Connecticut western news., 1898-07-28
STATE NEWS.

Seymour intends to build a bicycle path feet wide and covered with stone 3 inches deep. This path when com- pleted, will cost S660, and will be about 3 ? miles long. The people of Derby and Ansonia have pledged themselves to construct path about 6.5 miles long which will cost from S1200 to Sl5OO and work will be commenced within week. Although Derby. Seymour and Ansonia are quite distance from Ca naan we can help the good work a great deal by putting the Canaan paths in good order It will not cost much and after spending over Sl00 in building them as we have it seems a great shame upon the people of Canaan that the paths have not been finished. As the result of the condition of the paths the wheelmen take the road in preference.
 The new station on the Naugaiuck division at Seymour will probably be finished within week or so and will be quite commodious building and a very good addition to the advantages of that town.
 house in Hartford last Thursday. The
  went to an employment agency and se- cured the woman. The woman appear ed crazy however and the lady, Mrs N. B. Csdy, discharged her. The girl con- fessed to setting the fire when arrested
 John McKeon of Middletown WAS shot in the mouth last Thursday by stray bullet while watching some men shoot at target at Lake View Park The bullet entered the left side of his face and broke his jaw, knocking out one tooth. His injuries were not fatal.
 An accident that resulted in the death of horse occurred on Farming ton Avenue in Hartford by the horse going in ditch that was being excsva- ted for a sewer Two young people were in tue carriage but they were not injured.
 A laborer on the three-rsil road be- tween Bristol and Hartford lastThursday fell across the middle rail which conveys the current to the cars. He was very badly burned as were two others who rescued him.
 A reunion of the cavalry associations and the 18th c. V. will be held at Will limantic August l7.
 A young man named John Brooks was drowned last Thursday in a lily pond at Terryville, being overcome by cramps He was about 18 years old.
 Chss. O. Hutchins of Middletown was driving from Berlin to his home last Thursday evening and was held up and robbed by two men. He gave the men all the money he had, S717 and was quite bruised by blows from the robbers.
 the body by Louis o. Allen of Boston. Betsoha was working in a market there inBridgeport and the men ordering some goods in another room, Betscha went in to get them. While he was away Allen leaned over the counter and stole S3 from the till and in struggle with 3etschs the shots were fired by Allen.
 Mrs D. B St John of Hartford was found wandering around the streets of Hartford Friday morning. She has been missing for over a week and is said to be insane.
 The publication of the Derby Tran script has been suspended after con- tinuous issue of 3l years. It was first issued as a weekly. Among it's editors have been E. A. Horton, Rev Thomp- son Bacon, his son William T. Bacon, Daniel A. Bacon who established it as daily. Ia 1890 Daniel A. Bacon sold it and it has passed through several hands since then, among them being O. E. Nuservey, E. E. Growth and A. K. Kennedy, who was the Ansonia core. spondent of the paper. It has done lots of good work and we are sorry to bid it sdieu. LATER News Editor Frederick F. Burgin of the New York Herald has bought the Derby Transcript and will call it the Derby Daily News.
 Lakeville is to organize new fire company and have gone about 1t in the right way-they are going to fully equip it and not have one-horse she bang.
 Secretary Kellogg of the state board of charities recommends that a new slmshouse be erected at Neriden.
 Herbert E. Benton, school fund con- missioner of the state, died at his home in New Haven Saturday evening. He left wife, and brother living in the West. During his course at Yale he became one of the editors of the Yale Courant and continued in journalism after he left college. In 1880 he be- came editor-in-chief of the New Haven Palladium, from which he retired in 1883 He followed the law business then until 1891 he was elected to the position of school fund commissioners. which position he held at his death.
 There was big washout on the trolley line between Winsted aud Torrington last Thursday, which was caused by the thunder storms at that place. A car was also derailed be- cause of gravel on the track.
 Ex-Mayor Joseph H. Sprague. of Hartford died Thursday night of apo plexy. He has been in good health and his death was not looked for. He was one of the best known men in Hartford and was one of the foremost. democrats in the state. He was the mayor of Hartford in 1876 and served two terms and has repeatedly been elected to the common council from the old Sixth ward. He leaves wife and three children.
 One of the best known soldiers and republicans in New Haven county died at Milford last Thursday, the fifty fourth anniversary of his birth. It was Charles H Butler. superintendent of the the capitol at Hartford. He was a 1 prominent member of the G. A. R |, junior warden of St. Peter's Episcopal church of Oxford and of the A. O. U. w. and has been chairman of republican town committee for many years. He was twice married and leaves one child by his first wife. His second wife is also living, they being married two months ago.
 The Seymour water company will probably begin work upon their water | system this week Suryeys have been