Connecticut western news., 1892-08-04
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO INHABITANTS
 OF THE NUTMEG STATE.

OF fE NO ME1 . ! Al E.
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 ings of the Week in This Vicinity and
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 of People Whose Time Is Valuable.
 MILFORD, Aug Mrs. Eli Clark, who is one of the smartest and liveltest old ladies in Connecticut, became ninety years old d day or two ago, and she had pretty little party at her cottage in this village in honor of the event. She weighs just ninety pounds, being just as heavy as she is old, and is as spry as July cricket. It was notable feature of the dinner that three Of the guests at the table, women, were also ninety years old, all of whom are girlhood friends of Mrs. Clark. It is not fiction to say that Mrs. Clark is as quick fsSa sure of foot as are most women of twenty-five years. She gets into and out of carriage as him. bly, as girl, and just before the anniver- sary party disbanded she said to her guests, with a smile, but truthfully, that she could s'dance just as easily as she did at her we'd ding, seventy years ago"
 The sager-Henry Case.
 NEW HAVEN, Aug. In the Sager- Henry quo warranto case before Judge Hall in the superior court the attorney agreed to submit the same evidence that was accept ed in the Phelan- Walsh case
 The New Shore Route.
 NEW HAVEN, Aug. 1.-Brown & Ryan, of New York, have been awarded the contract for the construction of the new Shore line route from East Haven to New Haven, to be built for the New York, New Haven and Hartford. The change includes double tracks for half mile, a tunnel 1000 feet long near East Haven and a quarter of a mile of trestle over the salt marshes. There will be no grade crossings and the expected draw bridge will likewise be unnecessary The work will cost S5OO,O and take more than sixteen months c. H. Carey will have charge of the work and J. K. Ryan will be the builder Work begins today and 300 workmen will be employed at an expense of about $25, 900 month The contractors figure on profit of about S1O0,- OOO
 The Peace Union to Meet.
 SToNINGToN, Aug. 1.-The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Universal Peace union is to be held in Peace grove, Mystic, on the shore of the ocean, on Aug. 10, Il and 12 Last year 5000 people gathered in Peace grove, and it is believed the forth coming peace meeting will be the greatest one in the history of the union Noted ora tors will address the great rally and ex- press their opinion of the Homestead strike riot and other demonstrations of the kind. Among the peace societies that will attend will be those of New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. One of the speak CTS will be the Rev Dr. William B. Derrick, it's eloquent colored preacher of New York; another, Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey president of the peace department of the Womans Christian Temperance union. Belva Lock wood will be present, and the president of the Universal Peace union will preside, whose name is Love.
 Left His Money for a Church.
 STAMFORD, Aug. 1.-The will of Charles F. A. Mack, an old German bachelor, leaves the use of property worth .s25, GOO to his nephew and six nieces After their death it goes to the Evangelical Lutheran semi nary, of Gettysburg, Pa., to be used in building and supporting German Lutheran church in Stamford.
 The Catholic Summer School.
 NEW LONDON, Aug. 1.-The Catholic sum- mer school opened at the Lyceum theater on Monday. The Rev. P. A. Halpin, of St. Francis Xavier college, New York, offciated as lecturer. c. M. O'Leary, LL D., of Man haitian college, followed him at II o'clock. Professor John Brophy, of St. Louis col lege, New York, was the lecturer in the afternoon. The outlook for the summer school is very encouraging.
 He Had Typhus Fever.
 MILFORD, Aug. 1-Great alarm is mani fested in this town by the discovery that an immigrant named Sofia was suffering from typhus fever. He was driven out of town.
 EIoped with the Cook.
 NEW BRITAIN, July 31.-This city has been treated to a sensation by the elope- ment of William Allen, an eighteen-year- old son of Superintendent Allen, of the Shuttle Meadow dam, with his fathers cook Annie Hines. The father of the boy pursued the eloping couple and caught them at Pine Tree, N. Y. After chastising the boy he returned with him to this city. The wo- man was nearly old enough to have been the boys mother.
 Their Horns Locked Week. ASHFORD, July 31.-Stephen D. Curtis and Anson G. Barlow own land adjoining this town, where their cattle are allowed to run. On the same day they each missed a.cow, and on the seventh day after their disap- pearance they were found in the woods with their horns so locked together that it was impossible for them to extricate them selves One of the horns of the cows had to be sawed off in order to release them. They had become very poor and weak from being unable to obtain food.
 It Kills the Fish. PENNINGTON, July 31.-Something is kill ing hundreds of fish in the Pennington river, and an investigation is being made Hundreds of dead suckers, bullheads, eels and other fish have been found floating for three weeks past, and so far it has been impossible to find the cause of the mor- | tality.
 Counterfeiters Caught. NEW LONDON, July S1.-The police be- | ieve that they have under lock and key in | this city one of the gang of counterfeiters who for so long time have infested the state. He is an Italian who gives bis name | as Abbate Short A large amount of spuri- | ous silver was found upon his person | Merchants learning of the arrest looked at | once through their money drawers, and a | considerable amount of worthless money | was found.
 The Philadelphia's Hero. NEW LONDON, July 31.-Captain O. F. | Williams, of the United States marine corps | of the cruiser Philadelphia, rescued the five | year-old son of Seymour Hart from drown | ing in this city after the little fellow had | gone down twice.
 Dined by Manager Hasson. NEW HAVEN, July 31.-E J. Hasson, the well known actor, proprietor of the ''One of | the Finest" company, served his annual | dinner to his theatrical and newspaper | friends at his summer cottage at Short Beach. About thirty guests were present. | The party left this city in tallyho coaches for Mr Hasson's cottage. and the dinner