Connecticut western news., 1892-09-22
STATE WE WS.

Fred Long and Adelbert Ostrum, of Litch- field. were tried before Justice Judd last week Wednesday for breach of the peace and each was fined S2 and costs which they paid.
 The Gilbert Home, winsted, now has eighty children to care for.
 An English baroness has taken for herself and friends the E. T. Butler house in Norfolk until the 1st of December.
 The widow of the late Coley James, editor of the Thomaston Express, has received from the A. o. U. w. an insurance of S2,O00.
 The Consolidated railroad now runs 66S passenger trains on it's various lines and branches.
 A 17-year-old Bristol boy named Walter Beach recently went fishing in Hartland pond and caught five bass which weighed IS pounds
 Miss Lizzie Goodwin and Miss Nettie Allen of Groton are expert swimmers, and they are plucky young ladies toe, for they swan across the Thames river Friday, Sept. g, starting from point near the east abutment and com ing directly over to the New London shore. Five gentlemen friends accompanied the young ladies but the boys could not gain any lead over their fair competitors on the way across. This Is the first time women have ever swum across the river.
 A man in Stratford was bitten very serious ly recently in the calf of the leg by an old boar, which he was trying to drive with club.
 A little girl in Seymour was very anxious to go to the circus, but her mother would not allow it, but sent her to young peoples meeting instead. to get converted as she said. The child attended the meeting and then came running to her mother saying: ''Oh, mamma am converted, now for the Lord s sake, may not go to the circus2" The mother wassimply mortified and had long and earnest talk with her little girl to con- vince her of her wickedness.
 The Torrington Register says that the sto- ry of Miss Stilling, the young Torrington girl, who 1t was said had been kept secluded from the world for IS years, has been very much exaggerated. The facts are that she was kept at home so long by her father, while a child, that she developed morbid shyness and dread of meeting strangers and did not care to go out but preferred to stay at home and read. There is nothing sensational to be made of the case.
 The P. R. & N. E.. railroad company has been very much annoyed and put to great ex- pense of late by reason of great quantities of beer, liquor, fruits and merchandise being stolen from the cars Superintendent Blaine hired detectives who disguised themselves and went to work as brakemen on the trains On Monday of last week these detectives ar rested W. D. Garry of Philadelphia, brake man, who confessed that there was gang on the road making business of robbing the cars. He refused to give any names. The man was sent to the Albany penitentiary for two months. The R. R. officials now think that the men who side tracked their trains recently near Poughkeepsie had dl unk stolen liquor.
 The Meriden base ball club and the Win sted base ball club had played two games to- gether previous to last week and each clut had won game. Last Saturday the decisive game between said clubs for the champion. ship of the state was played at Winsted and was won by the Meridens by score of 3 to |