Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-17
STATE NEWS JoTrINGs.

Railroad Men Promoted-A Fatal Mfstake-A Mayor Arrested-D1ed in Brfstol-A Centennial Anniver- sary Celebrated-Flanaga the Dy- ing NIurderer-Obituary Notes.
 Superintendent Beach of the Naugatuck l rsilroad yesterday made promotions among l the freight conductors on the Naugatuck | division James Mckinney, formerly of the day extra, is placed in charge of the through Bridgeport freight formerly run by the late Conductor George Hazard. James Mcfarland of the North End switch CT succeeds MT. Mckinney.
 John O'Neill, 8 laborer, aged forty seven years, died from poisoning at his home in Waterbury Sunday. O'Neill had been feeling unwell for several days. Sun- day morning he arose to get drink of water and by mistake drank carbolic acid. He died in an hour.
 St. Marks Episcopal church, New Canaan, near Stamford, Sunday celebrated their Tooth anniversary of it's organization as parish. The first church was built in 1762, on ground half mile away from the present church. It was never conse- crated and twenty eight years later move ment was started for @ new and better church. the people meanwhile worshiplng in churches at Norwalk and Stamford. On November 15, 1792, new parish was or ganized. The present church was conse- crated by Bishop Bronnell in 1884.
 Mayor Baldwin of Waterbury was arrest ed Saturday afternoon on civil process by Deputy Sheriff David Tucker of Sey- mour. Edward G. Kilduff furnished 8 bond of s3, GOO and the accused was releas- ed. A hearing upon the matter will be given before the superior court in Water bury on December 3. The complainant in the case is Mrs. Sarah E. Kelly of New York, who alleges that Mayor Baldwin in duced her to invest $2,700 in the Nauga- tuck Granite company, representing to her | that the company was free from debt and doing good business. Mayor Baldwin claims it is clear case of blackmail. Charles Churchill one of the oldest bus l mess men of Bristol, died at his home there | lytic stroke few weeks since and had been l confined to his home, but not to his bed | sincs.
 The counsel of Patrick Flanagan of Waterbury, convicted of murder in the I first degree and sentenced to be hanged May 9, 1892, will make application to the l state board of pardons for a communication of his sentence to imprisonment. Flanna, l gan has consumption and is not expected to live long.
 | George A. Tomlinson died at his home
 in Ansonia Sunday, aged sixty eight. Mir l Tomlinson gave up active business about one year ago, after twenty five years' steadJ | attention to mercantile business in An
 sonia, and since then has rapidly failed 1T | health, but was able to be about to within l the past three weeks Born in Oxford, ht
 passed his younger days there, coming tc
 Ansonia in it's infancy, where he has re
 sided since, acquiring a competency il
 business. A wife, daughter of ex-Stat,
 Senator Benjamin Nichols, survives him
 He was highly esteemed.
 William w. Lyman, one of the wealth
 fest citizens of Meriden, died Sunday. H,
 was one of the founders of and the larges
 stockholder in the Meriden Brittania com
 pany, and he was director in large mum
 Der of other manufacturing industries
 He was the inventor of the first air tigh fruit jar put on the market. He leaves
 daughter.
 | Terryville is to celebrate in 1893 the cen
 tennial anniversary of the making of tn first of American clocks there by Eli Terry
 The little shop in which Eli Terry laboret
 so many years ago and the house whicl
 he erected near it are still standing.
 Citizens of Augusta, Ga., are preparing
 to erect @ monument in honor of the lat
 Eli Whitney, formerly of New Haven, in
 ventor of the cotton gin, and have or
 ganized the Eli Whitney Monument asso
 citation with the mayor of the city at it | head.
 The Hon. John H. Tweedy, formerly c
 Danbury, graduate of Yale in the class c
 1943, died at his home ill Milwaukee Ia.
 week Thursday. He went west soon afte
 graduation, had been a delegate in COT greas from the territory of Wisconsin an as such drew the enabling act for the ad i mission of the state.
 The Middlesex Quarry company close |. 1 down it's works for the balance of the ses
 son on Saturday night. This will thro' over one hundred out of work. After an extended illness Ann N. Drew widow of the late Abel Drew, died at he home, 238 Stratford avenue, last evening aged eightytwo years. In years gone b
 she was one of the most prominent an . favorably known of ladies and now leave many devoted friends. She has of late r sided with her son, Henry B. Drew, ,cashie of the Connecticut National bank, at tf ' o1l hr,,, ootao1