Connecticut western news., 1898-07-21
STATE NEWS.

Senator Hawley has arrived at his summer home in Woodmont.
 Joseph F Carroll, aged 3l, of Water | bury was riding on his wheel Inst | Thursday night when he came into col lision with a carriage coming in an op- posite direction. He was impaled up- on the shaft, it passing nearly through his chest and he died short time after ward.
 Michael Kosky, Q Hungarian farm | hand in Norwalk, was run over by a trolley car at that place last Thursday. He was riding with his employer when car came along and threatened to col lide with them. Kosky jumped from the team right upon the track where the car passed over him. Jas. P. Sullivan, fireman on the N. Y. N. H. & Fl. died suddenly last Fri day morning at his boarding place in Hartford. He died of heart disease. He was 3l years old and his people live in Hartford. His mother is very sick and it was some time before they dared break the news to her because of her condition.
 George Smalley of Hartford killed himself by shooting last Friday morning in Burnside. He was about 50 years of age and the reason of his committing suicide is not known.
 Deacon Edwin O. Hall, A prominent man of Berlin, fell from load of hay Friday and was killed. His neck was broken.
 John McNamara of Hartford was shot and killed at a saloon i'll New York last Thursday morning. He interfered for the protection of a girl when her sssail- ant fired on hIm. He was night bar tender at that place.
 ". O. Bryant, who has been confined in the Wethersfield state prison for two years for horse stealing, was arrested at the prison doors Monday by Deputy Sheriff George H. Allen of Willimantic for forgery committed during the fall of 1895. Deputy Sheriff Allen will de- liver him into the hands of the sheriff of Orleans county, Vermont, where he is wanted. During the fall of 1895 he married young lady of Newport, Vt, |, and to conduct the ceremony properly he forged check and obtained the
 
 while out upon bail of S250 he stole a horse and wagon in Connecticut, for which offence he was sentenced to state prison for two years. When the Yer mont authorities found out he was serv- | ing sentence in Wethersfield, they agreed to give his bondsman 0 chance to produce him in court in Vermont when his sentence was ended in Con- neoticut, which has been done.
 The third-rail cars began running be- tween Hartford and Bristol Monday morning. The distance is about IS miles and the time will be about 40 i minutes. The cars are run on the hour and half hour and almost all of the steam trains have been discontinued.
 The Hartford Courant has been send ing out excursion parties with money which they h ,ve raised by subscriptions for fresh-air fund. On Tuesday the party was made up of old people from the Old Peoples Home and similar so- cieties.
 Andrew Seaberg of New Britain came very near death last Sunday morning. He drank a lot of prepared fly poison and but for the prompt use of emetics would have died. He was drunk and begaH to quarrel, but after chasing sev eral other men around the house and not catching them he became despond- ent and drank the fly poison. He tried to eat the paper but his wife stopped him in time.
 Miss Gertrude l. Graves. daughter of Col. E. NJ. Graves of Hartford, died Sunday morning after all operation per formed at the Hartford hospital to re- move the appendix. Rs sIie was suffering from appendicitis, She was 2I years of age and graduate of tbc Hartford Pub. lie High School and a student at the Normal School in New Britain. Her father was known to several Canaan people, who heartily sympathizs with him in his bereavement.
 Two Italians were drowned at South- ingtou last Sunday. They were in bathing and one could not swim. He got into deep pool when the other one started to save him and buth were drowned.
 A drunken man was placed in a cell in East Hartford and came near dying of thirst through the oversight of the iani- | tor
 A boy. Edwsrd Lawlor, aged 6, was killed by cake of ice falling upon his chest from wagon Saturday iu Hart | ford.
 Henry Grupp, aged 62, of Hs. ford, wss kicked in the stomach by horse Sunday and died of the injuries.