Connecticut western news., 1899-03-09
STATE NEWS.

A number of Wipsted men are form. ing fish and game club. The capital stock will be Sl, 800 and preserve will be bought embracing farms in Cole brook, Hsrtland and Holland.
 The woods iu New Haven county are being stocked with western quail by sportsmen of tue Elm city Birds are to be liberated by the dozen as soon as the snow is of the ground and the sportsmen calculate that these fowl and their progeny will be In prime shape for hunting by next fall.
 Frederick Max Brockhaus was sen- tenced at Bridgeport last Friday to be hanged for the murder of D. s. R. Lam- bert at Wilton in December 1897. Ben- lamin Willis has already been hanged for the crime. Seldom in the history of Connecticut have two persons been executed for the same murder Brock haus will be hanged on September 6.
 Burglars entered the store of The Wsuregan Go. at Danielson last We'd nesdsy night. One of them, John Mo- Ian, was caught, and will be tried in the Superior court this week.
 Hartford county tobacco is selling for from 8 to l8 cents the bundle. Spotted" tobacco in cases is c rapid seller.
 Connecticut gives birth to another trust The American Brass Go. has been organized at Waterbury with a capital of $20. GOO, 900.
 Mrs Mary Pomponia was convicted of paupls hkar sp ha ,ou~t ~< Waterbury last Thursday and sentenced to nine years in prison by Judge Rora- back. She fatally stabbed Apgeline Rose with . carving knife during guar. rel last October. Counsel for accused argued self defense and prayed for a light sentence of one year.
 A A17-year-old girl has secured a di- vorce at New Haven. She had been married four years. The girl is Mrs Alice O. Rlch, of Meriden. Her hus- band WAS William H. Rich of Durham. He was farm hand, and meeting the child. persuaded her to go to Middle town with him and get married. They never lived together.
 Burglars stole slO0 worth of goods from Blake < Bsrton's clothing store in Essex Saturday night.
 Helen Harriet, daughter of Judge Simeon E. Baldwin of the supreme court. and Dr Warren R. Gilman, prominent Worcester physician, were married at the home of the bride in New Haven on Saturday.
 The police in Hartford rsided a dis orderly house at 10f Ford street, Satur- day night, and made nine arrests.
 Mrs Frederick Norton, who was as- saulted by her husband at their home in Harwinton Wednesday morning, died from her injuries Sunday morning.
 Bronson Bros. store at Winchester Center was struck by lightning early Saturday morning and with contents was burned to the ground Loss S7500. insurance S7l00. The post office was in the building.
 Yale freshmen tried to break up per Saturday night and were placed under the bann of the law.
 In the Superior court at Bridgeport on Tuesday the famous Nancy Guilford case was continued until next week in order to enable the defense to obtain witness from New York who can give important testimony.
 The Woman's State Suffrage Associa- ton of Connecticut held its annual con- vention at Hartford yesterday. Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker presided, and Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs Mary Sey mour Howells were the principal speakers.
 Oliver N. Love. former janitor of the Thompsonville High School, who while acting in that capacity committed an assault upon 14-years-old Hattie Vel ton, was sentenced to state prison for ten years by Judge Robinson in the March term of the criminal court at Hartford on Tuesday. The girl on whom Love committed the assault was his niece and she had recently given birth to 8 child. Love has a wife and four children dependent upon him for support
 Plans have been made and two broods of birds bought for the experiment of propagating prsrie chickens in this state. No similar attempt has ever been made, and its success is doubted. There is at present no law for the protection of the birds.
 John F. Erbe, Jr, a constable of Southington, committed suicide Mon- day. He bad been ill with Ia grippe.
 Kitty Sanford, daughter of Prof. Samuel s. Sanford (music) at Yale ob- tsined divorce from her husband. Vic. tor Thorne, on March l, and the next day married his college chum, George Sheffield, at Media, Pa. Robert Peel of England once tried to win her in marriage.
 Wages in the Willimantic cotton mills have been restored to what they were in 1897.