Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29
STATE NEWS.

The monument on the battlefield of Antietam which Is to be erected by Mansfield Post. G A R. of Middletowu n will be dedicated on Thursday, May 24 An excursion has been arranged for the lare @ party who will attend. includ- ing in it's itinerary a day and a half at Gettysburg, and visits to Antietam, Harper's Ferry and Washington. The fare will be only S22. covering all ex- penses except the hotel bills at Wash. ington.
 Mrs Charles W Lee of Danbury, who last Sunday called her husband to the room where she was lying i'll and told him of vision which appeared to ner in which she saw her mother being born away in the arms of her dead father, died Thursday night Ina immediate cause of her death was heart trouble, which it is claimed was brought on by the excitement attending her peculiar experience of last Sunday. Her mother had died suddenly just before the dreams.
 Blakeslee & Sons of New Haven have 8 contract to build 8 third rail electric road from Hudson via Niverville to AL bany, N. T. This will be the secord third rall road to be operated in this country.
 Ex-warden Woodbridge spent the past week in Hartford and left yester- day on his return to Seattle.
 A barn owned by s. D Lawrence, a millionaire of New London. was burned Friday night Four tramps narrowly escaped cremation, and one, Michael Earl, was fatally burned.
 Captain William Henry Meigs, the oldest resident of Windsor, died Sun day morning aged 95 years and 8 months.
 Mrs Sarah Campbell of Colebrook, who is 90 years of age and the oldest person in that town. recently had a slight shock and lost her power of beech.
 Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and family who have been so long abroad will soon return to this country and oc- cupy their old home in Hartford.
 John M. Buckingham, a lawyer, who died in New York Thursday at No. 267 West 18th street, was born in New Milford in 1924
 Danbury's city election on Monday shove divided honors, each party electing an alderman and two council men.
 Attorney John J. Jennings of Bristol is seriously ill with pneumonia.
 Col. L. F. Burpee of Waterbury will sue the New York Herald for libel, as that paper published an old story about Col Burpee which had long ago been proven false before the Connecticut courts.
 Samuel R. Dean. one of Seymour's prominent citizens, died suddenly Sun- day night of pneumonia. He was born in Caroline, N. Y in 1882 For years he was a prominent merchant in Sey- mour He had held several town offices and in 1885 was representative. He stood high in Masonry. He leaves a wife and three children.
 Middlesex county has established a record for virtue There is only one prisoner now at the county jail bound over for trial at the April term of the superior court. which opens at Middle town the first Tuesday in April.
 The Shelton street railway company has settled the last of the claims result ing from the disaster at Peck's m,ll pond last August. Heirs of Irving Do rus of Bridgeport received about S3. 900 and Miss M Farrell of Brooklyn, who lost leg, received about SIQ 000 In all 40 claims have been settled without resort to the courts.
 News has been received that Louis B. Palmer and Samuel Davis, both of New Britain, have been killed while serving in the U. s. army in the Philippines.