Connecticut western news., 1917-02-22

. events or All NinoS SatneTeo FEoh 1 Various Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will AP- peal to All Classes of Readers.
 Dr. Appleton w Smith, superintend- ent of the Hartford hospital, has re signed. Stephen S. Squires of Hillstown, a
 farmer, aged eighty-threc years. died in the Hartford hospital.
 Masons and plumbers of Hartford
 are to join the other building trades in asking for raise in wages May l.
 The double funeral of MT. and Mrs.
 Jeremiah Couhig took place from the
 chapel of J. ]. X Francis Ahern, Hart
 ford
 Nineteen births were reported to
 Registrar of Vital Statistics Joseph O.
 Goodwin of East Hartford during Jan
 uary.
 The sophomore class at Trinity met
 and elected Seymour Scott Jackson Of
 Norwich the Delta Kappa Epsilon pres
 ident
 Chief of Police William Nevin of TorringtOn has been commissioned as } an agent of the Connecticut Humane society.
 Word was received of the death in upper New York state of Erness Schmidt formerly resident of Man chester.
 Captain Nathaniel Hayden of Union ville who died last summer, left a leg acy of $1,OOO to the Center church of Barkhamsted. It is understood that the Marlin Arms company of New Haven has paid $50, 900 for the aerial torpedo invented by Lester Barlow.
 The Rev. John F. Murphy, pastor of St Mary's Roman Catholic church. } Bridgeport, died at the rectOry after .. a lingering sickness. Fire in the basement of the brick . block owned by Philip Cohen at 415 and AT Main street, Ansonia, did dam } age estimated at $6000. } A fifteen-months-old baby boy died at the New Britain police station of } strangulatiOn when he attempted to swallow a large piece of meat. ioot chnXxrc thot bn } lessness of a watchman and not a fire s bug caused the $750,O0O Fox fire in } Hartford the night of Monday, Jan. 26. ? Mrs. Lena Hovi of Waterbury was . caught between two trolley cars and | narrowly escaped being crushed to
 death Her left heel was nearly torn X off.
 John Hogan of No. Hungerford
 street, Hartford, aged ten years, died
 at St. Francis hospital following in
 juries received when he has hit by an auto.
 George w. Knight of StrafieId road.
 one of Bridgeport's oldest and most z widely known real estate and insur-
 ance agents, dropped dead on the side \ walk.
 William Howard Taft will speak at Parsons theater, Hartford, March ! under the auspices of the League to
 Enforce Peace of which he is the pres
 ident.
 The EdgewOod Congregational church
 of Providence, R. l., has voted to call
 the Rev. Henry B. Kirkland, pastor of ? the First Congregational church ,f ! Essex.
 S Charles R. Rau of Rockville, a prom { inent contracting stone cutter and ma \ son and also engaged in the concrete business, was killed in a runaway ac- ! cident.
 Bridgeport's chapter of the Ameri- e can Red Cross society was formally launched at an elaborate mass meet ing in the auditorium of the High school.
 Nicholas Kurtz, the thirteen -year-oId
 boy of TorringtOn who ran away from = his aunt's home, is in a pitiable condi-
 tion, having frozen both feet during ex-
 posture.
 Mrs. Frederick W. Minson. Jr.. of ] New London and infant child miracu-
 lously escaped serious injury when
 the water front of a kitchen range
 blew out.
 Almon c. Ludden, a SuffieId farmer.
 who owns thirty-five acres which he
 values at $15,OOO, filed a petition in
 bankruptcy in the United States dis l trict court