The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-19
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT.
EVENTS or INTEREST IN MANI
PARTS OF THE STATE.

PARTS OF THE STATE.
A Dying State Prison Convict-An Insane
Convict-Large Death Rate i'll the State
for February-Testing for Diphtheria-
The Tub srculOus Cattle and State Action
Grimes and Criminals-GeneraiI Items.
Hartford, March 18.-Archibald Ora
ham, seventy-four years old, convict
at the state prison, was in a dying con-
dition last night. An attack Of the
grip has weakened his already feeble
constitution. Graham, with three 9TH
| ers, William II. jerks, Henry j.
Bloeser and John w Bloeser, father
! and son, was sentenced to ten years
| Imprisonment at Norwich January 5,
| 1887 for arson in setting fire to a dwell
ing house. There was barber shop
in the building, run by John w.
Bloeser, and the state established the
fact that the men consplred to set the
| building on fire to recover the insur-
ance on the shop. The eldest Bloeser
claimed that he was innocent and the
son now asserts that his father was
not participant in the crime. jerks
died October a. 1893. Warden Wood
bridge has notified Grahams wife, who
lives in Canada, of her husbands con-
dition, but has had no response.
Richard Coyle, a life prisoner SEN
fenced at Norwich May 4, 1885, for
murder in the second degree, is improv-
ing He has been seriously Ill and it
was thought would die.
Henry S. Hotchkiss of this city, who
was sentenced for life March 3, 1887,
for numbering his wife ON Market
street, is able to be around his cell
and the corridors, but is gradually fail
ing. He is unable to speak a loud word,
| one Of his lungs contains an abscess
and he is badly afflicted with sciatic
rheumatism.
Warden Woodbridge will go to Mid
dletown this morning and take to the
Connecticut Hospital for the Insane
Charles Clark, the convict recently
found to be insane by commission Of
doctors appointed by Governor Coffin.
Clark was sentenced for twenty years
at Bridgeport, March 2, 1894, for rape on
his niece.
1857 DEATHS IN FEBRUARY.
Hartford, March 1S-There were
1857 deaths reported in the state dur
ing the month Of February This was
321 more than i'm January, and 259 more
than the average number of deaths in
February for the five years preceding
the present. All but three Of the towns
reported, Bethany, North Canaan and
Woodbridge. The following towns are
reported as having no deaths in Feb
ruary: Ashford, Bozrah, Chaplin,
Chester, Durham, East Cranky, East
Haven, Franklin, Killingworth, Leb-
anon, Lisbon, Middlebury, Nordth
Branford, Old Lyme, Saybrook, South
bury, Sterling, Westbrook, wilmington,
Wolcott-20.
The death rate was 1876 for the large
towns; for the small towns 214, and 20 |
for the whole state.
The deaths from zymotic diseases
were 1853, being IL per cent. Of the total |
mortality. Some of the principal causes |
of death were: Diseases of the nervous |
system, 1888; pneumonia, 246: consump- |
tion, 1875; heart disease, 113; grip, 55 |
bronchitis, So; diphtheria and Group. 81; |
whooping cough, ~; typhoid fever, 4;
scarlet fever, 4. One of the deaths
from typhoid fever occurred in Hart
ford.
TESTING FOR DIPHTHERIA.
Secretary Lindsey of the state board
of health says in the February bulletin.
THE practice inaugurated by the
New York city board Of health of gra-
tuitously making meteorological exami-
nations to differentiate true diphtheria
from false diphtheria has been followed
in few other cities, and in our own
state by the board of health of Hart
ford. The Importance Of doing this IS
not easily overestimated, whether re-
garded from a scientific point Of view
or purely in the light of public safety.
The results of such examinations show
that a large percentage of suspected
cases Of diphtheria about 40 per cent?
were not true cases, and seldom or never
contagious So on the other hand a
considerable number Of sore threats be-
lieved to be non-contagious were found
by the archaeological test to be real
diphtheria in mild form. Again. the
testing of convalescents from time to
time, proves that the infection remains
with them in many instances long after
recovery is supposed to be complete.
Both classes of cases are often walking
of Infection"
TUBERCULOSIS.
Yesterdays Norwich Bulletin says:
"The farmers of Connecticut should not
be deceived. They are being quietly
told that the movement against tuber-
culous cattle is wholly in the interest
Of veterinary surgeons instead Of in the !
interest Of the public health-that it is
a job to get $4,000 out OF the state
That is not So 1t Is an en-
deavor to have Connecticut take rank !
with the other New England states J
in their efforts to remove what is be-
lieved to be one of the chief sources of
in this part of the country y
For this purpose last week the Massa-
ehusetts legislature appropriated $780,
)0O 1t is the height of folly to think
that Massachusetts has been duped into |
such an expenditure of money as this
After an inquiry covering four years c
he authorities have decided that the .
cheapest way to be rid Of tuberculous :
larry animals is by speedy slaughter