Connecticut western news., 1900-09-27
STATE NEWS,

ain by cutting his throat and taking poison Saturday night. He died Sun day morning.
 The Pequot and Fort Griswold Houses near New London. after doing a prosperous summer business, were placed in the bands of receivers Satur day upon application of We'll. Wolf X Kram. The liabilities amount to about $l0O, ,000.
 Deacon Ozias Holmes Kirtland. one of the best known men in Southern Connecticut, died at his home in old Saybrook, Saturday morning, aged Sl years.
 The New London Day tells story of quail which discovered deserted hens nest with five eggs in. Mrs Quail added nine eggs to the number and in time nine young quail and five little chicks appeared. Mother Quail gather el her own progeny under her wings and left the chickens to care for them- selves in the nest where they were sub- sequentlv found by the owner of the place. The broken hen and quail egg shells helped to solve the mystery.
 George w. Edwards escaped for the second time last Thursday night from the Hospital for the insane at Middle. town He was committed from New London and has quite record.
 A Philadelphia whiskey distiller has applied to the U. s. Patent Office for the privilege of using the titles and es- cutcheons of Yale college and other un ivsrsities on his whiskey bottle labels, it being his intentiod to manufacture a special college brand of liquor. This
 has caused the college authorities to take legal advice on the matter to see fl
 shey cannot prevent the honored names of their universities from being used on
 whiskey bottles This may lead to sen sational lawsuits with no end of free advertising for the whiskey distiller.
 Dr Gurdon W. Russell of Hartford
 has presented the Hartford Institute foi
 the Insane his handsome Maplewood
 Lodge in Wethersfield together with
 nine acres of land and $500 in cash
 The lodge will be ust d as 8 summer re.
 treat for the patients.
 The directors of the N Y. N. Fl. &
 Hartford railroad met In New York on
 Saturday and declared the usual guar
 terly dividend of per cent. Col. Frank
 W. Cheney of Hartford was selected 6
 director to succeed the Hon. H. O
 Robinson.
 Thomas w. Seymour of East Granby
 has brought suit against the N, Y, N
 H. & H. railroad to recover $500 dam
 ages for the destruction of his house
 barn and furniture by fire which ht
 alleges originated from spark fiom ar
 engine on May 7th last.
 Hartford was visited by two large ) fires Saturday night and Sunday morn : ing. Saturday nights fire destroyed {
 four story brick tenement building or Morgan street belonging to Josepl
 Bovee, with loss of about $10.000. Sun day mornings fire destroyed a nest o
 wooden and brick barns, sheds, black ) smith shop and 8 pumber of smalle
 buildings on Pleasant street besides do ing great damage to adjoining tenemen
 buildings. John Wall, a watchman was fatally burned. and about 50 horse were destroyed. The total loss is es timated as over $15,0O0. Mrs Florin Benedict, for more thal twenty years a competent and rapi compositor in Winsted, having serve, in the offices of the Winsted Press Herald and Citizen, has resigned he position in the latter office and declare her intention of retiring permanentl
 from the case Her long service as
 professional compositor has gained fo
 her wide reputation among the type
 setting fraternity.
 George Dudley of Winsted has jus purchased g new Bailey pneumati 5 speeding wagon of Benjamin, which considered the finest job on wheels. n Charles F. Thayer of Norwich, e1
 state senator,is the successor of Melbel 3 B. Gary of Ridgefeld as chairman of th I Democratic state central committe, !. David T. McNamara of New Haven su, ceeds himself ss secretary, the two s, t lectiors being the result of the meetin of the committee at the TontIne Hot, 7 Monday afternoon.
 At the third congressional Repnblica B convention held at Norwich Monda, Charles A. Russell of Killingly wi nominated for congressman by acclam ton. Tie delegates were banqueted |
 MT Russell Israel A. Kelsey, one of the mo ? prominent D, omoters of electric railwa, ih this state, died at his home in We ; Haven Monday morning, aged 41. l. Aunt" Larissa Smaller celebrate
 the Tooth anniversary of her birth B. her home in Tylerville last Friday afte ,e noon when she gave's reception to h. d many friends, some of whom althoue it quite old, she remembers as babie Il She has spent her whole life in the tow 10 of Haddam and is probably the olde B. spinster in Connecticut. In appearan re she is slight, little woman, lookir tp not over 70 years of age, with brigh
 dark eyes. clear of vision and her hea
 ing is unimpaired. She is and alwa, : has been extremely happy.
 rs Col. w. B. Wooster, a promine s lawyer and widely known in militia l. circles, died at his home in Derby Ia 1 Thursday morning aged 79 years. F y was state senator in 1859. a memb of the House in 1859-61 and paymast T. general in 1867.
 " Bethel people living on Grassy Ridt b and vicinity are worked up over hume I'd ous poisonings of animals thereabout m Within the past few weeks 25 dogs ha
 been killed and high blooded co a. nearly died from poison. Forty-f at peach trees belonging to Horace Ferr ! have been killed by kerosene poured {
 the roots. Fences and stone walls ha' D. been torn down and we'll filled vii
 stones.
 ot The Ellsworth correspondent to tl lg Amenia, N. I. Times, under date ss Sept 20, writes of burglary and g r. sault upon two old people of that pla
 last week Monday evening as follow Id A tramp entered the lonely house rs Chsffee Lowell, down the Stoney Brot 'n road, Monday evening, assaulted u v- old man with an iron from a mowin 1T. machine, outraged his wife, and, takil of MT Lovell's best clothes, departed, lea 0. ng them half dead. No knowledge