Connecticut western news., 1899-04-13
STATE NEWS.

Marcello Orssno, an Italian barber whose home was in Hartford, went crazy at East Haddsm Friday morning and with his shot gun wounded John Gelson prominent farmer. A posse of citizens shot and KiIled Orsauo while he was trying to escape.
 It is stated by Hartford man that in 1874 there was good sleighing in Hart. ford the last week in April. George Foster Sanford, the Yale ath- lete, will coach the Columbia College football team the coming year.
 As soor as the ground settles the work of changing the railroad track at Ore Hill will be commenced. The sur veyors have laid out the new line to oc- cupy nearly the same ground 1t did a few years since.
 The war department, through the in strumentality of Senator Hawley, has granted medal of honor to ex-Congress- man William Edgar Simonds of Collins vile for gallant behavior at the battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana. Mir Simonds is now commander of the Department of Connecticut G. A. R. Mir Simonds de- livered an address at Canaan last July 4.
 The wife of our Ambassador to Eng. land, Mrs Joseph Choate, nee Caroline ID. Sterling, Is native of Salisbury. Mrs Choate is still very handsome woman.
 Torringtou now proposes to do honor to her volunteers in the Spanish-Ameri- can war by giving them reception and banquet tonight.
 James H. Olmstead. a we'll known Stamford lawyer, died of paralysis Mon day night, aged 70.
 Professor Bradley is to have liquid air plant put in at Wesleyan College at Middletown. There is only one other plant in the United States, and that at New York.
 A house occupied by Lawrence Sulli- van, Jr. at Windsor was burned early Monday morning. Mrs Sullivan and children were awakened by the barking of "tramp" dog that had been staying with the Sullivans about week.
 All the leading merchants of Water bury have entered into an agreement to
 
 at some day in the near future.
 Daniel D. Daly of Waterbury, aged "A. son of M. J. Daly, 8 prominent business man, was stricken with heart failure, the result of over exertion while bicycling last Sunday afternoon, and died almost instantly. He was trying to keep up with several scorchers when stricken.
 Judge Robinson of the Superior court sitting at New Haven, has annull- ed the charter of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Water bury, dissolved the company and ordered a decree entered ter minating it's corporate existence. This company was formerly the Connecticut Indemnity Association.
 Wm. l.. Hayes, the East Hartford postmaster is on bail awaiting the May term of the Superior court when he will be tried for embezzlement.
 A naked and decomposed body of man was found in the woods at Newing- ton on Sunday, The body has not been identified
 Charles Dudley Warner of Hartford, the we'll known author and journalist is seriously i'll at New Orleans from a relapse after having Ia grippe. Republicans carried New Britain Tuesday, but the Socialists made big gains, and the Democrats sustained loss. Jessie, the IS years old daughter of Benlanin Richards of the T O. Rich ards Hardware Company, while racing on her bicycle with her brother, Mon day in Winsted, ran into an electric light lamp that had been lowered over tue street. Her face was fearfully cut and 1t Is thought that her skull is fractured and that she cannot recover.
 Mrs Betsey Young of Bridgeport died at the Middletown insane hospital Men, day aged 104.