Connecticut western news., 1898-06-16
STATE NEWS.
Perry's Great Naval Victory-One
 Who Heard the Guns.

In speaking of the recent reports of bombardments being heard at long dis tances William 0. Phelps of Winsted gives a peculiarly interesting remin- iscence which probably cannot be du- plicated by any one living. Mir Phelps is 9l years of age. When he was about six years old he lived with his parents at Kingsville, O., close to Lake Erie. On September 10, 1913, Commodore Perry fought his famous battle with the British 120 miles away in straight line over the water from where the Phelpses lived and they heard the guns. Mir Phelps remembers it distinctly. It was perfectly clear, bright afternoon with no breeze whatever. About 4 o'clock they heard something which he says was like very distant thunder. There was not cloud to be seen. They soon discovered that they could hear more plainly by lying down on the ground and this they did for some time. This is probably what impressed it on the boy. MT Phelps does not remember personally the occurrences of the next day, but he says he has heard his par ents tell great many times how a man came riding fast and furious the next morning at about 9 o'clock telling everybody that Perry was fighting the British and how about the middle of the afternoon another followed him, shout ing out that Perry had won.-Courant. A serious accident took place at New Britain last week Wednesday when w. J. Fitzgerald boarded freight car on the New England road. According to his story he climbed mp on the car and met brakeman, Michael Flynn, who sprang upon him and threw him to the ground. His foot went under the wheel of the car and was so much bruised and the bones so much broken that it had to be amputated. It is be- lieved that he was caught between the bumpers of two cars and was not thrown of.
 Benjamin T. Henry. inventor of the famous Winchester rifle, which he dis posed of to the Winchester Arms Go, died at his home in New Haven last week Wednesday. aged " years. Bristol is to have a penny daily pa per.
 Almost all of the summer cottages at Highland Lake, Winsted, are now occu- pied and the Electric Park is also open | for the summer. Sunday they had 0 sacred concert at the park and the lake connections ran all day and evening. There are about 20 cottages built at points around the lake and it makes a very pleasant, cool place to spend the summer.
 A remarkable case of cruelty to dog was reported at Rockville last Thursday. A man wished to get rid of dog and threw 1t alive into furnace three diff ferent times, it having escaped the first two times from the flames.
 The Pratt & Weis Clock Go. at Plain vile was shut down last Thursday and the employees could not get wages that were due them. The cause ot the tu :- pension is said to be the failure of some of the Plainville stockholders to pay up their subscriptions.
 Three teams were in quite a mix-up at Hartford last Thursday. Two of the teams were standing by the sidewalk | when another single team without a dr1ver came walking slowly down the street, the driver having left the horse unhitched. Upon the wheels of the two teams getting locked the horse that was walking down the street, feeling the | extra resistance. started on a run and smashed into another wagon which was @ short distance away from the one first collided with. The horse was caught before it did any more damage The re- | suit of the smash was that two of the teams were very badly damaged A | little child had a very narrow escape from being run over during the melee. The graduating exercises of the state Normal. Training school will be held at Willimantic Thursday, June 23, in Loomer Opera House,at 8 o'clock p. m. The presentation of diplomas will be made by Lieut.. Gov. Dewell.
 Patrick Lawler, aged 62, was instant ly killed by an explosion in the New Haven rolling mill at that place last Friday morning. He was working at a cutting machine and had just inserted a cylindrical shaped piece of metal which was supposed to have contained acety- lene gas, when the explosion occurred.
 One man killed and another man to be shut up in jail was the result of a drunken brawl in Woodbury Sunday | morning. Two men, Thomas Berry and Morris Cummings, got drunk on | hard cider and commencing to fight, | Berry took gun in his hand and struck Cummins. The gun went of and the bullet struck Berry in the abdomen, causing hIs death.
 Bertha Allen, 16 years old, of Torrinl- ton, tried to commit suicide at Burr vile last week Wednesday evening by drowning. The girl says that she was kidnapped by two gypsies but her story is not believed.
 Geo. w Flint, principal of the Col linsville High school, will assume his duties as president of the Storrs' Agri- cultural college July lst, succeeding Prof. B. F. Coons.
 Four companies A. D, G, and Fl, of of the First Connecticut Volunteers are now in clover at Fort Knox, Me.-quise different from the lot of the soldiers at Chicamauga, who are complaining of the food and quarters assigned to them The New York World is getting up a train load of provisions donated by several of the big firms there to send to send down to them.
 A movement is on foot to form a poultry association in Litchfeld County.
 Emmestins Gaub of Torrington is un- der charge of child-murder. On June 2 she gave birth to 8 child. Six days later neighbors saw har acting in sus- picious manner burying something in the garden. They informed the police,
 who digging up the bundle found en- closed the body of 8 week-old child. Coroner of Litchfield Go, Higgins had an investigation and gave as his report
 that the child died of corrosive poison administered to it. It's month and face