Connecticut western news., 1891-04-22
STATE WE WS.


 William Flynn, brakeman on Conduc- tor Colts train on the Housatonic road, has been president of the Bridgeport elected Alderman. He is popular and able young man, and it is said will soon wear the uniform of 8 conductor. Richard Mead, serving sentence o1 one year in the Middlesex county jail and who was arrested on complaint oi his step father, has been found to have 0 fractured skull and fractured ribs and says that his step-father assaulted him l with an axe.
 Frank Sherman, of Voluntown, has become a maniac because of the death of Miss Mary Dixon, whom he was tc have married last Tuesday.
 Charles Moves, middle brakeman o1 freight No. 612 on the N. Y. X N. H. R.R. was killed at Southington, April 18th. The body was terribly mangled, and strewn along the track for rods. Moves ! was an experienced railroad man, and how he came to meet with the accident which resulted in his death is not known. He was 37 years of age, and leaves wife and three children in Yer. | mont
 The Rev Mir Rippere, pastor of the Methodist church in Winsted, delivered a farewell address recently, expecting not to return. He did come back ; and the saints of the farewell address have again become the sinners of the ordi nary congregat1on.-Litc Enquirer This item is good illustration of the sincerity and value of taffy.
 According to the bureau of vital sta | tistics there were, last year, nine men in the state who ventured marriage for the fourth time, and only one woman. Dr I. DeVer Warner, of Bridgeport, has presented the Y. M. o. A. of that city $l0, ,00O on condition that $l5, ,00O be appropriated by the citizens, for the purpose of building fund.
 While Monday nights express from Boston for New York was passing the Cooper street crossing in Meriden, g passenger whose name could not be learned, left his seat, took the key hanging on the door and turned off the lights in the smoking car. In an in. stant bullet came crashing drought a window of the smoker and grazed the head of Alexander Leitch, a buyer for the house of Smith & Murray. of Springfield. Several other passengers had narrow escape from the bullet The conductor immediately made an investigation, but the man said the turning off of the lights was mistake. The conductor would neither stop the train for search for the person who fired the shot, nor hold the man who darkened the car.-Norwalk Gazette.
 The handsome residence of George D. Chapman in Fairfield has been at. tached for $50, ,OOO at the instance of the Housatonic railroad company for the recovery of 8 judgement secured by the New Haven and Derby road, in 1879 fol breach of contract in regard to the con. struction of the road.-Ex.
 An exchange says: As an earnest Bethlehem Patron of Husbandry was taking his neighbor, the Methodist minister, to the railroad on his way to attend the annual conference, the min ister jokingly asked him: "What does your grange do with the goat when he gets old?" s'Oh," said the patron, "We keep him year or two and then send him to the conference and have another
 The Monumental Bronze company, o1 Bridgeport, have been awarded the con. tract for soldiers monument for Gus ter Post, G. A. R., Carson City, Nevada The monument. with statue, will stand fifteen feet, nine inches in height and is to be executed in time for dedication on Memorial day next.
 There died in Watertown, on March 3Oth, an ex-slave, Cobins l.. Fitch, aged S7 years. The Woodbury Reporter says '.He was respected by all who knew him.''
 William D. Manning of Norwich has been printer for fifty-five years and claims distinction as the oldest compos- itor now In the business.
 We are informed that Dwight c. Kill. born, the genial clerk of the Superior Court, enjoyed his customary daily nap while the court was in session here this week. We trust that the rest which MT Kilborn never fails to obtain whenever he visits our..town will result In great benefit to his health. Milford Gazette.
 Edward M. Jackson, a Norwalk jew eler had his safe broken open last Friday night and $2O,000 worth of diamonds stolen. A fire was started in another part of the city, which attracted the at. tention of the police, and allowed the burglars an undisturbed opportunity to perform their operation.
 The selectmen of Woodbury are or trial in New Haven for manslaughter The case will be remembered. Mrs Meramble, an aged pauper was carried 26 miles one cold winters day, in ar open wagon, and she died from the exposure. Five selectmen and Mrs Warner, who were in charge of pool are the defendants.
 William Donahue, a freight brake man, fell from the Stonington trail at New London, Saturday evening, ant was injured so severely that he canno | live.
 The full census returns for Connecti cut shows that eighty-two towns hav gained in population in the decade ant eighty-six have declined, and the ne result is gain of 123, 558. Every count, shows a net gain, though this range from 969 in Holland to 52,535 in Nev Haven.
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