The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-12
CONNECTICUT J0ITINGS.
Events or INTEREST IN TARIOUS
Parts or THE STATE.

PARTS or THE STATE.
Escaped Convicts From the Insane Asylum
"A Girls sudden Death-Fire In Woloott
The State Targets-Peaeh Yellows' Law
An Electric Road Contest-Bridgeport'
Criminal Court Has a Busy Day Water
towns Annual Big Fair.
Middetown, Sept. 11,-Thomas Welch
and Edward Burke, the two convict
inmates of the asylum who escaped
yesterday. were captured this morning
and returned to the institution. The
men We're committed to the asylum
from the state prison at Wetherstield
said both are perfectly sane and they
will be sent back to prison within a
week. Burke was convicted of assault
ing Telegraph Operator Vail in Thomp-
sonville and was sentenced to twelve
years in prison. The men filed the
guard off the window in their cell yes
terday and jumped from the second
story window to the ground.
DIED IN BED FROM HEART
DISEASE.
Hartford, Sept. 11.-Bridget Troy,
servant girl employed by Patrick Don
aghue, the wholesale liquor dealer, at
his residence, 1876 Capitol avenue, was
found dead in her bed at o'clock this
morning. Yesterday the girl was APP
parently in good health and did a big
days work and on that account Mrs,
Donaghue thought she would let her
rest longer than usual, this morning,
but about s o'clock she went to her
room to wake up and found that she
was dead. Heart disease is supposed
to be the cause of her death.
DEA UPsON'S BARNS BURNED.
The large and commodious cattle
barns and sheds in Wolcott extending
about 200 feet in length, together with
twenty-five or thirty tons of hay, one
hundred shocks of grain and most Of
the farming tools of Dea Evelyn M.
Upson, was struck by lightning and en-
tirely consumed during the shower
Monday evening, Mr.. Epson having
barely time to get out his herd of Jer-
seys. The loss is about $4,000, covered
third by insurance.
STATE TARGETS.
Assistant Quartermaster General
Cheney intends to have placed in all
state rifle ranges signs warning all
persons against trespassing upon state
property. Recently tramps broke into
the rifle range at New Britain and
burned UP the target frames. The tar
gets now being issued to the National
Guard arb drawn from the United
States government at a considerable
saving, as they cost but five cents
each The targets formerly purchased
by the department cost seventy and
eighty cents each. The target drawn
from the government is of light manila
paper and is strengthened by pasting
cotton cloth on the back. The cloth
and pasting makes each target cost
altogether about forty cents, or one-half
the cost of the pasteboard targets for
merly issued. Now that the pasteboard
targets are used up, the department
will use only the new targets.
WILL TIGHT THE "YELLoWs'' LAW
Stonington, Sept. 11.--Amasa. M. Main
a large peach grower, has sixty tive
trees condemned for yellows. Mr. Main
> took up several of his trees by the roots
last spring that were diseased, but he
claims that those which have just been
condemned are not effected with the
!. yellows, and that he will not cut them
or allow anyone else to do so. He has
informed the inspector that if anything
Sea oy, IL ,ye+ I,o1 ;,,
a1er, and proposes ITO test the question In
the highest courts without regard to OK.
pense.
tative Appleton Main was one
of the chief opposers of the yellows law
in the legislature when an endeavol
was made to amend or abolish it,
FAIRFIELD COUNTY LAW LIBRARY
Bridgeport, Sept. 11.-Judge George
W.Wheeler and Attorney Curtis Thomp
son of this city, and Judge Brewster Of
Danbury, reported to the probate cour
here to-day that the bequest of $4,000
made by Chief Justice Butler of the SUI
preme court of this state, to the Fair
field county law library twenty years
ago, was at last exhausted but tina
the library now contained the reports
of all the states in the union, all Tho
modern text books, and next to the Ii
brary at the Hartford capitol, is the fin
est in the state. The above committee
was appointed in 1890 to take charge O
the fund. Previous to that time onl!
the interest was expended Judg,
Wheeler thought however, that tn,
principal should be spent at once, ant
the probate court has confirmed hi
judgment.
ELECTRIC ROAD HEARING.
Hartford, Sept. 11.-Judge Fem of the
supreme court sat in THE superior cour
to-day to hear the appeal of the New
Britain Central Railway and Electric
company for leave to extend its track;
through streets in the city of New
Britain to the town line of Newington
where it will connect with the line!
of the Hartford Street Railway com
pany Attorney F. L. Hungerford ant
his son, Attorney William C. Hunger
ford, appeared for the company. Judge
w. F. Henney of Hartford and City At
torney Gussman of New Britain wer'
counsel for the city of New Britain
The Street Railway company maintain.
that it has a right to make the exten
sion under the law passed by the legis
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