Connecticut western news., 1892-02-04
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO INHABITANTS
 OF THE NUTMEG STATE.

OF THE NUTMEG STATE. Facts Concerning the Important Happen ings of the Week in This Vicinity and Elsewhere Briefly Told for the Benefit of People Whose Time Is Valuable.
 NEW HAVEN, Jan. 27.-Charles Griswold state bank commissioner, secured writ oi mandamus from the superior court oL Nicholas Straub, state comptroller, to com pei the latter to pay his salary.
 Met and Adjourned.
 HARTFORD, Jan. 28.-The house of repre- sentatives met, but only five Republicans were present. The roll call showed eighty three members present, less than a quorum and the speaker declared an adjournment for @ week.
 Chopped Himself Free.
 CHAPLIN, Jan 29.-Henry Herbert, 8 woodchopper, works for Mir. Copeland, and the other day was in the woods alone. In felling tree it fell on him, pinning him tc the ground by his legs. He was uncon- scious for time, and when he recovered he found that he must do something ol freeze to death. He lay on his back and in looking around he saw his ax, just out o1 his reach. By great effort he managed tt draw it to him, and then he tried to choI the trunk of the tree in two just over his legs. The tree was eighteen inches through, but he kept at it, every stroke running the risk of glancing and cutting his leg, ln which case he might bleed to death. lie was an experienced woodchopper, how ever, and he made every blow tell, and finally cut the truk in two and released himself.
 A Murderer Hanged.
 LITCHFIELD, Jan. 29.-Andrew BorjesseD was hanged this morning in Litchfeld jai for the murder of his sweetheart, Emms Anderson, in. New Milford on the morning of Aug. l, 1890.
 Busy Connecticut Fire Bugs
 BRIDGEPORT, Jan. 29.-Another incendiary fire, the fifth in two weeks, has occurred here, J. L. Morehouse losing his two barns and several head of cattle.
 A Canalboat Sunk.
 NEW HAVEN, Jan 3O.-The canal boat Joe Barnes was sunk while attempting to clear Branford reef. Four men and one woman were on board, and but for the timely ar rival of the steamer Enterprise Captain Hulse would have been drowned.
 They Tried Hard to Elope.
 NORWICH, Jan. 30.-Lewis Monroe elopeo with young lady from Putnam. The guilty pair were arrested and brought here A week ago the pair started to elope but Monroe's wife caught him.
 A Pious EIoper.
 WILLIMANTIc, Jan. 30.-William War ren, of Killingly, a prominent Saliva tionist, eloped with Miss Lizzie Shippe, 8 nineteep-year-old blonde, a member of his Sunday school class. Warren leaves wife and three children destitute.
 She Shot the Burglar.
 GLENs FALLS, Jan. 31.-Miss Della, the seventeen-year-old daughter of William c. Trudeau, fired at a burglar who was en. tering her fathers home, and later blood was found in snow tracks leading from the house.
 Killed by the Grip.
 HARTFORD, Jan. 31.-According to the re ports already made, grip or epidemic in fuenza" has been the primary or secondary cause of death of twenty-seven persons this last month in Hartford.
 Both Frozen to Death.
 NoRwALK, Jan. 31.-Russen Ruscoe eighty years old, and his sister, known as "Aunt Maria" nearly eighty-fve years old. lived for some time alone in hut near the woods of the Bald Hill district They were supported for years by the charity of neigh bors. Both were frozen to death during the recent extreme cold weather.
 He Would Not Fly old Glory.
 BRIDGEPORT, Jan. 31.-An that part oi the city lying along the river front went wild this morning, and Bridgeport thinks ii has an international episode because Captain George Trowbridge, of the British schooner Glendon, didn't fly the American colors when he sailed into port. It is the estabr lished custom that a foreign vessel entering an American port shall fly the United States flag in addition to her home colors.
 Long before they reached the drawbridgt word had flown that there were no Amer ican colors. People shouted their indigna ton and some of the more belligerent of the watermen rushed breathless to the armory of the Fourth regiment, Connecticut Ma tional Guard, which is located near the docb to which the schooner would tie up, and de manded that the militia be called out to haul down the jack and hoist the stars ano stripes.
 Eager for war a number of national guardsmen ran out, and when the schooner came to an anchor it looked as if a demon stration would be made. The guardsmen even tried to board the schooner. The ardol of the citizens increased until large Amer. ican flag was hoisted on a nearby vessel and cheered.
 Two Lads Drowned.
 YANTIc, Feb. 1.-Henry Schneider and James T. Callahan, aged respectively eight and ten years, were drowned by breaking through the ice upon which they were skating.
 Charged with Swindling the Mails. HARTFORD, Feb 1-Dennis J. Conroy who is charged with obtaining registered letter at the postofice in this city by for gerry, has been held in s1 900 bail by United States Commissioner Martin. Conroy is travelling agent for Providence firm.
 The Webster Rescued.
 VINEYARD HAVEN, Feb. 1. - Captain George Clark and the crew of the tug Edwin H. Webster, of New York, whicL was carried out to sea Tuesday morning, reached this place on the schooner Everett Webster, Captain Bowen, of Philadelphia.
 An Oyster Company Formed.
 BRIDGEPORT, Feb. 1.-Articles of associa tion of the w. A. Lewis Oyster company, oi Bridgeport, have been filed in the secretary of slate's office. Its capital stock is s6, 100. divided into sixty-one shares of $100 each Frank I. Hitchcock and William A. Lewis have thirty shares each and Alfred w. Bell has one.
 A Travelling Salesman Missing.
 NEW HAVEN, Feb. 1.-George T. Bristol of Milford, travelling salesman for H. G. Thompson & Son, machine builders and hardware manufacturers, of this city, has mysteriously disappeared and his friends are greatly concerned as to his safety. He left New Haven about three weeks ago. The last that was heard from him was letter received by his firm day or two after he left the city, written while he was in New York.
 The Munson Murder Case.
 BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 1.-The preliminary hearing in the Munson murder case be fore Judge Joseph Tomlinson has beer completed, and John Hawley and his wife have been bound over to the superior court