Connecticut western news., 1902-03-13
STATE NEWS.


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 Hira m Weeks of Washington is ont hundred years old. He is also the old est Episcopalian in the state. Bil faculties ara well pt rserved.
 The annual meeting of the New Ycrk East Methodist Episcopal conferance will be held at Torrington, beginning a1 eight day session on April ?,
 James Coleman, a negro, fell into a vat Of boiling water at the American Brass Go. mill in Ansonia last Thursday night, and dled nsxt m 'rning.
 Rev. Wm A. Harty, pastor of St. MAry's Parish. New Britain. died from liver trouble early Sunday morning Father Harty was born in County Tip perary, Ireland, 59 years ago.
 William Gray, 35, who lived on Still son Hill. New Milford was found with his throat cut Thursday morning. The medical examiner concluded that Gray committed suicide while temporarily insane.
 Mrs Francis Vernooy, Al years old. committed suicide by shooting herself with revolver Friday afternoon ct the home of her brother, William Lawrence, in Bethel. Her husband died several months ago and it is believed that grlef unbalanced her mind.
 The old Henry Spring factory on Lake street, Winsted, has been re- modelled into 8 two-story factory and will be used by the Puritan Mig. Go. for the manufacture of brass goods. In Q months time 40 hands will be em- ployed.
 There is a willow tree on land belong ing to the estate of Allen H. Norton on the bank of Mad River in Winsted which tradition says comes from St. Helena. A sailor is said to have brought it there and set it out and it is further said to have been taken from a tree under which Napoleon BonSparte often sat during his exile.
 All but twelve towns in Connecticut report one or more articles manufsct- ured in their limits and the twelve are Bethany, Dsrien, Franklin, Hampton, Kent, Lisbon, Marlboro, Middlebury, Prospect, Salem, Westbrook, and Woodbridge. and each of these manu- factures cider but according to the labor commissioner cider ism t tabulated as a manufactured article.
 Through 6 notice inserted in & New Haven paper it has become known that on December 26 Mrs Anna Agusta Clark, widow of Knock T. Clark, and their adopted son, Martin Meyer, were married by the Rev. ". ". McLane, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church. Mir Meyer is 30 years the junior of Mrs Clark. It Is stated that Mr Clark's will left &, 900 to Meyer to go to him after the death of Mrs Clark.
 Anattachment of $s0, 900 was placed on the plant of the Driggs- Sesbury Gun and Ammunition company of Derby last Friday to satisfy Q claim of the Lafian X Rand Powder company of New York for S22, ,OO0 Thursday night, March 6, the company were obliQed to shut down and discharge their 100 em- ployees. The case is returnable to the Superior court the first Tuesday in April.
 President Hall of the N. r., N. Fl. $ RI. road announces that there will not at present be any permanent appoint ment of a successor to Purchasing Agent Henry A. Bishop. W. H. White, for over 12 years chief clerk in the purchasing department, has been ap- pointed acting purchasing agent, and E. l.. Pollock, also for several years in the office, has been appointed chief clerk.
 The Sharon correspondent of the Millert1n Telegram says:
 The Hotchkiss Library Association has secured an endowment of $20, 900 for the Library from the estate of Mrs Maria Hotchkiss. This amount proper ly invested, will provide Q fund sui ficient to maintain the library i'll the future as it has been cared for in the past. The people of Sharon appreciate what Mrs Hotchkiss has done for them and are very grateful.
 Simon Miller. the Hebrew peddler, who is in the Waterbury hospital. is getting better. He says Israelovitch is ThomAston road and at the point of a revolver demanded his money. Miller banded over 40 dollars which he sup knocked off his hat and when he stopped tO pICk 1b up xSIholONIbCu bnOb ulm through the head. Israelovi.ch has fled the country and is supposed to be in Kroz, Russia.
 On Monday Chief of Police Wheeler of Winsted arrested John R. Castle, 23, in New Hartford and he has been lodged in jail. Castle is 8 man with a jail record and his latest offence is try ing to extort S5OOO out of the "Consoli- dated" road for information in regard to an alleged train wrecking plan. The plan was all in Castles brain, but two detectives of the road who have been on the case believe that Castle would have wrecked train so as to make his future demands more imperative. Mrs James N. Howard, aged 45 years, was found burned to death last Friday afternoon in the cellar of her home. near the postofice in Barkhamsted. Her charred body was found by two neighbors, Mrs Charles Barker and Mrs Herbert Case. who called at the house and detected the odor of smoke, and not finding anyone in the house began a search for Mrs Howard. It is thought that Mrs Howard committed suicide by getting her clothing on fire. as she had been melancholy and had threatened to commit suicide. She had been alone in the house all day. as her husband and daughter had been at their re- spective places of employment.