Connecticut western news., 1891-05-13
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s. R. Gridley, of Bristol, has mag nolia tree now in full bloom, which bears over 1000 blossoms and not one leaf.
 Samuel Bently, for forty years con- ductor on the New Haven and North ampton R. R., has been retired on pay and will hereafter reside at Plainville.
 Rev David DeForest, 8 Methodist minister near New Haven, and his seven year old son are said to have been pois- oned by an itinerant preacher.
 A gigantic candle, as big as hitch ing post, in the window of New Haven store, will be lighted June p and $50 is to be divi ed in prizes among those guessing nearest to how long it will burn.
 The Weantinaug Hotel at N Vt Gilford will be opened June 1st under the man. agement of William St Lawrence who who has leased it for three years. MT St Lawrence has had large experience in the hotel business at Troy, Albany and Pittsfield. For eight years he was proprietor of the American House at Pittsfield and for the past two years he has been manager of the Burbank House at Pittsfeld.
 Men employed in digging a trench for the water pipes in East Norwalk re- gently, unearthed the skeleton of man about six feet tall. From the position, it had the appearance of having been hastily thrown into the ditch and cover- ed, being about four feet under the ground. It was found on the same ter ritory over which the British passed under Gen Tyron on Sunday, July il, 1779, when they burned Norwalk. It is supposed that the skeleton has lain there since that time.
 Two men were killed by the falling of derrick in New Haven last week.
 Allen l. Darrow, the owner of 8 der rick which fell by the breaking of guy rope and overturned phaeton in which Mrs Cleveland Geer was riding in New London has been ordered by court to pay damages of $500 and costs.
 A fire in Norwalk did $5O,OOO damage last week, destroying four stores, one church and two adjoining buildings.
 One hundred employees in the stone quarries at Mantle have struck. They demand shorter hours, and an increase of 10 per centin wages.
 Mrs Jane Cable, aged 80 years, of Danbury, broke her neck by falling down stairs last week.
 Mrs James Riley. of Winnipaug, while in beastly state of intoxication, took Paris green and died from the effects.
 A pile of lumber fell on Michael Gar rigan of Norwalk, Friday afternoon, and he lived only twenty minutes after the accident. He was forty eight years old and leaves wife and six children.
 A drunken man placed in the lookup at Willimantic set fire to his bedding and was burned so badly that he died from the injuries.
 Governor Bulkeley has informed the finance committee of the State Hospital for the Insane at -Middletown that so long as he is Governor no Connecticut institution shall suffer for lack of funds, and after the appropriation is exhausted he will supply whatever money is needed
 A severe fire occurred in Bridgeport Saturday morning at livery stable on Broad street. Thirty horses were burn- ed to death. The total loss was $40, 900
 Annie l.. Blak esley, the 15-year-old daughter of Theodore Blakesley. of Bristol, and Isaac A, Wood, of Fishkill, N. Y.,who has been employed as brake man on the New England road, eloped last Wednesday. They went to Fishkill, Mir Nelson, Methodist minister at that place.
 Erastus Storrer. cf Guilford, died Wednesday night of the grip, and his wife died of the same disease the next morning.
 James w. Bradley, proprietor of the Tontine Hotel, at New Haven, one of the best-known hotel men in New Eng land, died Friday night after brief ill., ness caused by pneumonia, aged 76.
 George D. Wadsworth, of Warehouse Point, has in his possession an English bible which was printed in 1639. He has been offered high price for the book, but he refuses to part with it.
 A steam press used in the annex of the Winsted Hosiery Company's factory burst last Saturday. It is marvellous that no one was killed, as there were two boys seated at the machine and sixty girls at work in the room. The en- tire bottom of the press was blown out, pieces going through the floor, but strange to say no one was even injured though all were badly frightened.