
 HARTFORD, Dec. 29.-The judges of the supreme court have characterized as en- tirely wrong and unauthorized the reported decision of the governorship quo warranto proceedings. It has been reported from New Haven that the decision had been for the Democratic candidate, Morris, by three to two. = -