Connecticut western news., 1904-10-27
STATE W EWS


 his trotter, q Homeward," 2.134 down to the New York speedway to be handled by Capt. c. H. Mcdonald, who thinks he will do i'll the best of company.
 Maud Parsons, the 15-year-old daugh- ter of l.. B. Parsons of Milford, left her home at o'clock in the morning of Oct. 15, and though search was started early, no trace of her has yet been found. It is thought that she is dement, ed.
 Tracy Bronson, well known New York newspaper man who has for many years been connected with the New York Times, has taken the position of managing editor of the New Haven Union. Mir Bronson was formerly a New Haven journalist.
 William Wilson Bartholomew, presi- dent and treasurer of the Hartford Pro- vision Company and one of the best known meat dealers in Hartford, died Friday morning after brief illness of acute Bright's disease. He leaves his wife, two sons and two daughters.
 MT. and Mrs. Luman F. Parker of Meriden started recently for St. Louis. The couple on September 8, celebrated the sixty-tifth anniversary of their we'd ding. MT. Parker's age was 91 on August IS last, and on October 1 Mrs. Parker's years numbered the same.
 James H. Balcomb committed suicide by shooting, Oct. 19, at the home of his sister ill Torrington. Dependency on account of i'll health is said to be the reason for his act. Holding a small looking glass in his left hand, he watch ed himself point the revolver to his head and fire.
 Miss Fannie B. Pardee, 43, was found dead at her home on George street at New Haven last Thursday, having been asphyxiated from a gas jet which appar- ently had been accidentally turned on. She was a graduate of Sacred Heart con vent at Hochelaga, Gan. Her brother is Attorney William S. Pardee.
 At Norfolk, the State police lately arrested members of a so-called "Cider Gang" and five have been fined or jail sentenced on the charges of drunken ness. Two others, Foster Bailey and Frank Rice, both colored, were held until the Superior Court on the charge of burglary committed two years ago.
 Phelps S. Smith, prominent business man of Collinsville, died ill that village Oct. 20, after an illness of nine months with Bright's disease. While he has | been in poor health, MT. Smith did not give up active management of his busi- ness until the Friday before his death. He leaves his wife and four daughters. Joel H. Reed of Stafford, states attor- ney for Holland county, has presented to Gov. Chamberlain his resignation, to take effect tomorrow, Oct. 28. On Nov. T he will succeed William T. Elmer of Middletown on the superior court bench, to which he was appointed by Gov. Chamberlain, as Judge Elmer will be 70 years old on the previous day. | The Sunday law held up work on Consolided road bridge at Middletown on a recent Sunday. Half a dozen workmen who were repairing the rail road bridge during tho forenoon were ordered to quit work by Lawyer J. J. Dempsey and when they refused he call ed two officers and threatened the men with arrest. The foreman then stopped the work.
 Two sandbaggings occurred ill Dan- bury late Saturday evening for which John Brennan has been arrested. Arthur Sauter and Paul Feste were knocked on the head while walking through dark places and after being made unconscious by blows on the head were robbed. Both were taken to the hospital and will re- cover Brennan had blackjack when arrested.
 Ellen O. Robbins, a 17-year-old girl of Hartford, was married Oct. 19 for the third time, being joined to John G. 1 Miner, farmer 70 years old. She was | first married at IA years of age, and was mother before her 18th birthday. She believed her first husband, Harry c. Robbins, dead but after her second marriage, her second husband being the same as the third, Robbins showed up again, and the present ceremony was to | bind the second marriage.
 A dispatch from Suffield says that the | 1904 crop of New England tobacco is being sold at the highest prices which have prevailed since 1899. The Suffield crop of 2,700 acres will net growers nearly $l 100000. About % per cent. of the crop is estimated to have been sold The three proceeding crops of New Eng land tobacco were unsatisfactory, and the 1904 crop comes upon a market de- plete of desirable New England goods Hundreds of tobacco growers will free their farms from mortgages this fall.
 Rev. G. o. Spencer of Greenwich, formerly of New Milford, died on Oct 19. He underwent an operation from which he rallied, but afterwards he be- gan to lose strength and died on We'd nesday morning. He is survived by a wife, Mrs. Anah Hartwell Spencer. MT. Spencer was born ill New York City in 1840 and graduated in 1862 from the College of the City of New York, and had filled several pastorates ill Connec- ticut. He was an expert chess player, and recently participated in an archery contest at the St. Louis exposition.
 Edward Clark, alias H. Davis, swind- Ter and bunco steerer, wanted at New Milford on the charge of swindling Dr. Henry Hartwell of Judds Bridge out of 5000, is under arrest at South Bend, Ind, fox swindling Henry Crofoot, a prominent and wealthy St. Joseph county farmer, out of the same amount. Clark used nearly the same means to swindle MT. Crofoot as was used on Dr. Hartwell. Clark's friends are making efforts to get him free, but it is thought if he is not convicted ill Indiana he will be brought to New Milford to answer to the Dr. Hartwen affair.
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