Connecticut western news., 1898-01-13
STATE NEWS.

hunting foxes two or three weeks before, dled last Saturday.
 Dr Elijah Bond, of New Haven, has been indicted for murder in the second degree in causing the death of Grace Dearborn hy malpractice His. sister went bail for him.
 The supreme court last week render ed it's decision on the case of Mary Nol. an, admx, against the N. Y N H & H R. R. Go. The plaintiff recovered iudg ment for large amount in the superior court for the death of her hus- band, Jerry Nolan, who was killed in lhe snow blow collision at Kent Fur mace. The supreme court sets the judg ment of the superior court aside aud remands the case for the assessment of only nomInal damages. holding that Nolan was guilty of contributory neg ligenee.
 The Legislature of 1897 held it's re- union at the Allyn House, Hartford, last week Wednesday. There was a banquet and speeches were made by Senators Platt and Hawley, Congress men Henry, Russell, and Hill, Senator D T. Warner, Representative Huburt Williams and others.
 Last Friday G ,vernor Cooke appoint ed John A Stoughton of East Hartford aud l.. J. Nickerson of West Cornwall to be prosecuting agents of the Conn ectiout Humane Society, each for two years from January 6, 1898.
 The Good Roads Commission of the General Assembly held meeting at Hartford last week and passed resolu- ,ion, which was sent to the selectman of the various towns. It requires the selectmen to forward to tue commis- sioners tho length of every highway ID m the town, which communicates with any adjoining town, also to describe the Kind of road most desirable, macadam, telford or gravel.
 The friendly suit of the town of New Milford against Litcbgeld County, 10 test the validity of the good roads law If 895. was before the court of common pleas atWiusted last week and was Im- mediately transferred to the supreme court on an agreed statement of facts The facts are that the bill for one-third of the expense of road improvements was twice presented to the county and payment refused on the ground that there was no money in the treasury Of the county not otherwise appropriate !. The question to be decided is whether the county shall now levy a tax to meet the bills for road provemen.s.
 The Herman Sachse murder trial cost the state $4,276 55.
 John Brainerd Burr, 62, the we'll known publisher, died at his home in Hartford on Monday, Jan. To-
 A cut in wages went into effect in the Groverdale cotton mills at Putnam Mon- Jay morning. Over 1. 800 hands are affected. The cut will, 1t is thought, approximate about s per cent.
 The Winchester Repeating Arms Go has received an order for 10 GOO mili. tary rsflss and Quo. 900 rounds of ann munition It is reported that the or der comes from the Russian govern ment.
 Lucius c. Seeley, S7, an old resident | of Wallingford. was struck by the cars on grade crossing near that place on hhu'so"y anu ihStabhy hillou' Andrew Wilbar, farmer at North GrosveD ordale, has found gold and sil. yer on his farm. The gold yields $25 8 ton and the silver 24t cents to the ounce. The reply received from Yale was that it was the best gold yet found in this state.
 D. W. Thrall, general agent of tte | Connecticut Humane Society, is confin. ed to his house by an attack of grip. J. Woolsey Selleck, about 60 years l old. we'll known resident of Stamford. was found dead in field near his house early Sunday morning. The medical examiner gave it as his opinion that death was due to spoplexy. Mir Selleck leaves wife and two sons. Mrs Elizabeth Shores, aged 60 aud q resident of Winsted. was found lying il the snow on Oak street in that place Friday night. She was chilled through and suffering from mental alteration and later pneumonia set iu and her re coyery seemed doubtful.
 Two boys. each under 10 years of age have confessed that they made the fiFf which burned mp the West End Hote at Putnam Sunday morning They sal they made q fire in the wood shed anC covered it up with dirt and left il, think ing they had put it out, but 1t blazet np,