Connecticut western news., 1898-10-20
STATE NEWS.

The Sunday school teachers of Litch- field county will hold a convention at Watertown, Oct. 26. z#
 The new monitor Connecticut is to be built by the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine.
 During the year ending September l., there were woven in the state of Con- necticut 62,0O0.000 yards of cotton cloth, valued at eS. 4S7, ,000. the average cost of production per yard was 2-10 cents. But very little of the cheapest grade of cotton cloth is made in this state. ..
 At Litchfeld, Oct. 13, John Grant of Watertown pleaded guilty and was sen- fenced to nine years in the state prison. Grant assaulted Mrs Atwood at Water town. Chas. Smith of New Milford was found not guilty of intent to kill George Rice but was sentenced to six months in jail for assault. William Hillis of Warren was given six months for assault on Eugene Wells.
 Court of Common Pleas will be in session at Winsted, Oct. 2S and Nov. [; at New Milford, Oct. 20; and at Litch- field, Nov, l.
 Benjamin Willis, the Wilton murderer who is to be hanged at the state prison the morning of November 4, has been placed in the steel cage at the prison, and the death watch has been set over him. He will not leave the cage until he Is led to execution.
 The school teachers annual couven- ton serves most useful purpose It gives the boys an extra day for gather ing walnuts and chesnuts.
 Attorney Frank B. Mum of Wlnsted has been appointed eferee of Litcbfield county under the United States bank ruptcy law. which went into effect July 1st. Mir Munn's appointment is for two years. ...=.....
 In the Superior court held at Litch- field last week Nichall Crimmins. who was charged with manslaughter, was acquitted. The state tried to prove that Crimmins killed Thomas Barry in Woodbury.
 Chas. Edwards of Danbury and Rich ard Nichols of Brookfeld, both colored hs ve just been arrested for the theft of $100 bill from Mrs John Osupck which they stole from her household goods while moving them last June. Nichols has confessed. and the case is clear against Edwards.
 Michael Hickey a resident of East Bristol was sandbagged while returning to his home last Saturday night. He was found lying in the road at a late hour and is was discovered that he had been stabbed Hickey had $40 and also gold watch but the highwaymen were frightened away by his loud calls for help and did not rob him. There have been seven other, but successful, attempts at highway robbery at the same spot.
 William Eaton of Bristol. who escap- ed from the state prison at Wethersfeld last June, has been found to be an in- mate at present of Dannemora Prison, at Clinton, N. Y. where he is serving a five-year term for burglary. Eaton Is only 1o years old and has prospect of spending great deal of his youth in prison.
 The Bridgeport base ball team defeat ed the Boston champions at Bridgeport on Monday by 8 score of $ to 5. Mic oils, Willis and Klobedapz pitched for Boston and Corcoran for Bridgeport Hurrah for Connecticut.
 A small riot occurred in Wallingford Sunday when Sec. Thrasher of the Law and Order League made a liquor raid. From nine o'clock till afternoon the town was in an uproar, the citizens hoot- ing the officers. Sec. Thrasher reports that he will make numerous arrests.
 Miss Helena J. Johnson of New Ha- ven. a dressmaker, has fallen heir to $70. 900 left her by woman friend who had died in San Francisco. The friend ship dates from girlhood. Miss John- son is about 35 and has gone to San- Francisco to secure her fortune.
 Edgar M. Clossey of Winsted was sentenced to one years imprisonment on Tuesday by the Superior court at Litchfeld for embezzlement of funds from the Zelotus Gillette estate in Nor folk. Clossey is at present serving a five years sentence for forgery.
 Charles F. Msxfeld of New Hartford has been nominated for state senator by the Democrats of the Eighteenth dis trict.
 The 20,00e tons of ice stored by the Greenwoods Co. at New Hartford last winter has all been sold. The last of it sold for $5 per ton.
 Roco Narbano, an Italian bootblack of Torr1ngton was shot and killed while out hunting with companion in Burr. vile on Monday There are suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
 R. T. Andrews of Thomaston was nominated for state senator by the Democrats of the Twentieth district al the convention in Litchfeld the 18th.