The weekly examiner., 1901-05-18
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NeWsy Gleanings, Strange Happenings, and Notes of In terest from many sources.

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 The Bristol baseball team defeated the Bridgeports Tuesday, 6 to 0.
 Percy L.. Johnson, the embezzler, who recently returned from Mexico, is now held under $50,O00 bonds.
 New Haven park commissioners have forbidden automobiles admittance to three of the parks.
 Daniel P. Bradley, Civil war veter- and and the oldest cigar manufacturer in Middletown, died Saturday, aged 72 years.
 Major Edwin Strong of Hartford cleared 500 on Pacific stocks. Chauncey A. Beers, ROxbury farmer, cleared $2O,000.
 Putnam will have free rural deliv- cry after June 1. The length of the route is 25 miles, and the population served, 567. There will be one carrier.
 On the first of January, 1901, there were 5S, ,539 Connecticut policy holders | in life insurance companies, the amount of insurance outstanding being $1OS,- 163,343.
 By the provisions of the will of the late Ambrose Spencer of Hartford, hls Isplendid collection of paintings, twenty eight in all, have been left to the Wads- worth Atheneum.
 Seth Coan, son-in-law of Calvin Tiff fany, the South Manchester jeWeier, lost a case of valuable diamond and gold rings somewhere in Glastonbury last week, valued at $200 to $500.
 As result of the three supposedly incendiary fires in the Colonial Hotel at Bridgeport, most of the occupants have left and the proprietor is gradu- ally being driven out of business.
 Connecticut florists ought to make a good exhibit at the Buffalo exposi- tion. There is over a million square 1 feet of glass used in the cultivation of flowers for commercial purposes in this state.
 The Holland bank has been attacked by burglars six times, the last assault being made Sunday, May 5. None of the attempts have been successful, as the burglars were unable to break open the vaults.
 Colchester Inn, built twenty-five years ago, was burned Monday morn 1 ing. There were no guests in the ho- tel The landlord and his family saved only their clothing and valuables. Loss, 1 S6,O00; insured.
 Nine hundred shad were caught at a single haul by the Kirkland 6 Bush ineI1 pound at Ol6 Old sSsayBTeo} az lmorning. The shad fishermen at Els sex are catching from 50 to 50 night in their drag nets.
 The Enfield and Longmeadow Elec- tric railroad will build the missing link from Warehouse Point to East Wind sor Hill as soon as possible and will run sixty-foot cars through from Springfield to Hartford.
 Three horses, a number of wagons and harnesses and quantity of hay ] were burned in barn belonging to c. O. Stone in Middletown Monday. They were owned by R. A. Chapman, meat dealer. Loss, 1,5OO. Now that the legislature has appro- priated $165,OO0 for the hospital for the insane at Middletown, work will soon be started in building cOngre- gate dining hall, a steam heating plant and plant for electric lighting. Mrs. Mary B. Kendrick of Brook lyn, N. Y, former wife of ex-Mayor Greene Kendrick of Waterbury, cleared between $3OO,O00 and $5O0,O0O as re- suit of the Wall street panic. She in tends to devote all this sum to charity 1 Paul Bennett of Stafford Springs ex- 1 hibited a chicken with four legs, two heads and four wings. He wanted it preserved and had doctor compound | preparation, The acids ate up ev- erything except the claws, and now Bennett thinks alcohol would have served better.
 William N. Loomis, veteran of the Civil war, who lived alone in the fam fly homestead near Andover, was found dead beside the road Tuesday. He was subject to heart disease. He was brother of Representative Frank M. Loomis of North Granby.
 The Protestant Episcopal diocese of Connecticut will hold a solemn jubilee in honor of the two hundredth anni- versary of the founding of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, May 22 to 29. Services will be held in New Haven, Bridgeport, New London, Meri- den and Hartford.
 The eighteenth annual convention of the Connecticut State Firemen's associ- ation will be held in Hartford May 21 and 22. There are 1000 members from over 200 fire companies in the associa- tion. About 200 delegates will attend the convention, including about forty fire chiefs. Mayor Harbison will well come them.
 The New Haven selectmen live too high to suit taxpayers. While sitting as board of registration they had their meals brought to them from cafe. One bill is for $229 for G. F. Heublein & Bro., and the other is for $54.45 from Philemey Brothers. The board of finance refuse to pay them on the ground that they are unreasonable and suit will be brought against the city.