Connecticut western news., 1900-05-17
STATE NEW IS.

There have been six deaths from the typhoid fever epidemic in Bristol. Ex- president Charles P. Clark ofthe New Haven rt ad will give up his home in New Haven next fall, and will re- move to Kennebunkport, Me. where he will take up his permanent residence. He will make his headquarters in Bos- ton.
 The 69th wedding anniversary of Mir and Mrs Joseph Scofield of New Canaan was celebrated May 6. The couple bear the distiotiou of having been married the longest of any couple in the state of Connecticut. The bride of 69 years is S7. the groom 90 years old last December. Both are in good health and vigor.
 A party of IT young ladies from Wal liIgford are on cross country walk through Connecticut. They wear white sweaters and outing skirts and carry haversacks, and are accompanied by c pony team containing their cooking outfit and provisions.
 Yale was defeated Saturday at Cam bridge in the athletic games with Hsr- yard by score of All to 62i points,
 The Connecticut Medical Association will hold its one hundred and eighth annual meeting in New Haven Wednes- day and Thursday. May 23 and 24. Officers will be elected and delegates to the American Medical Association will be chosen.
 At midnight on Saturday the title to the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, and to about forty other concerns engaged in similar business, passed to the Amer ican Bridge Company. and it's business goes ahead now in that name.
 Andrew Larsen, aged 35, who had been employed on one of the oyster boats died at the Bridgeport hospital Sunday night from blood poisoning which resulted from being cut on the hand with an oyster shell. He leaves a family at Collinsville.
 Just 475 bushels of North Carolina straw berries were consumed in Hart ford on Monday.
 The Central New England road rs- ports for the quarter ending March 31 8 decrease of gross receipts of about S11 900 and an increase of operating ex- penses of about Sl0,000, making an ad- verse change of about $22 900 and turn ing profit of $11, 1000 into a deficit of the same amount.
 At the annual meeting of the board of directors of the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad in New York last Saturday decided to double track tue Naugatuck division as far north as Wa terbury.
 Martin Lynch, the notorious thimble selling burglar who escaped from New Haven jail month ago, was caught in Providence, R. I. on Monday and has been returned to New Haven.
 Lightning struck and wrecked the steeple on the Catholic church at Windsor Locks on Tuesday.
 A military wedding took place at Litchfeld on Tuesday. Lieutenant Edwin Landon, Fourth U. s. Artillery, and Margaret Louise Sanford. eldest daughter of George B. Sanford, U. s. A. (retired) of Litchfield were married in St. Michsel's church by the Rev Dr Storrs O. Seymour. The wedding trip was drive to Sharon, and thence by rail to Fort Caswell, N. O., where Lieutenant Landon is stationed.
 Herman Sachse of Killingworth, who was tried in 1897 for the murder of Der trand l.. Hotchkiss, was married to Miss Nellie Dow, also of Killingworth, on Tuesday. Sachse and wife will live on farm.
 Frederick c. Perry, 62, died of Bright's disease at his home in Hunt ington on Monday. He was elected a representative in 1878 and in 1898.
 The cause of the typhoid fever cpl demic in Forestville has been located by Prof H. B. Smith. The water supply common 10 all the patients is spring from which the water is pumped and distributed to the people of the village A small river separates the spring from the pumping stations and two supply pipes are laid in the river. through which the pump draws the water to dis charge through the distribu ting pipes On examination Dr Smith found that one of these supply pipes had been &C., cidentally broken quite in two, so that the water pumped through it was wholly rlver water. In consequence of this, the pump was delivering to the distributing pipes mixture of spring and river water. Blood samples taken from the patients responded to the Wilda test and proved beyond doubt that typhoid fever existed. Reports oI thirty-five cases six of which werf