Connecticut western news., 1902-03-27
STATE NEWS.

Adolph Hope of Danbury, aged 12 years, was accidentally struck in the forehead by bat while playing base- ball near his home on Tuesday evening and killed, his neck being broken.
 J. L. Carroll. a hardware dealer in Winsted. is displaying large sponge in which is a quantity of grass growing Mir Carroll soaked the sponge and spread the grass seed over it.
 Wallace T. Foote of New Haven is the veteran mail carrier of Connecticut Next fall he will have finished 37 years of faithful service in that line. During his career as carrier he has travelled over 75,0OO miles and delivered over 50. 400. 900 letters, papers and parcels,
 The missing Hebrew. Israelovitch, who is wanted in Waterbury for assault ing Simon Miller, the peddler, on the Thomaston road January 26, is believed to be in hiding near Woodbury.
 The first woman in Connecticut who will carry Uncle Sam's mails in it's rural districts is Mrs Matilda N. Parsons of Torrington. Her appointment has been received and she will begin her duties April l.
 John Ooffey, aged about thirty eight years, died in the pest house at Water bury last Friday afternoon. Cofey was the second person to be discovered sui fering with the disease in that city some weeks ago.
 Lewis Hart, sent to the jail in New Haven from Derby early in February to await trial on a charge of horse theft, died Sunday night. He was 31 years old and belonged in Armenia, N. Y. Hart escaped from the deputy sheriff's barn in Lakeville last summer and left 8 note stating that he was going to drown himself.
 Thomas A. Hull, one of the best known business men in Danbury, oom- mitted suicide at the Groveland Hotel abo 1t o'clock last Saturday afternoon by shooting himself through the head. Mir Hull had been ill for some time past and it is believed that he became de- spondenk He was the junior member of the firm of Hull Brothers Company. and was 45 years old. He is survived by wife.
 The Woodbury and Soushbury Elec- trio company which purchased land near D. L. Somer's residence in Wood bury, will erect an eight-foot dam on this swamp land, where there is always a stream flowing. It will flood twenty six acres, and will give an 180 foot fall. The estimated cost of blilding tbe dam, erecting the poles, strineing the wires, etc is 2,00O. The company's char ter still permits is to build an electric railway from Hotchkissville to South bury and by adding 8 few feet to the dam, the company Will have sufficient power to operate an electric railway, in addition to electric lights.
 Daniel Mccarthy and Thomas Dur ham, beth of Waterbury. narrowly es- capped death by ssphyxiation from ill., uminating gas. at Hotel Winchester, Winsted, early last Saturday morning It is supposed one of them got up dur ing the night to turn on the electricity, but by mistake got hold of the wrong button-the two being close together on the same fixture-and turned on the gas. Soon as the occupants were dis covered 8 window was opened and Dr. Reidy was summoned immediately. Durham who is powerful fellow was resuscitated without much trouble, but they worked over McOarthy for haH an hour before bringing him to conscious ness, howerer he was all right after a few hours.
 Joshua Hogancamp. . brakeman. aged 45, of New Haven was instantly killed in a wreck on the Berkshire division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at New Milford, at 1.03 on the morning of March 20. The north bound freight had orders to take a sid ing at New Milford, and unbeknown to the crew on the forward end, the train separated south of the village. AS the head section slowed up HogAncamp alighted and started up the track ahead of the engine to turn the switch. He had gone but Q short dis tance when the rear section crashed in- to the forward, demolishing two cars nearest the tender and pushing them of the track and sent the locomotive lung ing forward, Hogancamp was struck. His head, one arm and leg was severed and the body crushed. He is survived by widow.