Connecticut western news., 1906-08-16
STATE NEWS

Hartford now has 10,2 ,275 water meters. There are 200 summer boarders in East Hampton.
 The elm tree beetle is creating havoc among the stately elms of Hartford.
 The new directory of Hartford shows the population of the city to be over 9S,000.
 Alfred Nelson, aged IS years, assaulted Maurice Kent at New Bitain and the latter died Thursday. Nelson has been captured.
 The first year of using the prisoners at the Holland County Jail for running a farm, as a means of reducing the ex- pense of boarding them has proved suc- ,cessful.
 Charles B. Markham, general yard master of the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad at New London, Is dead as a result of injuries received July 29, when he Was run over by tram: One leg was crushed and he received internal injuries.
 It is announced that Frank B. Weeks of Middletown will be a candidate for lieutenant governor. MT. Weeks Is quoted as saying that he has decided to enter the contest, which he shall con- duct, as Tar as ms aIIdlTS dTe COuCSEueIi on a fair and honest basis.
 State Secretary Bodenwein has issued a "List of Registered Motor Vehicles to August 1, 1906," which gives the num- Der and the name of the owner of every automobile and motorcycle registered in the state. There are 3,538 auto registries and 407 registries of motorcycles.
 AS result of a cave-in at Waterbury last week two workmen were buried under % feet of sand. The names of the men could not be learned, but they were father and son, the latter being killed while the former was able to walk to his home after being released from his prison.
 L.R. Conklin, of New York and Miss Grace Frisbee of New Haven were to have been married Aug. 22. Conklin was injured in an auto accident and taken to hospital in New York. Invitations to a church wedding were withheld and the wedding will take place in the hos pital on the day appointed.
 The plan to give Hartford, Bristol and Waterbury an interurban trolley service having failed by reason of the opposition in Hartford to the laying of the ''T'' rail by the Consolidated Railway, President Mellen says that a similar plan will be offered to New Haven, Middletown and Meriden.
 Rutherford Towner, member of an old Connecticut family and chief attorney of the American Surety Company, New York, and Miss Hermoine Bronleben, a poor German girl, whose nearest rel atives reside over a rag picker's estab- hshment in New York, were married last week. Soon after they left for the Adirondack Mountains. and later will visit MT. Towner's mother and sister, who are spending the summer in Kent. No one there knew of the romance that was being worked out with the chief attorney and stenographer as the prin- cipals.
 Alleging that several of their number have been discharged without just cause by the N. Y, N. H. 6 H. railroad, about 200 switchmen at New Haven and Cedar Hill went out on strike last week, and there is more or less of a tie-up in the freight business. The men are members of the Trainmen's union and, aside from working the ground switches in the various yards, run many of the switch engines. The men claim that certain members of their union were discharged for their failure to pass the tests which have lately been made compulsory by the railroad officials. One of these is the eyesight test, and. as several of the older men in the employ of the railroad company failed to pass in what the com pany called a satisfactory manner, they were discharged, according to the strik- CTS. The strikers claim that the tests were too rigid. The railroad company so far has made no statement regarding the strike.