Connecticut western news., 1893-01-05
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TolNHABlTANTs
 OF THE NUTMEG STATE.

Facts Concerning the Important Happen,
 ines of the Week in This Vicinity and
 Elsewhere Briefly Told for the Benefit
 of People Whose Tim. Is Valuable.
 NEW BRITAIN, Jan. 2-Frederick Lein was choked to death by piece of meat while at dinner. He was eighty-seven years old.
 A Schooner Sank.
 NEW HAVEN, Jan. 2--A telegram from Cape Henry stated that the schooner James Weaple Ponder, Captain Dodd, bound t~ this port with lumber, had become water logged and gone to the bottom. She .waa abandoned by her crew. but no hvea were lost.
 Panic at a Cock rtwht.
 NORWICH. Jan. 8 As a result of s cock fight at the Miantonomah hotel, three miles north of this city. Sunday morning, two game cocks, steel gaifed and ready for the fray, are strutting about cell in the Norwich police station, and be hind the bars of adjoining cells are mum. Der of rueful sports of this and adjoining towns. One of the spectators, who leaped from a third story window to avoid the DO lice, fractured his skull and expired in, stantly. Other spectators are nursing broken arms, broken legs and broken ribs.
 A Missing Bridexreow.
 BRIDGEPORT, Jan. 2.--John Thornton, who was to have married Sadie Hanley, an estimable young woman of this city, at St. Patrick's church Christmas day, and who failed to put in an appearance st that time, has not been heard from. The young woman is nearly prostrated with grief. but still is firm in the belief that her affianccd husband will return to her and the cere mony will take place.
 Thornton's father, who lives in this city, and other relatives are not SO certain. They fear foul play. When Thornton left Cox. sackie, where he was employed, to come to this city he was accompanied as far as New York by friends. That was a week ago last Wednesday. They left him there in the best of spirits. Since that time noth- ing has been heard of him. He had written to Miss Hanley that he would arrive in this city the following day. Nothing was thought of the delay in his coming. and when the hour came for the ceremony the bride donned her bridal dress the wedding party assembled and the clergyman was ready
 Thornton's father and uncle went to New York yesterday. They are certain that Thornton is dead, and say he would not desert his fiancee If he was alive. They will put the case in the hands of Superin. tendent Byrnes but the father s.ys he ex- poets to find only the dead body of his boy. Thornton was a sober, industrious young fellow. When he reached New York last week he had a considerable sum os money with him.
 An octogensrian Compositor. NORWICH, Jan. Lon New Years day Joshua Barstow. of this city, who is the oldest printer in active service In the coun- try, was eighty-four years old, and he gave little reception to his friends and fellow typos of Norwich. Mir Barstow still sets type in town occasionally, and Is yet hale and aotive--a small, compact and ruggedly built man, with round, bronzed, almost unwrinkled face, with rim of gray whls- kers, and with clear, shrewd, twinklinR blue eyes. His hair Is still dark, though sprinkled with silver threads Mir Bar stow iogs about town at good pace, lug. ging along heavy staff, but he does not need the staff except for ornamental pur- poses and to strike unruly dogs now and then.
 Curtis Gets a Good Berth. BRIDGEPORT, Dec. sI.-victor s. Curtis, son Of Assistant Superintendent John c. Curtis. has been appointed agent of the local office of the Adams Express com pany.
 wanamaker's New Card. BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 2o - Postmaster General Wanamaker has ordered a new international return card of pearl gray color and of finer board than any ret used to be printed here.
 Ren,ssn Cannot Livs, HARTFORD, Dec. go In probing the wound of John Remsen, who was shot at East Berlin, Dr. Ensign discovered that an artery had been severed Remsen cannot live.
 Chaplain Warner Resigns BRrDeKPoRT, Dec. 3i = Rev. Beverly k. Warmer, chaplain of the Fourth regi- ment, C. N. G., has forwarded his r~sig- nation to Colonel Frost, of Norwalk Rev. Mr. Warmer is rector of Christ church, this city, and gives his reason for resi1ninR asa chaplain that he has not the time to give to~ the duties.
 The Marriage AnnuIIsd.
 HARTFORD, Dec. 3i.-Judge Prentice has issued decree annulling the marriage of Louisa H. K. Randall, of Hartford, and Augustus w. Randall, of Providence, on the ground that at the time of the marriage the defendant was already a married man and had never been divorced from his witc.
 Tn. ssat~n" Company Stranded NEw HAVEN, Dec 9i.-The members of the Satan company are stranded here. The company is backed by Dr. H. A. Lewis, of Philadelphia
 Wells wm Probated. BRIDGEPORT, Dec. sI. - The will of George A. Wells, the eccentric partner of F. T. Barnum, was admitted to probate. The property is worth about sl35, GOO, ins cluding two hotels in Rockville.
 Bishop Williams Big Prss@aa- HARTFORD, Dec. e9.-Presidipg Bishop John Williams, of the Protestant Episcopal church in America, was intensely gratified by one of his Christmas gifts. The fine old colonial house in Woodbury which is called the birthplace of the American episcopaten has been purchased by friends and presented to him. ..
 Livery Stable Burned.
 NEW HAVEN, Dec. 2s.-The livery stable of D. c. Cook & Sons on Meadow street, near Front, was burned. Loss. s2o,o0o; in. surance, 5000. -:
 Ex-CIerk w@idron's Errors
 NEW HAVEN Dec 2s.-The discrepancy in the accounts of ex-clerk Frederick Wal. dron, of the board of public works, grows greater with each additional days investi. gation. When the errors were first disoov- cred they amounted to ss45. Since then the expert who has been engaged to audit the books finds that the deficit now reaches nearly $500 So far but one account has been investigated. If the same number of errors are found in the many other account. the discrepancy will be pretty serious af- fair. .e Two Girls Struck by a Train. ROCKVILLE, Dec 2s. = Mary Bachman. thirteen years old, was killed and Lena Raymond badly injured by being struck by train.
 Martha J. Lamb Dead.