Connecticut western news., 1905-01-12
STATE N EWS

increases the efficiency of kerosene over twenty-five per cent.
 Charles H. Booth, aged S1, business man of New Milford, died Tuesday. He was a director ill the New Milford say ings bank and president of the water company in that place.
 The will of Elizabeth M. Northrop, admitted to probate ill Hartford Monday, gives $500 to the New Milford Cemetery association for the care of the lots of Eli Mygatt, Henry R. Treadwell and Ezra G. Northrop.
 A large barn and carriage shed owned by George l.. Clark, i'll Suffield, were destroyed by fire Saturday evening, en- tailing loss of $300O, which is partly covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown.
 Jimmie Brock, an Italian laborer of Torrington, has received word that by the death of wealthy uncle ill Italy he has become heir to S20, ,000. Brock says he will return to Italy, where he will in the future live in the enjoyment of his fortune.
 It is reported that Frederick Tibbals of Milford, who is awaiting trial on the charge of embedding money while post master at Milford, has made partial restitution and hopes for lighter sent ence. His bondsmen are protected by the Fidelity Company of Baltimore, Md. The Bridgeport Hydraulic company will build a new reservoir which, when completed, will give to Bridgeport wa ter facilities which will surpass any ill the state. When the entire new work is completed the city's storage of water will be between four and five billions of gallons.
 An attempt was made last Thursday night to rob the ticket office at the rail road station in Litchfield, but Agent | Jacoby came upon the would-be robbers while they were trying to force an en- trance and they ran away. Two men have been arrested and bare held under suspicion.
 The Empire Moving Picture Go. of Hartford, which has been on the road about month, broke up at Bonneville, | N. Y, recently, and the picture machine and other articles, which were sent to | Hartford, have been attached for salary by Miss May Albin, pianist of the troupe. Mismanagement is said to be the cause of the trouble.
 A table ill the annual report of the state board of health for 1904 shows that | the death rate in the small towns from | January to April inclusively is markedly higher than in the towns of five thous- and or over. This is noted as an excep- tional condition. The explanation given is that the grip was far more fatal ill proportion to the population i'll the smaller towns than in the large ones.
 Benedict M. Holden of Hartford has been appointed permanent receiver of the Bristol Trunk Hardware Go. by Judge John M Thayer in Superior court at Hartford, on the application of | the minority stockholders, Judge Thayer | denied the petition of Albert l.. Sessions l to have the affairs of the company wound | up by the directors. MT. Holden states the appointment came to him unsought.
 Novel cures for diseases are always ill order and, regardless of logic, meet with grave acceptance and approval. Mrs. Clifford Baldwin of Bridgeport had been a sufferer from rheumatism un- til the pet house cat began to lie on the bed with her. Then the rheumatism left Mrs. Baldwin and now the cat has rheumatic pains in it's legs just as had Mrs Baldwin who has entirely recov- cred.
 Inquiry is being made for relatives of | ! Rev. Galen O. Spencer, retired Meth odist minister who died in Greenwich in October. He left $35, 900 ill cash deposit | ed in banks and trust companies, which he bequethed by will to his wife, but it is desirable before the probating of the will to find his relatives if he had any. MT. Spencer was 64 years old. His last charge was at New Milford, which he left about five years ago.
 Mrs. Stephen Kulas, wife of Polish | laborer, was murdered last Thursday afternoon ill her home at Somersville, by being struck on the head with cud- gel and by strangulation, towel being found tightly knotted about her neck. The house was ransacked and three bankbooks and about $100 in money was taken. Frank Sherrie a laborer and former boarder at the Kulas home, is suspected of the crime. He was arrest ed i'll Hartford Monday morning by the state police.
 John J. Carroll, aged B, of Winsted, fell from the third story of building of the Winsted Hosiery Go. plant last Mon- day afternoon, and died from his in- juries that evening few minutes after o'clock. MT. Carroll was a mason con tractor, and had recently been awarded the contract to build new brick build ing for the hosiery company, an old building being torn down to make room. MT. Carroll was engaged ill the latter work when he was hurt.
 Nelson Mercy, character we'll known in Litchfield, wants to die, but every attempt he makes at self destruction proves unsuccessful. He has tried hang ing, cutting his throat and drowning, without accomplishing the desired end. A few nights ago he lay down beside the railroad tracks ill Litchfield and train ran over one of his legs and one of his arms. He was so provoked because the train had not killed him that he refused an anasthetic when surgeon amputat- ed his leg and arm. It is expected that he will recover.
 Having discovered that chair seats can be made cheaper by machinery than by the prisoners, the Connecticut Chair company has discontinued send ing work to the Litchfield county jail The county commissioners have taken the matter ill hand and contemplate in. stalling machinery for chair seating tc be operated by the prisoners, and ap. | be mended or reseated. The prisoners say that they would much rather work than be idle as the few days of idleness has been burden to them.
 Regardless of the difference of opinion which exists as to the necessity for the state maintaining the state police, the labors of that organization for the year ending June 1, 1904, show that the work
 has been done at a moderate expense, ,and
 the fears that the system would involve a considerable outlay of money are not
 realized. According to the report, the
 police investigated 415 cases at an az
 gregate. cost to the state of $3,252.77, ol
 a little more than $8 each. Out of 31: , prosecutions, only four indictments were
 nolled and three persons were acquitted after trial. Five persons forfeited theil
 bonds; jail sentences, aggregating 1,07C days were imposed, and $12,375.70 il | fines were paid. The most numerous