Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-17
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Bion Is Gone and Peace Reigns In
Lftchfle1d County - That Ghost
Train as Viewed In Waterbury-A
Hard Pressed TOwn-A Suicides
Work.
Bion is gone. He has quit the country,
having sailed for France, his own coun-
try, last Saturday. He sailed on the La
Gascogne.
Michel Bion has been deadly terror to
the person and family of Lyman Dunning
in Canaan-now one of the Litchfield |
county commissioners-for nearly twenty |
years. It was nearly twenty years ago
that he was sentenced to two years in state |
prison for robbing Cummings store. For
this Bion nursed spirit Of vengeance
against Dunning; a spirit which no
amount of later imprisonment or forced
return to France seems to have abated. On
the contrary it has all served to whet his
resolve on vengeance. He attempted In
1874, on getting out of prison, to blow up
Mr.. Cummings house. For that very
nearly successful attempt he was SEN
fenced to ten years at Wethersfeld. On
getting out, at the end of his term, he was
again so persistently resolved to kill Mr..
Dunning and his family that at last, after
later arrest, on abundant proof, he avoid
ed third term in prison by promising
that if sent back to France he never
would return to this coun-
try. But Bion found his spirit of revenge
too strong to be resisted. He was once
more found skulking around Canaan and
the country on the New York side, and evil
IDENTIFY plotting mischief for the Cummings
whose lives had been rendered miserable
by their constant fear Of this man. He
was caught on this side of the state line
and arrested on 'tpeace warrant in No
vember, 1889, when he was put under
5000 bonds to keep the peace. Not be-
ing able to furnish the bond, nor even
| bond of $4,000 to which Judge Andrews
reduced it, he went to Litehfeld Jail.
There his long incarceration of nearly a
year and four months has continued till
| now, when an arrangement having been
made by his counsel, Mr. Nickerson, of
| Litchfeld and the French consul at New
York, for sending him back to France
"for good" the case against him has been
| nolled.
THE FAST GHOST TRAIN.
| Yesterdays Waterbury Republican came
out with the following on the new "ghost
train"
| A phantom train went through Water
bury Sunday night at II o'clock on the
New England road. The tired reporter
was sitting on the platform with one ear
cooked in the direction of Bristol when a
train approached from the west. Behind
| the engine the reporter saw long line OF
| white cars, and he rubbed his eyes and
breathed an inward prayer. But the train
slowed up and the reporter discovered
that it consisted of nine of the handsomest
drawing room cars he had ever seen. They
were painted in white and gold, had come
from Pullman, Ill. and were destined fol
the limited express on the New England
road between Boston and New York. TIL,
door of one of the cars was opened and thu
reporter made an inspection. The interior
even by the dim light of brakeman's Ian
tern, was seen to be magnifcently uphol
stored and the cars will be credit to tn
road, if they pass Bristol. The trainmel
say it will be called the 'ghost" train, ant
when it is rushing through the night st
, mile minute it will certainly look ik
, one. Woe betide the belated inebriat
whom it passes at some lonesome crossing
He will surely imagine that he "has 'er
again" The Pullman company have ais
? | built number of drawing room cars Q
the same, pattern and color for the Conso
idated road but the New England roa
have received theirs first. Both train
a | will leave Boston for New York simu
| taneously every afternoon at three o'cloc
and expect to make the run in five hours
v It is expected that there will be consider
Q able rivalry between the two 'ghost
, trains as to time. The New England trai
= will take the Air Line road at Willimanti'
t DIED IN NoRwIcHTowN.
4 Mr.. B. G. Breckenridge, aged sixty-fv'
: died Saturday morning at his home
y Norwichtown after few days illness. F
had resided in Norwich for the past fort
years and had been engaged in vario,
kinds of business. He leaves two daughte
l. in Massachusetts and son residing
" Chicago.
4 TOOK LAUDANUM.
George L. Shepard, sixty, horse-c'
driver, died Sunday from dose of laud
20 mum taken with suicidal intent. He hs
been drinking.
NEW METHOD OF WELDING METALS.
WATERBURY, Conn, Feb. 16.-Man
facturers have been giving some attentie
this week to Mortimer McRoberts of CT
l. cago, who exhibits samples of the remar
's able work to be done in welding metals I
v a new and simple method just patente'
. | which will revolutionize certain branch
> of metal working if it fulflls expectation
and will be especially important IN waite
II | bury industries.
EMBARRASSED.
Barkhamstead is financially embarasse
F. owing to the loss falling upon it by IL
= sweeping away of bridges by the rece1
floods A town meeting has been he'll
s The town has voted to put in place ii
# bridges yet remaining, but partially III
n hinged from the abutments.
A SAVAGE WORK IN DANBURx.
q Jesse Coli, twenty year-old italian
, of Danbury, assaulted his father Sunds
|. with carving knife. A bloody dual 81
sued in which both were fearfully slashe
and cut. Jesse has been arrested for mu
= derous assault. The fathers wounds al
not fatal.
q New Haven McAn Auxiliary.
|, The annual meeting of the New Have
IS McAll auxiliary will be held in Cent
# church chapel this (Tuesday) evening at
}, o'clock. Mrs. j. G. BRAGG, general seer
tary of the American McAll association
will address the meeting. The public
- cordially invited to be present.
f THE COURT RECORD.
/ Superior Court Civil Side
+ Sanford.
a The Derby road controversy came befo
= Judge Sanford in the superior court We
4 terday. The road asked to have commi
tee appointed to assess land damages o
t casioned by raising Liberty street. Pr
a fessor William D. Trowbridge,H II. P Hoae
: ley and Henry T. Blake were appointed.
Court of Common Pleas-Civfl Side
3 Judge Studley.
3 Judge Studley has given decision in fave
, of the city in the suit Of William Rel
. against the city of New Haven, praying tt
court of common pleas to grant an injune
s ton to prevent the city from removing tt
plaintiffs fence at the extremity of Glib
street.
The defendent in the case of Gustav
Mosig against Charles F. Schultz of Al
sonia did not appear yesterday, and tn