Connecticut western news., 1895-10-17

 . Her owner released the leg, but the strain had been so great that the COW was unable to rise for three days,
 The 18th annual meeting of the Con- necticut State Teachers Association will be held at New Haven, Friday, October Is.
 r The Hotchkiss school at Lakeville has 100 students.
 Yale seniors have voted to wear caps and gowns every Sunday through the year.
 The oldest known appletree in this country Is in Cheshire. The seed was planted 40 years ago, and the tree still bears few apples.
 Charles O. Gill, captain of the Yale football team of 1889, and one of the best players Yale ever had, Is going to China as missionary, accomps nied by his wife.
 Miss Sophia Bogardus has begun an action against the Philadelphia, Read ing and New England railroad company for $25 900 damages for injuries receiv- ed in 8 collision on that railroad On June 2lst last Miss Borgardus was teaching school in Salisbury at the time.
 Mrs Anna Fowler Jackson (colored) of Winsted, was found guilty by the Jury in the Superior court at Litchfield. last Thursday, of conducting house of ill fame and sentenced to two months in jail. Lawyer Nickerson appeared for Mrs Jackson.
 Patrick Casey and Charles Stone. two prisoners confined in the Holland Coun- ty jail, escaped last Thursday by tear ing away the metal sheathing on the roof. Casey escaped from jail once be- fore. He is ball player and halls from Rockville.
 At the instigation of Bridgeport prosecuting agent ten deputy sheriffs made raid last week at the Danbury fair and found liquor being sold at eight places on the grounds One man stated that the police had guaranteed protection. Ten arrests were made.
 There is much feeling in New Haven because the fve-hour express from Boston to New York, which began run ming Monday, Is scheduled not to stop at New Haven.
 While out hunting near East Haven last Thursday, Dominick Braun was seriously wounded and Robert CirilIo was killed. They pulled double bar relied shot gun through the bushes, with the muzzle pointing towards them. The town of Vernon has appropriated $l0. .O00 in order to entitle it to the legacy of that amount under the will of the late George Maxwell to found u public library.
 A California squash. raised at Uoion City, five feet in circumference and weighing 100 pounds, has been on ex- hibition at Waterbury.
 The vote of August 12 to appropriate S3, COG under the good roads law was rescinded at the Winsted town meeting. The Welden's double crossing at Win sted is to be abolished, the N Y N H. x H. Ky. Go paying $l,500 and the town paying $1,000.
 Torrington has let it's macadam road contract to New Haven parties at S71 cents per squa.e yard Other bids were Sl 40, Sl 60 and $2.0O per square yard.
 Harvey Hotchkiss aged seventy two, and Nellie Kay, aged twenty five years, were married in New York last week. Hotchkiss IS one of the wealthiest and most prominent men tn Ansonia. The bride was formerly housekeepsr of 8 hotel in Derby.
 Pbilo Cummings barn at Litcbfeld was burned last Saturday morning. Four horses. hay, grain and farming implements were also consumed. Loss $3.0OO.
 Thomas Fearey, 30. dropped dead from heart failure iu Thomas C,rney s saloon at Waterbury last Saturday.
 Mrs Mary Coffey, of Moosup, cele. brated the lO4th anniversary of hel birth last Friday. She has been in the United States only few months.
 The annual meeting of the Bar asso citation held at Litchfeld last Friday re elected the old board of officers.
 While playing with loaded revolver George Nevens, of Collinsville, twelve years of age, shot himself in the righ thigh. Physicians have been unable tc locate the bullet.
 The Berlin Iron Bridge Company 0 East Berlin has just completed high way bridge over Still River at NeV Milford. consisting of one span of 17( feet, with roadway twenty feet wid, Tn the clear. The bridge is 105 fee above the bed of the river.
 All the banks. mem bers of the Hart ford Clearing House Association. O observ ed Lincoln Day Tuesday 15,) as pub lie holiday and the clearing house wal closed.