Connecticut western news., 1898-05-19
STATE NEWS

electric fire alarm system. \ contract has been made with & Boston firm to put in, and work will be begun al opce and il Is hoped to have it complet ell by July I. There is to be eleven miles of wiring and four strikers. One on the convent, Baptist, Uniyersalist and Congregational bells. Thirteen boxes are to be put in. The cost Is to be g, 800.
 Miss Sadie E knor, who has been missing from her home in Putnam since December die in Schenectsdy,N N. |, last Thursday night from poison Her body was brought home Sunday and was buried iu the Grove Street Cemetery. Miss Knox WAS 20 years old.
 Miss Auus Maria Benton of Windsor. died last Wednesday after weeks ill ness. sged l0I She was & member of the Windsor Congregational church for sS years.
 Frederick Croeker of Guiltord. aged l9. WAS found dead in lot near his home there last Thursday morning. The young man was subject to fsinting spells, and is Is supposed he fell iu 8 faint His neck was broken.-New Hartford Tribune.
 Charles Look. s Norwegian. Is living st the Danbury hospital with broken neck. and the physicians believe that he will survive. Look fell from coal bunker at Sandy Hook several days ago and was brought to the hospital uncou- sclous. It was discovered that his neck was broken. His head was then put ID s frame and he has shown so much in provement that 1t is thought the scei- dent will not prove fatal.
 Cornelius Clay and John Murphy, both of Meridsn, were arrested last Thurs lay for the burglary of the depot at Bristol. They were found at Nor ton k Sons ice house. All of the goods stolen from the depot were found in the old loft of the ice-house.
 Tale has decided to add set of col ors to the gift of the two Maxim guns to her namesake.
 Noble Bennett will soon establish Q plant for the manufacture of acetylent gas in New Milford.
 John kiernan. sged 2S. was struck by an express train near Milford last Thursday. His skull was fractured and his left leg was maugled near the ankle so that amputation WAS necessary. He may live.
 On Wednesday,. May II. at special meeting of stockholders representing the majority of the stock of the Sharon Valley Iron Company it was voted to sell the property of the company to the Barnum Richardson Company.
 Charles c Cloves. aged B. private of Company F. First Regiment. c N G.. died in the hospital at Hartford las week Thursday afternoon of preumon' ia His death WAS unexpected. When brought from Mantle Wednesday nigbi he was taken to his home, but his moth CT, yielding to the advice of friends and doctors, allowed him to be taken to the hospital, where he could receive better care and treatment She followed him there ard be did not recognize her. be ing delirions and at times unconscious, She wss not allowed to see him Thurs day morning and WAS getting ready to go and see him soon after noon when the news of his death was brought 10 her He was an only child. the sole support of his mother, hard working, deserv ing woman. His funeral was held Sunday.
 A street fskir last Monday at Thomas ton. while selling his shears and glaS: cutters. got into trouble. He wss show ing otf his wares. cutting pins and glss. Fb ,,f ha eral wheelmen present remonstrated but it was uf Do svail-he threw the pins by the score in the rosds after cut ting them. After closing up he started to go of but the wheelmen. after his re fusal to pick up the pins and glass, call ed iu an officer who made him pay fo cleaning up. It WAS only partly done and several tires have been pnncturet ss s result.
 Union will bold its spring meeting al Kent, May 26 It will be the tenth an niyerssry of the unIou and a fiue pro gram Is expected.
 Messrs D. ". Clark. W. Y. Bsrbe ard H M. White of rorrington were il Hartford last week inquiring into th' outlook of the Torriugton and Hartford Tramwsy, for which there are fsyorsbl, signs. The building of the Unionvill, line from Pennington to Plalnville. to }, done the first of June is one, reducing the distance to Torrington one mile. A Piainville the line connects with tw, steam roads. the third rail line, the Cen trsl Electric of New Britain. the Bristo line and lines being built to Son'hing ton and to Meriden -Winsted Citizen SALISBURY.