The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-04-06

itarium near Boston last Saturday.
Rufus Flynt, 43, prominent citizen of
Palmer and president of the Flynt con-
struction company, died Monday after
noon of sarcoma.
Manchester seems to be having more
than it's share Of fires. Apel's opera
house was burned Tuesday night, with
loss of O,OOO; insurance $4,000.
elected mayor Of Chicago Tuesday by
Sc, 900 plurality over R. s. Carter, repub-
lican, and John P. Altgeld, independent
democrat.
Cotton mills generally in New England,
operating more than three-quarters of the
total number of spindles In the north, be-
gan work Monday under an advanced
wage schedule.
Warren F. Leland, the proprietor of
the Windsor hotel at New York, which
was destroyed by fire March 18th, died
Tuesday evening. Mr.. Leland'c death
followed an operation for appendicitis,
performed last Friday.
The sound steamer, Rhode leland of
the Norwich line, came In collision with a
tugboat in the lower New London harbor
Tuesday night and had big hole stove in
her. The Rhode Island put back to New
London and the passengers were sent to
New York by rail-
Eighty lives were lost by the wrecking
of the steamer Stella: plying between
Southampton and the Channel islands.
last week Friday. The steamer ran upon
the Casquet rocks near the cost of France.
One hundred and two persons were res
cued. The boilers of the boat exploded
soon after she struck.
Both houses of the Connecticut legisla.
ture have passed the bill to prevent the
dissertation Of the national and state flags
with advertisements, political signs, etc.
The house amendment exempting grand
army posts was rejected by the senate,
| with whom the house afterwards con-
Cured.
The bill giving the railroad commits.
sioners right to allow the running of
trains on Sunday, provided public neces-
sity demands, has become law.
The trout law, with fine of 81 to $50
and thirty days imprisonment for any per-
son who shall catch more than thirty
trout in one day, went into effect Satur-
day
The telephone war began yesterday by
hearing before the committee on incor-
porations, in regard to Incorporating the
Boston & New York telephone company
of Connecticut. 1t does not seem as if
there was room for more than one COM
pany In the state, and the rates and the
service now given by the Southern New
England company seem to be satisfactory.
The April term of superior court opens
In Rockville next Wednesday at 10 m. -,
with Judge Shum way on the bench. The
following jurors have been chosen: An
dover, D. E. Webster; Bolton, Frank L.
Loomis, VIM. II. LOOMS; Columbia,
Charles r. Buel; Coventry, Marcus E.
Aspinwall; Ellington. F. c. Moore, Miles
Il. Aborn Hebron, Loren A Waldo;
Mansfield, Washington d. Swift; Somers,
Fred A. Wood; Stafford, J. F. Chamber
in I Roi1 Toll
E. Fuller, Oscar A. Leonard; Union,
Estln N. Belcher; Vernon, J. C. Ham
mond, Jr., d. II. Benton; Wilmington,
Charles D. Latham.
William A. King, formerly of Stafford
Springs, now a representative from Will
mantle In the general, assembly is max
ing good record there. In its issue of
March Both, the New Haven Palladium
says of him.
The feature of the legislative day in
the capitol today was Mr.. Kings speech
in the Porter Slater contested elections
case from Pennington. The speech vir-
tually settled the matter after more than
an hour of heated discussion between the
republicans and democrats. The demo-
Gratis, of course, stood by Andrew Slater,
who by the report of the election COM
mittee and by its recount of the ballots,
was declared to have been unlawfully de-
clared elected. Mr.. Kings speech was
eloquent, fiery and clear cut. 1t placed
him before the house as probably the
| ablest debater In the general assembly and
as fair and judicial man as any.
The Willimantic Daily Chronicle Of
April 1st, says:
Windham has reason for special pride
in its representation in the house this
session. Representative King has affair."
ed prominence and influence that is
highly pleasing to his friends and consii-
| tutents. His abilities have been we'll
recognized from the first. aud the illness
of Mr.. Kenealy. necessitating the taking
by Mr.. King of the leadership of the
house, has brought him into special prom
inence. 1t was fortunately for the legis-
lature that such an able substitute was
available. His explanations of reports
are models of brevity and cleannsss and
under his leadership the work Of the
session has been uninterrupted. AS an
orator his equal is not in either house,
and his defense Of the committee report
In the Pennington election case Wednes-
day WAS the star speech of the session to
date and brilliant effort. His work as
chairman of contested elections, too, has
been characterized by extreme thorough
ness and the utmost fairness.
was reading an advertisement of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy In the Worcester Enter
prise recently, which leads me to write
this. I can truthfully say never used
any remedy equal to 1t for collie and diar-
rhoea. have never had to use more
than one or two doses to cure the worst
case with myself or children.-W. A.
STROUD, Popomoke CITY. Md.