Connecticut western news., 1899-04-27
STATE NEWS

Third Regiment, c. V. died at his home in Torrington. April 19 of typhoid fever, aged p years.
 A5 to 8 per cent. raise in wages has been made by the Greenwoods Go. at New Hartford.
 Not in forty years have there been as many vacant houses and as few inhabi- tants in Riverton, as there are this spring. Never since Stephens and Go. located there, thirty five years ago, with the rule business, have there been as few employed in the shop, the paper mill is closed, and no work just now at Carter's sleigh shoe business in the old ythe shop. As there is nothing for the people to do, they have to go where there is work.
 Burney Squires, 35, was killed at New Milford early Friday morning by q north bound freight train.
 A fruit expert reports that there will be large crop of all kinds of Connect icut fruit this year.
 The Springfield extension of the o. N E road is going rapidly ahead and 1t is thought the line will be completed about the first or middle of August.
 Ezra O Windsor, supt of the Chelsea branch post office, has been given an important position in the post office de- partment at Washington. D. C., for the purpose of introducing system of post office accounts which he perfected some time ago.
 Stockholders in this state of the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company (Jornegsu's scbeme) have been inform ed of dividend of 20 per cent. payable May l.
 George o. Sawyer of Hartford, the bankrupt merchant, has offered to pay 25 per cent. of his liabilities in cash. The offer will be accepted, as if settled through the courts the estate would not pay more than that.
 Ex- Congressman John Turner Wait died at his home in Norwich last Friday aged ss years. He served in the 44th, 45th. .46th, 47th, 48th and 49th Congress. Before the Civil war he was four times Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, but in 1864 was presidential elector on the Lincoln J Johnson ticket and in '6S was elected a Republican state senator and later representative In 1874 he was again candidate for lieutenant governor but on the Repub- lican ticket. He was never elected to that office, however, either before or after the war.
 Sebastiane Martinelli, the direct rep resentative of the Pope in this country, kaI N-l Monday and said mass at St. Joseph's cathedral. On Sunday Archbishop Martinelli dedicated the new Italian R. o. church at New Haven.
 Edward Burke, 45. fell down stairs at his boarding place in Bristol Sunday morning and broke his neck. He is supposed to have had heart disease while going down stairs. He was an employee of the New Departure Bell Go.
 Colonel P. l.. Cunningham. 80, died suddenly of heart disease at South Nor walk on Saturday. He was mayor of the city in '82-'8S.
 The new Sunday trains, permitted by the new law, began running on Sunday and were we'll patronized.
 The old Quaker meeting house in Pomfret was burned by an iucendiary last Friday night.
 A state golf association is being form ed.
 Admiral Dewey's ancestry has been traced back to Joseph Dewey of Col. chester, Conn. who moved to Vermont.
 The tobacco spotting suit of Rickard X Long against John A. DuBon will be argued at New Haven July 8 This Is the test case to determine whether Rick ard < Long can control tobacco spot ting.
 George Green, of the old Winsted nine, left Winsted Monday for North Adams where he will play ball this sea- son.
 Rev M. V. Jacobs Is the new Baptist minister in Colebrook, coming there from South Hanson, Mass.
 Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill left Washington Saturday on a trip west ward of about four months. He will visit Alaska and may take his long con- templated journey to Japan and also call at the Philippine Islands.
 Four houses. barn and a screw driver factory were destroyed by fire at Wilkinsonville, mile south of Collins vile, on Monday. The Collinsville firemen succeeded in saving the remain ing buildings in the little hamlet.
 Employees in the dye room of the filling Woolen Company fat Derby are out on strike because their wages were not raised ten per cent. The plant has had to shut down.