Connecticut western news., 1899-05-18
STATE NEWS.

The strike at the Ponemah mills in | Taftville is ended and the weavers have returned to work at the new schedule.
 The state convention of the O. U. A. M. closed at Bridgeport last Thursday | A. T. Boon of New London was install ed state councillor The next meeting of the Grand Council will be held in Danbury in May 1900.
 Admiral Dewey has promised 10 visit New Haven soon after his arrival in this country.
 E E. Nettletou is under contract to ship 1500 telephone poles from Essex to Cuba, and has large gang of men work. Ing in the woods at Essex.
 Yale and Princeton will meet at foot. ball in New Haven Nov 25. Rev George Barton Cutten, center rush on the Yale football eleven last fall. has been rendered call to the Howard avenue Baptist church of New Haven.
 The $500 fellowship offered by the American School of classical studies at Rome has been awarded to Dr George D. Kellogg, now instructor in Latin at Yale college. Dr Kellogg is graduate of the class of 1895. The prize is award ed as the result of the competitive ex- aminations held in March.
 Greenwich is to have Putnam mon- ument. General Putnam made his fa- nous ride down precipice at Green wich about the time that his army en- camped at Bedding, and the Greenwich Daughters of the American Revolution will procnre an immense boulder and have it suitably inscribed and placed to mark the place. A cottage once occu- pied by General Putnam is to be pur- chased by the same organization and furnished in colonial style for occupsn. cy IS a chapter house.
 Emerson Afford, for many years we'll to-do farmer of the west part of Sims bury and Democratic Representative of. that town in the General Assembly of 1887. died last week Wednesday at Plainville. aged 73. His death resulted from pneumonia. He gave up his farm about eleven years ago and located in Plainville. He leaves three sons, Ralph of Winsted. Frank of Avon, and Leon of Worcester, Mass, and one daughter Clara, who has been her fathers com panion in recent years.
 At the annual meeting of the State Dental Association iE Hartford on Tues day, Dr O. B. Baker of Bridgeport was expelled from the association for un- professional conduct.
 Heavy earthquake shocks were felt at Hartford and all along the Connecticut river on Tuesday evening.
 Cornetist Scott Snow, formerly of the Gilmore and Sousa bands, has been en- gagged as leader of the famous Colts band of Hartford.
 A county convention of the ". 0. T. U. will be held in Goshen the latter part of the month.
 Colonel Jsbez l.. Woodbridge, ex- warden of the state prison, left Hartford Monday for Seattle and will go to Cooks Inlet, Alaska, where he has 8 position as business manager and gen. eral superintendent of the Cook Inlet Coal Fields Go. on five years con- tract.
 Mrs Harriet Williams Ford died of paralysis at Winsted on Monday aged 94 years, months. She could clearly remember the wars of 1872, Mexican, Civil and Spanish-American war.
 Edward McManus of Bethel, aged 2S, was fatally hurt by being thrown from his wagon Sunday. His skull was crushed.
 Luigi Minotti. an Italian, 42, outraged the 6ve-years-old daughter of Fonderelle Cabassa at Bridgeport on Sunday after noon, and that night was shot dead by Clement Oabassa, the eight-year-old brother of the girl. Minotti leaves a wife. The girl is in serious condition. The coroner's verdict was that Minotti's death was the result of felonious homi- eide.