Connecticut western news., 1898-11-24
STATE NEWS.

66V6rAl OI tue bbAb6 huU N6W IOtk CltJ papers of Saturday there was dispatch from New Haven stating that Edward T. Trowbridge was dying at the city hospital there from alcoholism. It is also stated that over 20 years ago Mir Trowbridge made a VOW that he would die drunkard because he had been tilted by a Litchfield lady. How such a story could have started is beyond comprehension. As far as the lady in question is concerned 1t is absolutely false in every particular She was not lony never engage to Mir Trowbridge but never knew or heard of any such man. A careful investigation shows that no one in Litchfield ever had any knowledge of Edward T. Trowbridge. The story is not only absolutely false but very cruel as well.
 Edward Butterworth of Cromwell has come into possession of an old relic which is likely to prove valuable. It is c Canada Newspaper, Montreal Globe" lacking two years of being 100 years old. Its chief interest lies in the fact that it contains an account of the death and funeral of General George Washington. The article breathes sincere sympathy and speaks in the warmest terms of Washington as soldier aud statesman.
 Rev Timothy Dwight, who has been president of Yale University since 1886, resigned that position last Thursday, his resignation to take effect at the close of the academic year. President Dwight is 70 years old and feels that his age is sufficiently advanced to war rant his retirement.
 The "Bicycling World" is authority for the statement that the Pope Manu- faoturing Company and the Western Wheel Works have made . "combin in the interest of the control of the bevel gear patent for the chainless bicycles. The stcombine" is made by forming new corporation under the laws of New Jersey to be known as "The Bevel Gear Wheel Company. The incorporstors are Elliott Mason, Theodore Merseles, Charles M. Rich ards. Frederick J. Stimson, William H. Miller and Victor W. Hungerford. The authorized capital of the corporation IS placed at $1. 900. 900. of which MT Ma son is recorded as holding $999, 900 and the other incorporators $200 each. It is stated that business will be common ced with that amount and that the ob- jects of the company are to be "the manufacture of chainless wheel and to deal in patents for them" Mir Mason. who figures ss the heaviest stockholder, is the manager of the Pope Manufaotur- ing Company's Warren street branch in New York.
 Emma J. Barlow, one of the cleverest bareback riders with the Barnum & Bai- Icy show, now in England, came way home across the sea to appear n court Friday at Bridgeport, to ask fer di- vorce from her husband, Peter Barlow. She asked for legal separation on the grounds of desertion. The couple were married in 1898. Their married life lasted just one week. Mrs Barlow's case was entered in the court docket year ago. but her business engagements have been such that she was unable to appear until this month.
 Yale is trying to engage the services of Trainer Mike Murphy for next sea- son.
 Gen. Shafter will visit Major Albee at New Haven next Monday.
 There may be a recount of votes in the New Haven district which may elect the Republican candidate for senator, F. l. Averill, over David Callahan, dem.
 William Heeg of Waterbury who had decllred his intention to become an American citizen, has been arrested while on visit in Germany and senten- ced to serve six years in the army. Steps will be taken to lay the matter before the state department at Washing ton.
 Frank King, conductor on the En- field X Longmeadow trolley railroad, has been arrested for arson in Enfield. He lives just over the Connecticut line in Suffield. There are circumstances which lead to the belief that King is a fire bug.
 The New London Day has sent over $160 worth of turkeys to New London soldiers with the Connecticut regiment at Summerville, N. 0. The money was raised by subscription.
 The Yale-Harvard football game at New Haven last Saturday netted ESQ., 900.
 Charles R. Hart, 5S. of Hartford, died Tuesday night at Windsor. Mir Hart was one of the prominent business men of Hartford, being the head of the firm of Charles R. Hart Company, formerly Hart, Merriam & Go.
 Nancy Guilford's bail was fixed at S10,0O0 on Tuesday.
 Mrs Frank Grant, 8 young colored woman in Collinsville, has been arrest ed for horao akaalinr