Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-15
GEnERAL srArs NEWS.

Gleanings from Many Sections of the
 Commonwealth-Ra Matters.
 MANCHESTER, Dec. 1.-The New York and New England road has, on account of the freight blockade and the want of sufficient storage room for freight cars, been obliged to convert the west bound track between Manchester and Vernon, into siding. The latter part of last week there were from 300 to 400 cars on this track.
 The New York and New England road is build ing large round house at Hawleyville, and it is said that plans have been made for an immense freight yard covering five acres at that point. CONSOLIDATED ROAD. The directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, at their regular meeting held in New York on Saturday, declared the
 usual quarterly dividend of s1S per cent, payable
 recent issue of a. 600 oo6 of new stock, the stock
 Sesd se Tnon 's which c wifi be S5sssoe This is the
 first dividend in which the last new issue of stock has participated.
 l - BRAKEMANs DEATH. 1 William Lynch a switchman. employed by
 the Consolidated road at Berlin, who was struck l by the cars Saturday afternoon, died from his | injuries
 TO HANGED JANUARY. | Andrew Borjensen, who brutally murdered his sweetheart, Emma Andersen, in New Milford, l will be hanged January 29 A night guard has ! been placed over the cOnQ61nneQ man. l BOTH ARE DEAD. l Francis Wallace, the nurse who cared for Commander Harvey of the Meriden G. A. R. I was stricken with fatal sickness there is dead at Meriden as is his wife. Both will be buried l to-day.
 | MURDER TWISTED. | TWISTED, Dec. 14.-Floyd Crosby, negro, as- | saulted Dennis Dwyer, white, with an axe Satur- | day. Dwyer died yesterday from his wounds. Crosby has disappeared. TO RECEIVE $3000O. l Frederick widman, ,Jr., of Bridgeport will soon
 receive nearly $30 900 prize money due hisfather,
 WhS is dead from the hela of Admiral Farragut's fleet, which captured many prizes.
 1 JoTTINas. l Waterbury is having more than it's share of the
 annual forest fires this fall. Sunday quite large
 tract of brush back of the gas house was burned
 Mrs David D. AberdieD, wife of the Hartford l William Kenney of Portland, Me, is visiting the police headouarters of the different cities in the
 state seeking information regarding 8 missing | brother.
 Mr. and Mrs W. H. Hart of New Britain are in ] Paris.
 William Waldo Hyde of Hartford is recovering I The residents of Brookfleld are much exercised
  thirty two and his bride seventy-two. 1 Fire Marshal Dillon of Hartford has recovered I The following officers of the Watkinson libra l ry, Hartford have been elected: Judge Nathan | iel Shipman president Rowland Swift, treas
 urer; James B. Cone secretary; Frank B. Gay, l acting librarian.
 Westport is circulating petition for an appro-
 priation of S90, 600 by the government for harbor | improvements.
 The annual meeting of the state board of agri-
 culture will be held at New Britain for three days | this week, beginning tomorrow and continuing
 The wholesale dry goods commission house of
 Root & Childs at Hartford will become Root,
 Childs Co.,, on January l, Edward H. Gilman
 and Harry c. Pomeroy being taken into the | firm.
 Richard S. Griswold of Lyme keeps a curiosi-
 tack on Stonington by the British, August IS, | 1914.
 Samuel Martha, an employe of Pratt, Reed & | was torn from it's socket. A physician replaced l it and he is not likely to experience any ill | effects.
 Litchfeld has completed her sewers, 145Oo feet with branches, at a cost of just 5000. It was surface system, without manholes, and l eight inch outlet.
 The steamer Rosedale of Bridgeport is laid up l for repairs, her mai shaft being broken. l The union committee of arrangements for the Waterbury Foresters' annual fair met Saturday
 ary to 13 and the fair will be held at City hall. l The Union house. the largest hotel in Essex,
 &, ,oco; insurance S4,5 800 Charles E. Pratt pre-. vented a spread of the flames to adjacent proper l ty by throwing large can of giant powder into
 the center of the burning building and thus gotten under control
 At Derby recently George T. Bushnell lost be
 nelI x BHshnel real esfata g o brokers U, of us st I Paul. Minn. His son, George F. Bushnell of | Derby, has also lost by the failure, and Mir
 Bushnell says that New London people lost