Connecticut western news., 1899-01-19
STATE NEWS.

Torrington poultry fanciers are plan ming for poultry show the latter part of thls month.
 Connecticut wheelmen will ask the Legislature for state aid in building cycle paths.
 Notice of an application for char ter for tramway from Torrington to Bantam Lake via East Litchtield has been published.
 Twenty.seven homocides occurred in occurred in Litchfeld county, while Fairfield county had eleven and New Haven county nine.
 William Fl. Post, one of the best known business men of Hartford, died of the grip Friday, aged 65.
 Harry NJ Loomis, city editor of the American, died at Waterbury on Friday of diabetes, aged B.
 The annual meeting of the Connecti- cut Temperance Union will be held in the Parish House of first church of Christ. New London, on Monday, Jan. B, 1899, at ? o'clock, p. m.
 Lizzie Taylor, If, of Bristol was com mitted to the Connecticut Hospital for che Insane yesterday, suffering from acute mania for incendiarism. The child has confessed to have started seven mysterious fires in Bristol in the past eighteen months.
 There are 340 delegates present at the Grand Lodge of Masons in New Haven today.
 The Norwich Morning Post has sus- pended publication.
 Schools in Collinsvllle have been clos ed on account of scarlet fever.
 Miss Edith E Nichols of New Britain fell on to hot stove Saturday and her clothes ignited and she was fatally burn ed
 Mrs Verna Simons, wife of Maxwell Simons. we'll known druggist at the corner of College and George streets, New Haven, was arrested for the theft of Sl ,000 ring from Eugene Adams, an advertising agent who boarded at the same place with the Simouses. Mrs Simmons has confessed the crime.
 Russell B. Hoyt. notorious counter feiter who was arrested in Bethel in 1894, died in Dsnbury hospital Friday night. He was psrdoned from Weth- ersfield only few months ago, suffer- ing from paralysis,
 Daniel F. Clough, 14, died at the Hartford hospital Saturday of blood poisoning, the result of cutting his thumb on his skates during holiday week.
 Marcus 0. Hawley, prominent New York business man died at his home in Newtown op Sunday of nervous pros- tration, aged 65. He had been sick only a month He was the president of tue 'Hawley Brothers Hardware Con- pany of New York and San Francisco, until recently president of the Shreve- port and Houston Railroad, vice presi- dent of the Bridgeport Steamboat Con- pany and prominently identified with other interests. He leaves wife and a daughter, also two brothers and one one sister.
 William Beaton of Danbury, who has been searching for his daughter for eight years, was mortified last week to receive summons to appear at Pough- keepsie, N. l., where his daughter Louisa Beaton, is on trial for the mur- der of her babe at Dover Furnace. N. Y, last fall Beaton's wife and daugh- ter deserted him eiP ht years ago. It is understood that Miss Beaton will plead guilty to mauslaughter and be sent to a reformatory and given a chance to reform.
 Charles Parsons, Jr.. 40, formerly vice president of the New England rail- road died in New York city last Thurs day.
 According to the South Norwslk Sen tinel. John J. Walsh, a Norwalk lawyer, claims to have discovered the origin of the term "Seel" as used to clinch an ar- gument. He ran across a volume which from it's unfamiliar appearance and style, interested him, ,snd in looking over its pages he ran across this. in Genesis, xxi 30: If thou shall aff1ict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives besides my daughter. no man is with us, see, God is betwixt me and thee."
 Enfield tobacco growers recently sold their tobacco to New York firm for 12 to 16 cents per pound.
 A. F. Copeland of the Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, has been en. gagged as athletic trainer at Yale col lege.
 A successful trial of the air brake has been made on the West Hartford trolley cars.