Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08


 copal church in Hebron, died in Willi mantle Death was due to gall stones and cancer of the intestines.
 Preliminary arrangements for the | fiftieth annual encampment of the Con- | necticut department, Grand Army Of ] the Republic in Bridgeport April IT | and IS have been announced.
 The Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brew l ster. D. D., bishop of Connecticut. be- slowed confirmation rites on fifty-two persons at the services in St. Johns Episcopal church, Bridgeport.
 Sevaro Ruggiero of 27 Prince street. New Haven, who has been sought by the police for some time in connection with the stabbinG of Mike Orofrio Or 8 Putnam street, has been caught
 Rev. pr. Samuel Hart, dean of the Berkeley Divinity school. died at his home in Middletown. He very often preached and celebrated the holy com munion In Grace church, Newington.
 More than $9.500OO0 in the postal savings banks of the country belong to New England people. Of the New England total Connecticut folk own considerably more than one-quarter.
 Secretary of War Newton D. Baker has accepted the invitation extended to him through Congressman John Q. Tilson to attend the foot guard day exercises in New Haven on April g.
 At the request of the navy depart ment the Lake Torpedo Boat company of Bridgeport posted notices asking all its employees to affiliate with the na val reserve and to take the federal oath.
 A handsome memorial window has been placed in position at the northern end of St. Johns church, Hartford. in honor of the memory of Mrs. Franklin c. Whitmore, prominent member of St. Johns parish.
 The Rev. pr. William G. Fennell, pastor of the Asylum Avenue Baptist church and chaplain of the senate in the present general assembly, died at the home of former Representative Ed ward A. Fuller in Suffield. The first case of infantile paralysis in New Britain in several months was reported at the board of health office | recently. The victim is Frank Land strom, the three-year-old son of Mir and Mrs. Frank Landstrom. Frederick w. SOndstrom, contrac- tor, brought back from Albany, N Y.. to Wallingford to stand trial charged with forging the name of Deputy Sher- | fir Edward F. Kavanaugh to a note for $70O, was held for trial Miss Maud Minds, who, with a score of others, was killed in the wreck oil the Pennsylvania railroad near Mount l Union, Pa, was a graduate of the Hartford hospital training school for nurses and had many friends in Hart | ford.
 Word was received in Milford of the death of the Rev. J. H. Fitzgerald at 1 his home in Hebron, Conn. MT. Fitz- gerald was well known in Milford, where nearly a quarter of century ago he was the rector of St Peters church.
 ny,,IA l.. by Elizabeth A. Kenealy of Stamford. executrix of the estate of the late 1 Michael Kenealy, against Louis A. Fisk of Stamford. Mrs. Kenealy al- leges that Fisk is indebted to her in the sum of $5,000.
 The Rev pr. James Coote, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Port land, and widely known throughout New England and eastern New York as a preacher and writer of poems. died at his home. following a short Ill., ness, of pneumonia.
 John c. Beckett and his wife of Hig- ganum were killed and an unidentified man was seriously injured when their automobile was struck by a passenger | train at a grade crossing on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road at Maplewood.
 The names of nearly 100 persons in Connecticut who refused to answer | questions on blanks presented in con- nection with the military census being conducted under the direction of Gov ernor Marcus H. Holcomb are on dle at state headquarters. For the loss of the sight of his right nh oh, rninrnnd hNr a HNrfncr