Connecticut western news., 1902-01-09
STATE NEWS.

The Winstsd Metalliform coE psny of | Winchester, has filed a certificate of pI opposed dissolution with the secretary of state,
 Tales come from Riverton of a large and ferocious lynx which inhabits the woods thereabouts.
 Mayor Kilduff was inaugurated for his second term as Mayor of Waterbury on Monday, the Republicans . few weeks ago deciding to withdraw the proceedings contesting his election.
 Edward Armstrong an old resident of Middletown and skillful violin maker. died at his home there Jan. 8, aged Il years. He had recently perfected . violin that was Q revelation to all musi- clans, as it gives no wolf note and in many other ways was an improvement on even the work of the great masterf.
 Rev. Edmund Peck. 30. a Methodist, and his daughter. Mary, 35, were burn ed to death in fire which consumed their home in Bethany Saturday morn ing. Charles Peck, 8 son, barely es- capped. Mrs Edmund Peck was on . visit to Mrs Charles Peck in Water bury. The origin of the fire is un- known.
 Rev. Dr. Joseph Pullman, presiding elder of the New York East Conference of the Methodist Church, died Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in Stamford, from . cancer. He was born in Ireland in 1889, his people being of the gentry in Skerries, on the east coast, north of Dublin. He is survived by wife and ten children.
 Edward Eckstein, aged 10 years, was drowned in Slows Pond, PlAntsville, while try ing to save his brother, Freddie Eckstein, aged 8 years. An Italian living on the island succeeded in pull ing Freddie ashore and afterwards re- covered the body of the drowned boy. Fred was recusticated after thirty min- ntss of hard work.
 Winsted's tax book has a novel entry, "465i horses" and the way this hap pened is odd. The horse is an old animal, owned by two men. One en- tered his half interest in his tax list, but the other owner forgot it. When the assessors came to foot up the col umn of horses owHed in town, there was the item, ''one-half horse" and it went into the footing.-Torrington Register.
 Alleging that he contracted the skin disease known as "bsrber's itch" at the shop of Wm. Frohlich, a we'll known New Haven barber, Attorney Sanford B. Martin has begun suit for damages of $5. 900. The complaint declares that negligence on the part of the defendant or his assistants was the cause of the ailment. It is believed to be the first case of the kind ever brought in the | country.
 William Jennings Bryan spoke at the Jackson Day banquet at New Haven last night. Last Sunday Bryan, as the guest of Mayor Tom Johnson, attended a pro-Boer meeting in Cleveland, O. The principal address was by Hon. John J. Lentz and speeches were made by Bryan and Johnson in favor of tho Boer cause, which were received with tumultuous applause.
 Anton 0. Chaves, 29, his wife Fra bella, 21, and their little son Joseph, 2i. also Mary DeVida, Is, a guest, were asphyxiated by Illuminating gas ct their home in Hartford early Sunday morning and dozen other inmates of the house narrowly escaped death. The victims are well-to-do Portugese and Miss DeVida was engaged to be married. The gas escaped in the cellar and filled the house from the stairways.
 Matthew Parsons, the Torrington boy in the service of Uncle Sam, who deser- ted from the Seventh Artillery some months ago, and who was captured at his home in that borough by detective in disguise, has been sentenced to one years imprisonment h the Castle prison at Governors Island. For every five days of good behavior on the part of the deserter, twenty-five days will be deducted from the term, and it is likely that Parsons stay in confinement will | be brief. General Brooke. commanding the department of the East, presided at | the court which imposed the sentence. Lewis Belden, c former we'll known resident of Torrington, was released from the New Haven jail on New Years day, where he had served @ sentence of three months, for attempting to black mail Waterbury druggist, John Dun- can, offering to hush up evidence against the latter on pay ment of S20. Belden posed as . spotter for the Law and Order League. From the fact that he had borne a good reputation his term of Imprisonment was reduced to . minimum. The girl with whom he had 1 previously kept company in Plymouth, remained steadfast to him and they were married soon after his release.
 The young school teacher, Miss Eliza. beth A. Erwin, of Rowayton, who has been accused of writing anonymous letters to different parties, by Principal Mcclellan and wife, because she wss jealous of the school principal and wanted his position, has been cleared of all suspicion, as the general opinion now is that they were either written by MT or Mrs Mcclellan. from the fact that year ago a similar experience happened in Burnside, the parties were Principal Mcclellan and wife and Q Miss Williams 8 school teacher there. and then suspicion appeared to attach to Mcclellan for he was principal there at that time.
 According to recent cencus bulletin there are 26, 948 farms in Connecticut occupying little less than three fourtbs of the total area. The value of these farms is placed at S97, 425. JOSS of which $44. 983, ,660 is in buildings and S52,- Al, 508 is the value of land and other improvements. About three fourths of the farm area is in wood land and pas ture and less than seven per cent is un- der the plow which is quite a contrast with enormous cultivated areas in the west The farm products of 1899 in Connecticut amounted to $28, ,276, ,948, one fourth of which was the product of farm animals. About three times as much land as in hay as all other crops. The tobacco crop was valued at $3.074, 822.
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