The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-28
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Death of an Aged Hartford Lady--New Company Formed Hartford FireInan's s
 Case-Cant ExpIain-Out of Work Fiendish Assault on Woman.
 Mrs. Jeremiah V, Allen, mother of I
 M. Allen, president of the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance and Inspection company died at the home of MT, Allen in Hartford at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing in her ninety-first year.
 Representative William H Watrous
 of Hartford has been elected a member
 of the New York Yacht club.
 The George w. Longstaff company
 has been organized at Bridgeport with
 a capital of $10,OOO, to manufacture all kinds of woodwork
 John Mace, seventy-eight Years old, an assembler at Colts armory for forty pneumonia.
 Walter Abbe, a carriage maker and farmer of Andover, seventy-ene years old, died at the Hartford hospital Mon day evening. .u
 The Hartford board of water commis- sioners has tabled a motion of Commits sioner John H. Hall, proposing that Engineer Henry w. Ayers be discharged for alleged neglect of duty in not watch- ing the course of the water from the Tumble down brook reservoir to reser- voir No. 5, and then discovering the leaks in the canal
 Miss Nellie Carey, now contralto at the Center church, Hartford, will suc- ceed Mrs. Virginia P. Warwick at the Park church in that city.
 sa Mrs. John Rutherford while at the Gem rink fire in Bridgeport Tuesday ev- ening, stepped into a hole and broke her left leg at the knee
 Robert E. Morrison of Bridgeport, who disappeared three weeks ago, turned up in Stamford and is now at his home, but unable to explain his absence. He is suffering from exposure and doesn't know where he has been.
 George s. Gregory's livery stable in East Norwalk was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Loss $5,0O0; insured.
 The Norwalk iron works where are manufactured air compressors and have closed down. throwing 200 men out of work. The cause is lack of orders. The concern had been running night and day on government work all the dull times.
 The search for the bodies of the Shors- kowjci woman and her dead child has been abandoned by the Thompson a,1- thorities. The entire territory within a radius of five miles of the farm house where the bloody things were found has been gone over without result. The l matter is now in the hands of State At | torney Hunter of Willimantic
 Derby, Feb. 27--A car on the Derby | electric road ran into an open switch | last night. John r. Paddock, the motor- man, was thrown off and the wheels | passed over his right hand, cutting it off. He was taken to the New Haven hospital.
 Branford, Feb. 27.--A valuable horse belonging to Michael Rice fell on the ice |. n front of J.H. Moore's blacksmith shop his morning. One of its legs was brok- m and the animal was killed.
 Bridgeport Feb. 27-A dastardly as- iault was committed in the West End asst evening about 7.30 o'clock. The vic. i'm resides with Miss Sarah J. Bartram if Black Rock and her name is Miss Julia Brown. She was on her way to -isit Mrs. Neil Hansen of Schofield ave- tue, when she was attacked by man vho came up behind her. In the strug- -le which followed nearly ever stitch f clothing was torn from her body. Ter assailant escaped. The assault was in very dark spot, but it ,as only about twenty yards from Fair cid avenue going north. Miss Brown I a woman twenty-three years old nd very good looking Her condition 1 his morning is serious.