Connecticut western news., 1897-12-23
STATE NEWS.

Three bronze bells weighing about | s. 950 pounds are held at the custom house at Bridgeport for duties amount. ing to S932 An effort is being made to obtain reduction. The bells arc present to the Orthodox Russian Church at Bridgeport from the Czar ID recognitionion the sending by the Church of three delegates to his coro- | nation
 The verdict of S30, ,000. which Emily | Il. Mixwell, as the sdministratrix of her husband, Dr Aaron H. Mixwell. oI- | tained recently against. the Consolids- ted road for causing the death of her husband was recently set aside by Jus tice Russell of the supreme court of | New York, and the complaint was dis missed Dr Mixwell was struck by an | express train while running across the l track at Mamaroneck. N \. There ] was no bell or warning. The judge holds that the deceased was guilty of contributory negligence.
 The rainfall during the heavy rain of last week was 3l inches.
 Dr Elijah NJ. Bond. of New Haven. is held for trial at that city for performing criminal operation on Miss Grace Dearborn. which resulted in her death The young lady was the daughter of David O Dearborn, assessor of the town of Everett, Mass, and had been a clerk in the office of the town treasurer of Everett
 Nicodemo Imposino was hanged at the state prison at Wethersfeld Friday morning at l2 23 o'clock for complicity in the murder of Mrs Fuds, the wife of Giuseppe Fuda, who was hanged about two weeks before.
 The trial of Herman Sachse before Judge Thaver in the superior court at Aiddletown, which began last week Tuesday, is still unfinished. The state rested it's case on Tuesday of this week. Mrs Hotchkiss, tho widow of the mur- dered man, told & disgusting story of her intimacy with the prisoner, who was the hired man, for several months be- fore the murder. She also swore that she saw Sachse three feet from the out side door just after the fatal shot, but this does not tally with her previous stories.
 known all over Connecticut as the Whit fisld house. was discovered to be on fire Tuesday morning and before the flames could be extinguished damage to the amount of 1000 was done. The fire started in the wood shed and is suppos- ed to have been of ircendiary origin. The house. which is said to be the old est standing in New England, was erect ed in 1639 and during its early days was 8 refuge for the Indians.
 It is reported that the same syndicate which bought the water power at Falls Village has also bought the water power at Bulls Bridge near Kent,
 On Saturday 0. N. Sprague,a conduc- tor on the Torrington and Winchester Street Railway Co.,. was arrested and locked up in Litclfield jail on civil process brought by Samuel Trumbull, of Litchfield, of wi om Sprague had bought horse and carriage, giving a six-day note The outfit had previous ly been attached by the liveryman Sprague had also been in trouble the same day with E. s. Miner of Burrville, of whom he had obtained $8, as he al- legged, to make change.
 Jerome s. Mather. 65, an inmate of the Soldiers Home at Noroton, wss found dead Sunday few rods from the building. Life bad been extinct several hours. The body was in pool of water not more than two inches deep, face down Death came from asphyxiation Mather was intoxicated at the time. He was veteran of Go. F., 25th Conn Inf., enlisting as wagoner of the company at Hartford in November, 1862, and being mustered out the following August.
 The Hartford police conn missioners have passed resolution directing the chief of police to send officers to attend public sparriDg matches and arrest the parties and spectators, when it appears that the decision of the contest is to de- pend oD the bodily injury or exhaustion of either of the parties in action.
 Antonio Demarco, the Italian under arrest for killing hls uncles, the Corelli brothers, in Stamford, will, it is under stood. set up the claim that he acted in self-defense.
 Two Italians. Fillepi Corellil and Augustine Corelli, brothers, aged 43 and 40 respectively, were fatally stah- bed at Stamford last week Wednesday night by their nephew. Antonio De marro. aged 19. The stabbing. which was proceeded by some drinking, was the result of an altercation as to how the money they were to receive for dig ging cellar was to be divided. De- n, arrn uaa lnnkad m