The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-10
Litch6eld County News.
Called to Torrington.

Called to Torrington.
 At the meeting of the official board of the Torrington Methodist Church Monday night 1t was voted unani- mously to invite Rev: Mortimer P. Griffin, pastor of the Methodist church in Shelton, to succeed Rev. B. F. Gill man as pastor of the Torrington church with the opening of the new conference year in April.
 Losses by Fire.
 When M. M. Kelly and his family, who live on Candlewood mountain, New got up Monday, they saw only pile of debris where had stood a large tobacco barn. During the night the barn had burned. Tn it were be- ready to be delivered and the farming tools. The loss is about g 900.
 Fire, said to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed large barn on Town Hill, New Hartford owned by Mrs. Elizabeth DeitZ, Sunday night. Two horses, three cows and some poultry perished. The loss is estimated at s1, 200, partially covered by insurance.
 Fire from a defective flue at the house owned by Mrs Victor Gerard in Torrington caused about s1 800 Mon pied by MT. and Mrs. William N. Bushy, the second floor by Elijah Aus tins family and the third floor by Mrs. Gerard, who owns the house. The two upper floors of the house were pra ctically destroyed Much of the furniture on the lower floor was sav- ed. The house was insured.
 Granted a Divorce.
 At Hartford. Friday. Anna sutliffe, who lives in New Britain, was divorc- ed from Wilbur Sutliffe who lives in Plymouth. They were married on Oct. 26, 1903, and they went to live with her husbands parents in Plymouth. She lived with them from the time of the marriage until the first week of January 1904, when her husband told her that she would have to get crt and earn her own living. Mrs. Sut- liffe's maiden name was Cockayne and she said she was only Is years old when she was married. Her husband had often told her that he preferred to stay with his mother and he had said that his mother provided him a Letter home than he could earn for himself. In addition to the divorce the woman was allowed to resume her maiden name.
 Suing the Railroad.
 The Trout Brook Ice & Feed Com pany, the Hartford Ice Company and the Spring Brook Ice Company, all of Hartford. have brought suit against the New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford railroad company to recover damages of s30000, that be- ir g. as the companies s9y, the value of property burned in New Hartford on 25 of last year. The prop erty destroyed consisted of ice houses and other buildings, a lot of ice and ice tools. It is alleged that the fire was caused by sparks from a locomotive on tracks near the ponds of the Green woods Company in New Hartford, and the companies say that the locomotive from which, it is alleged. the sparks escaped, was old and defective. and 
 To Talk It Over.
 The "Connecticut Churchnan" gives up page to correspondence be- tween the Archdeaconry of Litchf1eld and the Litchfeld North Conference of Congregational Churches. The for mer. convened at .Watertown sent messenger to the latter, convened at Salisbury. He bore a letter signed by the archdeacon and secretary. It sug- gested the appointment of committees to talk rns tiers over, "for the purpose If gaining a clearer understanding of The agreements and differences that exist between us. with a view to the of Christian unity" The Litchfield North Congregationalists, replying that they received the over ture of their Protestant Episcopal orethern with warm apprecaa tion of their Christian spirit and with a deep desire to foster with them the unity of the Christian church. appointed as committee John Calvin Goddard. Ar thur Goodenough. A. W. Alderman, Edward c. Starr and Edwin c. Gillette, The Archdea conry's committeeman are Tohn F. Plumb. Storrs O. Seymour, J. and David N. Kirkby.
 A Man of Accidents.
 Frank Bond, a painter fell from the rear veranda of T. F. Sul1ivan's cafe n Winsted Wednesday night into Mad River and narrowly escaped drown- ng He was unconscious when res- ,ued. MT. Bond has figured in q number of accidents during the past few years and has experienced as many narrow escapes. He has had one leg broken four times and the other once inside of seven years.
 Closes His Bar.
 John J. Humphries proprietor of the American House of Torrington has closed his bar since his conviction of Illegal liouor selling. His appeal from the decision of the county commission CTS, who refused to grant renewal 1 if his license. will come before the A pril term of the superior court.
 Mouse in Horses Nose
 A mouse which had it's home in earn on the farm of A M Rayden- DOW, situated off the Colebrook road. ,ra vled into the manager in a stall oc