Connecticut western news., 1898-09-01
STATE NEWS.

James Peaslee, blacksmith of Bark hamsted Is in the tolls under the charge of attempting to sssanlt . 12-year-old girl, Carrie Lampson. on Q road neal that place on Friday. The LAmpson girl is . Gilbert Home protege but VA living with Case family in Barkham. sted.
 An attempt was made in Torrington on Friday morning to blow up nd burn a Chinese laundry operated by Wune Sing. Powder and kerosene wore free. ly used. The fire was put out by the Chinaman and his neighbors. Other Chinamen are suspected of the deed.
 Jay E. Spalding of winstsd has bean appointed receiver of the Winsted Op. sical Go. and he has given bonds in the sum of SS0.00
 A game of baseball between the fa, men of Winsted and Litchfield will be played at Winsted on Friday after noon Sept. 2d at o'clock. It is ey- pected that Henry Messenger of New Hartford, who veighs over 400 sounds, will umpire the game. The defeated team is to pay for banquet for both hines. Two boys will be hired to fan the men while they await their turns st the bat.
 William Edward Penney. the poet, of New Haven Is dead He died Mon- day, August f2d, ct Millerton, N. r.. where he had been stopping for 6 few weeks.
 Companies A, B and tho band ofthe First Connecticut Heavy Artillery will hold reunion at Torrington on Sep- tember 10 Dinner vii be at Conley E Inn. These represent the Litchfield county organizations in the artillery and au organization has been maintain ed by the Litchfield county men inde- pendent of the regular association.
 New Milford peop le propose to name a wooded and picturesque drive in that town "rhe Dewey Drive. :"
 The thirty-second reunion of tbe End Connecticut Heavy Artillery will be held at Bridgeport on Sept. 7th, 1898. The dinner will be fue one. served st Pleasure Beach.
 A passenger train on the Berkshire Division ran onto a switch and crashed into freight train at Ansonia on Satur- day. Every lamp in the passenger coaches was broken but no one was severely injured.
 The Secretary of War has stated that the mem bers of Light Battery A (Yale Battery). Connecticut Volunteer Artil. lery, will probably be mustered out of servlce by Sept. 15. This inform ation was given in response to request for . furlough for member of the battery.
 Torrington is to have e new opera house built by Waterbury capital.
 John Grihoolsky, an Austrian, was murdered in Torrington Sunday by e fellow boarder named John Pacigo who has escaped. The two men were in . fight snd the victim was struck on the head by some blunt instrument. Pac go weighs 160 pounds and 20 or 30 years old. His height Is feet and 8 inches. When last seen he wore a cheap brown checkered suit and black slouch hat. He has small brown mustache and 8 prominent scar on his upper lip which shows through this. Another scar is on his forehead.
 Wuuam Oaunu6rs oI D60p hlVor while moving Saturday on g river meadow found woman's foot standing in the mud. It had on black stocking and an Oxford tie shoe with patch on. The foot had been there for months. The Hartford Courant says "this fiud- ing of woman's foot recalls to mind the strange disappearance of Miss Ber- tha Mellish of Dsyviile from Mount Hoiyoke Seminary last November. The tall grass of the meadow which runs along the river bank for about mile will be searched for other portions of the body"
 Willism H. Hubbard. chief of the New Haven fire department died in Philadelphia Monday. He was 64 years old and had been in Ill health for some time.