Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-04-07
STATE NEWS JoTTINGs.

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living for week at Max Crohn's lodging
house, ia State street. Hartford, was
found dead In bed yesterday afternoon.
The medical examiner has not been able to |
determine the cause of his death.
There was an ancient debt the subject Of |
dispute In the common pleas court at |
Hartford yesterday. Isaac Allen Of Enfield |
brings suit against W. B. Woodruff of |
Boston to recover the amount of bill for
services rendered forty-two years ago. The
plaintiff claims that forty-two years ago
he moved some household goods for the
defendant for which he was to receive $40,
but the bill was never paid. He further
claims that the reason he has not brought
action before Is because the defendant has
not been In the state. He now brings suit
to recover the amount with compound in
terest. The lawyers in the case are Judge
Egglsston and A. @. Bill for the defendant
and J. W. johnson, T. Z. Steele and John
Hamlin of Thompsonviile for the plaintiff.
The defense is q simple denial that there
ever was any such contract or service per-
formed.
Judge Hamersley In the superior court
ct Niddletown yesterday sentenced Wilbur
Denison, who was convicted on the day
before Of cruelty to animals. to pay SIS
and costs and ten days in jail. This SEN
tence is a particularly severe one, since the
verdict of guilty was rendered with a rec
ommendation for mercy. Dsnison is said
to be werth $75, 900.
PEACHES AHoY.
J. Il. Hale, the well known peach grow
of 6Su tat b hot
there ia now fine prospect for crop of
peaches in all sections of the United States,
something that has not been known before
in many years past. Here in Connecticut
the cold weather has been more extreme
than at any time within the last twenty
Eve years at least, and yet, Mr.. Hale
SAYS in many orchards there are enough
live fruit-buds for q fair crop and in other
orchards for full and abundant crop.
The reason for this is that there were no
warm days last November or December to
swell the fruit buds and SO put them in q
that the fruit buds have been in every De-
cember for the last ten years, the extreme
cold of January and February last would
have killed every bud, but being in per-
fectly dormant condition Jack Frost could
not touch them all, though to be sure some
| suffered but not enough to prevent
| there being good average crop.
Mr.. Hale thinks now there is no more
danger of freezing until after the trees
come into bloom, which would be, with
this early spring. from the 10Th to the
2eth of April; there Is slight possibility
of frost then. but if light very little In
| jury is done. Past experience has taught
that four to six degrees of frost will hurt
/ hat or h ahlacsnrna a Ina
of full bloom, therefore 1t is pretty safe to
estimate that fruit will have to be thinned
| from many of the trees, and that nearly
all may be depended on for fair crop.
This will be good news to consumers as
we'll as producers and, better yet, can be
depended upon as beirg more than ordi.
narily reliable.
DANBuRY. April 6.-Danbury is excited
again over an incsndiary scare, and the
Eesnes of TWO years ago are being repeated.
The patrol duty Of the police force has
| been doubled and extra Waterman have
been placed about the factories. The
series Of fires began last Wednesday, when
the barn of John McMarth, the coal raer-
chant, was set on fire. An attempt waf
made Saturday night to burn one of the
buildings on D. g. Penfeld's property or
Rose street. This was frustrated by ar
early discovery of the flames. On Sunday
night the frebugs succeeded in burning
the large barn in the rear Of the ComstocI
property on Main street. Last night at
O'Clock fire was discovered in the barn II
the rear of Mrs. Augusta Stebbin's resi-
denoe on Main street. The servants CAV,
the alarm and the flames were put out
with the aid of the iremen. Excitement
over the situation is intense, and ever,
effort ia being made to detect the guilt,
| ones.
| THE OUTCOME OF THE TROUBLES OF HART
FORD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
HARTFORD, April 6.-The suit of tn
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance company o
Hartford against ex-President A. G. Good
man for the recovery of $50, 900, which hi
is alleged to have received in excessive
dividends, has been Withdrawn, and tn
ten shares of the stock that the e1-presi
dent held, preventing the company from
becoming a mutual, as designed by tn
legislative reorganization in 1889, hav
been surrendered.
The act before the Legislature ordering
an investigation of the company's expen
ditures and management was also with
drawn. This action places the policy
holders of the Phoenix throughout tn
country in control.
The suit against ex-President Goodman
was passed at the instigation of Insurance
Commissioner o. R. Fyler. That oficia
compelled the stockholders and officers O
the company three years sgo to disgorg
upward of $50, 900 which had been received
by them as excessive dividends.
He insisted on the recovery of Mr.
Goodman's shares, and the suit has bee1
the last one as the result of the attempte,
capture Of the company by the Philadel
phia wrecker, AacFarlane, four year
ago. The stock is now totally wiped out
and the policy holders are placed in con
troll.
FELL FROM THE HAYLoFT.
WAREHOUSE POINT, April 6.-Willian
Il. Moore, aged twenty-five years, Will
intoxicated last evening, fell from the hay
} loft in the American hotel barn and wa
instantly killed, his neck being broken. 1
mother and two sisters survive him.
THE NEW INSURANCE. COMMISSIONER.
Yesterdays Hartford Courant remarks
''In nominating Burton Mansfield of Ney
Haven as insurance commissioner, Gov
ernor Morris has shown that he recognize
the Importance of the Office and the necee
sity of having there man of brains an,
character. He has gone by all the part
claimants, left those who call themse1ve
"the workers." and taken a quiet gentle
man who, while he is q democrat of demo
, Gratis, has not been In politics for hi
own benefit nor ever applied for any ofic
at all.
No objection is likely to be raised t.
Mr.. Mans6eld's confirmation. 4 democra
was, of course, to have the office. Tn
democrats cannot question his democracy
and the republicans may well be satisfied
with the fact that q gentleman of clea
} head and clean character is to occupy thi
! important position"
CONNECTICUT TOBACCO ExHIBIT-To BE SEE
II AT THE CAPITOL THIS WEEK.
II HARTFORD, April 6.-The large case /,
J which the Connecticut tobacco exhibi
will be shown at the worlds fair, was pu
together in the north corridor of the CAPT
: toll yesterday. There will be about 2o
samples OF the tobacco which vii
, hung therein to-day or tomorrow
and the exhibit will be shown O,
Friday and Saturday. Each bunch of lea
will bear description of the kind AM
r his postofsce address. The case will b
taken apart early next week and shipped
to Chicago. Louis B. Haas of this city
Who'll an expert in such matters, will ar
range the exhibit which has been plsnne,
by him with the assistance of q. s. Fry,
of Pequonock, president of the New Emo