Connecticut western news., 1894-08-30
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There are now 135 children at the Gill bert Home in Winsted.
 Miss Gertrude Lyon, of Norwalk, while fishing recently canght shark which measured seven feet.
 The state board of charities has just inspected the county jail ut Lltchfield and finds it greatly overcrowded.
 A party of Northfield fishermen re- gently captured ir Dog pond. Goshen, a snapping turtle weighing 43 pounds. A New Haven man recently sold his wife for $50 It's dollars to doughnuts that the buyer got cheated. -Westport- or.
 The one hundreth anniversary of Rising Sun Lodge. No. 27. F < M, twill be held at Washington Depot. Conn {, Sept. 9th.
 An immense Grange picnic was held at the lake near Winsted on Friday The attendance was estimated at from 700 to 800.
 A ratification meeting of the state re- publican ticket will be held in Bridge port September 25th. A mammoth torchlight parade will take place in the evening.
 Yale's next Freshman class will num- ber 600. and the total mum ber of students in the academic and scientific depart ments this year will be l.8b7. New Hartford Tribune.
 The post office at Easthampton was recently entered by burglars. The safe was broken open and all the money in- side, amounting to $l5, was taken New Hartford Tribune.
 W. s. and Fl. A. Pinney have several acres of cucumbers on their plains farm in Snfield, and the harvest is in pro- gress. They go to the canning factory at Windsor for pickles.
 Daniel E. Smith. one of the publish CTS of the DanbnrS News. died August p, after brief but severe illness. He was thirty five years of age and leaves . widow and one daughter.
 Levi Bierce's farm in Thomaston car ries the banner for buck W heat this year, if not for number of years past. The stalk is six feet eight inches high and
 
 as big around as young willows.
 MT Burr, a New York lawyer, and Fred Ohnen, g New Preston angler, re. cently caught black bass in Waramaug Lake. which was "A inches long, IA in- ches wide, and weighed II pounds,
 The black bass record for the section has been beaten. Attorney Burr of New York pulled from Lake Waranlaug on Saturday, a black bass weighing seven pounds and eight ounces. ADan bury News.
 The Winsted bicycle club will hold it's first annnal tournament at Lakeside Driving Park Winsted, Sept. 6th There will be six races by some of the best bicyclists in this and neighborine states. Many prizes will be offered.
 The l5Oth anniversary of the Congre eational Church, Roxbury. will be com memorated in that church on Tuesday Sept. 4. The services will begin at 1t a. m. and 2 p. m. There will be a col lation at l2 and social gathering at tn, parsonage at p. m.
 The peach crop is said to be 80 poo that the New York, New Haven ant Hartford road will not run it's specia fruit train 10 Boston this season. Tn, yield available in the central and west ern mart of his state is said to amour to but 15O. .OOO baskets against 1,500.0 0O' year ago.
 A fatal runaway accident occurred a Collinsyille last Friday. Mir W. w Bidwell, ,an old and respected citizen, wa driving his handsome team about hi farm when the horses took fright ant ran away. MT 3ldweli was throwi violently to the ground and instantl. killed, his head and body being badl, cut and bruised.
 The failed 6rm of William Eggert Co. wholesale dealers in tobacco il New York. owes c s Griswo&d & Sor of West Hartford, Conn, over S22, 900 The firm is also indebted to Edward Halliday of Snffield and Taylor ant Beckman of Westfeld. Mass. Liabili ties are placed at $3l0.000 with asset of $l26. GOO Connecticut Farmer.
 SALISBURY.