Connecticut western news., 1897-11-18
STATE NEWS.
William H. Marrigold was appointed postmaster at Bridgeport, yesterday.

William H. AIsrrigold was appointed postmaster at Bridgeport, yesterday.
 After five years of rest roller skate polo has been revived in Connecticut and league formed in the state.
 Echo Farm Creamery at Washington Depot was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss $20, GOO, insured.
 Chief of Police Ford, of Meriden re- gently had two fingers cut of in the rear sprocket of his wheel while clean ing the machine.
 A fine large deer with antlers was seen in Esst Granby last week. Hunt ing or killing deer in this state before 1903 is punishable by fine of Sl00.
 The net earnings of the Consolidated road for the quarter ending Nov. l. 1897, were S576, ,505 in excess of those of the corresponding quarter of last year.
 The Women's Auxiliary of the P. E. Church of Connecticut met at New London last week Wednesday. The missionary offering for the year amount ed to $29, ,905.
 Herman Sachs will be tried for the murder of Bertrand Hotchkiss. of Kill fingworth. at the December term of the superior count at Middletown. The term opens on the first Tuesday.
 There will be conference of woman suffragists at Hartford on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 15 and Is Susan B. Anthony, Rev Anna H. Shaw and Carrie Chapman Scott will be present
 The Milford Citizen complains bitter ly of the rowdyish character of the young men and boys of that place. They break Nindows, destroy and mis- place property and congregate on the street corners.
 A B. Ryan, of Middletown, is presi- dent of the Electrolytic Marine Salt Co.,, incorporated under the laws of Maine with capital of Sl0,000. 900, to extract gold from sea water. It is cllim- ed that ton of sea water contains a grain of gold,
 Carl Stoeckel has sent an autograph letter. written ny John Brown while in prison, to Judge Welch of Torrington. MT Stoeckel suggests in an accompany ing letter that that the John Brown house be purchased and preserved as a museum and offers to contribute Sl0O for that object. 5.=.-
 A club composed of Connecticut and New York men have bought 600 acres of land and leased over 2,000 in the town of Holland for the establishment of fish and game preserve and laying out golf field. The result of this game preserving business is going to be that there will be no places where poor men can kill game.
 From mortality reports received by the state board of health there were .097 deaths reported during the month of October in Connecticut. This was 39 less than were reported in September. and exactly the same number reported in October of last year, and Il more than the average number of deaths in October or the five years proceeding the present.
 Emily H. Mixsell, as administra triI of the late Dr. A. J. Mixsell, 8 promi- nent physician of Westchester county, N. r., who was killed by an express train at Mamaroneck, N. r., in October 1896, has recovered a verdict for S30,- 900 against the N. Y N. H. & H. R. R. Co.,, in the New York supreme court. The S5000 limit in actions of thls kind had been recently repealed.
 Judge Roraback in the superior court has ordered the release of Edward s. Smith. wealthy citizen of Waterbury, from the insane retreat at Hartford, to which institution he was committed by the Waterbury probate court on the representation of his brother J. Richard Smith, that his mind was affected by the use of stimulsn A commission has now reported that his mind is re- stored.