Connecticut western news., 1899-06-15
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
 Clerk Dwight O. Kilbourn has issued the following notice: ssThe docket for the Superior Court of Litchfield county will be called under rule of Judge Rora- back at Winsted on Friday, June Is, at II o'clock. Attorneys having cases liable to be stricken of will please st- tend to the same"
 There are five or six cases of scarlet fever in New Milford, but they are not malignant, yet as precautionary meas. ure the schools were closed last Thurs day and the Children's Day exercises which were to take place on Sunday were postponed.
 Mrs Lee of New York, who before her marriage was Miss Kittie Baldwin of Litchfeld, has taken out a patent for & new Asbestos Safety Fire Escape which is very highly spoken of. "It consists of strong asbestos-covered rope, knottsd at intervals of about twelve inches. each knot having over it a disc of rubber or leatber two inches and a half in diameter, which is securely fas- tened, forming cushion for the hand to rest on."
 Three Connecticut men have been speakers of the House, but only one of them-Jonsthan Trumbull, second of that name-was Connecticut con- gressman when elevated to the chair Theodore Sedgewick (born in Hartford) was Massachusetts congressman, and Galusha A. Grow of Windham county, was Pennsylvania congressman.
 The Connecticut State Medical Socie- ty urges the necessity for state hospit- al for consumptives on the ground that the disease Is infectious
 Dewitt o. Pond. prohibition candi- date for lieutenant governor in 1890, died suddenly at G. 16 Thursday morn ing. He had been in impaired health for two years, but had been able to be about MT Pond was preparing to dress when he was stricken down. dying in- stantly of heart disease. He had been resident of Hartford fifty years, and was engaged in the iewelry business and later in the book-selling trade.
 The post office department has decid- ed not to abolish the post office at West Norfolk.
 At the Congregational church, Sharon, Saturday, June 24th. at ID. m. the wedding of Miss Emma Sedgwick Knight to John Edmund Barss will take place.
 Danbury is to have big day on June P when the corner stone of the new court house will be laid. The Grand Lodge of Masons will have charge of the ceremonies and 500 visiting Masons arc expected.
 It is reported that brick combine is being formed in the state with a capital of $750. 900.
 A wreck was caused Monday on the Naugatuck road by rear end collision of two freight trains at Beacon Falls. All other trains were considerably delayed.
 Frank Walker alias George Good was arrested in Bloomfield on Monday on the charge of numbering Thomas Saun. ders in Fayetteville, W. Va, March l9. Walker is colored man and will be held as a fugitive from justice. The first summer meeting of 1899 of the Connecticut Pomological Society will be a strawberry field meeting to be held at E. 0. Warmers fruit farm, North Haven, today. The thirty-sixth anniversary of the Litchfeld Northwest Sunday School Union will be held in Congregational church, Kent, on Wednesday. June 2S. Prominent members of the Union and notable state workers will contribute to the program.
 John Kuhn, 45, an insane stone mason, set fire to little building in which he was temporarily confined at South Norwalk on Saturday and he was burned to crisp.
 Miss Sarah l.. Davenport, a wealthy ' woman of Wilton, brutslly whipped a little Town Home boy, Willie Morton, for las she alleged) poisoning her dog. The attention of Humane Agent Thrsll was called to the case and Sheriff Kem- per of Norwalk arrested Miss Davenport who furnished bonds of $500 for her sp- pearance at trial on Saturday, June IT.
 Two prisoners escaped from the in- ooho Wniu Oh sho ototo piicOu hk Wctuclb- field early Tuesday morning. They are Ferdinand Szantho, an Austrian. 26 years old, thumb and fore finger of right hand missing. light brown hair; Frank Russkowsky, 3l. Pole, brown hair. dark complexion. Szantho sawed the bolt of his cell, liberated Russkowsky with skeleton key he had made from a toothbrush and the two sawed their way to freedom through the roof after stealing citizens clothes from the off. cers' room. A reward of Sl00 is offered for their capture.
 The Connecticut Bankers Association was formed at Hartford on Tuesday with O. H Trowbridge of New Haven, president; w. E Seeley of Bridgeport, vice president; Robert E Foote of New Haven. secretary; Geo. H. Burt of Hart ford, treasurer.
 Peter Graham, the Bridgeport boy who was charged with killing Peddler Strshlman has furnished $500 and has been released. Judge Carroll refused to hold him on a charge of first degree murder believing Graham shot the ped dler while he was trying to rob the