Connecticut western news., 1895-11-14

The Yale-Princeton football game will occur at New York on November 23.
 Michael Higgins, of Stonington. the wealthiest man in that section, was fined $500 and costs and sentenced to six months n jail on Tuesday for violation of the no-license law.
 The girls boarding school at Norwslk was robbed of Sl ,0O0 worth of jewelry on Monday night.
 Jeremiah Watson was bonnd over to the Superior Court Monday in 5000 bonds for robbing the safe in G. H. Affords store at Winsted ou Saturday night In default of bail he was taken to Litchfield jail He had formerly been employed by MT Afford. R4vJohn H. Duggan. 62, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Waterbury. died at that city Sunday afternoon. He was cese and an able insncier. His new church, which Is nearly completed. will be the largest in the diocese after the cathedral. His death was caused by a fall some days age from the piazza of his new parochial residence, which re- suited from leaning against temper ary railing, which gave way. He was a very heavy man.
 Sheriff Nellis has appointed James Benton, of Morris. jsiler of the Lltch- field jail in the place of John E SedR- wick, who has held the position for 15 years and made good record. The change is made for political reasons, the sheriff being republican and MT Sedg- wick a democrat.
 Nov. was the l50th anniversary of the founding of the Episcopal parish of St, Michael's, Litchfeld. The rector, Rev Storrs O. Seymour, preached an historical sermon last Sunday commem- orative of the occasion. Hartford trolley cars are to be pro- vided with life saving tenders. The newly started Yale school of mu- sic has just instituted a permanent fea- lure in symphony orchestra of 40 pieces. the first of the kind organized in any university in the country.
 The "bottomless" pit on the New England railroad at Towantic has been finally filled by the dumping into it of nearly 5000 carloads of gravel and many abandoned freight cars The embsnk- ment has stopped settling and trains may now pass safely.
 Proceedings have been instituted ip | the courts to determine tue validity of the recent law enacted by the legisls- ture which forces the building and maintenance of the Hartford bridge by certain towns. The towns are coutest- ing.
 The Greenw oods Company of Kew | Hartford are erecting large cotton shed in the yard south of the brick mill, to be 123 feet by 65 feet in size, three floors. The stills rest on 98 brick piers, each pier capable of sustaing Is tons weight. The shed will be capable oi storing about 1000 bales of cotton.
 From the Torrington Register: "The number of cases of typhoid fever seem to be increasing. There are not any thing near so many as the street reports go, but too many for comfort. People need to take precautions for keeping II health.
 George Thrall. farmer of Oxford i, being prosecuted by the Humane Soci ety on the charge of leaving a horse tc starve to death.
 Yale University has purchased the Oli College Church place iu New Haven fo S27, 900 and will add it to its musica department.
 J. W. Johnston blew out the gas oi retiring at the American Hotel in Hart ford one night last week. When fount he was insensible. Moral-Never blov out the gas.
 The old wooden ell on the north O the Litehfeld jail, which has been pse'