Connecticut western news., 1897-10-21
STATE NEWS.

Rev. Charles H. Bullard, IT, district secretary of American Tract Society of New York, died at his home in Hart ford Friday morning.
 Dr Theodore 3rockway. formerly of New Britain and president of the New Haven Homeopathic Society, died at New Haven on Tuesday.
 A sample of fine gold was recently | discovered by an Italian in IvorytowD while digging the foundation for shed. The spot is now fenced in and guarded. Fire broke out in G. T. Platt's house in Milford Sunday morning. Milk from | 60 COWS was used to keep the flames | down till the firemen arrived, aud the | house was saved.
 The mortality table issusl by the State Board of Health for September shows 1, I 36 deaths for the month; 508 less than in August and 52 less than in
 September of last year.
 The Connecticut Sunday School As- sociation will hold Sunday School Convention at Winsted, October 26 Sessions at 10 a m and 1.30 p. m. at
 Baptist church and 730 at 2i Congre- | gational chu rch.
 Bishop Williams, not being able to be present at the consecration of Bish- op-co-adiutor-elect Brewster at New Haven on the 28inst, has designated Bishop Littleiohn of Long Island to act as consecrator.
 Leonard F. Payne, of Roxbury, pleaded guilty to bigamy in the super for court at Litchfield last week and at the instance of the states attorney re- | ceived the light sentence of three years in the state prison.
 Frank J. Warner and his wife, Kate | G. Warner, publishers of the Wllliman- ! tic Sunday Herald. were arrested Mon- day on charge of criminal libel. The Warmers had charged H. H. Leonard, the prosecuting agent of Windham | county, with neglecting his duties and taking bribes from saloon keepers. Town clerks are continually sending back to the state secretary's office un- used ballot envelops from the recent elections. This is unnecessary, as un- | der Section Chapt02l3. of the Pub lie Acts of 1897. town clerks are requir- ed to destroy all mutilated and unused envelopes and so certify to the state secretary under oath.
 The New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad Company has now acquir- ed complete ownership of the capital stock of the Shepsug, Litchfield and | Northern Railroad Company which amounts to $600,00 represented by | 12, 900 shares of $50 each. It is ex- | pected that this road will be consoli- dated with the New Haven corporation.
 Newton Griswold, aged about 60, a
 we'll known citizen of North Colebrook,
 was gored by a three-year-old Devon bull Sunday afternoon. Mir Griswold had sold the bull to neighbor and he and the buyer were putting the animal | into the new owners barn, when 1t sud- | denly attacked MT Griswold. One horn | pierced AIT Griswold' 8 side and straugu- lated his intestines and injured his liver.
 His condition is critical.
 Rev William Watson Andrews died at his home iu Wethersfield Sunday even- ing at the age of S7. He was one of the ablest ministers in the state and one of it's best known preachers and evange- | lists. He was a native of Cornwall He
 was at one time pastor of the Congrega-
 tional Church at New Hartford and also at Kent. For many years he had been
 a minister of the Catholic Apostolic l Church.
 Mrs Laundry, 45. wife of Victor
 Laundry of Pine Meadow, died there
 Sunday morning from the effects of
 burns received 1t about one o'clock in
 the morning. Mrs Laundry made a
 misstep while carrying kerosene lamp
 and fell, spilling oil on her clothes,
 which took fire. Her husband and son
 were also badly burned trying to save
 the mother, the husband especially be-
 ing so severely burned as to require
 his removal to the Hartford hospital. | Ex-county commissioner David E. Soule of New Milford, narrowly escaped
 what would have probably been instant
 death about noon last week Wednesday.
 While driving across the tracks of the
 Berkshire division of the Consolidated
 railroad in New Milford the noon
 freight train struck his team and total
 ly demolished it, throwing MT Soule
 out and landing him upon pile of
 stone. He was severely bruised, but not
 badly injured. The horse was so badly
 injured that 1t was necessary to kill it. | H