The weekly examiner., 1901-04-13
STATE NEWS.

office in Nepaug scared up a swarm of big grass -hoppers, last week.
 The capital stock of the new Wind ham Silk Company at Willimantic is $5O,OOO, all subscribed. Machinery has been ordered and work will com mence in June. "
 Percy l.. Johnson, who returned from South America to give himself up to the authorities, was brought be- fore the city court in Bridgeport s Monday morning, on a charge ot embezzlement. in the Pendleton es' tate and the Staples Free Academy fund, and was bound over under bonds of $12,OOO to the May term of the superior court.
 Joseph Woodbridge, one of the oldest residents of Manchester Green. died last Friday, aged 73. He was descended from the family of Wood bridges who, half century ago, were leading residents of the Green, then the business center of Manchester. His father was DeodatusW Woodbridge. < One uncle, Dudley Woodbridge, kept ! the hotel and another, Wells Wood bridge, kept the store.
 The number of typhoid cases in New Haven has reached over 200. The source of the trouble has been practically located in the family of a farmer living near Dawson reservoir. There had been case of typhoid fe yer in the family of a farmer living near the lake, and it is learned that all the infected matter from the house, including that of the sick room, had been carried to consid- erable distance to spot near the water.
 The Winsted Angora Goat compa- ny has decided to purchase 150 acres of land in Winsted. The property is bounded on the boulevard at High land lake. The land is easy of ac- cess by driving. electric cars or steam launch. It is expected that 190 goats will be put on the farm at once, and more will follow later. The market price of the goats at present is $15 head, and as the wool is used for the manufacture of women's gar ments and many other purposes the industry promises to be a boom to Winsted.
 The big belt which has been man ufactured for the mammoth power plant of the Peoples Tramway Com pany of .Danielson, Conn. is the largest belt in the United States. It is ninety inches in width, three ply thickness, 165 feet in length, weight over two tons It Is estimated that 1t took the hide from more than 500 cattle to manufacture this belt. It will be used on the tramway compa- ny's huge steam engine at Dyer dam. Ht will be placed on exhibition at the Pan-American exposition
 A. w. Converse of Windsor Locks has about the largest collection of Indian relics in the state. He has been collecting since 1860, and has over 5000 pieces in the collection, of which over 100 are pipes. Over 1000 of these pieces have been found with in a two mile radius of. where he lives. He has mortars, pestles, deer skinners, chisels, gouges, axes, hatch cts, drills, beads, wampun gorgets, tubes, banner stones, discoidals, pen dants, ceremonial axes, bird amulets, and, in fact, nearly everything the Indians ever made; arrow points from the smallest seen to spear heads II 3-4 inches long; axes from l 1-4. ounces to over 12 pounds; also about 600 of those, beautiful Oregon bird points, so called.
 An East Hartland boy, soldier in the American army in Tien Tsin, Pekin, China, in a letter to friend. among other things, writes: After shelling the city we camped under the wall, about forty feet high and wide enough to drive sixteen horses abreast. Here we had good nights rest and were on the move by seven the next morning. Wewer right on the firing line and in the decisive battle of China, and 1t was battle We'll, we fought for six hours and the heat was awful. When the fight was the ministers and some mis- sionaries came down to see us. There were sentries placed at the le- gations and the missionaries actually refused to give some of the boys a drink of water. They told them, No we cannot have lot of soldiers in the yard all the time, as it disturbed them very much and they were very busy that day"
 Lawrence Bailey, an East Windsor farmer who loads tobacco in Wind sor, left the latter place for home Saturday night by way of Bissell's ferry. The ferry is large aat-bot- toned boat. It is attached to wire cable extending from bank to bank in such way that, after the boat is