The weekly examiner., 1901-05-25
STATE
NeWsy GIeanings, Strange Happenings, and Notes of In terest from many sources.

Pianos are barred from all saloons and cafes at Savin Rock by an edict of the board of warden and burgesses of West Haven.
 Hon. William E. Simonds of Hartford will deliver the Memorial day adress at Thompsonville, under the auspices of Brown post of that place.
 Yale university is reaching out and grabbing up land on which it doesn't have to pay taxes. Its exemptions have increased from $6,7s6OO1 to ST. O24, 136.
 Percy L. Johnson, the Bridgeport em- bezzzler, has pleaded guilty to embez- zl1ng $50 900 from three trust funds, and was sentenced to six years Tn the state prison.
 A safe in the Suffield postof1ce was blown open by burglars Friday night, but they were driven away by posse of citizens without securing the S245 worth of stamps which it contained Three men are known to have been in the gang All escaped.
 Wales has a novel hearse in the form of a stone drag with pair of horses at tached which might have been seen Tn use very early one morning last week taking a man dead drunk home. A re- port goes, the party went after hsh called suckers, but, judging from the finish, they must have pulled all their fish through the neck of bottle.
 A full-grown buck deer was seen by passengers on a Manchester car Satur- day, near the J. B. Olcott farm, one ana a half miles from Manchester. AS the car approached the deer trotted leisure ly off down crossroaod, past Hlllard's mill and finally into the woods. Every body on the car saw the deer, and was delighted with the picture it pre- scented.
 Nelson A. Thorne, farmer, 30 years old, was found dead beneath his over turned wagon Saturday morning in lane on the outskirts of Danbury. His horse had apparently strayed into the lane while the driver was asleep and dragging the wagon up bank in an attempt to reach grass, had overturned it. The dash board fell across the mans neck and the weight of the wag- on strangled him to death.
 Frederick Lathrop of South Manches- ter, veteran of the Civil war, who was one of the delegates from Drake post, e. A. R., to the encampment last week, at New London, met with a painful accident due to bad fall while in that eity. He was coming down the steep and rocky incline on Stony Hill when he stumbled and fell, cutting a --deep gash over his right eye and aE= other in his right hand The injuries are painful, but not serious
 An electric car wheel made by the Washburn method is on exhibition at Brown Bros store in Stafford Springs. The wheel is made of two metals. The one used for the rim is so hard that A1 ,oJx hn nr% cs10 6crn make no impression on it. The steel used for the hub and spokes is neces- sarily softer. The wonderful thing about Mr. Washburn's discovery is the perfect manner in which he welds the two metals together.
 The English sparrows are persist ent fellows. At Manchester down town business block they build nests in the awnings every day. The avn ings are dropped every afternoon and a lot of straw and feathers are thrown to the sidewalk. At night the awnings are raised and the next morning early the birds are busily at work carefully replacing the nest material in the folds of the canvas only to see it dis placed again the same afternoon
 James Gormley of New Haven has brought suit for $1O,OOO against his father-in-law, William Costello wealthy grocer, for alternating the af- factions of Gormley's young wife. The plaintiff says on the day of his we'd ding, August 23, 1899, when his bride went back to her home to get some clothing her parents locked her up and subsequently removed her to Provi- dence, R. l., so that he has never seen her since. She is now only 20 years of age.
 
 who has her rooms in the Gazette building in East Hartford, had her hands painfully burned Saturday She had pair of kid gloves on, cleaning them with naphtha, and not thinking Of the infammable nature of the fluid lighted a match to start an oil stove The gloves thus saturated ienited and Tn an instant the flames burned as high as her shoulder. Standing near the faucet she turned on the water. putting out the fire, escaping a serious burning
 A New London school girl, Edna Chappell, attempted to end her life by jumping into the Thames river on Fri day. The girl was kept after school on account of imperfect lessons and when she was released she declared to her Schoolmates that no one loved her and that she was going to kill herself. She started towards the river and when the girls tried to restrain her she broke from them and reaching the shore jumped in. A boy rescued her and she was sent home.
 A Pole, aged about 25, name un- known, was killed on the spur track ad- joining the coal yard of w. H. Miller near the Central railroad station, in Hartford, Saturday afternoon. The man, with two other employees, had uncoupled several loaded coal cars and had pushed them about foot apart. the better to unload them. The young Pole stood directly between the bump CTS of two of the cars when another car being Kicked" down the track col lided with the coal cars and sent them