Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-01
General News of the State.
DIED IN NEW BRITAIN.

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NEW BRITAIN, Dec. 3l.-Mrs. Rebecca G.
Peck, wife of James G.. Peckof Park place,
q native and one of New Britain's much es-
teemed and highly respected women, died
at her home Wednesday from pneumonia,
resulting from an attack of the grip. Mrs.
Peck was sixty-one years old and belongs
to one of the old and aristocratic families
of the place. She was a devoted member
of Center church.
ANOTHER NEW BRITAIN LADY.
NEW HARTFORD, Dec. 31.-Mrs. Ellen G.
Smith, widow of the late Captain John
Cotton Smith, founder of the Greenwood
company, New Hartford, died Wednesday,
aged eighty-two. Her sons and daughters
were present with her at the last. They
are Robert R president of the Greenwood
company; Walter NJ, John Fox, Mrs. j.
Charles Bersrd and Mrs. F. III. Terrill
Mrs. Smith was very pleasant and genial
and many will miss her kindness and acts
of charity.
DEATH OF A wELL-KNowN CONNECTICUT
Mr.. Sabin L. Sayles died at his home in
Dsyville Killingly) Wednesday afternoon,
aged si1ty-fve. Mr.. Sayles was largely in
terested in wooden manufacturing, which
was started in 1858 by s. and a. Ssyles in
that part of Killingly since known as Day
Vile. He has been widely known in bust
, ness and politics in the state. For years
he was a member of the state central re-
publican committee and was influential in
party politics. In business he has been
active and prosperous, and the control
ling spirit in the Sabin L. Sayles com
pany, incorporated for the manufacture of
wooden goods. He was associated polite
ally, in business and by marriage, with
Congressman Charles A. Russell, who was
secretary of the Sabin L. Styles company,
and who in 1879 married Mr.. Sayles'
daughter, Miss Ella Frances Ssyles.
RESIGNATION OF COL. ERICKSON.
NEW BRITAIN, Dec. 3l.-Col. G. B.
Erickson forwarded his resignation as
colonel of the First regiment to Brigadier
General Watson to-day. Pressure of bust
moss is the cause.
DLATH OF DIR. SAMUEL WALDO HART.
NEW BRITAIN, Dec. 31.-Dr. Samuel
Waldo Hart, prominent physician and
e1-mayor of this city, died this morning,
aged &c years.
OFF FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.
William A. Slater and family, of Nor
| witch, left Tuesday evening for Washing
ton, where they will spend week or more.
They will then go to Norfolk and embark
on Mr.. Slater's steam yacht Sycamore, for
their voyage to the Mediterranean.
MEETS NEXT MONTH.
The annual meeting Of the Connecticut
State Agricultural society will be held in
| Meriden, on Wednesday, January 10, 1892,
at City Mission hall, SO East Main street,
at II o'clock a. m.
THE LAMPS EXPLODED.
Mrs. Lewis HARDWOOD, aged rs, was
burned to death at Wellington, and her
husband WAS badly burned. She over
turned kerosene lamp.
A lamp exploded at the house of E. R.
Tomlinson in Bridgeport and caused sew
eral hundred dollars damage Wednesday
night.
James Cunningham rode from Bridge
port to Springfield on the pilot of an en-
come with the cold that he had to be car
ried. He could not walk or stand erect.
ATTEMPT TRAIN wRECKING.
BRIDGEPORT, Dec. 31.-An attempt was
made to wreck the "Gilt Edge" train due
here at 9:36 and the accommodation due
at $40 last night at Fairfield, near the
chemical works. Tho "Gilt Edge" struck
rock which had been placed on the
track, but was not derailed. The accom-
mediation, thirteen minutes later, struck
railroad tie, hurting it from the track.
There is no clue to the perpetrators. Both
trains were delayed a few minutes as they
were obliged to stop. The cow-catcher of
the engine on the express train was badly