Connecticut western news., 1900-01-18
STATE NEWS.

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 Connecticut came out ahead in its finances in the year ending Sept, 50, 1899. The year began with a balance of S463, ,S91 14, the years receipts were g., 749. 20 and the expenses S2. 530,- 2SO 33, leaving S6S2, ,SS4 01 on hand with which to begin another year. The net state debt is S2, 557, ,2l5. 99.
 The Waterbury Republican has kept & memorandum of the homicides com- mitted in Connecticut during the year just ended. The record shows that, not including several cases of possible lufanticide, 26 homicides occurred in the state during the year. The distri- button by couties follows: Hartford, 2, New Haven 4, New London l, Fair field s, Windhsm 3, Litchield 4, Mid dlesex 3, Holland l. The total for 1898 was 27; 1897, 24; 1896, 26.
 While J. 0. Burwell of Winsted step. ped out of his office for a moment on Thursday afternoon, his safe was rob- bed of $50 in cash, check drawn on the First National Bank of Winsted in favor of MrBurwell for S51. 64 and one on tuc Sdllo bauh III ldfOE Ol for S65 80 by William Nisbet. Mir BurweIl is lumber dealer. There is no clue to the thieves.
 The funeral of Charles S. Brainard was attended in Collinsville Friday. He served in the regular army in the Philliplnes, was disabled by disease and sent to San Francisco where he died, and his body forwarded to his old home in Collinsvllle. He was 42 years old.
 The city of Rockville, Conn.,, has a police force of only two men.
 It shows the depreciation of Warren farms that the George DuggaD farm, which brought S45OO some years since, has been sold to Ludwig Liner of Corn wall Bridge for s6O0.
 Notices have been sent throughout the country to ascertain if possible the whereabouts of Hugh McCready, 68 years old, and his wife, Mary, 80 years old who have been missing from Derby since August. Information Is wanted by Hugh McCready of Ansonia. Hugh McCready and his wife came to Derby iu November 1898. He and his wife disappeared mysteriously on August l. They sold all their household goods.
 Says the Norwalk Gazette: By the death of MT B TIT, Mir A H. Byington. of the Gazette, becomes the oldest liv- ing editor in length of service in the state"
 Mir and Mrs Charles Dudley Warner Do of pect to go to Southern California about the first of February.
 Tho Harvard Yale boat race will be rowed at New London, Thursday, June 2S.
 The New Haven board of health has adopted by law forbidding, as iDjuri- ous to the public health. splitting in street cars, public halls and theatres. The fine for violation of the bylaw is fixed at a minimum of S5 and 8 maxi mum of $50.
 An effort will be made to have Will liam Jennings Bryan speak in Danbury some time in February.
 Officers of the State Grange elected Thursday were: State master, Burton O. Patterson of Torrington; overseer. I. O. Fsuton of Weston; lecturer, Frank s. Hopson of Stratford; steward. J. B. Blovin of New London; assistant stew ard, Fl. c. O. Mills of Milford; treasur. CT, Norman s. Platt of New Haven; sec. retsry, Henry E. Loomis of Glaston. bury.
 The Very Rev. John N. Mulcahy, vi. car-general of the Hartford diocese, and pastor of St. Patrick's Church dled at the parochial residence on Church street, Hartford, Saturday afternoon from oedema of the lungs. He was born in Dungourney, County Cork, Ire. land, June 21, 1842, and when a boy came to Hartford, where he made his home in the family of Thomas Kennel ly, his uncle. He attended school in Hartford and took course of training Tn the Bryant < Stratton Business Col leRe, but having desire to enter the priesthood, his uncle provided for his education at St. Johns College, Eli. colt City, Md, where he remained fol six years. He afterwards entered St Joseph's Seminary at Troy, N. T., where he was ordained May, '. 1873, by Bishop McNierney His life as priest was spent entirety within the Hartford diocese.
 Elisha Risley, superintendent of agen cies of the Connecticut Mutual Life In surance Company died in New YorR Saturday morning. Mir Risley was born in East Hartford, January II, iS43 Mir Risley was a resident of Hartford and member of the Robert O. Tylei Post, G. A. R., the Army and Navy Club. Morning Star Chapter, R A NJ of Springfield, and Springfield Com mandery, Knights Fem plars. He was communicant of the Episcopal Church and member of Trinity parish of Hart ford In 1874 he married Miss Sarat Reed of Amenis, N. Y, who. with three | daughters and tive sons. survive him. George Morris. the brewery watch man of Bridgeport who was shot or Jan. 8, is recovering. Charles E. Bracket has been held under S5OO( bonds, accused with doing the shooting George Smith of Cromwell, wbe | swallowed tack several days ago, wa, subjected to X rays in Hartford or Tuesday to locate the tack. Smith Ii getting into terribly nervous condi tion.
 Democrats were triumphant at tht city election in Middletown Monday electing mayor and the whole ticket Winsted has in the person of Matthew Higgins veteran of the Crimean wa who was at the ba tie of Inkerrmanr and Balaklsva, and he has two medal, which were pinned on him by Queer Victoria herself. Higgins is native O Galway County, Ireland, and recently removed from Norfolk to Winsted. The Meriden Bronze Go, one of the leading industries of Meriden, is in fl nancial difficulties and has liabilities o $311, 578. 63 and nominal assets of S263, | 974. As S175, 900 of the liabilities i,