Connecticut western news., 1904-03-24
STATE " EWS

HTSU dppedFdHCe OI hFs. IldIIleb DcCIHCl Stowe's work, "Uncle Toms Cabin. ' The first volumes were placed on sale in the book stores, March 20, 1852. The sale during the year reached upwards of 40, 0,000.-Hartford Post.
 Mrs Joseph H. Vail of Winsted, wife of the secretary of the Connecticut com- mission for the St. Louis exposition, suffered fracture of her left arm by slipping upon an icy sidewalk ill Phila- delphia while visiting her son in that city.
 The late Miss Amanda Church of WinSted willed her entire estate of about $l0,000 to the Beardsley library of Win sted
 The Hendey machine company of Tor rington discharged 90 employees Monday night, and it is said that more are slated to go in the near future on account of the business stagnation. Machinists and other employees of the Coe brass com pany in the same town have been laid off for the same reason. The Excelsior needle company of Torrington has noti- fled number of its hands that their services will not be needed after the coming Saturday night.
 William E. Miller, who claimed to be a survivor of the Light Brigade, which made the famous charge at Balaklava in 1853, died last week at his home in Groton. He was born in Scotland in 1928, and at the age of 24 enlisted in the llth Hussars under the name of Robin son. He served through the Crimean war, being an aidde-camp at Balaklava, and was awarded Victoria cross. Afterward he came to this country and served in the navy during the Civil war. For number of years he was foreman of cartridge factory i'll Bridge port.
 MT. and Mrs. Dwight St. John of Sharon celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage on March Is. There was large family gathering.
 monia in Connecticut during February.
 Governor Chamberlain issued his Fast Day proclamation the 18th inst and ap- pointed " Friday, April the first, a day of fasting, penitence and prayer.
 The twentieth annual encampment of the Connecticut Division, Sons of Vet erans, will be held i'll Rockville on
 
 14. The arrangements for the conven- tion have been completed by Alden Skinner Camp. It is expected that 150 delegates will be ill attendance.
 Dr. Edward P. Woodward died in Bristol on Saturday last. He was born in Litchfeld, February ,, 1887 and practiced medicine in Cheshire, Bethany and Bristol. He was Democrat in politics and had been warden of Bristol. He was a prominent Odd Fellow.
 Homer Twitchell, formerly a Demo cratic state senator and for many years prominent ill manufacturing in the Naugatuck valley, died at his residence ill Naugatuck last week, aged IS years. Ss Ex-Senator Wilbur B. Foster, a cloth ing merchant of Rockville, has filed in the United States district court vol untary petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities are $5,928.05 and the assets $1, ,727.95. MT. Foster declares he has not funds with which to pay the court fees.
 Samuel Higgins, at present mechani- cal superintendent of the Southern Rail way, with headquarters at Washington,
  ager of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in place of W. k. Chamberlain, whose retirement already has been announced. His appointment will date from April and it is probable that he will not be able to finish his duties with the Southern Railway until a few days later.
 A custom of farmers along the rural routes i'll using the rural mail boxes as medium of advertising their sales is to be headed off by the post office depart ment, and warning has been issued that parties will be prosecuted for an infraction of the postal laws if the rural mail boxes are used as repository for sale bills or other medium of communi- cation unless proper stamps are affixed. -Woodbury Reporter.
 The Democrats of Connecticut will hold their state convention i'll Hartford on the 5th and 9th of May for the choice of fourteen delegates to the national Democratic convention to be held ill St. Louis in July.
 Miss Amanda Church died at Winsted last Thursday, aged 80 years. She was the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Uni Church, and had lived as a recluse for many years. Some years ago, k. M Clossey, then lawyer ill Winsted, tried to get possession of her money through a bogus will and was detected and sent to prison.
 In speaking of Connecticut, the great Historian Bancroft said: "There is no state ill the Union, and know not any in the world, ill whose early history, if were citizen, I could find more of which to be proud of, and less of which to blot"
 Lena, the 7-years-old daughter of Au- gust Neidt, an employee of the Coe Brass Company at Torrington, was fatally burned at her home on the Har- wintOn road last Thursday. In the ab- sence of her mother, the girl, who was left at home with younger children, at- tempted to light the fire with kerosene. The can of kerosene exploded, setting her clothing on fire, and when the neighbors arrived she had been terribly burned. The child died about two hours after the accident.
 The body of G. G. Rockwell of Dan bury was found on the railroad tracks under the Chapel street bridge at New Haven last Thursday night, badly mangled and with u bullet wound in his head. Nearby was a revolver and the police say that he committed suicide.
 Michael Downey, a carpenter, who was suffering from cancer ill the stomach committed suicide at Greenwich last Thursday by shooting himself with g shotgun. He was IA years old and is survived by his widow and two children
 The inventory of the estate of Henry Sanford of Bridgeport, formerly presi dent of. the Adams Express Company and father of Professor s. s. Sanford ot Yale University, was filed March 17th The total value of the estate, according to the inventory, is 8, 127, ,469.93, con sisting of personal property valued a $4 ,997, ,591 .93, and real estate valued a $229,878. Under the terms of the vii Professor Sanford will receive all of thu real estate and one-half the residue afte a few minor bequests are made. Hi share will amount to about B, 500,0O0.