Connecticut western news., 1896-03-12
STATE NEWS

'" says that the big boat race will not take phce at NewLondon. but at Poughkeep. sic, N. Y., or Springfield, Mass.
 Mir. John Drowne has for the past IS years been the faithful and efficient su- perintendent of the Gleenwoods compa- ny's cotton mills at New Hartford, but he recently resigned his position to &C., cept similar bnt more lucrative one at Dover. N. Fl. Last Friday evening the residents of New Hartford gave MT. and Mrs. Drowne a reception and presented them with valuable tokens of their es- tesm and with many regrets at their re- moval from New Hartford.
 Fire broke out at 2 30 Sunday after noon in the Congregational church at Litchfield. The tiremen had hard work in checking the flames, as it had good start before they arrived. Itis suppos- ed to have originated from the furnace. Loss $500.
 Geo. E Sill, eldest son of Lieut. Gov, Sill. died at the residence of bis fs- ther in Hartford Monday morning. He was born in 1862 and admitted to the bar in 1888.
 James A Blainecourt, Yale student, and Miss May Osborne. 20. & daughter of respectable parents of New Haven, were arrested by the police as they were leaving the Jerome Hotel, said to be disorderly house. in New York, Thursday night. Albert Mcdonnell and Miss Oracle Morris, 25. of Bridge port, were arrested at the same time. The prisoners were all discharged by the police justice the next day.
 It is reported that Mrs Nancy Bar. mum Calliss, widow of P. T. Barnum, and now the wife of Demetruis Callias Bey, the Greek robleman, is coming back to this country and will live in either Bridgeport or New York with her husband. It appears that Mir Callias' wealth was not so great as was supposed, but the story that the pair would separate is denied by cousin oi Mrs Callias. Mrs Callias controls the property received from her former hus. bands estate.
 Peach growers say that the open winter has damaged the peach crop in this state." It has also damaged the railroads and highways.
 As result of sending all tramps to jail for 60 days, Waterbury last month had only 29 lodgers in the station house. In February, 1895. there were 730. Henry P. Lane of Canton Center was 76 years old on the 29th of Feb. last and he has seen only l9 regular ami. versaries of his birthday.
 The recent flood at Barkhamsted was the greatest in that town since 1S26- seventy years ago-yet the damage wa' comparatively small.
 Measles are raging here-over 4( cases, and new ones heard of every day. Some of the schools are nearly broken up by them.-Woodbury Cor. Waterbury American.
 E. l. Young of Winsted claims to have discovered the lost art of harden. ing copper by passing it through a cer. tain solution, and that he can make srmor plato which the best guns cannot smash.
 An important victory has been gain. ed by the state Law and Order Lesgue in it's tight against Walter Scott, the
 
 court has just decided tbat Scott must pav his fiue of S200, with costs of about $500. He appealed from the decision of Judge Wheeler of the superior court in case for violating the liquor law Judge Wheeler's decision is upheld in every particular.
 Theodore s. Gold. of Cornwall, secre tsry of the Connecticut board of agri. culture, has held that office continuous. ly since the board was organized in 1866. Mir Gold is a native of New York but graduated from Yale in 1888, and has lived in this county since l845. He is now 7S years of age, and for fifty years he has worked for agricultural and educational interests in this state He was the pioneer of fhe agricultural school, the state board of agriculture, and the state agricultural society.
 Rev pr Pullman. of Bridgeport, has entered default in the suit for libel brought against him by Mile. Jane May, the actress. The case will not go before judge in a hearing on the ques ton of damages, the defendant by his default. practically admitting that he cannot prove his charges Dr Pull mans attorneys claim that appearance in court in trial of the case would be too great a strain upon tue reverend gentleman's health.
 Dr | W. Lyon, president of the Hartford County Medical Society. di. q at his home in Hartford on Wednesday of last week He was a little over 5( years old He was leading phy.icia, of Hartford and writer on medical and other subjects.
 Torripgton bas voted Sl ,OOO for good roads, which sum with the money to bs received from the state and county vii | be used to macadamize Main St Il sas also voted to build new scho" aud enlarge another for which $30. 00t was voted.
 defective fiue in Jesse L. James,, hotel at Bristol caused S3000 fire las Friday morning. sL
 The depot on the Danbury and Nor walk railroad at Wilson's point was des troyed by fire Thursday night. Loss 5000 An overloaded stove is suppos. ed to have caused the fire. f Avery F.Minner, ,56, of Torrington wa, killed by the cars at that place or Tuesday. His horse baked on tht | track.
 The testimony in the Charles NJ Pond will case Is all in and the lawyer are summing up to-day (Thursdsy, ] twt and nne-half hours beng allowed |, each side. MT Pond left the bulk d his estate to the city of Hartford for !, | park