Connecticut western news., 1899-07-20
STATE NEWS.

hall pianist, has fallen heir to Sl5O, OOO by the death of relative.
 The Plainville camp meeting will be. gin on Monday, July 24, and conclude on Saturday of that week. The first Assembly Day" will cone on Monday, July Sl, and will be devoted to Sunday school interests. Tuesday, Aug. will be Peoples Day." Wednesday. Aug. 2 will be Young Peoples Day" Thurs day, Aug. 8 will be "Grand Army Day" and Friday, Aug. will be "Temper- ance Day" On Saturday, July 29, at 10 "a m. after the annual love feast. the Swedish camp meeting will open and will close on Monday morning, July 31.
 A new trial has been denied Max Brockhaus, the sccomplice of Ben Will lis Tn the murder of David Lambert at Wilton, and Brockhnus will be hanged Sept. 6. Tho Supreme court decided that juror being under 25 did not af- feet the fairness of the trial.
 Thomas Leahy, 22, of Ausonia. a brakeman employed on the Berkshire division of the Consolidated road, died at the hospital in New Haven last Thursday morning from injuries sus. tained shortly before o'clock at Long Hill. In trying to board a moving freight train he fell and the wheels pass cd over his legs.
 Captain Eli Sperry, aged so. former resident of Woodbury, died at the Sol diers' Home, California, June IT of paralysis. He leaves wife. son and daughter.
 The Rev James A. Chamberlain of Newark. N. J. has accepted the call 0 f the Third Congregational Society of Torrington to the pastorate of that church.
 The Suprems court of errors has de- cided that 3S ballots bearing the paster of Patrick Coughlin over the printed name of Patrick Coughlin, the Demo cratic candidate for tax collector ip Bridgeport. should have been counted. and that CoUghlin is elected. This re- verses tue decision of Superior Court Judge Ralph Wheeler. It also orders custer to the Republican incumbent, James H. McElroy, as Coughin has majority of Is.
 Adjutant General Van Keuren and bis associates have decided to assemble the Connecticut National Guardsmen at Camp Lounsbury. Mantle, Monday, Aug. 21.
 The Oakland Paper Go. of Manches- ter, the Platner and Porter Go. of Un- ionville, and the Seymour Paper Go. of Windsor Locks have joined the Ameri- can Paper trust now in process of or ganization.
 A reunion and banquet of the Legis- lstive Club of 1897 will be held at Pleas. ure Beach, Bridgeport, Wednesday, Aug 2d, 1899.
 It has been decided to abolish the grade crossing at South cemetery in Winsted on the O. N. E., the town and railroad company sharing the expense.
 At . meeting of the judges of the Su- preme and Superior court in New Hay en it was practically decided not to adopt the new rule that judges shall wear gowns. Final action will be taken August l.
 At the Connecticut Agricultural Ex- pertinent Station analyses of fruit syrups used in mixing drinks have been made | and they have been found'to contain poisonous dyes. A druggist recently told q reporter that half the fruit syrups were not fit to drink. Among the thick ly settled districts in New Haven there are soda water stands where the fruit beverages are sold at all prices up to cents.
 The howitzer given by the govern. ment to be placed over the grave of General Sedgwick has arrived in Corn. wall. It will be mounted on the Green at Cornwall Hollow opposite the ceme- tery according to the plans by George Keller of Hartford. The bronze work, including portrait medallion of the general, will be done by James J. Flaw Icy, pupil of Saint osudens. Anton Johnson of New Britain was | gored nearly to death by an enraged COW last Thursday. Johnson is milk dealer and he went into the barnyard and attempted to take away calf from its mother.
 The Rev Bernard Peters of Brooklyn, | N. r. died at his summer home in Mar bledale last Thursday. He preached in Hartford several years prior to the civil war but during the war was editor and business manager of the Hartford Post. Later he was proprietor of the Brooklyn | IN. Y.J Times.
 George Beach, ST: a prominent busi. ness man of Hartford died Sunday morning.
 The triplets of Mir and Mrs Michael | Sullivan of Thompsonville who were born on January 29 last died July l5 of cholera infsntum. The family were too poor to provide medical attendance un. til too late.
 Mrs Ellen Porter Bets, mother of Mrs John Addison Porter of Hartford, died at her home in New York Sstur- day aged 67. Mrs Porter is now abroad.
 The body of an infant about 24 hours old was found in New Hartford last Thursday where it had been strangled by rag tied around it's throat. Sus- picion points to Hungarian woman, Mary Ostrega, who has been bound ever | to the Superior court and taken to Litchfield jail.
 Burglars, believed to be local, broke into the Naugstuck depot at Winsted last Friday night but got no booty.
 Tobacco is mere than an average crop in the Connecticut valley. Mrs E. H. DeMars of Winsted had her hands burned to blisters by the ig- hitting of gasoline while filling stove on Friday last.
 Mrs Joanna 0. Boniti, 27. an Italian, was fatally burned at Torrington on Sunday morning. It is supposed she set the oil can on the stove and forgot to take it of after lighting the fire, as an explosion occurred and the woman was so horribly burned that she died the next morning. She leaves a hus- ] band and q three years old son. William O. Phelps has been appoint. ed postmaster at Canton.