Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23
STATE HAPPENINGS
VARIOUS POSTOFFICE BURGLARIES

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 Have Nutmeg State Summer Home Winsted Folks Want Sunday lid on Preserved Babies-Putnam's Razor. An invalid for twenty years, Alfred Hamilton died at Jewett City last week at the age of 5S.
 Charles E. Morris of Canaan Valley cut a severe gash in his ankle four inches long while splitting wood.
 Mrs. Sabin Ives of Goshen, recently fell breaking her hip. Since her fall she has been totally blind.
 Forty thousand pine trees are to be set out on the farm recently purchased in Norfolk by Ellicott D. Curtiss of New York.
 Bridgeport Savings banks have noti- fled borrowers that hereafter the interest rate on loans will be instead of 41s per cent.
 After an illness which extended over a period of three years, Henry l.. Mathes, aged B years died last week. at Thomp- sonville.
 St. Augustine Council, Knights of Go lumbus, of Stamford, has the largest membership of any of the local branches in the state-362.
 Work will begin this week on Mark Twins $50, 900 villa at Bedding, the con- tract having been awarded to w. w. Sunderland of Danbury.
 Track walker John Blakeslee found two large glass jars near New Haven railroad cut which contained the bodies of infants preserved in alcohol.
 Stephen Bradley of Plymouth killed rattlesnake last week which was three feet and nine inches long and seven inches i'll circumference. It had 12 rattles and one button.
 A petition addressed to Warden F. O. Strong is being circulated in Winsted ssking him to eufore the law relative to prohibiting the sale and exposing for ale of goods or articles on Sunday.
 Falling in a fit under horse feet in | stable at Thompsonville, Lawrence Doyle, aged 58, was crushed to death. When he fell the horse became frightened md kicked and stamped, fraoturing Doyle's skull. ;
 George c. Sill, democratic lieutenant governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1881, died at Hartford Sunday following ln attack of locomotor ataxia. He has been in i'll health for the past two years. ae leaves son and daughter.
 Papers were passed last week effecting the sale of the entire property of Frank Miller 6 Company, coal dealers. of Bridgeport, to Archibald McNeil & Com pany. The sale is one of the most i'm portant in the business history of Bridge port, involving consideration of $82, 900.
 While one masked man held George Pompersiek. the night operator in the telephone exchange at Washington, a prisoner at the point of a revolver, com panions of the masked man blew open the safe of the post office on the first floor and auother in the rear room of of the building secured $500 ill money, about S400 ill stamps and some checks
 Warden Charles T. Hotaling of the town of Greenwich has found an old razor which is believed to have been the one with winch General Israel Put nma was shaving in the Putnam cottage there when word came that the British were approaching, driving him to the steep precipice where he dived down the hundred stone steps to Cos Cob.
 Prof. Gustav Stoeckel, who occupied the chair of music at Yale university for many years, died at his home ill Norfolk Friday. Prof. Stoeckel has three chll- dren, Carl Stoeckel, the generous patron of the Litchfield County Choral Union and the Litchfeld County University Club; Robbins Battell Stoeclzel, judge of probate, and Miss Irene Stoeckel, all of Norfolk. A private funeral was held.