Connecticut western news., 1898-12-22
STATE NEWS.

An effort will be made in the next | General Assembly to reduce the legal rate of interest from 6 to , per cent. At prese there are only two states in which the legal rate is as low as per cent.-namely Illinois and Louisiana, but in Illinois per cent is allowed by contract, while in Louisana s per cent IS allowed.
 The sum of S2000 has been left by the will of Eliza Miller to the town of East Haddam for the purpose of erect ing soldiers monument on the park in Moodus.
 Lawyer William s. Pardee and other prominent citizens of New Haven are sponsors for bill which will be pre- sented to the next Legislature, provid- 1 ing for the division of the city of New Haven into fifteen towns with bound aries identical with the boundaries of the fifteen wards. Notice of the bill has been duly advertised according 10 law. The scheme provides for one Rep resentative for each ward in the Legrs- lature. This would give New Haven 8 representation not at all disproportion- ate to the city population.
 The passenger and freight station of | the N |. N. H & H. at Bethel was de- stroyed by fire Thursday morning.
 The marriage engagement of Miss Strane, daughter of Dr Straug Bridge. | port dentist, and Fl. H Sheets of h. diauapolis has been broken. It was | found that Sheets was 8 married man and had family. Sheets made his ap- pearance in Bridgeport ss book agent.
 Governor elect Lounsbury on Thurs day completed his staff, with the eI- ception of one side-de-camp by making the following sppointments:- Quartermaster-G -Gsneral-George B.. Newton of Hartford.
 Surgeon .General-Dr J. Francis Calef of Middletown.
 Judge Advocate -General-George c H. Cowell of Waterbury.
 A dispatch from New Haven says that | a syndicate is to be formed with $500. 900 capital to buy all the old rags in the state The plan Is to put a bag in and have the rags collected once 8 month at so much a pound.
 Chester l.. Smith has been appointed postmaster at Colebrook. Robert W. Skilton has been appointed postmaster at Morris.
 | John Addison Porter has resigned as president and director of the Evening Post" Association of Hartford and John Day Jackson, publisher of the '.New Haven Register" has been elected a di- rector in his place. C.H. Webb of New Haven h been elected president. It is | understood that this means that Mr Porter and the Porter family have sold out their interest to Mir Jackson, or those whom he represeEts.-Courant
 Wilbur Tolles, 22, teacher in the schools at Northfieli wss thrown from his carriage on the Thomaston road near Watertown on Friday and his head horribly smashed. Death must have been instantaneous as the head was partially severed from the body. His horse became unmanageable and ran, though DO person saw the tragedy. Tolles was the son of Rev s. w. Tolles of Bethlehem.
 There is a movement originating with the sportmen of New Haven to interest the sportsmen throughout Connecticut in bill for the better protection oi game. It Is sweeping in it's provisions and will make it a misdemeanor for any person to offer game birds for gale with, in the limits of the state for the nexl three years It is held that the snarinP of birds as now practiced will eventual ly exterminate the game birds of the State, which have been growing fewer every year. It is felt that the bill will have a strong opposition from tboss who have liking for game birds, but no taste for hunting. However, the opposition and hope to secure the CO operation of all sportsmen. l The Daily News is a new Democratic paper started at Derby.
 H. Kirk Woodbridge, son of Warden | Woodbridge of the state prison, plead guilty to embezzlement in the criminal court at Hartford on Monday and wal sentenced to four years in prison.
 Tommy Ryan aud Dick O'Brien vii have their postponed meeting in Hart ford on Friday night. It will be 2i rounds.
 The report of Coroner Mix on the re- cent death of John l. Anderson of An. sonia finds Mrs. Anderson guilty o poisoning her husband with some prep arstion containing arsenic, the evidence going to show that she had suspected him of infidelity.
 The widow of P. T. Barnum is again & wife. She was married in Paris Dec s, to Le Baron Alexsndryd Oren giana, a French nobleman. There were two marriage ceremonies. tn, first at the church and the second the civil rite required by the laws of France.
 Republicans carried Meriden at tn, city election there on Tuesday. There was no vote for mayor.
 Alfred Hearte. French boy l4 year of age, was instantly killed Tuesda, morning in the mule room of thu Qui- nebaug mill at Danielson. H' had dropped bobbin and while tn mules were apart he stopped to pick l up. The mules came together ant caught him by the head.