Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05
STATE NEWS.

A New Haven despatch says the profits of the football season to Yale College will foot up the enormous sum oi S70 000.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry K. White oi Winsttd celebrated u cir golden we'd ding on the 26th of November. Valuable deposits of asbestos have been found on the farm of Fl. c. Butler in Nepaug in the town of New Hartford.
 Fifty-one prisor CTS in Litchfield jail enjoyed bountiful Thanksgiving din ner provided by Jailor Leonard. Tur. key, roast pork, vegetables, celery, miLce pie. rice pudding, etc etc. were on the bill of fare. A singular coinci derce is. that just 5l prisoners ate Thanksgiving dinuer in the jail last year.
 E. B. Parsons, contractor and builder, has commenced the frame work on Roscoe Beniamin's mammoth Repos- itory at Winsted which Is to be four stories high, 40x5l feet, without a post in it, all done of in yellow pine, with glass front, making the slickest carriage saIesroom in the state and great ere dit 10 Winsted.
 William A. Foskett, president of the largest plumbing concern in New England. died at his residence in New Haven, Thanksgiving morning, aged 84 years.
 George Palmer's residence at Pleas. ant Valley was totally destroyed by fire last Saturday morning. Loss about S2000 Partially insured.
 A frightful runaway accident occurred at New Preston Thanksgiving eve, whereby John Johnson was badly hurt and the lady with him, Miss Amanda Anderson, was killed. There was 8 high wind which blew of Mir Johnson 's hat, He got out to recover 1t and as he tried to enter the carriage the horse started and in trying to get the reins it frightened the horse so it ran. throwing MT Johnson against stone wall by the roadside. rendering him unconscious. The details of the mad drive, which re- suited in the uuath of his compsni on, will never be known.
 E Hayes Trow bridge, one of the wealthiest men in Connecticut, died at his home in New Haven, Nov. 30, aged 60 years. Mir Trowbridge was a widely known director of various large cor porations.
 The oldest pair of twins in the world reside in Bridgeport. Their names are Julius H. Benham and Junius N. Ben- ham. They were born at Middlebury eighty four years ago last July 8. At that time their combined weight was seven aud half pounds. To day they weigh 3S0 pounds. When these twins were five ears old their parents remov- ed from Middlebury to Seymour. The twins left home when they were sixteen years old to make their own way in the world their combined capital being fifty cents. Each served four an half years apprenticeship at the mason 8 trade. They got e25 dollars year and four and a half years they owed their master BPS. They have built many of the principal buildings in Bridgeport including fonr churches They worked every day and each accumulated small fortune. Several years ago they gave up building and engaged in the Real Estate business. Each works every day in the office and both are hale any hearty. Neither have used liquor or tobacco in any form. Julius has been married twice. His fist wife was a twin. They had three children, all of whom are dead. His second wife is alive and we'll. Junius married once, his wife is dead. They had five children one of whom is dead, One of his daughters is the wife of prominent citizen of Elizabeth, N J. and she is the mother of twins, two bright young women named Bessie and Jessie.