Connecticut western news., 1897-10-28
Local News.


 -Dr Fl l.. Ross will be absent from his office from Nov. l to 9th.
 M. B. Mcintyre and wife. of Bridge port. visited at Warren McIntyre's s last week.
 Miss Belle Lorrain is visiting rela. tives in Pittsfeld where she went last Friday.
 MT and Mrs George W. Selleck, ol Norwalk, are spending g few days at the Warner House.
 A travelling ventriloquist gave a short performance in the hall Friday night to very small audience.
 W. H. Briggs has moved from the house on Bennetts hill to Mrs VanDeu- sens house recently vacated by s. A. Kemp.
 Peter Coggin has nicely graded the lawn in front of his house on the lower East Canaan road and the improvement is great one.
 -S. w. Barnes had the l. part of the house recently occupied by Mrs Jane w. Branch built onto the north side of his own dwelling house.
 The Junior Endeavor Society of the Pilgrim church presented boquets to all that were over 80 years of age who were in attendance last Sunday.
 Don't fail to attend the auction sales at the store of The G w. Hall Go. in Falls Village every Saturday alter noon and evening until Oct. 31 inclu- sive.
 The bushes have been cut down on the roadside between the Lewis place and the Dr Adam place on the East Ca- naan road much improving the looks of things.
 John Elias Forbes, of New York city, with his mother and two sisters were in town last week Mir Forbes is a descendant of brother of Samuel Forbes, Esq and takes an interest in the genealogy of his family.
 Miss Mary Walter, aged 38, of Mifflinburg, Pa, sister of David D. Walter, died at the hospital at Phila- delphia on Friday after an operation on the previous day for the removal of a tumor. MT Walter left on Saturday for Miflinburg to attend the funeral.
 -'.Recreation" for October contains an article from the pen of John Rode meyer. Jr. entitled "A Day in the Adj rondacks. Tue article tells, in Rody's inimitable style, of deer hunt he par ticipated in with Dr Ross and Ross brothers near Bakers Mills in the Adj rondack Mountains.
 Dear girls, be careful next Sunday night when the young man leaves that he don't carry off the old gentleman's gate as Sunday night is Halloween. And young man be careful about sitting in the dark on the veranda as you may have to pick your ear out of cabbage, as the modern urohin usually propels his garden sass" with considerable force instead of quietly leaving it on the doorstep.
 Within few days several forest fires have occurred along the line of the P. R. < N. B. railroad between East Canaan and West Norfolk. On the 18th inst. considerable woodland was burned over near the Hiram Briggs place in East Canaan, and last Saturday the grove near the lower furnace was burned over. On Tuesday fire broke out in the woods near George Stevens place on the turnpike and much diffi- culty was experienced in saving the buildings as the fire came within few feet of them before the flames were ex- tinguished. At the same time a fire started near the station at West Nor folk and burned over the mountain southwest of the station. The flames also ran north beyond the Lee place on College Hill, and were still raging at last reports.
 Joseph H. Dutraw, who worked here last summer with Curtis force of painters, died in clubroom in Torring- ton, Oct. 21. He was found lying on the street early in the morning by two young men. who supposing him to be intoxicated carried him into club of which they were menbers. They were strangers to Dutraw but concluded to stay with him until people were astir when they could have something done for him. They awoke a few hours later and were mortified to find Dutraw was dead. He had taken powerful nar- cotic of some kind with suicidal intent He leaves wife, and an eight year old daughter in Torrington, but he had not lived with his family since last March He was 30 years old and had lately been working for Torrington plumber. Du- traw had lived in Falls Village several years.
 Freight train No. "A on the P. R. X N. E railroad met with an accident about midnight Tuesday while coming down the grade west of this village The train was composed of A loaded cars and two engines lone in the rear, in charge of Conductor Dennis O'Hearn While rounding Pine Bluff one of the rear cars jumped the track but the train continued on for about half 8 milo when it broke in two, the head engine and 3t cars running bout of mile farther into the Canaan switch yard The rear car of the thirty-five was dragged all this distance with it's rear truck off the