The Press., 1895-01-24


 her delivered abont $18 per ton, as there were too few people in town using coal to have a coal yard: <. Her father, 'Ebenezer Johnson, owned one of the first three wagons in town, another was owned by Miner Grant, but am not certain who owned, the third one, some think 1t was Dea. Dean. '-h~ . The Hartford, Manchester and Rock ville Tramway line is now completed from Burnside to South Manchester, and the cars will begin running the first, of April. Rockville extension will be begun as soon ras the ground will admit of work on. the South Manchester junction and run thEo' 5Hilliard street extension to Adams street, passing under the New York and New England road at BuckIand. From that point it will run to Oakland through Tal- cottville to Rockville. The new car house in Manchester is nearing completion. Its ground dimensions are 1OOx98 feet, and the building will accommodate twenty tight cars. Six new closed cars have been completed by the Wason car works at Springfield. Six open cars will be con- styucted for the summer business of the read. '-" x
 T-Hartford Courant Correspondence William E. Gary, the detective who has recently came before the public so promi- nentB because of his success in unearth- ing the Holmes Pltzel insurance swindle, formerly lived in Stafford.> He is broth CT to Charles, Dana and Levi Gary, we'll known business. men in town. William E. Gary is >a.-good illustration of what push and ability will accomplish in this fcountry He was born in Holland and later came to Stafford, where he was ems | ployed as a>spinner in the mill. He left Stafford when about twenty-two years old, and after knocking around~for year found employment with the Fidelity Life Insurance Company. From a subordinata position he worked his way up until now 1 he is one of the most valuable men in the employ of the company. He has been successful in ferreting out fraudulent claims against his company and Is still very busy on the Pitzel case.
 ;, Hartford Times: Senator Fuller of tho twenty-fourth district gets committee craftsmanship for which he is we'll fitted, that of the insurance committee. He. is the secretary of the Holland County Mu- taal Fire Insurance Company, one of the lstrongest mutual companies in the state.
 PalnerJ Journal 18th: While the menat the passenger station were working over badly used up drunk" who had been ,nd on tue New London Northern tracks la ts 80 Wednesday morning, g man lS into the station and announced that l1.i condp dpany with mother he had broken thto the state primary school, that the othersfaalow had been caught, and that he wished to give himself upand save trouble. He was questioned and finally locked up bB Deputy SherlR Studley, who then went to the school to learn more of the matter. His story was the. first intimstion the Of- l &S~~A been burglarized, but an examination showed that an entrance had been made iihto.the kitchen, though little or nothing was missing. The man who gave himself up was J0hn Devine, who broke into the school in March, 1898, and his companion this time, as before, was Charles Freder- ick Thompson, who formerly worked for Mrs. E. N. Fay, and Officer studley sur missed that he would go to her barn for the balance of the night. Acting on this supposition he started down the New Lon- don track on foot, and when near the round, house enearly had collision with the man he was looking for, as the night was intensely dark. Mir. Studley did not not see Thompson until within about ten feetof him, and Thompson did not see the. officer until he nabbed him. In court