Connecticut western news., 1902-03-20
STATE NEWS.

G. Foster Sanford of New Haven, g
 well known Yale graduate and football coach, has gone to Chicago to beer me l identified with an automobile concert.
 Fire Saturday morning did $40.0OO damage to the plant of the Farist Steel Go. in Bridgeport. Valuable patterns and machinery were destroyed.
 Henry Clay Burnham, 57. former postmaster at Hadlyme, died March IA. He was 8 member of the state Senate of 1899. He was Free Mason and Pales- tine Commandery will have charge of his funeral.
 While at work in the ScoviIl House ruins in Waterbury last Friday, March l4, a workman drove his pick into leg attached to body under the wreckage. The body was taken out and is believed to be that of William Hahn, cook of the hotel, who has been missing since the fire.
 o. H. Hammond, president of the Torrington wheel club, has been ap- committee of the National League of American Wheelmen.
 The annual encampment of the Con- Decticut Grand Army will be held in Bridgeport. Ct beginning Wednesday, May IA, and lasting two days. The session will be held under the auspices of Elias Howe, Jr., post of Bridgeport. of which Department Commander Thomas Boudren is member.
 Fire in Bethel last Thursday morning burned the Lynch building ownel by B. B. Lynch, a grocer. Loss S30C0, partly covered by insurance.
 Mrs Hannah Howe of Hartford was 96 years of age last Sunday. Many of her friends called during the day to congra'u ulate her. She was Hannah Marsh, a member of one of the oldest New England families.
 Catholic priests of this diocese who recently attended conference at Bishop Tierney's Cathedral residence, discussed the reported discriminstion against Catholic children in the county homes in Connecticut. They disapprove of such discrimination and it is represent ed that the Catholics of the state, who number one third of the population, are indignant over the alleged prosely ting of Catholic children in the temporary homes of the state.
 Mrs Esther Post Tucker of Hartford celebrated her 91st birthday. March 13, at the home of her daughter, Mrs Bur- dette Loomis on Prospect avenue. Mrs Tucker is a native of Essex and was the daughter of Simeon and Esther Post. At the dinner Mrs Charles Mather. aged 93 years. was present as a guest of Mrs Tucker. At the table there were four generations, the youngest was Elizabeth Loomis GlaZier, the 3-years- old daughter of MT and Mrs Charles Glszier and great granddaughter of both Mrs Tucker and Mrs Msther.
 The town of Forestville is much work ed up over what is believed to be the discovery of oil on the farm owned by E. Alexis Taylor. The discovery was made last week when Mir Taylor noticed in front of the house some oil in the gutter. After clearing away the snow and letting the accumulated water run away he was surprised to see oil bubble up from the earth. With the help of neighbor a hole four feet deep was dug, and the oil was seen bubling up. Sam ples have been submitted / to experts, who pronounce it good quality of ill., nminiatinR oil. MT Taylor has not yet decided what steps he will take should it prove to be big find, but be is con- siderably elated over the prospects.
 The safe at the NY, NH. &H. 10 10 katf ah hs ,kar open and robbed of $40 in money at 3 o'clock in the morning on March 13. The operator went out to change the signals about the station and was ap- preached by a masked man who point ed revolver and ordered him to hold up his hands. The operator complied and three other men with handkerchiefs over their faces took him and gagged him and bound him to a chair. The safe was wrecked and at APO the rob- bers left with the money. The opera tor wriggled himself free and notified the sheriff. No clue to the robbers as yet. ..
 The entire crew of freight train of the Northampton branch of the "Consolida- ted" road, also the telegraph operator Ab OlIusDuIys W6T0 dTT6Sb6u mOuuhy, by New Haven detectives for stealing from freight cars thousands of dollars worth of goods which were being carried up the Northampton branch. The charge for the present is theft. Captain Cowles said on Monday night in regard to the plunder, the case had not been fully worked up. The de- tectives will probably be several days in T. T. of the road say that this theiving has been going on along the Northampton branch for nearly two years.