Connecticut western news., 1905-01-05
STATE " EWS

The Hay Memorial Chapel at the Westminster school in Simsbury, which was burned recently, will be rebuilt.
 The Consolidated " roads earnings during November are said to be the largest of any November ill the history of the company.
 The Seth Thomas Clock Company at Thomaston, is toput tower clock on the movement shop with a sixteen foot dial facing the station.
 Hon. Orville Hitchcock Platt has been Senator from Connecticut for almost 26 years. He has one of the cleverest and wisest heads ill the Senate.-New York Sun.
 Senator O. H. Platt, of whom Connec- ticut is proud, has been appointed chair man of the Senates most important committee, the judiciary, to succeed the late Senator Hoar.
 By the terms of the will of the late Helen E. Case, who died about year ago, Trinity Parish, Collinsville. for the purpose of building rectory, has received nearly $3,5o0.
 The oldest organization in Danbury, with the exception of the town itself. Union Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, held its 124th annual communi- cation, Tuesday evening, Dec. 20.
 Contractor James J. Ryan has the contract to build the new freight depot Hartford Railroad on Willow street, Winsted. The work of construction will begin immediately and be pushed rapidly to completion.
 The National Steel Foundry company of New Haven, which is making the heaviest steel castings for the United States battleships in course of con struction, has received the contract Sor furnishing all the steel castings laat are to be used i'll the London under ground railway.
 Dr. James l.. Sedgwick of Litchfeld has been sued for $5000 damages by George and Della l.. Potter, husband and wife of Bristol, and property owned by the doctor to the value of 10000 has been attached. The suit is for the al- legged unskillful treatment of wrench ed ankle sustained by Mrs. Potter. w. H. Tarbox, ieweler of Winsted, and Miss Emily Henderson, 18-year-old daughter of the late James Henderson, eloped from Winsted last Thursday to Millerton, N. Y, and were married by Rev. M. B. Snyder. It is said Tarbox has been living with another woman in Winsted for several years who passed as | his wife, but according to Tarbox' s statement to friend shortly before his I leaving town, was his housekeeper. Tarbox sold his jewelry business the day before he left. It is said the couple left Millerton, after being married, for Boston Miss Henderson had been em- ployed at times by Tarbox as clerk and bookkeeper.
 The comptroller of the currency has | just issued report on national banks during the year. It shows that in Con necticut there were during the yerr 103 banks. Of these 19 were in liquidation, four insolvent and 80 in operation. Only three banks have been started in the state since 1900, two with capital of $25, ,0O0 and one with $50,000. The Paw catuck National bank was closed to busi- ness by voluntary liquidation April 8, | 1904, having been in existence since March 21, 1865. The capital stock was | S100 ,000, all of which was in circulation. | Of this amount $65, ,979 were outstanding at the time the bank closed. The Wind ham County National bank of Danielson was the only one closed by the govern men5 i'll the state. There are in the state | 90 savings banks with 461, ,3S7 depositors, and an aggregate amount of $212, TIT ,974 in deposits. There are also sixteen building and loan associations in the state, with membership of 8,035, and assets of SS, ,S51 ,539.