Connecticut western news., 1899-02-02
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY. 2 1899.
Local News.

Local News.
 -Candlemas Day. Watch out for shadows.
 George Benedict has been confined to the house the past week by sickness.
 MT and Mrs George Chattleton of Bristol visited at Reuben Sewart's the past week.
 The Geo. A Hill Comedy Go. will appear at Town Hall all next week, ex- cepting Tuesday evening.
 About 60 new books have been add. cd to the Douglass Library during the past week.
 Seldom does a snow storm threaten so long and so much and then pan out 50 little as did the last one.
 r-We have received letter from H.. Frank Emmons dated Haines Mission, Alaska, Jan. 16, 1899 which we will en- deavor to give to our readers next week.
 Edward Sweeney. brakeman on the milk train on the Berkshire Divis- ion, received word that an aunt in Bos- ton had died and willed him 8l5O, 900. He has gone to Boston to investigate.
 Mrs Achsah Johnson Murphy who died ct Los Angeles, Gal Jan. 2, was a cousin of the late Henry Johnson for merly of this town. Her first husband was the lato Henry Boardman of South Canaan.
 William Ellis of Southfield, fre- quent contributor to the NEWS, and 8 poet of considerable merit, is sick at his home with the grip He is 75 years old, but just as keen as when he wrote the Legend of North Norfolk" in verse.
 "A remodelled freight car has been substituted for Car Inspector Sweeney's s office, which is certainly not an improve ment in architecture on the latter. and is not up to the usual standard of what the Consolidated" are doing along it's lines. but it is more roomy.
 Mrs A. 0. c. Whittlesey has recent ly had @ family monument (Cowles = Whittlesey) erected at the lower ceme- tery. It consists of figure in Carrara marble, emblematic of Memory It is the work of an Italian artist and was made in Italy. The base and pedestal are of granite.
 -Heman Oles, whose death at AL ford is mentioned by our Great Barring ton correspondent, was the father of Mrs Charles Butcher and Mrs Julia Campbell of this village. He had lived several years on the Joslyn place in Weatogue and afterwards for four years on the Harmon Peet farm in Canaan before returning to Afford.
 There will be a teachers meeting in the High School building Friday, Feb. 3 at 2 o'clock p. m. under the auspices of the State Board of Educa. tion. The meeting will probably be addressed by Mir Hine, secretary of the State Board, on the subject of language Teachers in the adjoining towns have been invited and all interested in our public schools will be welcome.
 Eta, wife of Otis Turner Julian, died on Jan. 20 at the home of her brother, Charles Frank. in Souix City, Iowa. She had been ill the past four years with diabetes, and her last perma- nent theatrical engagement was aa Edith Haverhill in "Shenandoah" in 1894. Otis is at present with the same play. She was last seen here in July 1895 when she appeared in the "Black Flag" presented by the Julians.
 Homer Allyn of East Canaan has received Western paper mentioning the death of Horace Hubbard Weth, erell at Lisbon, Linn county, Iowa, Nov IS, 1898. MT Wetherell was born on Rose Hill in East Canaan but has resid ed in the West the past 40 years. For many years he was janitor of the public scho building at Lisbon. He wal nearly "A years of age and he died al the residence of his brother, John R Wetherell.
 Frank Allen of this town got drunl last week Wednesday and assaulted hil wife. breaking her fingers and injurine her side, and attempted to burn up tho house. He was arrested Monday ant on Tuesday was brought before Justice Garfield on the charge of assault ant arson, and bound over to the Apri term of the Superior court at New Mil ford under $500 bonds. He could no furnish and was taken to Litchfeld by Sheriff Van Deusen.
 Passengers on the 8.11 train las Thursday morning had an exciting ex perience. As the train WIS nearing Whiting River fill at East Canaan rife bullet was shot entirely througl the smoking car, entering one window and passing out the other side of thu car through the window one ahead o the opposite one to where the bulle entered. The bullet made clean hole through the window glass, and entered the first window low and passed through the second window about si, inches above the head of Andrew John son of Winchester who was enroute t, Amenia. The calibre was between 8. and 40, and MT Johnson, who came 8, near being hit, was bit nervous whel the train reached here. If anyone ha, been sitting directly in front of the win dow that the bullet entered it woul' have struck them about chest height Ths sfigin oi ths shst is xnkaewn.