Connecticut western news., 1900-01-11
STATE NE WS.

Miss Trizsh Morgan Parsons,s a dsugh- ter of Revolutionary war soldier, died n Hartford yesterday, aged S9.
 Three thousand year-old lake trout have been placed in Highland and Crystal lakes, Winsted.
 Everything is at standstill on the Connecticut river. All of the barges ex- cept one of the Hartford & New York Transportation Company are stored away until spring and both steamboats are in dock at New York. The river is nearly all frozen over south of Hart. ford.
 James W. Moshier of Shelton has found a way to weld copper, process which has hitherto baffied the skill of copper workers to discover. Moshier has given the matter hard study for a number of years and repeatedly experi- mented until now he can weld copper to copper or copper to steel.
 United States Senators Plats and Hawley have recommended W. Frank Kinney of New Milford to succeed Thomas A. Lake as collector of internal revenue.
 The inmate of the Soldiers Home at Noroton presented cane to Governor Lounsbury on Friday last.
 Rev George E. Sanborne, retired Congregational minister and formerly steward of the retreat for the insane, died at his home in Hartford on Sunday of spinal trouble. aged 72 years. He was an ancle of Mrs W. 0. Dalzell of South Egremont, Mass.
 Alfred Fillmore, the old-time tan-bark pedestrian, died in New London Satur- day, aged 60.
 The safe in the office of the Vulcan Iron Works at New Britain was robbed of $500 on Saturday evening. The safe was not damaged in the least in opening and the thief had re locked the door of the office. His identity in not known.
 Tobacco growers in Suffield who sold their crops standing last summer have been notified by the buyers that they decline to take the crops.
 The case of George Bierce against the Sharon Electric Light Company, which was tried in Winsted some weeks ago, has been decided in favor of the Con- pany, It is understood that an appeal will be taken.
 George Smith of Cromwell, swallow ed tack on Thursday while he was lacking up tar paper and physicians say he cannot recover. Smith had mouth ful of tacks and he sneezed and one went down his throat. | A petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the United States district court hy Even Mcintyre, proprietor of one of the biggest d. partment stores in New Haven The liabilities are given a. S22l. .S07.72 and the assets as S205, 45l 78.
 The paint shop of the Bridgeport wood finishing works. located at Still River, near New Milford was burned Tuesday night. Loss S12,000.
 George Morris, brewery watchmsn at Bridgeport, was found early T iesday morning with 3S calibre bullet wound in hIs right lung. He is not expected to recover. All that is known about the affair is that he had quarrel some time ago with the engineer at the brewery and had been threatened by him.
 Lieutenant Ward Cheney, 24, son of Col. Frank W. Cheney of South Man chester was killed at linus in the Phil lipines few days ago. He was a Yale graduate of the class of '92 He was on the staff of the Hartford Courant fonr months previous to his enlisting in April 1898 in Company G., First Regi- ment. He was a splendid young man and host of friends are sorroved by his death.