Connecticut western news., 1895-01-24
STATE NEWS.

Hartford has two hundred cases of the grip.
 The home for incurable children, which will open in Wethersfield in about month, will have ten inmates at the start.
 Rev Mir Hubbard of Goshen Congre- gationai church has been presented by bis congregation with $l00, and given six weeks vacation.
 A remarkable showing is made in the death report of Harwinton for last year. Leaving out two infants, the ages of the thirteen deceased persons foot up 969, @ total of TAI years each.
 The Centennial celebration of the town of Plymouth will be held at Ply mouth Center on Tuesday evening. May 14th, 1895, to be continued at Terryville on Wednesday May 18th.
 If any one thinks that farming in Litchfield does not pay let him ask M. B Brennan who in short time has paid off the mortgage on his farm in the north part of the town -Litchfeld Enquirer.
 It is proposed to have I'M. O. A. in Litchfield. Over thirty names have been signed to the petition, and the movement promises to be eminently successful.
 Rev o. G. Bristol, rector of the P. E.. Church of the Good Shepherd in Hart ford, took his third degree in Masonry last Thursday.
 The stock of the Consolidated Road touched 200 in Boston stock market one day last week. The stock now pays per cent, but there is feeling that it may pay better later on.
 Hartford High School boys have formed an anti-cigarette club.
 Fire broke out in the factory of the day morning. and the establishment was com pletely gutted. It is supposed the fire started from the furnace. The dam age is estimated at about $l0,000, not more than half covered by insurance. A former pastor of one of our village churches was called upon to perform g marriage ceremony during his pastorate here. After performing the ceremony aD envelope, which he supposed con. tained the usual stipend, was handed him, but opening it he found twenty | five cent internal revenue stamp that had been taken from beer keg. West | porter.
 The Wooden Frame Bicycle Company of Boston will probably locate it's plant in Thompsonville within a short time They will make bicycle for $20. | The press of the State, led by the Hartford Post, are out strongly for ar investigation of the scandal at the Stats encampment Drunkenness among the Connecticut National Guard has become stench in the nostrils of self-respectine men, and the attempt to hide 1t has only brought out the present protest Torrington Register, .-..
 Michael Hennessey, of Gaylordsville who was serving 8 10 years sentence fol manslaughter in Wethersfeld. died Sat urday of apoplexy. He has been weak since an attack of the grip several months ago. He was 65 years old, or November 23d, 1893. Hennessey dur ing drunken debauch threw his wife into blazing fireplace where she re ceived burns from the effects of which she died ten days later.-New Milford Gazette.
 The Weantinaug Hotel property ba, recently passed into the hands of tht mortgagee, Mrs w. D. Black. It il understood that lease of the hotel vii be completed with competent party It will be put in complete repair ant be thoroughly equipped with heating apparatus so that it can be kept oper throughout the year as a 6rst-clas hotel New Milford Gazette.