The weekly examiner., 1901-06-15
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 There are AZ postal clerks in Hart ford post office.
 Owen Parmalee of Haddam fell down the cellar stairs at his sisters home in Winsted and was instantly killed. He weighed about 350 pounds.
 An insurance policy for $9,OOO in the Mutual Benefit Life company of Newark, N. J., on the life of Edwin w. Twitchell, insolvent, was sold at auction at Plainville to J. Clayton.
 Angelo Batrack, laborer at the rolling mill in Southington, was struck by bar of hot iron from the rolls, Saturday, which knocked him off his feet and encircled about him like a serpent. He was seriously burned.
 Werder's Park, Hartford, will be opened Tune 17. It will be free to patrons of the street railway. Con- ductors on Main street will give all passengers who wish to get off at the l park, two tickets which will allow of admission to the park and also per init of ride down the chutes. Peter Terp of Chestnut Hill, East Hampton, fenced in Al acres of pas ture with wire mesh for his 61 sheep. Dogs dug under it and destroyed a large number, until now he has only r. These he has decided to kill, and will raise angora goats, which are said to be too much for dogs.
 The Union House at South Nor walk was gutted by fire Monday morning. It caught from an explo- sion of an oil stove in the basement. The fifteen roomers escaped in their night clothes. Assistant Fire Chief 1 Rufus ]. Smith, while trying to jump on the fire truck when the horses were running at full speed, was thrown under the wheels and seri- ously injured. His left foot was crushed to a jelly The proprietor, James Shepard, was badly burned about the head. Loss $12.O0O; in- sured.
 Chief Justice Charles B. Andrews of Litchfield has resigned from the Connecticut supreme court bench and is succeeded by Associate Jus tice David Torrance of Derby. Judge Samuel o. Prentice of the superior court has been appointed associate of the supreme court; also William S. Case of Hartford, to be judge of the superior court for eight years, from October l, 1901. Ed win B. Gager of Derby, to be judge of the superior court for eight years, from July l, 1901.
 The members of tlrs JJohy Brown Association visited the old home stead Saturday and adopted articles of association. One of the articles IS: "The purposes of the association shall be to procure the birthplace of the late John Brown in the town of Torrington and to repair and restore the same as near as possible to its original condition-to receive contrl buttons and donations for that ob- iect-and to expend the same-and to do any and all acts necessary and proper to be done therein-and to perpe:uate the history and memory of John Brown.
 A fire in Beach & Co.'S shop on Potter street, Hartford, Saturday morning, caused $15,OOO damage. The fire was a hot one and ragged within a few feet of the huge tanks of the City Gas Light company. With an uncertain thing before them in the mammoth gas tank so close to the burning building, the firemen showed much bravery. Chiet Eaton showed no fear whatever. sealing the wall of the Gas company's plant. and making and investigation of the dan ger of an explosion. The chief di- rected his men with much good judgment, with the result that the fire was soon under control
 At the reception of Colonel Hick- ey of South Manchester, last week. Harry M. Burke, the witty young lawyer, in response to the toast, "The Bar," told the story of the man who. to find out the tendencies of his son, sent him into a room with bible, an apple and some pennies. Later he re-entered the room with the in tention, if he found the boy reading the bible, to make him clergyman, if eating the apple to make him a farmer. or if counting the pennies to make him a fnancier. To his sur prise he found the young man sitting on the bible, eating the apple and jingling the pennies in his pocket. He said, My son, you are a hog, l shall make a lawyer of you"
 GASOLINE EXPLOSION.