Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-19
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

Rev. Dr. Walkers Illness-PoisOning Cattle-A Had Dox-COlonel Popess Oner-Dynamite Used by Burglars In New London-Stamford to Have Its
 Hospital-GeneralN News.
 The many New Haven friends of Rev. Dr. Walker, pastor of Center church. Hart ford, formerly pastor of Center church, New Haven, regret to learn that Dr. Walk CT was taken seriously ill Saturday. but later advices speaksOf the probability of l his speedy return to his labors. He was for some hours dangerously ill. His trouble was angina pectoris. He has | known for some years that his heart was weak and that constant care was necessary, but ! on Friday, after the fatigue of preaching, he l overexerted himself to catch a horse car, and this brought on the trouble soon afterward. He | suffered from terrible spasms of pain about the ! heart Dr. Walker has had no serious return of the trouble since about noon Saturday, and is of New Haven Is attending Dr. Walker and has good hopes that if the present favorable sym toms continue the patient will soon bs about again.
 WHO POISONED THE CATTLE?
 The selectmen of Lebanon have offered re- ward of $20O for information which will lead to the arrest and conviction, of the person or per sons who poisoned the cattle of Peter Jordan re cattle poisoned twice this spring. No motive fo5 the deed can be assigned.
 WHAT A1Ls ROVER?
 Five residents of the North end have sent the following remonstrance to the selectmen of Hart ford:
 We, tho Undersigned Residents of the North End, do remonstrate against Granting A License to Francis Cole, for his Newfoundland Dog, Rover. The Same Dog being Vicious and Dangerous to ho nf m l. ready Nearly caused Several Runaways And other Accidents.-HartfordC Courant. IMPROVED ROADS AND RoADMAKING. Colonel A. A. Pope, the bicycle millionaire, who is full of the subject of road improvement, has written to the managers of the Chicago worlds fair urging that strenuous efforts De made there to exhibit improved roads and road pecket to he1p the cause along os There can be no doubt that this subject is one country. Whether on the gravelly soil of Massa- chusetts, the clays of New York and Indiana, or mon roads are worse than in any other civilized country No other material interest in the United States rests under so de1se cloud of aid the American farmer as that which would give him a: as good roads Is as may be found in the WHICH?
 The fact that the Hon. Alfred E. Burr, senior ! editor of the Hartford Times, declines to go as ! delegate to the democratic national convention l has reached that interesting paper the Journal, the gentleman as Hon: Alfred E. Burr, scenic | artist of the Hartford Times" Has the Journal
 ist made typographical blunder or a great dis | covery?-Hartford Courant.
 ! JUDGE cLAsoN WILL GIVE TIFF NECESSARY $40, ,OO8 OUTRIGHT.
 The Hon. John Clason, formerly 0 judge of ! probate in Stamford, some time ago put $4O GOO | into the hands of the trustees to be used at his | death for the maintenance of public hospital.
 once, and to make the hospital building feature ! of Stamford's 215th anniversary, W hich will be | celebrated in next July.
 DYNAMITE IN NEW LONDON
 NEW LONDON Conn.,, April 1s,-An attempt was
 made last night to rob the store of Palmer 6
 Sistare. Dynamite was unsuccessfully applied
 to the safe The burglars secured no booty. THE STAMFORD CELEBRATION. ! The 00O necessary for the proposed Stam | ford soldiers monument and anniversary cele
 bration is practically raised. At least there is
 $1S 800 on hand, and the place is full of schemes ! for getting the rest.
 Stephen Terry lodge, No. 59, l. O. O. F., wa.
 instituted at Masonic hall, Bristol, Friday night | with sixty members. The work was performed
 by Nosahogan lodge of Waterbury.
 Rain is badly needed. Vegetation is suffering
 shape. The dirt, finely pulverized, lies deep o1
 is taken up and swept over the fields by the ! high winds.
 Mrs. Frank Sponcie of Putnam th1s state, i.
 dead aged forty-three years. She died in giving
 birth to der twenty fourth child.
 John Hollister an aged resident of the soutl
 part of Glastonbury, is ill from the effects of | paralytic shock.
 The Glastonbury stockholders of the Rec | River Banking company of Fargo, Dax of whicl | William H. Wright of Glastonbury is treasurer | have received their Semiannual dividend of ! per cent.
 wich's industrious burglar, is being found aroup, in the woods day by day.
 , | There is much uneasiness at the present tim in New Britain over the very small amount 0 I water in the cty's reservoir
 At a meeting of the sophomore class at Yves ley Saturday the following officers were elect | ed: President w. J. Sawyer, Thomaston; vic , | president Mss Mary E. Cramer, Portland; sec l retary, Arthur M Gates, Mantle; treasurer, | } ! Bronson, Lowville, N. Y.
 Judge Goes remarks in the city court of Mer l den admonishing the police to use every mean | greatest indignation among the Hebrew element | and a meeting was held Saturday night at whic the judge was severely censured. It has culm , | nearly all the 450 Hebrews in the city inter | eSted.
 NEEDED REFORM . Mayor Ralph Wheeler of Waterbury not lon 7 | ago issued an edict which was published in tn
 local papers, warning the keepers of disorderl ! | houses and "dives'' to get out of town withi t l twenty-four hours under penalty of the law
 their belongings and left Mayor Wheeler ha ! now undertaken to suppress policy playing, an ! l threatens to proceed against the express, tn 3 | telegraph and telephone companies just 500 ! as he can prove that policy numbers are sent b l, | express over the wires.