Connecticut western news., 1916-11-02

The Rev. John Kingsley Birge has arrived in Bristol after many expert nnceS since leaving there two years ago for Smyrna, Turkey. where he get ed as an instructor in the Interna- donal college.
 Charles l.. Spencer of Sutfield has arranged With J. Ii. Day. telegraph operator at the railroad station. to install a private wire at the town hall to take the election returns on election night.
 While crossing Dixwell avenue in New Haven Richard D. Jones, about fifty years of age, collided with bi- cycle ridden by Nathan Roher and suffered a fractured skull. which caused his death.
 A squad of ten members of the First Connecticut infantry actS as pallbear- CTS and escort at the funeral hieorge D. Parker. A volley was fired over the grave when the body was lowered. and bugler sounded taps.
 A large number of relatives. friends and townspeople gathered at tine Wethersfield Methodist chapel and gave a cordial welcome back to the soldier boys who recently returned from the Mexican border.
 Bastile Dubreuile, seventy-four of Willimantic died at the home of his son-in-law, A. R. Handfield. after suf- fering from bronchial pneumonia. He leaves four sons, two daughters and twenty-five grandchildren.
 A large truck owned by the Lane Construction company of Meriden, loaded with crushed stone. was struck by a westbound passenger train at r Davids crossing in FOrestville. The driver had a narrow escape. The building of two new wings to St. Johns Industrial school at Deep River has been made certain by the promises of contributions and by the intention of the Right Rev. Bishop Nj Ian to erect one of the wings.
 Many of the members ot Company D, First Connecticut infantry, in Bris- tol do not consider their four months stay on the Mexican border as much 1 of a vacation, so several have com menced taking a real vacation. The voting machines which are to be used at the presidential election in November have arrived in Plainville after much delay, due to the fact that Selectman Johnson thought $75 day too much rent to pay for their use. Ambrose GlanslSy, six months old. is dead and his mother, Mrs. Michael Glansky, is suffering from very severe burns because she attempted to use kerosene in starting a fire in the kitch i en stove at their home in Unionville. Oscar Deckert, thirteen-year-old sol l of Carl Deckert of Southington. com mitted suicide, it is thought, by drown ing in the pond near his home. It i' stated that the youth had been pun ished by his teacher for misbehavior. Owing to the death of Marshall F Davis from infantile paralysis the academic and vocational buildings oi the New Britain high school will be closed in order to give the health au thorities time to thoroughly fumigatc l the buildings.
 About twelve persons were more or less hurt in a head-on collision be tween a passenger train and an electric engine on the New Canaan-Stamfprt branch of the New York, New Havcl and Hartford railroad about a mile -ou i of New Canaan.
 Michael YOrko, a one legged man oI Bridgeport, was found dead and hor ribly mutilated behind a billboard re gently. Medical Examiner S. M. Gar lick said that from such information as he had been able to obtain he be lieved the slayer was insane.
 Philip KIoter, eighteen-year-Old sol of Mir. and Mrs Gottlieb Kloter O Rockville, died at Governeur hospital New York city, following an operation on the jaw, which was left deformet as a result of injuries received in coasting accident last winter.
 Victor Malinowski, the New Britain autoist held for manslaughter in con nection with the accident in Forest vile Oct. 14. has been allowed to go as a bond of ST, ,000 has been furnished