Connecticut western news., 1895-11-07
STATE NEWS.

Frank Butler, of Burlington, was kill ed last lhursuay by the accidental dls- charge of his gun while hunting near Colllnsvllle.
 great this year. while the chestnut har- vest is one of the greatest ones in the history of Connecticut. In the woods, the ground beneath every chestnut tree, big aud little, old and young, IS literal ly speckled with the brown fruit.
 We note that the men of Bulls Bridge, ln the town of Kent, met, the other day, and moved anu cleaned up the cemetery in that dlstrlct. This is good Idea aud the people of other Con- nectIcut country towns might follow it to the advantage ot their burial places. It isn't pleasant thing to say, but 1t Is true, that the average country cemetery, with its broken down fences, leaning gravestones, Ia K growth of grass and blooming weeds Is not pleasant place aud does not show the proper respe,t for the dead.-Ansonla Sentinel.
 The New Haven Good Government Club now numbers 4O0 members. It is proposed to attend the party caucusses.
 It is announced that the Consolida- ted railroad company will make various lmproveme rents on the New England road, as soon as the improvements on the Berkshire division are completed. The New England is to be double-tr ed from PIalnvllle to FIshkiil. It Is al- ready double-tracked nearly all the way from Plainville to Boston.
 The New Haven Palladium stated last week that two enterprising Hebrews were doing a thriving business in the adjoining town of Orange by buying up and slaughtering diseased and decrepit cattle and selling the meat in the cheap meat markets of New Haven.
 Hartford with population of 67 900 Is now the eighth among New England cities. Boston, Providence, New Hav- en, Worcester, Fall River, Lowell and Cam bridge are ahead.
 The old furnace at Roxbury Station owned by A l.. Hodge x Son, is being repaired and machinery is to be put in for grinding garnets. The industry seems to be increasing.
 Horace Manvill, of Woodbury, is pro- bably the oldest church member Tn Connecticut. or in the United States, he having been received into the Church at MiddlebHry, December 3. 1915, nearly eighty years ago. Mir Manvill is nearly l0l years of age.
 Concrete walks are belng laid in Tor rington for the low price of 50 cents per yard.
 The Congregational church in Litch- field has extended call to Rev John Hutchens to become its settled pastor
 The Putnam Phalanx and friends started for Atlanta on Saturday.
 Dr Staub, of New Milford, who was married just prior to being operated on for appendicitis, is in a fair way to re- covery.
 Judge George W. Wheeler has decid- ed that all the ballots in the recent Sa- lem town election were illegal and the old officials will probably hold over.
 Wadhams Post, Ct. A R, of Water bury, has entered the movement de- signed to secure an organization sue. ceeding the Grand Army, to carry on it's work, and has organized an auxiliary of 50 prominent citizens.
 The plant of the Berlin Iron Bridge | Go. at East Berlin Is running to it's full capacity. The company never had so much work on hand at this season oi the year as at present, and they are obliged to run their entire plant uDtil 10 o'clock at night in order to fill theil orders.
 The Yale football eleven defeated the West Point eleven at West Point or ! Nov. 9 Score 28 to 8.
 meeting of tho chairmen of the b ards of assessors and boards of reli. of the state was held at the capitol yes terday to discuss the best means of ob taining uniform property valuations.
 A party of surveyors has recently been at work on the Berkshire division of the Consolidated road with view tc aightning tho road wherever possible A great increase in freight traffic on thil line is expected as soon as the pee freight cars, now nearly completed, al, ready and the improvements in th' roadbed are made.
 A. B Fancher. of Pound Ridge. diet of a paralytic shock. He was 84 year old and had served 30 years as justice of the peace and had married over 3O' couples. Funeral held this week. The Waterbury board of trade, organ ized six years ago, has disbanded.
 Torrington's recent census shows gain of 2997 since 1890, her presen .' population being S955.
 Last Sunday liquor raids in Ne' Haven resulted in IT arrests, and l ] New London on the same day the La' , and Order League found eight place . violating the law.
 r John Blade, 15, of Waterbury, WE
 sentenced on Monday, by Judge Cove
 of the city court. to fine of $50 an Q costs for skipping the face of girl wit 8 whom he was quarreling. The ser I tence is considered unwsrrantably s' h were.
 a Tuesday morning 8 train on th Middletown branch of the Consolidate
 road struck a light carriage. in whic were Mrs John Rowley, 65. and ht 1t daughter, Miss Hattie R Rowley, 26 ( j. Berlin, killing Mrs Rowley almost il |. s'sntly and seriously ipIuring h' : daughter The horse was also killed.
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