Connecticut western news., 1900-03-22
STATE NEWS.

Rev George H. Smith has resigned | the rectorship of the Epi copsl church | in Plymouth to take charge of the par ish in Kent, beginning on Easter Sun- l day.
 It is reported that the officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford | road estimate the loss by the wreck on | the Northampton division near Farm | ington at about S35, ,000. Charles s. Leavonworth of New Ha- | ven. a graduate of the Gunnery at Washington, has position as profes- sor of history in the Chinese college at | Shanghai. John A Beecber, aged 22. farm 1 hand who has worked about Fairfield for few years, entered a blacksmith shop at what is known as "Easton turn pike" on Friday and drank from a bot tie that he supposed contained whiskey. | There was horse medicine in 1t instead and ss a result Beecher died inside of | five min utes.
 Three Yale students are now ill with smalpox They ara G W. Perkins, NJ. Bailey and Rufus Parks, Jr. Bai- ley is i'll at his home in Middletown and | mitory in New Haven. All the cases are mild.
 Rev Dr Justin E. Twitchell, until a year ago we'll known Congregational clergy man of New Haven, died at his horDe in Northampton, Mass, Sunday evening, aged 65 He was for long time chaplain of the Second Connecti- cut Regiment
 Superintendent W. J Martin of the Central New England Railroad and Mrs Martin left Hartford Saturday for two weeks trip to Old Point Comfort Virginia Beach, Va, and Southern Pines. N. O.
 Iu a divorce suit brought by Mrs Jes- sic Lounsburv of Bridgeport against her husband, William Lounsbury she claims a divorce. the custody of three minor children and S5, 900 alimony. Governor Lounsbury is cited in as a party to the casa. He is an uncle of the defendant and is alleged to hold funds belonging to him. Lounsbury is first lieutenant of the Fourth Section Signal Corps. &. N. G, member of the Y, M c. A. and one of the leading members of that organizations basket | Ouhl tcdlu hc AAOul au Oiu anu highly respected family Mrs Louns. bury is the daughter of ex-Alderman Henry O. Lund of Bridgeport. Connecticut leads the list in the per centage of patents obtained iu 1899, cue for every 945 inhabitants.
 | Nauga,usk has secured tbe consent of the postal departments for the establish ment of the free delivery system in that borough.
 Joshua Preston, 86, prominent res- ident of Hartford, died Sunday alter noon.
 | U. s. Senator o. Fl Platt will change his residence from Merideu to Washing ton, Litchfield County, Conn. ayd will be placed on the voting list of Washing ton this fall.
 W. N. Baillje, Bridgeport collector of curios. finds that he has several of the book plates which Dr O. E. Cameron is accused of stealing from Harvard li- brary. The information has been laid before the Harvard authorities. Mr Baillis expects rein bursement if the plates are to be taken away from hlm. but it is not thought that be will get it. John Bradley, alias John Barnum. who claimed to have been an adopted son of P. T. Bsrnuni. was arrested in Fall River, Mass on Thursday after the officers had been looking for him for two weeks. He was wanted for the lar ceny of two horses. a grocery. wagon and carriage which he took from New , Hartford on March 3 Acquisition , papers were secured and Deputy Sheriff | .e .-I..
 Bradley there Saturday where he was bound over to the April sitting of the ] Superior court under 5000 bonds Ip , default of bail, he was taken to Litch- field jail. The property was recovered
 Samuel Joseph Mitchell.a we'll known young man of Ansonia, was instantly 7 killed on Friday by a tree falling on him.
 Captain James Fl. Wilkins died at New Haven Sunday from a cancer, aged 57. He leaves a wife and daughter He was born in North Carolina and 1t
 is claimed he was the first colored man
 10 join New England regiment, being a member of the Fifty first Massachu B setts Volunteers, and at the close of the . Civil war was a color bearer. He or
 ganiZed the first colored military com , pany in New England the Wilkins
 Guard located at New Haven He had been a messenger and doorkeeper dur,
 ing the past few sessions of the Legisla-
 ture at Hartford.
 2 Ex x-State Senator James Graham of
 the Seventh District died of pneumo onis
 at his home in West Haven Monday ,, evening, aged 69. He was & Mckinley
 elector in 1896.
 Clark Buckingham, superintendent oi l Masonic Home at Wallingford who had !. been ill with pneumonia for abou' two !. weeks, died Saturday. aged 68. Will.
 liam B. Hall of Walingford has been
 appointed acting superintendent. Charles Stevens of Danbury died in - New York on Friday after an operation ? He WAS the head of the Danbury branch
 of the Omahs Beef Go and was a mem - Der cf the State Butchers association v He was 50 years old and is survived by
 a widow and daughter.
 Samuel F. Scudder, wealthy and
 prominent farmer of Newtown, died : Saturday morning, aged 63 years. He
 sustained a stroke of apoplexy. He
 leaves 8 wife.
 Landlords Clark and Conroy of the @ New Hartford House and G-eenwoods
 Inn at New Hartford plead guilty or
 Monday to Sunday liquor selling and l. each paid fine and costs of Sl44 25. : Joseph A. Lewis died at his home ir f Willimantic on Sunday, aged Fl. Since
 1872 he was prominent in the Prohibi
 ton party and was once his party's can. s didate for state treasurer.