Connecticut western news., 1895-09-26
STATE NEWS.

Salisbury has reduced it's bonded in- debtedness from S50,O00 to S2I, ,000 during the past year.
 There wore 1852 deaths reported in the state during August. or these 23S were from diarrhoea in children under five years old.
 Truman Tuttle, the oldest person in New Hartford, will reach his 95ih birth day tho 29ih inst.
 An enterprise is on foot. backed by Terryville and Thomaston capital. to construct au electric road from Bristol to the two places above named.
 Miss Stella Levi, walking in her sleep. fell thirty feet from an open window at her home at 46 Park street, New Haven, but sustained no serious iDiury. ..s4
 Theron Cowles, of Pleasant Valley, has raised marvellous turnip from just one seed of the White Globe species. This specimen weighs 1855 pounds. and its largest circumference is 34t inches.
 The West Point cadet football team have arranged to play Trinity, October 5. Yale November 9 and Wesleyan Nov ember 9. It is not stated whore.
 Based on the school census, Torring- ton has population of 5000.
 Mrs Charles Folsom. oged 61 years. was bsrned to death at Winsted last Saturday by her clothing taking fire from an oil stove which she accidental | ly overturned.
 | A beautiful mirage was viewed from StoninRton last week Sunday morning, when Fishers Island, Mystic Island and the White Squadron, anchored between the two points, formed the pretty pic ture.
 Miss Harriet c. Jones, of New Hart. ford, sailed tbe l7th inst on the North German Lloyd steamship Spree" for Bremen, and will spend year in study at Berlin, Germany. She was accom- panied to New York by her father.
 winstei young men have formed a bald-besded club. shaved their crowns and vowed to forsske womap's society. One member has brain fever, and Is not expected to live.
 w. Fl. Davidson. who recently lost his wife at Great Hill. is now in York state. He moved from Great Hill very suddenly. leaving pig in the pen which would have starved there but for the neighbors.
 Mir Manchester of Winsted, has pro. duced this season l 026 bushels of pota- toes on & acres of land.
 Winsted's annual fair is over. It was & success. but not so much of success as her wild man.
 Dr Nelson Isham, the oldest living graduate of Yale Medical college, died at Little Falls, N. r., on the 18th inst He was born in Bolton. Conn.,, in 1905 He was a member of the class of '2S.
 The four mammoth elms in front o Dick's hotel at Newtown, victims of the elm tree beetle, were cut down las week. These trees were veterans anc were set out 51 years ago. Maple tree, will now be set in the place of the elms
 Dame Rumor informs us that twt well known young men in town ar, thinking seriously of brushing tue dus of Norwalk from their shoes and accept ing positions theatrical wise.-Soutl Norwalk News. Next we will hear O them abandoning the theatrical profes sion to its fate, and getting more dus on their shoes, to wipe of in Norwalk -Danbury Dispatch.
 It seems exceptionally sad and crue for woman, mother of children, {, die in the prosperous city of Bridge port, of starvation. Bridgeport Post It does indeed. It seems exceptional, sad and cruel for woman to starve t' death anywhere in this great. glorious } prosperous and wealthy country. | bury Dispatch.
 Miss Ada Tease, daughter of MT an, , Mrs Myron Pease. died at her home il , Thompsonville last Friday after thre days illness with acute scarlet fever Miss Pease was an exceedingly talente'
 and popular young woman with a larg
 circle of friends who mourn her loss She leaves besides her parents, ou sister and two brothers, George an, Rev Charles Pease of Chicopee.
 Bridgeport now has sos saloons.
 The Meriden Agricultural societ
 will hold it's ninth annual fair Oct 2,
 and 4, in the absence of the etate fsii
 A. O. Provost, grocery and mes dealer, of Winsted, has made an assign D ment. An attachment for $500 has bee D placed on the saloon of Harry Liebold & South Norwslk.
 D A crowd of young men and boy @ caught wife-beater in the act of beat a ing his wife on Monday night at Ne'
 Haven and dragged him out of tn house and gave him good thrashine A reunion of the members of tn j. House of Representatives of 1895 WE o held at Woodmont Monday afternoon
 Dinner was served in large tent on th
 lawn, Speaker Fessenden acting 6 o toastmaster. Speeches were made 11 Lieut.. Gov. Cooke, Senator D. T Wal i. ner and others There was 0 good s , tandance includinu many of th