The weekly examiner., 1901-05-25

Dr. Charles W. Page, superintendent of the State Hospital for Insane at Mid dletown, has resigned, on account of difference with the trustees.
 Captain John Hickey of Company E, Twenty sixth Regiment, U. 5. W, was welcomed home to South Manchester Wednesday with rousing demonstra- tion.
 Measles are raging in Buckiano: Out of thirty-four pupils in the puDlc school twentv-seyen are down with the disease. In one family six are afflicted
 The Diamond Match company, which nracticallv controls the output of matches in this country, will locate again in Westville, New Haven, and employ 500 hands.
 It is told of an Essex farmer who for the first time stepped into loco mobile. that upon reaching the seat, reached for the whip socket and at the same time cried "git-ap!"
 A number of tobacco farmers have abandoned part of the crops they in ended to plant This will cause large increase in the acreage of tobacco this season, many doubling the acreage.
 A fire in the factory of the Rogers Rake Company in Pleasant Valley, Fri day night, destroyed the entire struc- ture Loss between $5,OO0 and $8,0OO; partly covered by insurance. Twenty five hands were employed.
 A Norwalk man, who wanted to get rid of his. wife, removed a flight of stairs leading to the cellar unknown to her. The depth was 10 feet. But +I1 ,Sa1x fh,IC thwarted the murderous design.
 Horse bologna is becoming staple article of manufacture on the east side in Hartford. MT. Thrall, agent of the Humane society, says he has every reason to believe that there are great many old horses and cows worked up into bologna every year in this quar- ter of the city.
 Rev. \Car1 Reiland, a student at the Berkeley Divinity school, has decided to accept a recently extended call to the rectorship of the Church of Our Saviour in Plainville. He had also re- ceived a unanimous call to Trinity church, Wethersield, and is wanted at St. Andrews church, North Bloom field, where he has preached for some time.
 The John Brown homestead in Tor rington has been bought for purposes of preservation. The homestead has been placed for the present in the care of Dwight c. Kilborn of Litchfield, but it is intended to transfer it to four GUS todians, who will be chosen from the towns of Winsted, Torrington, Litch- field and Norfolk
 At the approaching reunion of the Grant Family association to be held in Hartford on October 26, 27 and 28, it is contemplated, if arrangements can be made with the local churches, to have every pulpit in Hartford occupied on October 27 by clergyman in whose veins runs the blood of Matthew Grant. Among his descendants there are ministers of every denomination.
 so-called cakewalk and concert given by New York talent at Madison hall, Bridgeport, Tuesday night, was most disgracefu1 affair. Before the close of the ball which followed the cakewalk an attempt at criminal as- saufr was z2asu5f zs sszas -5y three colored men. White women in the lowest stages were drinking with black men, and on the dance floor the colors were mixed and white men and women were dancing with colored peo- pie of both sexes.
 While the four-years-old son of Jo- seph Wells of Pine Meadow was playing in the rear of the house, Tuesday af- ternoon, he found a peculiar object which he says was a fire cracker. While examining it's makeup an explosion occurred which could be heard half a mile away. The boy was picked up with both hands fearfully torn. his face wounded and otherwise internally in jured. The little fellow was given medical attendance and then brought to the Hartford hospital by team. He acted bravely all through and bore the trip we'll.
 Miss Harriet Manwarring of Essex the only female butcher in Connecticut, who for five years has supplied the residents of Connecticut river towns with meat from her own cart, has de- cided to give up active work, and from little store where she has prospered. She has invested her earnings in summer hotel, which she will run dur ing the coming season. In connection with the hotel Miss Manwarr1ng will also conduct livery stable. Miss Manwarring will be the first woman in th1s state to establish a summer ho- tel. During a recent trip to New York she secured enough boarders to make her new venture a success. Miss Man warning is 27 years of age and has refused several offers of marriage.
 Michael Delaney and John s. Bragg