Connecticut western news., 1897-11-04
STATE NEWS.

ooudlOE hhWloy cOIIaB6 ht WOOu- mont has been entered by burglars and some rugs and carpets carried of. Connecticut and Rhode Island oyster growers have formed 8 combine for the purpose of raising oysters, and have leased grounds in Narraganset bay.
 The Dairy Commissioners have in- spected 50 of the 60 creameries of the state and report all those inspected as in 8 prosperous condition with no sur plus product.
 The city of Hartford is to h ve two of the guns of the old ship Hartford" to be placed on the terrace in front of the capitol They are 9-inch Rodmans and are Il feet long.
 The first official act of Bishop Coad. tutor Brewster was the consecration, al East Berlin on Oct. go, of St. Gabriels Church, of which the Rev Arthur Gam. mack is the rector.
 Charles H. Johnson, professor of music at Smith College, Northampton, Mass, and director of music at the Fourth church, Hartford, died at Hart ford Tuesday morning. The cause of his death was peritonitis.
 Last Thursday night Maurice Savage, a brakeman on the Naugatuck road, was stabbed, but not seriously. in the abdomen. by Hugh Fsllon, New Hay en boiler repairer, who was drunk at the time. Fallon was arrested Friday.
 At day break Friday morning Lowell Hum phrey, 35, of Washington Hill near Barkhamsted, while coon hunting with two other men just over the Masss- chussets line, fell of & 30 foot ledge and, striking on his head, was instantly killed.
 Lawrence F. Stanley. aged 36 years, on the editorial staff of the New Haven Palladium, died at 40 o'clock Tuesday of throat trouble. He was a native of Norwich and member of the New Lon- don county bar. He leaves wife and one child.
 The Torrington and Winsted direct ory for 1897-98, just issued, indicates prosperity in both towns. It gives 4465 names h the Torriogton directory against 3900 of last year. and 3.600 names in the Winsted directory against 3.256 last year.
 l paper issued at the state prison began its publication. It is under the gener- al dir ection of Warden Woodbridge. Chaplain Hall being the editor. It is monthly journal devoted to the inter- ests of the inmates of the state prison. !"
 Last week Sunday night, Miss Nellie Booth. of Bridgeport. awoke and saw a burglar in her room. Instead of mere | ly screaming or fainting she sprang out | of bed and seized the intruder, at the same time calling for; help. The man tore himself from her grasp and escaped.
 The skeleton of Dr Charles Fox, 40. who disappeared from his home h East Hartford May 17th of last year was found in the woods near Manchester Green on Sunday. It is thought that the doctor died of natural causes. He leaves widow. three children and a | mother.
 The schooner Thomas l.. Negus, for merly one of the largest and speediest boats of the New York pilot fleet. has been fitted out and brovisioned to take party of gentlemen from various towns | of this state and elsewhere to Klondlke by way of Cape Horn. Captain Mo- Clure, of New Haven, is h command of | the schooner.
 The resignation of Rev John P. Hawley, as pastor of the congregational Church at New Hartford was read in that church Sunday, October 24. Failing health is the cause of Mir Flaw | ley's action. He took vacation for an indefinite time last May and his condi- | tion is still such as not to give any hope that he will be able to resume pastoral work.
 J. G. Bohannan, M. D., father of Drs Bohannan of Stamford and Norwalk and the mayors of Stamford and South Norwalk. died Tuesday of last week at the home of his son, Dr. Charles G.. Bohannan at South Norwalk. He was a native Of Virginia and became a surgeon in the Confederate army, although op- posed to secession until the legislature of his state adopted the ordinance.
 The reports of the commissioners for Litchfeld county show that there were 363 prisoners-eighto of whom were fe- males committed to the county jail during the year ending June 30, 1897. Of these, only 21 claimed to be strickly temperate, 249 were moderate drinkers and 93 were hsbitually incorporate. Drunkenness caused 143 of the commit ments, vagrancy 78 and assault 25
 Some weeks age young COW was stolen from the pasture of Myron Pease in Ratlum and has not yet been found |. | And on Friday of last week pair of OK en were stolen from the pasture of AL bert Slade in Bsrkhamsted who was pasturing them for Messrs Belden and Hayes. The oxen were traced to a Hartford slaughter house and reclaimed | just as they were about to be butchered Farmers had better look out for their fat cattle.
 At the annual meeting of the Litch- field County Bar Association in Litch- field recently the following officers were chosen: Chairman, James Huntington,
 Woodbury; vice. chairman, Donald T.
 Warner, Salisbury; secretary and tress- urer, D. O. Kilborn, Litcbfeld. The greivance committee is: Donald T. War ner, Salisbury; Gideon Fl. Welch, Tor rington: and J. H. McMahon, New Mil. ford. The library committee is as fol- lows: s. A. Herman, Winsted; D. O.. Kilborn, Litchfield and J. H. McMahon, New Milford. The auditors are: l.. J.
 Nicksrson, Cornwall; J. T. Hubbard, Litchtield.