Connecticut western news., 1902-02-20
STATE NEWS.

Royal J. Kimball, the oldest Free Mason in Connecticut, died in New London Feb. 13. aged 80 years.
 Mme Olga, the gypsy seeress who foretold the Waterbury fire, predicts 8 big confsgration for Torrington.
 Vance Mccormick, 29, who was cap- tain of the Yale football team in 1892, was elected mayor of Harrisburg, Pa, by the Democrats on Tuesday.
 Frank Goetz cracker factory, board ing house and storehouse were de- stroyed by fire in Manchester Monday morning. Loss $75.OOO. partly in sured.
 City-Judge James P. Platt of Meri- den was Tuesday appointed to the va cant United States iudgeship for this district. His father is the senior sen- ator from this state.
 Frederick A. Winchell, the Tariffville smallpox patient, died at the state alms- house in Tarifville on Saturday after noon, aged B. His father and brother live in Southwick, Mass.
 The governor has accepted the resig- uhb1Ou OL N0OERo w. OACA6Ou, SuuR6 OI the Town Court of New Milford and has appointed J. Edwin Hungerford to succeed Mir Jackson with the term end July l, 1908 Mir Jackson has been ap- pointed postmaster at New Milford.
 Hon. N. B. Stevens of Winsted has been favored with an invitation to the dinner to be given by the New Yorker Staats Zeitung to newspaper men at the Waldorf Astoria in honor of His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia Wednesday evening, Feb. 26th.
 In the case of George Kirby vs. Georgia Kirby ct al. the foreclosure of the mortgage for about $7,000 on the Pleasant View Hotel property in Sharon was granted in the Superior Court and an order of sale given. Baker and Roraback for plaintiff, Warner and Lan- don for defense.
 Franklin Gaylord, a native of Tor rington. and now secretary of the Y. M. O. A. in St. Petersburg, has just been decorated by the Ozar of Russia with order of St. Anne of the third class in recognition of his successful work for the young men of Russia. The St. Petersburg Association has now about 1000 members.
 Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker of Hartford will hold reception at her home on Saturday, February %, in ob- servance of her eightieth birthday an- niversary, and will meet her friends after 10 o'clock in the morning. She is the only surviving child of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, the last of the noted Beecher family.
 A Hyatt Verrill, a graduate of Yale and son of Professor Addison B. Verrill of New Haven. has discovered process of photographing in brilliant colors. The discoverer calls it an auto-chro- matic process. It is photo-chemical en- tirely, but its exact nature is not made known, nor is anything divulged by Mir Verrill, except that his discovery is . distinct invention and a decided sd- vance in photography.
 At the annual meeting of the National League of American Wheelmen at Tor rington last week the election of of- ficers resulted as follows: President, W. A. Howell, Rockville, Conn first ice-president, Milo Bedding, IT,, New York; second vice-president, Howard l. Perkins, Rhode Island; secretary treasurer, Abbott Bassett, Boston, Mass; auditor, Clarence W. Small, Portland, Me.
 Mrs Juliette A. Strong died Sunday at Ter home in Winsted where she had lived since 1866. She was the widow of Clark Strong once connected with the Strong Mfg. Go. Der father was Deacon David Lewis. Mrs Strong was 67 years old and is survived by one son, Lester Clark Strong, former warden of Winsted, one daughter, Mrs Gertrude MoClelland, and two sisters, Mrs Chss. Vaughn of Albuquerque, N. M. and Mrs Philetus Fales of Ottawa, Kansas.
 Michael Reagan, 8 New Haven freight handler, is under arrest, charged with kicking his wife to death. Sunday afternoon occupants of another apart ment in the Reagan house on East street heard shrieks and running upstairs found Mrs Reagan lying on the floor, bleeding profusely and writhing in pain. She bled to death soon after reaching the hospital. She told the hospital at tendants that her husband was .'money- mad" and had kept insanely accusing her of extravaganza for months. Rea- gan was arrested in his home soon after his wife was taken to the hospital. He appeared indifferent when told of her death and declared that he kicked her only after he could endure scoldings and cross-temper no longer.
 The board of pardons at a special meeting at Hartford on Tuesday denied the petition of pardon for Mrs Mary Colby, who is serving a sentence of IS months at the state prison and who is about to become 8 mother. Mrs Colby was committed to prison September "A, 1901, for the theft in June of Sl90 diamond ring from the iewelry store of Henry Kohn & Sons in New Haven. Her sccomplice, Patrick Kileren, is serving a sentence of two years and half. The iewelry was pawned in Bridgeport and the couple were arrest ed on June 20 in New Haven, where they were living as man and wife It is said that few years ago they were