Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07
Local News.

Local News.
 School opens at the Canaan Acad- emy on the 18th inst.
 Mir Thomas Abbe returned to Abi- lene, Kas., on Monday. F s
 Mrs Virgil, of Vineland, N. J., is visiting at D. l.. Peirce's.
 George 0. Peet and wife go to Chi cago to-day to see the Worlds Fair.
 William Paul and family, of New York city, are visiting at Charles Paul's.
 -Mrs Hadley and Mrs Lawrence have returned to their home at East Marion, NY.
 Mrs George Williams and two sons, of Poughkeepsie, N. r., formerly of this place, are in town visiting friends.
 The Sheffield and Canaan base ball teams will cross bats this afternoon at o'clock. Massey is with the Sheffield team and Lorrain will play first for Canaan.
 s. w Barnes and s. 0. Beckley at- tended the bicyc tournament at Pitts field Saturday and from there wheeled it over to Richmond and from there on to Lebanon Springs.
 A. T. Roraback's 8 term of office as judge of the court of common pleas for Litchfield county expires on the 10th inst. He is succeeded by Arthur D. Warner, of Woodbury.
 pr Fl. L. Ross went last night up into the Adirondack region deer hunting with his brothers. He expects to be gone until the 2Oth. Mrs Ross goes to Bethel, Ct., for a week or so.
 Miss Edith Greene has gone to Great Harrington for the winter, and Miss Irene Greene left town yesterday for West Norfolk, where she will teach during the coming school year.
 The schools in Dist No. will open on tue 18th inst. with Miss Sarah J. Roraback as teecher in the high school room, Miss Amanda Langdon in the in termeliate and Mrs Root in the primary room. 4st
 Rev Ohas D. Milliken is now occupy ing Miss Adams house on High street, which he has very appropriately dub bed .'The Perch" Mir Clute, who will return to town next week, will share the house with MT Milliken.
 MT and Mrs Lyman Dunning. Mrs E. w. Warner and son Walter started last Thursday evening for the Worlds Fair They vent via Philadelphia and Washington where they intended to stop over en route.
 "A number of our young people will dance at Twin Lakes pavilion tomorrow evening, weather permitting. Reed and Beckley have the matter m charge and nice young ladies with chaperones will be allowed, if the ladies haven't Q beau or brother.
 Phillip Ham hes left the employ of J. Fl. Barnnm at Lime Rock. business being so dull as not to warrant Mir Bar mum in keeping so many clerks. Phil lip feels that he may we'll take rest of two or three weeks, as he has been with MT Barnum for more than two years and has not had more than weeks va- cation in all that time. People in our locality have suppos- ed that the Lodge at Lake Wangum was public resort, open during the season to parties wishing to go there and enjoy themselves, but the experi- ence of party of Canaan people there last week has dlspelled that idea in their minds as the people of the house seemed to be disturbed by their pres encs there during an afternoon, and the amiable lady of the house was much put out by their appropriating the use of the piano and 8 room and veranda of the Lodge. The Canaan people were sorry that they didn't understand the feelings of the incumbents and were vii ling and did settle for the trouble they
 Albert Dewitt and ''Buck" Rice, oi Canaan, and B. Franklin Phillips, ol Ashley Falls. all colored, were arrested on Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Reed, ol Falls Village and, after staying ove, Sunday in the new lookup in this place wore brought before Justice Lord al the camp ground by Constable Drake on Monday. They are charged witt administering opium in some form in 2 glass of soda water to Dora Gray, col ored servant in the family of Mir Platt of New Haven. with intent to outrag: her. Mrs Platt and several other ladie, and Dr Dillingham;, of New York, ant Albert DeWitt testified on the hearing The facts are. briefly, that the girl lei Mrs Platt's cottage on the camp ground Thursday afternoon, in apparently goot health, h company with Dewitt, tha she was with him all the afternoon, tha at night she was brought to the Plat cottage, by Phillips and Grant, anothe young colored man, in an unconsciou condition, evidently having been pois oned with opium or one of it's com pounds. It appeared from her utter ances, while partly conscious, that sh had been forced to drink some bite white powder in soda water. The gir had not fully come out of her stupor ol Monday and was still in critical con dition. incapable of testifying. Tn, justice decided to hold Phillips an, Dewitt (the case against Rice beinl nolIedl in 41OOO bonds each. in defaul