Connecticut western news., 1892-07-07
FALLS VILLAGE,

cream feSblVal was neld at MecnanlcS hall last Wednesday evening.
 Miss Anna Crandall is home from Bridgeport to spend her vacation.
 Mir and Mrs G. B. Gardner, of Cox sackie, N. Y., were guests of Mrs Carter one day last week.
 Miss Allie Matson and Willett Mills, of Bridgeport, who were recently mar ried, Bare spending their honeymoon with friends in town.
 Three persons were admitted into the Cong1 church Sunday, and two receiv ed the rite of baptism.
 Wm Matson and wife, of North Adams, Mass. are guests of Beebe Hill relatives.
 The Amesville schools closed Friday | for the summer vacation. Misses Nell l lie Richardson and Minnie Gilbert have taught the schools for four and three years respectively and have been very assiduous in the duties incumbent upon them, and that neither teacher will re- turn in the fall will be much regretted | by many.
 Mir Liner, living near Salisbury, lost his horse last Monday by its getting in- to the manager and choking itself to death.
 Dentist F. H. Higgins is at the Con- necticut Keeley Institute to be cured of intemperance.
 | During the thunder shower last Thursday afternoon the lightning struck the H. R. R. house and did considera- ble damage.
 Mrs J. H. Hill, of Missouri, and Mrs S. B. Kilfoile, of Albany, are guests of friends in town.
 | The drum corps serenaded number of Lime Rock residents Wednesday evening.
 Louis R. Caul and W. V. Robitaille. of Bridgeport, are guests of friends in town.
 Warren A. Conner, of Go. K. 4th Reg iment 0. N. G. from Bridgeport, is in town on weeks visit.
 Alison Leavenworth is going into Rand's photograph studio New Haven next week to learn the business.
 The newly elected officers of Housa- tonic Council No. 57, O. U. A. M, are Councillor, Richard Moore, for six months; vice councillor, John Welcb recording sec'y, Geo Ayres; assistant recording sec'y, Clarence Brinton; fnan- cial sec'y, w. J. Lord; treasurer, F. E.. Egleston, one year; inductor, Irving Gillette; examiner, Wm Hayward; inside protector, James Williams; outside pro. tector, Eugene Burkett; junior vice councillor, Rev o. W. Hanna; senior vice councillor, F. O. Clark; trustee, 1e months, Bartlett Owen; representatives to state council for one year, CIV. Han na and B. Owen.
 The weather on the 4th was all that
 could be desired and the clam bake was
 we'll patronized, twenty bushels being
 baked in one pile besides fish etc. The
 speakers were: Rev O. w. Hanna, Re,
 l.. A. Robbins, Rev Dr Eddy, MT F. o
 Clark and State Organizer Gilmore. The
 flag pole, which is fifty feet or more ir
 height, was set Saturday and the large
 flag at the D. M. Hunt school was flung
 to the breeze on Monday. The Canaan
 Citizens band furnished music in
 most satisfactory manner, and in thei showy uniforms made striking appear ance. Errick Jackson won the prize II the foot race of one half mile on tn,
 Fair Ground.
 HORSE THIEF CAPTURED. A stranger rode into town Sunday
 June 26th refined his steed up to tn,
 Falls Village Inn, and to his quer, } MT Clark, the proprietor, replied in tn, , affirmative that he was the landlord
 The stranger ordered his horse put out
 and contracted for board and hors, keeping till Friday and registered him
 self as R. s. Bowden of New York, stat ing his father was paper box manufac turer and his horse was one of sever owned by his father. His horse show } ed hard usage, and the strangers ac | tions were such as to excite the suspi cions of MT Clark. The stranger offer
 ed his establishment for sale, saying h. wanted a pneumatic safety bicycl } which would cost nothing for keeping He soon after harnessed his animal ant 9 started with passenger for Millertol
 replying to the interrogation of NJ , Clark as to his horse needing rest tha
 the distance was only sixteen miles. Tn
 suspicious department of the strange
 as detected by the landlord proved vel
 founded. Sheriff Reed being absent a Constable John Wilcox, Pope Chapman . Loren Eggleston and Geo Fl. Brow s started in pursuit and overhauled thei F. game one mile this side of Millerto 8 and brought him back to the villag - and Monday morning he was place 0 under arrest and tried for horse steal f ing before justice H. 0. Crandall. H - then gave his name as Mark Lester. an r through the efforts of G. W. Hall h was found to have been once residen e of Brookfeld and the horse the prop y erty of George Hallock of that villag d who had despaired of getting any clu f of the thief. He had served one terr j. in jail for the same offsnse, althoug b but 19 years of age. Constables Jame y and Blakeman and the owner, MT Ha If lock, of Brookfeld, came up but witt j. out papers, yet they identified tn b horse. The boy had driven to Ne n Milford where he stayed Sat- night; an d Monday one Addis of New Milfor e came into town and with a bravadois o air demanded the surrender of the pri
 oner, and in not succeeding run off th n principal witness by taking him e Cornwall Bridge to take the train br s, has since awakened to the fact that -e was outside" The prisoner was d. l, tended by lawyer Howard Landon, whi ss the prosecution was conducted by N s. c. Warner, both of Salisbury. H
 portrait adorns the walls of "Rogue D. gallery" New York and his own defens ,e was contradictory all through. TT
 owner sent up an order for his hort e. which was restored to him, and Lest 2. was incarcerated in Litchfield jail ha ly ing been bound over to the next ter
 of the criminal court which sits