Connecticut western news., 1899-09-28
STATE NEWS.

A special to the Courant from Win sted states that in getting ready to eel ebrate tho arrival of Dewey an old Con- federate cannon now in possession of he Monument Association was taken Tn hand to see if it could be fired. It was ,und to be spiked. A hole was bored into it and small charge of powder put in and touched off. The result was the discharge of an old shell from the cau- non. The shell weighed 13t pounds. was four inches in diameter and about eight inches long. It went about eight rods from the mouth of the oapnon. It is of & pattern unfamiliar to the old soldiers and excited much curiosity. An effort will be made to trace the cannon back to it's capture.
 The family of Ithamer Hawes is sadly afflicted. Two daughters, the hired man and the wife of MT Hawes' son are all i'll with the typhoid fever. Milford Gazette.
 The fifteenth annual convention of the Connecticut Christian Endeavor Union will be held at Putnam. Friday Saturday aud Sunday. October 18th and l5th.
 James Rising. @ prominent Sufield farmer, and . member of the Legisla- ture in 1883, died suddenly of heart failure on Sunday.
 "Mark Twain" has cabled to Arthu, Bave cancelling his engagement of g s lite of rooms at the Princeton Inn and will remain in London for the winter. It is expected that Mrs Grant, widow ot General U. s. Grant. will attend the reunion of the Grant family to be held in Windsor. Oct. P.
 Rev Father Pamphilus Ennis. pastor f the Roman Catholic church at Ale, gany, has been selected by the Provin cial of the Order of Franciscan Monk. 'o succeed Rev Father Alexander Hick y as pastor of St. Joseph's church oI Winsted. Father Hickey has been as signed to work in St. Bonaventure's col lege. Allegany, Pa.
 Papers have been served in @ suit fol S25, 900 damages brought by Atwood Violet against E. 0. Benedict, the vel known banker of Green wich, and We'll stood & Sons, real estate agents of the same town. In the complaint Violet alleges that through false represents tions he was induced to rent house or Putnam avenue, Greenwich, owned by Benedict, into which he moved last October.
 Walter Hitchcock, 2I, of Waterbury went rabbit hunting last Thursday morning and while loading revolver, accidentally shot himself in the breast :, m ain n instant 1oakh
 Edward J. Conwell of Southport, who was recently released from the state prison after serving three year. and si, months for arson, has written to Gov Lounsbury, alleging that he was con victed by perjured testimony. It i, said that many residents of Southport entertain the same belief. Conwell has asked the governor to order an investi gation into his case.
 The old Second Congregations church ct Wins.ed is to be remodeled i . the largest and finest store in Litch field county. There will be three floors and the entire floor space will be IA 71f feet It will be occupied by E. w Jones. the furniture dealer
 Ou6 Chu lmhkiuo ku6 l6cAlukS OI sur prise experienced by Captain George Conner, native of East Haddam, ano crew, when they arrived at New Londo, last Friday after a whaling voyage O over two years in the Artic seas. and fol the first time learned o: the Spanish. American war, of the present war witt the Filipinos, of the change of govern ment in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil ippines. how the Hawaiian Islands had been annexed to the United States ant of the wonderful gold discoveries in tn, Klondike.
 Thomas Kelley, IT, football play e on the Middle town High School clever while playing at Meriden on Saturday fell while running with the ball ant several of the players piled up on tol of him. When extricated from tn, mass he was uncon.cious and it wa found that his neck was broken. H lived until Monday night when hs diet at the city hospital in Meriden. Dr Herman Wadsworth Hayler, in strnctor of Latin and a member of tn faculty at Wesleyan University at Mid dletown, Ct., committed suicide b, cutting his throat at the United State Hotel in Boston Sunday night. He wa an eccentric man and was probabl temporarily insane He was about 8 years of age.