Connecticut western news., 1892-06-30
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO INHABITANTS
 OF THE NUTMEG STATE.

Facts Concerning the Important Happen | ings of the Week in This Vicinity and Elsewhere Briefly Told for the Benefit of People Whose Time Is Valuable. NEW HAVEN, June 27-The annual com
 mencement exercises at Yale university
 began Sunday President Dwight delivered | the baccalaureate sermon to the members | of the graduating class and their many | friends in Battell chapel, and at the conclu-
 sion of the sermon passed down the center | aisle to allow the seniors to make their last | bow to him.
 President Raymond's Sermon. MIDDLETowN, June 27.-President Brad | ford Paul Raymond delivered the bac- 1 calaureate sermon at Wesleyan university | from Acts xvi, 19: "Whereupon, O King | Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the | heavenly vision."
 | Drowned at New Haven.
 NEW HAVEN, June 27.-Joseph Rich, an
 Italian lad, eighteen years of age, was
 drowned in the Quinnipiac river. Yale's Catcher All Right Again. NEW HAVEN June 27.-Carter, the Yale catcher, arrived here very weak, but with
 his mental condition vastly improved. He
 will not play ball any more this year. Taylor Whips osborne. BRIDGEPORT, June 26.-"Buck" Taylor, a well known colored pugilist of this city,
 knocked out "Blink" Osborne, also colored, in seventeen round fight just over the
 state line near Greenwich. The fight was
 for S200.
 Says He Is Jessie Halls Husband.
 HARTFORD, June 25.-There were inter
 esting developments here ill the Chicago
 breach of promise suit of Jessie Hall against
 James W. Paige, late of this city, in which the plaintiff claims S950,0O0 damages. One George H. Hamilton appeared here and claimed that he was married to Jessie Hall
 on July 23, 1891. She had previously lived
 with his father by adoption, J. C. Lewis, and left Hamilton when both were acting
 in the ''Old Standard" company to live with
 Paige, who tried recently to buy her off
 with S1 900, which she refused. Hamilton
 says Jessie's name was Mollenhall, and that
 she is the daughter of a prelate at monas- tery in Houston, Tex.
 A Novel Bet Paid. NEW HAVEN, June 25.-At Southington Charles Ward wheeled Patrick Welch in a wheelbarrow to every saloon in town and
 bought him a drink at each place in pay.
 ment of bet made on the presidential
 nomination at Chicago. As Welch weighs over POO pounds, the loser was tired man. Editor Hills Suicide. NEW HAVEN, June 25.-The man who | shot himself and then jumped overheard from the steamer Continental when she was | off New Rochelle, is believed to be Henry A. Bills, formerly of Winsted. He was about seventy years of age, and was at one time editor of the Litchfeld Enquirer and postmaster of Winstead.
 They Stole a Locomotive HARTFORD, June 21.-At about 50 a. m. & locomotive was stolen at New Britain on the New York and New England tracks | The men ran the engine to Parkville, within | two miles of the city, and abandoned it. A | freight train going east was Tagged in time | to prevent a collision. Albert Wutcher, of | New Britain, was arrested for the deed and | held in $500 bonds. He denied the crime | but gave the names of two other men who
 were with him during the night. They have left town, but the police are after | them. The theft is believed to have been a | drunken freak.
 The Danbury Abduction Case. DANBURY, June 21.-The citizens of this | place are much aroused over the kidnap- | ping case, and purse of $1 900 has been | subscribed to G., ure the punishment of | Frederick H. Mcfarland, who abducted the child Parties were in this city to get requi-
 sition papers of Governor Bulkeley, but they did not bring any legal evidence, so the
 requisition could not be granted. McFar- land is now in Burlington, Vt, where he has wealthy and influential relatives. Killed by a Crowbar. HARTFORD, June 21.-HarmonL L. Wright, | track superintendent of the Hartford | and Wethersfield Horse Railway company, was accidentally killed at the Wethersfeld | avenue horse car stables. He was directing | the unloading of an electric car motor weighing about 1,5O0 pounds. The motor
 had been placed on the floor, moved on | rollers distance, and boy was holding | one end with a crowbar, which had a | curved end, while one of the rollers was | taken from under the other end of the
 motor. When the roller was taken out | the weight of the motor, fallings on the 1 curved tip of the crowbar, caused 1t to fly up. The boy was unable to hold it, and it
 struck MT. Wright on the temple. wouIdn't Work with Jap" | WINDSOR LOCKS, June 21.-A Japanese, | commonly called George, has been em- | ployed at the Seymour paper mill for the
 past two years and has given general satis- | faction. Last week when there was va
 cancy in the finishing department he asked
 for the job and was told that he could go | to work there this morning There was an uproar among the employees in that depart | ment, and they informed the overseer that
 if the "Jap'' went to work they would all | go out, and, true to their word, when
 George took the place all but two of the
 employees stopped work and went home, | the boss finiSner with them
 | A Posth,aster's Accounts short. | WAREHOUSE POINT, June 21.-Postmaster
 Eugene T. Spooner, at this place, has been
 using the funds of the office for his own af-
 fairs, and has been turned out of the office
 on the report of Inspector c. H. Pendleton,
 who came on from Washington to look into
 the affairs of the office. The reports sent
 in looked suspicious, and a shortage of S6St
 was discovered.