Connecticut western news., 1897-09-30
STATE NEWS.

It is an interesting fact to tell your friends that the first Governor Wolcott set out thirteen buttonball trees in Litchfeld and named them after the thirteen original states Only one of these trees is now standing and that Is the one in front of the Catholic church. Appropriately enough this tree was named Connecticut. En- quirer.
 The P. R. x N. E.. railroad company has commenced to lay new steel rails between New Hartford and Hartford An order has been placed for 100 car loads of rails, @ part of which have al ready arrived at Canton.
 Mrs 0. D. Blinn and daughter, Min nie, of New Milford, sailed last week for Scotland where they expect to remain year.
 Clara Humphrey, the eleven year-old daughter of John l.. Humphrey, who lives on the New Hartford road. posses ses more avoirdupois than any other girl of her age in the state. She weighs 225 pounds. Thursday peach ped dler who happened to pass the Hum- phrey residence saw the young heavy weight and offered the girls parents $200 in cash for her. It is useless to remark that the offer wasn't listened to. -Winsted Citizen.
 Five students of the Ansonia high school recently hazed a colored student by the name of Ellis, by shaving his head with pair of clippers and white washing his head and face. Afterwards h~ r,ar akrok lf Ar,kr nff rnl to apologize to the board of education.
 It has come to light that on the 28th of July last Bertrand l.. Hotchkiss, who was recently murdered at llingworth. and his wife were taken very sick. Mrs Hotchkiss was relieved by vomiting but doctor was called for MT Hotchkiss who now says that Hotchkiss had been poisoned by strychnine although he did not express any opinion at the time. On this occasion Sachs, who is now held for the murder of Hotchkiss, rode on horse back at great speed to get doctor from Durham.
 Willie, the 10-year-old son of Joseph Mcfarland, of South Coventry, was dragged to death Thursday evening by a COW, to which he fastened himself by tying the halter around his body.
 Mrs J. Quinn, of Bridgeport. was re- gently bitten by mosquito which csus- ed her leg to swell to such an extent that she had to go to the hospital for treatment. Last week Friday night seven young men, with their faces blacked and un- der the influence of hard cider, visited the home of Claude Demingway in West Goshen. They seized Mrs Dem- ingway, aged 63, stripped her and threw her on sofa and otherwise nal treated her. They then took Mir Dem- ing way, aged 60, and ducked him in a pond. Five young men were arrested and the hearing on their case adjourn ed to September 29.
 It is reported that farmers in western Connecticut are elated over the high prices for rye. Sixty-five cents a bush- el is the quotation reported, and old farmers say that they have never known such high figure as that. The straw, too, is worth as much as hay by the ton so that the crop is valuable one.- Hartford Times.
 Ex-Gov. Thomas M. Waller has bought Governors Island, opposite Ocean Beach, near New London, and will build a summer home upon it next season.
 A piratical looking sloop sailed up the Connecticut river a week or two ago and made another of the intellectual searches for Capt. Kidd's treasure at Crom we'll.
 Mary Ann Kilmartin, 19, of Torring- ton, a we'll known young lady, attempt ed to commit suicide by drowning Sat urday night, but was rescued. Since then she and Michael Gleason, to whom she was to have been married, have dis appeared.
 Later. Miss Kilmartin and her sis ter Katherine, 13. have returned.
 A fire in the old American" building at Waterbury on Sunday did $25. .000 damage.
 Yale university opens to-day. Thurs day, with about 1900 students in the academic department as against 1,237 last year and a corresponding increase in the other departments. Many of the freshmen class were dropped as the re- quirements have been raised. The residence of Mir and Mrs Frank J. Warner. editors and publishers of the Willamantic Sunday Herald. was mbarded with stones and rocks soon after midnight Sunday morning. Two rocks smashed through the blinds and sashes.
 Washington Commandery, No. l. Knights Templars, made an excursion to Lake Compounce on Tuesday, where a sheep bake was served.
 MT and Mrs J. H. Vail have left Litchfield for Dsnsville, N. Y, where Mrs Vail will be placed in sanitarIum.
 The injunction case of Smith aud Mum vs F. A Jewell and others was ar- gued before Judge Curtiss, of Bridge port in the court of common pleas at Winsted on Monday.
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