Connecticut western news., 1900-05-10
STATE NEWS.

ID6 HOUSE OI IteprcSentAtlF6s uAs passed the Senate bill granting pension of S20 per month to Mrs Mary k. Fenn, l widow of Judge Augustus H. Fenn of Winsted.
 The Cass Granite Go. of Boston, Mass. have taken the contract to build the new First Congregational church in Winsted. The edifce will be of granite but it has not yet been decided from what quarry to obtain 1t.
 Frederick Andrews escaped from Litchfeld iail Sunday night and is still at liberty.
 ". D. Romaine, a freight train con- ductor running between Fishkill and Hartford, was run over at Hartford Monday night and both legs cut off. | He died Tuesday morning. He has a | wife and two children in Fishkill. A boy in Middletown is suffering from three contagious diseases at the same time. He has the humps on both sides. chicken pcx and scarlet fever. Each disease is distinctly marked. The case is without precedent.
 East Haddam is to have grand oele- brstion on June $, the birthday of Ma than Hale, and on that date the school house in which he first taught school, situated in that town, is to be turned over to the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to be forever preserved as memorial of the hero.
 The Methodist church in Forestville was struck by lightning last Thursday night and burned to the ground. It was built many years ago by the Epis- copalians and forty years ago was sold | to the Methodists. The loss including the organ was about $5000, partially in sured. which the society can ill afford.
 Rev H N. Kinney died at Claremont, | Cal. on May l. From 1885 to 1893 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Winsted, from where he went to Syracuse for few years and then went to California for his health. He was A years of age. Death was caused by tuberculosis complicated with peritonitis and appendicitis. The funeral will be held today at Springfield, ] Mass.
 Ex-State Senator John NJ. Douglass of Middletown was stricken with psraly- sis on Saturday and died Tuesday, aged 61. He was prominent Repub. licau.
 "Was" Churchill. 8 demented man living in Morris, set fire to his house Friday night. His wife, who was sick in bed, was rescued but Churchill broke away from those around him and rushed into the flames and was fatally burned.
 William H. Hall was arrested in Win, sted on Saturday for bigamy. It is stated that in February 1899 he married Mary Ann Michigan of Norwich and last December married Lizzie Hines ol Winsted. Hall, who is euly 19 years old. admitted bis guilt and was bound over to the June term of the Superior Court in 5000 bonds and taken tc Litchfeld.
 Borough election in Bristol on Mon. day resulted in the election of Wilfred E. Fogg, rep as warden, and Daniel J. Heffernan, dem., clerk. In Winsted the Republicans elected ". l.. Camp, warden and the rest Of the ticket except the tax collector. the Democrats elect ing 0. c. Middlebrooks. Southingtor went Republican without opposition.
 Henry O. Nisbet, 29, fell from 6 fourth story window in the Reardsley House at Winsted during Friday night and was found dead on the steps telow Saturday morning. It is supposed that he was taken sick and went to the win. dow and pitched ont. He was broth. CT of William Nisbet, the merchant, and had been helping pack goods in the Leader Store the day before his death. The body was taken to Westerly, R l., for burial.
 A soda water bottle exploded in tho ice chest at Miss Anna Wedemeyer's store, in Windsor Locks few days agC when she was taking out one for Q GUS toner and the flying glass struck her in the left eye. It severed an artery in the corner near the nose and she lost { quantity of blood before it could be checked. Pieces of the glass alst struck the eyebsll and destroyed tn, sight. Fears were entertained tha inflammation might set in and endsngel the sight of tue other eye, but lates reports are that hopes are entertained of preventing that, and also saving tn: ball of the injured optic.
 The Windsor Locks Journal says o John K. Bucklyn, the new state depart ment commander of the G. A. R. H, was born in Rhode Island and wa educated at Brown University. Mos of his life has been spent as teacher preacher and lecturer. He enlisted il Battery E., First Rhode Island Ligh Artillery, and won an honorable record in the war. He participated il forty five battles and was wounded a Fredericksburg. After the war he be came principal of the public school il Mystic. In 1868 he founded the Mys tic Valley Institute. He has travelet extensively in Europe. He also spen considerable time in visiting the state east of the Rocky mountains, scquir ing material for his profession an, work.