Connecticut western news., 1895-07-25
STATE NEWS.


 About forty college students, most o them from Yale and Brown, are acting as walters at Block Island.
 Supt. E G. Parkhurst, of the gun department of Pratt & Whitney, has in- vented rapid firing machine gun, from which 100000 rounds of amuni- ton have been fired. It is considered very important invention.
 Bishop Tlerney is on his way home. He has visited Rome, Spain and Paris, and will also go to Holland and Belgium and will sal from Queenstown, Ireland.
 The venerable Vicar-General Hughes, of Hartford, will probably be made an honorary domestic prelate of the Pope. He will then have the title "Mon- signor," be addressed as Right Rev. and be entitled to wear the purple Epis- copal habit. This honor is we'll de- served.
 Work on Lieutenant Governor Cooke's new house in Winsted is progressing rapidly.
 A Unionville man recently found box turtle in his yard on the shell of which was the date 1S40.
 The town of Putnam has been made 8 city. There are now Is cities in the state.
 A little girl in Unionville was bitten about a month ago by her tame striped snake. The child wss seriously effected and showed symptoms of rattlesEake poisoning and seemed not likely to re- cover. The child Is now well again.
 Work has been suspended at the plant of the Bristol Copper and Silver Mining Co. owing to decline in the price of copper. This is the third attempt to work Che mine since it was opened in 1887.
 Lieut-rant- Colonel Henry Clark Cor bin, Assistant Adiutant- General, LISA, has been detailed to inspect the Con- necticut National Guard encampment at Mantle, August l2l7.
 Myron Jennings, of Bulls Bridge, way recently relieved of a live lizard three and a half inches long. which he had swallowed while drinking from brook, and which had been in his stomach over year.
 Francis Maher, 24, was killed by the cars at Simsbury last Thursday morn ing.
 Burglars entered NJ. 0. Henley's house at Thomaston last week. MT. Henley pursued them, firing at them with his revolver, and made the man who had stolen his clothes. in which were $40, drop them, but not the money.
 The Second Regiment, 0. N. G., Col. Burpee, commander. is to be equipped with campaign hats of the U. $. army regulation style.
 The contract for the state monument to be erected at Arlington cemetery in honor of the Second Conn. Heavy Ar tillery, has been awarded to the New England Granite Go. The regiment will hold its annual reunion at Lake vile, Sept. 1.
 Governor Coffin and staff will spend four days at the state camp at Mantle, going there August 13. On Governors Day the governor and stsff will all be mounted, the governor having received handsome dapple gray saddle horse from New York.
 Prospects for tobacco are said to be improving. This years crop, except where injured by hail. promises to be very fine. Lots of 1893 and 1894 tobac- co have recently been sold at various points in Connecticut valley at prices ranging from to 15 cents.
 Charles l.. Little, one of the leading contractors at Meriden. made an assign. ment last Friday, Liabilities $25. GOO Assets s1O.0OO
 Eight-year-old Arthur Stoeck, of Tor riugton, has been sent to the reform school at Meriden for stealing. He stole gold watch and pocket book.
 James Linehan, a blacksmith, em- ployed by J. B. Smith, of Salisbury, was found dead on lounge at Smiths house Friday morning. Death was probably due to apoplexy.
 Eddie. the 8-year-old son of Edward R. Beckley, carpenter, was drowned in the pond of tue Empire Knife works at Winsted, Friday afternoon. The body was recovered ten minutes after the accident.
 Ward Camp, aged II, son of l.. l.. Camp, of Winsted, was accidentally shot in tho head on Monday afternoon by Raymond Barnes, the 13-year-old son of William Barnes. The Barnes boy playfully snapped 32-calibre re- volver at the other boy, not knowing the weapon was loaded. The bullet has been extracted, and the chances of the boys recovery are good.