Connecticut western news., 1892-04-14
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
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 OF THE NUTMEG STATE.
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NEW HAVEN, April 12.-Rheinhald Petz hold, aged thirty-five, Marx Bentz, aget fifty, and Louis Lewenstein, aged thirty five, members of a fishing party of eigh German bakers from this city, were drowned in the harbor off Morris cove. :. The party had been out in the soun, fishing for several hours, and on the return trip stopped at the cove. They tied tn, boat at the pier and all went to the Forbe. House. Itis probable that the party indulget freely in stimulants. When the boat go, fairly under way for the city she was wei "heeled over" and got out into the channe few hundred yards when she capsized. II was noticed that only five of the eight men were clinging to her when she lighted.
 Three of the men were taken from tn, boat by Joseph Belcher, who lives near tn. beach, while the tug Hogan rescued tn. other two. One of the rescued states thai the wind suddenly freshened while the party were at the cove, and before the party could prepare for the change she capsized.
 The three men who were drowned wer, not seen after the boat went over, and it i, supposed that they were struck by the boat and rendered unconscious.
 Petzholds body alone has been recovered
 Starved to Death at New Haven.
 NEW HAVEN, April 12.-"Dutch Annie' Oviatt, an outcast, died of starvation in . squalid basement at 440 Howard avenue.
 Forest Fires in Eastern Connecticut.
 NORWICH, April 12.-Serious forest fires due to the prolonged drouth, are burning in nearly all the rural towns in eastern Con necticut. In Griswold, east of this city, several hundred acres of wood land were burned over this week, and it was only by fierce fighting by the whole neighborhood that several farm houses were saved from destruction. Fires have ragged for several days in the forests at Canterbury and other towns in Windham county, and also in the western counties of Rhode Island A Lighthouse Keeper Drowned. NEW LONDON, April 12.-Mr. Christopher Culver, aged twenty-four years, the keeper of Race Rock lighthouse, was drowned while attempting to reach his station from this port, where he had been spending 8 few days with his wife and child. He started for the lighthouse, eight miles dis tant, in small rowboat and in spite of the rough sea. When two miles off shore the boat was seen to upset. The body has not been found
 Poisoned by Buttermilk. NORTH WINDHAM April 12.-Two French famiies-seven persons in all-have been poisoned by partaking of butternilk which had fermented in a tin can. One of the number, Mrs. Dewey, is in a critical condi tion.
 Patton Called to Hartford. HARTFORD, April 12-Lewis B. Patton, a | graduate of Princeton college, and of the Princeton seminary, 1890, has been called to | the chair of Old Testament languages and | literature of the Hartford Theological semi nary.
 Left $40, 900 for Missions. HARTFORD, April 12.-The late Silas c. Beers, of Cornwall, Conn.,, left $14O,OO to be equally divided between the American, the Home and the Foreign Missionary socie ties of the Congregational church. He also leaves 1000 to the Congregational church | in Cornwall, $15, 900 for high school in the town and $50, 900 to relatives. Directors Chosen at Middletown. MIDDLETowN, April 12-The New York and Boston Railroad company at meet ing elected the following board of di | rectors: D. l.. Briggs, F. H. Alfred, S. H. | Warner, D. Bailey, and F. R. White, secre- tary. The new company will endeavor to be incorporated under Connecticut laws. Its capital stock is stated to s10,OOO,OOO. Won the Teneyck Prize. NEW HAVEN, April 12.-The junior prize speaking contest for the Teneyck prize was won by J. T. Robinson, of Hartford. His | subject was, ''Tom Payne, or Deism and Democracy in the Days of the American | Revolution" | Leighton Knocked Out.
 NEW HAVEN, April 12.-Charles Moore, ol Utica, N Y., knocked out ''Leftie" Leigh ton, of Hartford, in four round match in this city. The match was for $50 side. | Athletes to Represent Yale.
 NEW HAVEN, April 12-The following uwenty-one candidates for the Yale track athletic team have gone to the training ta- ble: E. w. Allen, s. E. Swayne, A. Pond 1 J. E. Good, D. B. Lyman, M. l.. vaningen M S. Hart, s. F. Beardsley s. Scoville, A c. Williams, w. L. Kitch, A. G. Dickson, O. G. Cartwright, F. H. Hart, c. B. Brice, J H. Hammond, w. G. Brownson, c. B. Coxe E. D. Lyman, P. F. Stillman and W. B. Wright, captain. These are the leading | track athletes in college
 Killed a Mad Fox.
 BIRMINGHAM, April 12.-The farmers al Quakers Farms have lost many sheep by hydrophobia caused by mad fox getting into the iocks. A farmland killed the foz with fork.
 An Ansonia Bridge Burned.
 ANsoNIA, April 12.-The Maple street bridge, over the Naugatuck river, between Ansonia and West Ansonia, was burned.
 Looking for Daisy Wood.
 NEW HAVEN, April 11.-Mrs. L. P. Wood of 21 Laidlow avenue, Jersey City, has re quested the police of this city to look out for her daughter, Daisy, who ran away from home two weeks ago.
 The windermere Mill Sold.
 ROCKVILLE, April 7.-The Windermere woolen mill, with fourteen houses anG thirty acres of land, at Allenton, were sold at auction to B. Pitkin, of Providence, fol $21, 200.
 Seven Years for Lapham.
 NEW HAVEN, April 7.-Alfred M Lap ham, the road agent who held up the ticket agent at the Guilford station on the Shore line in March, was sentenced to seven year in states prison.
 Justice Lamar Dying.