Connecticut western news., 1896-02-06


 An invitation Leap Year dance is being gotten up among the ladies and will be given at the hall Febuary IA.
 Any information of ). A. Under wood will be thankfully received by Thos. Richards. Lake Hopatcong, N. J.
 Tt is expected that the case of Abel G. Stevens vs. Heman 0. Whittlesey, secretary of the State Board of Charities, will be tried in Winsted in April.
 After the 18th inst. MT Mcfarland will open an evening school at the Ca- naan Academy, three evenings each week, for 25 evenings. Bookkeeping and other branches taught.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Mary Lyles, daughter of Mir and Mrs James H Lyles, of Brooklyn, N. r., and sister of Mir Harry Lyles, to Mir William Franklin Whitmore, of Hart ford.
 Snow, rain and February thaw last Saturday. Showed at intervals for AS hours commencing about 5 p. m Monday and it has banned out about eight inches of damp snow, but made the first sleighing of the season.
 MT Tobey and Mrs 0 H Briggs attended on Tuesday at Cheshire the funeral of Mir George E. Morse, the brother-in law of Mrs Tobey, who died on Friday. Mrs Briggs will visi. a few days at Thomaston before her re- turn.
 The sickness with which Albert Edelman's children were srecentlv at lacked did not prove. to be sca'let fever. All have recovered and Mir Kdleman, who took the precaution to remain at home about ten days, has resumed his business trips.
 Five COWS, two of which belonged to Lyman Dunning and three to Ward Brinton, were struck by the cars on the P. R & N E road at East Canaan yes terday morning. Two were killed out right and three were so badly injured that they had to be killed.
 The Massachusetts legislature has extended the time for the building of the branch railroad from Tarriffville to Springfield by the Hartford & Connec- ticut Western railroad company Part of the line will be in Massachusetts and the company applied for an extension of charter.
 The Pilgrim Church meeting on Saturday afternoon to take action on the building of a parsonage appointed building committee of Mrs M G Adam, Messrs Henry Barnes and J. B. Reed; and committee on plans of Mrs s. w. Barnes, Miss s. W. Adam and MT D. l.. Freeman. Operations will begin at once.
 The defendant in the suit of Miss Norie against Prof Carter filed a plea in abatement on Tuesday on the ground that the court has no jurisdiction of the case, the plaintiff not being resident of New Haven county in which county the suit is brought. Later on, argu- ments on the points of law raised by this plea will be heard and determined by the court.
 -"You can always judge town by it's newspaper" says the Inter- Ocean. "Never buy town lots where half- starved newspaper is published. News papers theselays are necessity, not luxury They are so cheap that the poorest man can have them-un ess he is running bill at saloon. It mat ters not how many others he may take, he should give an honest support to his home paper.
 At the recent annual meeting of the National Association of Railway Bag gage Agents, although no formal vote was taken, it was generally agreed that bicycles could not be transported as personal baggage whether packed in trunks or rot It was shown that all he New England roads charged for their transportation and that the other leading roads were rapidly following the methods adopted by the New Eng Ian association
 -AlbertDe Fossey and Mrs Mary Doo- little were struck by P. R. < N. E. passenger train at Mt Riga Monday forenoon while driving across the track. Both were instantly killed and horribly mangled. The train was in charge of Conductor Frank Smith and E. giueer Savage No blame rests with the traipmen as DeFossey drove on to the track after several whistles from the engine. Both unfortunates lived at Boston Corners but were both late residents of Hartford.
 The Agassiz meeting was well at tended Tuesday evening at A T Rora backs. The subject of hypno tism. was presented in choice paper, showing hypnotism mesmerism and catalepsy to be synony nous Also subject of photographine invisible objects by the Rontger method by use of cathode rays, wa, illustrated by newspaper cut The question of dropping leaden ball into hole through the earth, where would it stop? was treated with an illustrated chart.
 Congressman Sperry has intro duced in the house rural delivery bil providing that on the petition of twen