The weekly examiner., 1901-04-27
STATE NEWS.


 taxable property under the full valu- ation assessment act is $114,499 ,483, an increase of $48, 8,458, ,03O.
 Connecticut cigar manufacturers turned out $45,1O9,OOO worth of clg ars during the past year. Charles oo- by of Hartford made the largest quantity, 4,559,575.
 The grand jury, which IS to hear the evidence in the case ot John L.. Hayes. who is charged with the mur- der of Miss Winnifred Cook ot Win sted. has been summoned for Thurs day at 10 o'clock at Litchfield.
 Deacon Hobart Hubbell, wealthy and a pillar of the church at Hunt ington. was arrested for distilling cl- der brandy Saturday. The revenue officers seized two and half barrels of cider brandy and his distilling apparatus, which was located in his barn.
 Hills & Co.,, the we'll known gro- cery house in the Patterson building, corner of Asylum and High streets, Hartford, are settling with their cred itors for B 1-3 per cent. The in debtedness is represented to be be- tween $5O,OOO and $6O,Oo0, nearly all being held in Hartford.
 The peach growers of Shuttle Meadow Mountain are looking for ward to an immense crop. J. H. Merriman, who Is the best authority in the State on such matters, says the Shuttle Meadow Mountain peach yield this year would reach 18,OOO baskets, an increase of 4,O0O over last year.
 The general board of adjusters of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers have demanded of the New York. New Haven & Hartford rail- road that engineers who run the heavy passenger engines and heavy freighters be paid $4 per day for a run of 100 miles, and overtime for more than that distance, with noth- ing less than 60 miles constituting a days work.
 Alphonse Gelinas of Willimantic lost a pair of horses by drowning in the Natchaug River Monday morn ing. The driver was backing load of refuse to the river bank and the cart went back too far and pulled the team into the river. After near ly drowning himself the driver was compelled to abandon the team. The whole outfit was carried down the river and disappeared from sight. The loss is about $500.
 A Deep River man, Oliver C. Car ter, had wonderful escape from death, Monday. He had gone up to the fourth floor In the elevator at Pratt, Read & Co.'S piano key facto- ry, and as he was starting to come down a portion of the overhead gear ing gave way and the elevator went down with rush to the bottom of the shaft Carter had hold of the starting rope and he hung on and was left suspended. He succeeded in working himself down to the next landing and escaped unharmed
 The Waeger Typewriter Company. manufacturers of the Underwood typewriter, has leased the board of trade building from the Electric Ve- hicle Company and is to move its works to Hartford from New Jer- sey. The company now employs 500 men. The company will not occupy the entire floor space of the factory at first, but the business is in creasing at such a rapid rate that within three years the entire factory building will be needed and employ ment will be given to many hundred hands.
 Five weeks ago Charles Futile, aged 20 years, son of Edward P.s Futile of New Britain, was taken down with pneumonia, which sub sequently developed into what the doctors thought was typhoid. Last Wednesday he began to be subject to excruciating pains in the right thigh. A swelling appeared next morning, extending from hip to knee, and Doctors Kelley of Huntsville and Thomas Russell of Berlin operated on him Friday night, when they drew off pint and half of pus. Satur- day the same quantity was taken out and 1t was found that the bone was severely injured by this formation Futile has been an enthusiastic bicy- clist and the doctors say the trouble came from his riding. His leg will have to be amputated and even that may not save his life.
 Luther M. Case of Barkhampstead has handled between 1,500 and 1,6OO cases of tobacco this winter, or about 57O,O00 pounds, and has en- ployed from forty to seventy five hands in his warehouse. MT. Case will raise acres of tobacco this year.