Connecticut western news., 1899-06-29
STATE NEWS.

| III slhte pflson Dy JuuBo lDhyeF, ln tnt Superior Court for assault on young girl.
 Efforts are being made to have the reunion of the old Litchfield County regiment, better known as the 2d Conn Heavy Artillery, at Winsted some time during September. The last reunion ] held there vas when the soldiers me, morial tower was dedicated. A few members are also trying to have the reunion of the 18th Conn. Regt. there the same month.
 James Rasmussen, aged 40, tailor, his son John. aged 6, and Rudolph Johnson of Bethel, aged 45, were drown. ed in the East Lake Reservoir, large supply reservoir, about five miles north of Dsnbury Thursday night, Henry Seymour the fourth member of the par 1 ty, was the only one that escaped. The party was out fishing, and Johnson lost his fish pole. In trying to recover it he fell into the lake. and while his compau. ions were endeavoring to rescue him the boat was overturned.
 Frank Squires. charged with tue mur- der of Daniel Minor was acquitted by the jury at Rockville on Thursday last.
 Thomas Mulcahey, a we'll known An. sonia young man. who had been mourn ed as dead since last September, is alive and the possessor of a quickly acquired fortune in the Klondike.
 The Berlin Iron Bridge Go. are to build bridge in New Zealand.
 Calvin E. Humphrey, well-to do lumberman of Riverton. was tried Thursday before Justice Watcher of Riverton on the charge of violating the State game laws and fined S7 and costs amounting to S26 78. The charge was shooting aud killing wild goose on May IT, and the complainant was Game Warden H l.. Ross of Canaan.
 Edwin G. Seeley of Roxbury has been elected member for Litchheld County of the state board of agriculture under the new law.
 Winsted seems to be full of horses just now, several parties at the different stables with load of sale horses.
 Edwin Atkins, aged 66, shot himself in the head Monday morning at Water bury and died almost instantly. He was a large property owner and had become deranged over religion.
 Rev Dr ". DeLoss Love of Hartford has been elected president of the Con. necticut Humane Society to succeed the late Rodney Dennis Mir Love will spend the summer in Europe and will enter upon his duties September 1.
 Prof Samuel Harris of Yale University died at his summer home in Litchfield Sunday night, aged S5.
 Tobacco is growing nicely and there will be large crop in the Connecticut valley.
 Miss Jennie l.. Horn, dressmaker, fell from Frederick Bronson's residence two stories, in Bridgeport, Saturday night and was killed She was % years of age and somnambulist. It is supposed that she walked out of win dow in her sleep.
 Mrs Jeanette Goslee. a housekeeper of East Glastonbury, committed suicide Friday by taking paris green while mentally unbalanced. She leaves no family.
 George L. Griswold, former tax col. cector of Norwich, has been arrested charged with the embezzlement of SIP. 900 of the tax funds during his term, 1894. 1898.
 J. H. Hale reports that the outlook for peaches in his glastonbury orchard IS far from promising and but few will be harvested in that orchard.
 Saturdays thunder storm was very severe in the eastern part of the state and did much damage, An Italian was killed by lightning in Suffield.
 The National Shear Go. of New Ha- ven have been forced into bankruptcy. The company operated plants at New Haven, Fremont. O., and Newark, N. J.
 Michael McNerney died at Orange Tuesday aged 104.
 Three Poles held drunken pow-wow in the cemetery at Bristol ou Tuesday and smashed their bottles rgainst the gravestones. They were arrested and paid fines of $5. 10 each.
 Mrs Arabella Stevens, AZ, of Thomsston took two tablespocnfuls of aconite as medicine Saturday night and died from the effects. ....
 The Robertson soap works a. Man. chester were burned early yesterday morning. Shaving soap and Bon Ami were manufactured in the buildings Charles & Charles of New York, who control the sale of Bon Ami have rented another factory iu Manchester. The loss to MT Robertson was S25, 900; in. sursnce S15, 900,
 At New Haven Tuesday the Harvard base bal players won from Yale by to 8. The deciding game will be played in New York on Saturday. ....
 Elias E. Bristol. New Haven livery man, shot his uncle, J. A. Bristol, ID the formers office yesterday and is under arrest pending the results of the wound.