Connecticut western news., 1898-04-21
STATE NEWS.

A rumor is afloat that Brooklyn cspi- talists will buy the large Sawyer cotton mills at Colebrook River and shortly begin large operations.
 A battery of Rodman guns is to be placed at Oyster River Point in Wood mont near the cottage of the Rev Dr Anderson of Waterbury.
 Norton's pineapple cheese factory in Goshen Is in operation.
 Yale students burned, in huge bon fire on the New Haven campus last week, all the copies of the New York Voice that could be obtained in the city. The Voice is a temperance paper which is busy scoring Yale and New Haven for their lack of temperance principles.
 Hon ". J. Bryan spoke on "Bimet- allism in New Haven Friday afternoon,
 Prof. Le Baron R. Briggs, dean of Harvard University, will deliver the commencement address at the Gunnery School, Washington, in June.
 A marked decrease in consumption in Connecticut, is shown by the state board of health report, gathered from actual figures from all ports of the commonwealth and tabulated.
 J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury says that the fruit prospects in this state were never before so good at this time of the year as they are to-day. This is true, not only of peaches. but of all fruits. The cold weather of early April held back the buds which were unusually forward at the end of March, and they are now all right.
 Danbury business men have clubbei together to try and eliminate the "desd beat" from their midst.
 Clarksou Nc Carthy of Millerton, N. T., was killed by the cars at Newington Friday night.
 The towns of Old Saybrook, North Stonington, Litch6eld. East Haven. Watertown. Rocky Hill and Putnam have each filed in the highway commis- sioner's office applications for share of the state appropriation for good roads.
 States Attorner Donald T. Warner of Salisbury will enter a nolle in the case of the state against Philip Carroll on the charge of breach of the peace, which was to have been considered in the Superior court at Litchfield today. This means that the case will be thrown out of court.
 Last Friday evening fire almost total ly destroyed the two upper stories Of Edward E. Browns machine shop in Winsted, causing an estimated loss of S10 500 with S3000 insurance. The building was three-story frame build ing 34x50 feet. The first floor was occupied by the Standard Msnufsctur- ing Co. who make plated knives and novelties. Their loss is about S5, ,000 with DO insurance.
 At the short calendar session of the superior court held in New Milford last Friday, two divorces were granted Beeman vs. Beeman; Dwy vs. Dwy.
 Andrus R. Swanson was struck and killed by train on the Canal" road at Collinsville Saturday afternoon, The body was terribly Dutilated. Swanson leaves wife and little child living in Collinsyille.
 Rev Dr Ichsbod Simmons, pastor of the first Methodist Episcopal church nf Hartford, died last Thursday afternoon after an illness of six weeks with a com- plication of diseases. His age was 62 years. He leaves a widow and three daughters.
 The Winsted Citizen says: A man, ''stout built, brown hair. short mus. tache, about 2S. and who rolls bis eyes when talking" hsiliug from Washing. ton, D. C., is going through the state trying swindle game on clergymsn.
 The photograph gallery of Edwin c. Thompson. at Winsted, was entered by burglars last Thursday night and about Sl25 worth of property stolen. The burglars made an unsuccessful attempt to bnrn the building, but the blaze which they ignited expired without do | irg much damage.
 R. ". Carlgariisn. g years old, com. mitted suicide at South Manchester last Friday by swallowing thirty grains oi | strychnine. Disappointment Tn love is supposed to have caused the rash act.
 What was probably the largest and most enthusiastic demonstration ever uellA aA 1hic ioOh HIaSc Caiuiua1 Sheu' ing when 1,500 collegisns, as if by com. mon impulse, started out to parade the streets of New Haven, shouting theil patriotic endorsement of the Senate Cuban resolutions.
 The case of state vs. E. NJ. Clossey and Herman Clark and state vs E NJ | Clossey, has been continued in the Su. perior court at Litchfeld until Tuesday April 26.