Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25
STATE NEWS.

{ aud tbat President NJ l. Ch fec "f the Chatfield Paper Com pany and w. R Shsffer of that company are interest. | ed in it.
 Miss Mary Emma Wooley, s native Mead as president of Mount Holyoke College next July. Miss W0olsy Is about B years of age and graduated from Wheaton Seminary in 1884. and in 1894 graduated from Brown UUiversity with .he B. A degree, being tue first woman to receive this degree at Brown. She has also received the NJ. A degree from Browa for post graduate study. She has been a member of the Wellesley faculty for about five years.
 The Hough mut5er trial cost the state over s, ,00O.
 A decision was received at tue office of internal revenue in New Haven re- eenly of much interest to druggists and physicians. It is 10 tte effsct tha, physician who prescribes and sells his | patients whiskey. brandy, wiue or any other alcoholic liquor that is not com pounded into medicine by the sdmix- ture of any drug or me icinal iugredi- euts herewith. is required to pay & special tax as & retail liquor dealer. even though the alcoholic hqupr thus fur nished be prescribed as a medicine on. ly, ard so used. News has been received of the death of Leon Mansfield of Woodbury from appendicitis while serving with the army in the Philippines
 Police Captain Ginty oi D injury has been sued for S30O0 damages by Will liam Crotty who alleges assault and false Imprisonment.
 Professor Russell H. Chitteudeu, di rector of tue Sheffield Scientific School | at New Haven. has been sick a week with typhoid fever. IL is expected the fever will reach it's height in another week
 at Suwanee Springs, Fla. cn Saturday of stomach trouble. He was 42 years old. corporation counsel for the city of Dsnbury and & member of the Demo cratic state central committee.
 Roland F. Andrews, formerly of the Winsted Citizen staff. oc,uvies tempo. rsrily the editorial chair of the Water bury Republican, recently vacated by Thomas D. Wells.
 The eight-years-old son of formt 2 Representative Patrick Clm bell of New town was drowned in the Potstuck river at Sandy Hook last Friday while skat. ing.
 Payment has been suspended in the R D < Robert E. Spencer Company Bank of Thompsonville an ir the bank 'uducted by Robert E Spencer at Haz zlrdville, Cause 6f suspension is sad to be the heavy withdrawals recent. ly. Mir Spencer says all depositors will be paid in full.
 Yale's junior promenade took place at the Second Regiment Armory in New Haven Tuesday night. Oyer 500 coup les danced.
 Edward Hsbenstein, Jr, & son of the Hartford caterer, died yesterday of ty- phoid fever at bis home in Hartford, aged 23 years.
 A special dispatch to the Chicago TrI. bune, ds ed Battle Greek, Mich, Jan. Is. says:
 The oldest married couple iu Michi. gan. Mir aud Mrs Abram Weed, resid. ing near this city, today celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their wedding. | The groom was born in Dsrien, Conn in lS06 His wife, formerly Miss Anns Gay, was born in Sharon. Conn.,. in 1872. The wedding occurred Jan. 1s, 1880.
 Connecticut's former governor, Thomas NJ Waller, is the defendant oi suit being tried in New York, on the l charge of fraud and conspiracy. The plaintiff, Joseph W. Pullsr says he con. veyed property while intoxicated valued at $50, 900 to Gov. Waller and A. R, Page and he now wants the deed alnulled.
 Henry E. Hurd ,one of the oldest busi ness men of Dsnbury, died last Thurs day, ged IS
 William Jennings Bryan mad, speeches in Stamford and New Hsver yesterday.
 The Torrington Register is threaten ed with libel suit by Arthur P. Deve lin, the Irish Boer" lecturer, who claims that the Register printed untru, aud uneomplimentsry statements sbou him damaging to his business.
 The body of John Prue. about B years of age. was found in Bantam Lake, Litchfeld. on Monday. He hsG been missing since the Tuesday before when he was fishing on tue lake.