The weekly examiner., 1901-05-04
STATE NEWS.
Mayor Driscoll of New Haven who was defeated for re'electlon'

who was deteateQ TOT lt'cleVslVll' states that his expenses were $1 ,O31-
 The sum of $so7,74s-ss has been left by the Loomis estate for the Loomis Institute of Windsor.
 During the month of April 354 ar- rests were made by the Hartford pc lice. Of this nvmber 236 were made for drunkenness.
 The South Norwalk plumbers, tin ners and steam filters have been Sue' cessful in their demands for an eight hour working day.
 The Rev. James H. Roberts of Hartford, the well-known missionary, sailed Saturday from Boston, on the rsturn to his field in the TleN ISln district of China.
 A mortgage note for $35, 1000 was burned at the South Norwalk Con gregational church Sunday, the result of a five years effort to raise the debt of the church.
 The Stanley Works of New Britain employ 1,2OO men. The concern IS planning to furnish a big lunch hall and supply employees with lunches at cost.
 A Vermont association Is being organized in Hartford: There are over 100 welll known business and pro- fessional men in the city who are na- tives Of that state,
 The fourteen timbers for use as rafters in the new Yale dining hall were brought on double platform cars from Oregon They are seven teen by 2l inches in dimension, sion, and seventy feet long.
 Captain William F. Ranney of Cromwell placed a $s1OO roll of bills in an old shoe the other day for safe ty. His kind hearted wife gave the pair to tramp later and Ranney IS out $1OO.
 The plant of the Daily News, on Main street, Derby, was badly dam aged, Sunday, by fire, which IS thought to have resulted from a de fective electric light wire. The edi- torial and composing rooms were badly wreckad, but pressroom and linotype machines were saved. Loss $5,OO0; partly insured.
 Miss Ida c. Clark, a Stamford young lady, died Saturday from spi- nal meningitis, resulting from an ac- cident while watching game of golf last July She was accidentally hit on the head by a cleek in the hands of Albert E. Gardner of New Haven, who was intending to strike a blow at ball. Her skull was fractured.
 The newly organized East Wind- sor Street Railway Company have boug'rt, the, Enfield Longmeadow Electric Railroad and the through line to Springfield will De completed shortly. Large cars will be adopted. The service will be hrst-class in every respect. The run between Hartford and Spring will be made in two hours
 Mrs. Robert Risk of .MiddletoWn awoke early Wednesday morning to find a burglar ransacking the draw CTS of dressing case in her room. Noiselessly slipping out of bed, while the mans back was turned, Mrs. Risk ran up stairs and called Frank Young. He aroused neighbor and they captured the burglar with a gold watch, some silverware and jew elry Tn his possession.
 Among the ten prisoners who will be released from the Connecticut State Prison at Wethersfeld this month, is Dr. Henry F. Gill, who was sentenced at New Haven, May 9, 1898. for three and one-half years for criminal practice. He Is 5S years old. His wife, Dr. Nancy Guilford, Is serving a long term at the prison for complicity in the murder of Southington girl.
 Forty girl students of Rosemary Hall, college at Rock Ride, have been making hundred mile trip through the state, piloted by Miss Carolyn, the head teacherS They are all daughters of wealthy families. They wore short skirts, sweaters, felt hats and walking boots, cooked their own meals by camp fires, carried knapsacks with knife, fork, cup, tin plate and extra boots. They slept in farm houses or barns.
 The organized movement for total abstinence in the Catholic church has grown from a few thousand of thirty years ago to we'll disciplined army of 81, ,437 of today. They are all to- tai abstainers, pledged Ito abstain from intoxicating drink in any form, and to prevent as far as possible by advice and example the sin of intem- perance in others, and to discounten- ance the drinking customs of socie- ty." There are 937 societies. A few generations ago there was very little of total abstinence among Cath 01ioc oo0 o,o