Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-12
CONNECTICUT NEWS.

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CONNECTICUT NEWS. L
GIeanings From Many sections of q
Our Little State-Attcmpts to Bunco
a Farmer-Crushed to Death by tho g
Cars-Knights of Pythias' Grand e
western Convocation-Lightn
Work.
M1DDLErowN, Aug. 11.-An attempt was
made Wednesday afternoon in this city to
bunco a prominent East Hampton farmer.
He was approached by well dressed young
man who appeared to be anxious to buy a
farm near some quiet village. The farmer
became interested, as he has a farm to dis
pose of, and proposed taking the young
man to East Hampton to show him the
land. Just then another young man in
troduced himself and asked the would-be
land purchaser if he could cash check for
500. The check was drawn by respon-
sible business house in New York, but as
he was in a.hurry to catch train he had
no time to go to the bank.
The young man accommodated the stran- |
ger and gave him two ffty-dollar bills. |
Then of course he was anxious to get one
of them changed and asked the farmer if
he could give him some smaller bills for a |
| fifty. Owing to a low state of finances the |
| farmer was unable to accommodate him.
The farmer suspected nothing until he
was asked by one of the young men if he
had any money on deposit in Middletown.
| Then he remembered having read of per-
/ h,s0 51al hx, o. 4 osrsr
| to buy farms, and he hurried away from
the fellows.
| The young men boarded the westbound
express and got out of town.
TRAGIC DEATH OF BAGGAGEMAsTER BRIGGS.
| WATERBURY, Aug. Todd Briggs,
baggagemaster on Conductor Ashton's
train on the Meriden and Waterbury and
Connecticut River road, was killed this
morning at o'clock. The train was back
ing down into the yard and at the Dublin
street crossing Briggs attempted to CROSS
in front of it. He was knocked down and
run over, and Both legs were cut off at the
knee.
He was taken to the morgue, where he
died. He was twenty-four years old and
unmarried. His home was in Cromwell.
He was brother of Mayor Briggs of
Middletown.
THE TRACKS SAFE.
The Philadelphia, Reading and New Eng
land railroad has at present almost no Sec
ton hands at work in this state because of
the wholesale leaving of the men on &C.
count of the cut in wages recently ordered
from Philadelphia. All but few of the
! section bosses remain at work and patrol
their stretch of track each day, doing what
: they can in the way of making repairs.
, Several gangs of men put on to fill the
places of the section hands have left work
) after day or two. Some, it is said, have
been run out of town. Other men have
!. worked a day or two and then quit. That
part of the road that is in New York state
is well supplied with section men, though
some have left there after a cut of 10 cents
in their wages. They were getting 81. 81
3 per day. General Superintendent Fowler
y said: 81 consider the track perfectly safe,
3 and I think know my business too well
!, to let trains run If the track was not SAFE
! The superintendent said only one freight
brakeman had quit work. he said the
| story of the nineteen men leaving at once
and of there being loose spikes in the rails
. came from drunken brakeman who tolc
= him the same story.
f THE PIGoTT CAMPAIGN.
: Yesterdays Hartford Courant remarks
: "Anything to beat Pigott' is the cry o.
+ quite a stable chunk of Second distric
!, democracy, and now that Sargent has with
}, drawn, the opponents of Pigott are trying
Q to agree on some one to run against him
o foster boom, but the infant has dice
b a-bornin', and now 81. Holton Wood o.
J. Derby looms up. 81. Holton Wood is presi
J. dent and principal stakeholder of the Derb,
Q Street Railway company, a Cleveland dem
g ocrat, a good talker, and well fixed fnan
!, cially. He will have the Ansonia ant
d Birmingham Sargent delegates as a starter
;, them when they return from the conven
It ton.
EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT REUNION.
The annual reunion of the Eighteenth
" regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, will
~ held in Winchester, Va, Thursday, SEP
II TENDER %. In letter to the veterans W
n b. H. Ellis. secretary of the association
ss says: GAS Winchester was our frs
J, camping place in Virginia and where W
g. first went into battle, let US all, as far a
n we can, make an extra effort to visit tn
pl old landmarks, such as Shawnee Springl
s. Star Fort, the old camp ground, ETC., fc
b it will be the only time great many of Z
~ l WILL lave tue pIlV1lcSo Ol 1ooh1uS OVoT I'll
IN many places where we spent so man
ss | months during the war" This regimen
q was composed for the most part of me
IL from New London county.
#, HOT WEATHER FOR THE RACING.
~ DANBuRY, Aug. 1.-THE bicycle roa
race between here and South Norwalk ye
terday was Witnessed by large number {
spectators. The winner was Eben Hill
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one-half miles, in one hour and thirty on
'st minutes. Fred German was close se
ne ond, being less than one length behint
-, Walter Cox and Robert Blackman wei
III third and fourth, crossing the line abo1
ID six minutes behind the leaders. The rit
he ers started from the armory at South No
ba walk at 4:45 and arrived at the city hall
Danbury at GIG. Tho race has created
1t, great interest in both towns and it is prol
or able that another will be arranged soon.
to JOHN h. MOST.
he John 81. Most, who died at the Old Pc,
us ple's home in Hartford Wednesday of APP
e. plexy, aged eighty-one, had been at tt
as home for three years. Mr.. Most was fl
years cabinet and piano maker of Har
to ford, and especially as dealer in article
ed made from the Charter oak, a large part
ha whose wood he purchased at the time @
II the fall of the tree. He built mo,
r. handsome chair from it for the state, BIT
ta his price was thought too high and tn
ks chair was refused. Colonel Samuel Co
Ma purchased it, and it is now in Mrs. Colt
,st possession. He also built piano. who's
hs case was entirely made of the famous oaI
This piano is now in the possession of tt
no Misses Stuart in the Etna building, an
"a. will be exhibited at the worlds fair. Nj
nd Most made an exhibition of articles mad
h. from the Charter oak at the New Orlear
hs exposition and the centennial He turne
h out many of the wooden nutmegs mao
"a from this tree.
he | PEOPLE KNOCKED sENsELEss-HoUsI
on STRUCK.
re re DAMBURY, Aug. 1.-The storm here la
n night did considerable damage. The a
is seemed charged with electricity and IL
p" lightning was very sharp.
y The house of Mrs. Joshua Burt WI
ter struck, the bolt coming down through Il
IRE roof. All of the inmates were PROSTATE
IN and the furniture wrecked. The dama5
nt | will he Over $5(0