Connecticut western news., 1896-03-26
STATE NEWS.

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 Trinity college takes a bequest of $20 GOO under the will of the late Hon. Jer-miah Halsey, of Norwich, to be paid after the death of the widow, and 10 be used for the founding of four scholarships. It is reported that tue ~iu Is to be contested.
 the University of Wisconsin crew on Lake Saltonsrall near New Haven June is.
 The bill introduced by Congressman Hill making Stamford port of entry has been favorably reported.
 A man was arrested in Hartford last week for selling oleomargsriue, put up in packages. as creamery butter. He was fined $42 and aill appear as a wit. ness against the Vermont manufacturing company. of Providence, manufacturers nf butterine, who made the creamery butter.
 We are informed that unless the proper authorities tend to the weights aud meas ures of this town that suit will be brought and pushed to the bitter end. This may be no laughing matter as cer tain towns in the county found to their cost in the famous guide board suits.- Litchtield Enquirer.
 The novel and valuable feature of the new recording thermometer Is that the recording portion may be located 20 or 30 feet from the point at which the tem- perature is to be measured. This makes 1t possible to obtain a continuous record of the outside temperature This ther- mometer Is being manufactured by the Bristol company of Waterbury. = New Milford Gazette.
 A man has recently recovered yer dict against Willlmantic druggist firm | (A. D David X Col for Sl1250 dam ages. The druggists sold the man laudanum instead of rhubarb. Suits are pending against the city of Waterbury for damages to the aggregate amount of SIPS. TOO, also 20 appeals from city assessments
 Rev William T. Brown, of the Madi- son Congregational church, is to be tried by couucil for teaching heretical views | of the authorship of the Pentateuch and Psalms and of the doctrines of the Trin- ity, atonement and incarnation. It is said that the same doctrines are taught at the Yale Divinity school.
 By decision of the Supreme Court of this state, town order signed bv one selectmau for another is not vBlid. Each selectman must sign for himself.
 Charter Oak park at Hartford is to be | ok rrft servation to the highest bidder at noou of the finest in the country and the park comprises ll5 acres.
 George l. Foskett. of the State Board of Commissioners of Diseases of D mes tic Animals, is off ring Sl00 reward for evidences that will convict any person ol
 party bringing Into the state any ami
 mals in violation of the law of which the
 board is the special agent.
 Kasper Hartleia, of Manchester, has
 been m iicted for murder in the first de
 gree for the killing of Miss Louise Trieb some weeks ago. because she refused tc
 lnarry him. Hartlein is already married
 The trial will take place in June.
 The Fish Commission have placed 50. 900 yonug salmon in the retaining
 pond at P, quonock. When they art
 eight inches long they will be put into
 the Pennington river.
 Searching parties are looking for the
 bodies of Edward and George McNally
 aged respp ctively 23 and IT, in the vi
 cinity of Washington Depot, it being believed that the young men were drowned in a swollen brook during the recent freshet They left home Marcl
 19 in buggy to attend an entertainment and have not been seen slncs. car tiaQe wheel and dead horse have beer found in the Shepaug river to which the brook is tributary, and there is little doabt but that the boys were drowned
 in the brook.
 Mrs Cowlss. 36, wife of J. O. Cowles
 of Plitsburg, Penn met with sata accident Sunday at re'ative's in Thorn aston. She was in po,r health. snt l while standing at a window Tn her TO Jn
 faintrd and fell on to the bed in such
 manner as to strangle to death. The temperance "Coffse House. 3 started in Hartford about three year 3 ago, at the close of the Murphy cam ? piipn with a capital of S5000 in 20t , shares of S25 each, will be closed ol Saturday. It has not paid and has no been run on the plan of attracting there l to those who had been reclaimed iron : intemperauoe, but simply as restau rant. although there were various form
 of amusement provided in room up
 stairs
 Ex State Attorney Doolittle died 8 New Haven on Saturday afternoon with | out regaining consciousness He had 9 stroke of apoplexy on Friday. Was , native of Hartland.
 - Rev James NJ. Cleary of Minnea polls v Minn president of the O. T. A. Uu:on addressed large audience at St Francis church at Torringtou on Monday. H showed how the working men of Amer fcs would gain by being total abstainsrs