Connecticut western news., 1917-03-15

The Rev. William Thompson of So- mers preached at the First Congrega- tional church, Suffield, during the ab- sence of the Rev. Daniel R. Kennedy. Jr., who is on vacation.
 William A. Tracy, aged thirty-two years. son of Eugene A. Tracy and a member of the firm of E. A. Tracy, Inc, manufacturers of shoddy, died suddenly in Willimantic.
 Connecticut Progressives will be rep- resented by about forty of their num- Der at the three days convention of the national Progressive party in St. Louis April 12, 13 and IA.
 About twenty cars of a westbound freight train were derailed at Leete's Island, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, blocking rail- road traffic on both tracks.
 A pearl half an inch in diameter was found in Hartford restaurant oyster by William B. Sault, who works for the Aetna Life Insurance company and who lives in South Manchester.
 Senator Henry H. Hunt was a guest of honor and one of the speakers at the fifth annual banquet of the National Fire Insurance club in Hartford. He was the first president of the club.
 Edward N. Haley, a former well known resident of Thompsonville, where he engaged for many years i'll the meat business, died in the Spring i field hospital after a short illness.
 Richard T. O'Connell, judge of the i probate court, has appointed Frank N. i Buckland conservator of Leah Russell of East Hartford, who has been adjudged by the court as incapable. In consideration of a nominal sum the $10,0O0 suit of Benjamin Lassow of Hartford against the New Haven road has been withdrawn from the superior court Lassow was run into by loco- motive.
 reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the recent incendiary fires in this city was voted by the di- rectors of the Hartford chamber of commerce.
 Friend W. Smith, postmaster in Bridgeport during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and former manu- facturer, died of pneumonia at his home. MT. Smith was eighty-seven l years of age.
 John Moran, also known as John Moore and said to be a. graduate of Cornell university and a lawyer by profession, was found dead in a burn ing tool shed on the land of NJ. L. Cole man of Cheshire.
 Angelo Caseno, aged thirty-five, a track walker, was killed by train at Black Point bridge, Mantle. It is thought that in avoiding one train he stepped in front of another from the opposite direction.
 1 William Ahearn, fifty-nine years old, of Winsted, for the past thirty-six years in the service of the Central New England railway, was. notified of his retirement from the active list, having been granted pension.
 Twenty-one aliens appeared at the office of the United States district court in Hartford and were issued first pa pers of naturalization, accompanying their declaration of intention to be- come American citizens.
 Plans to cope with the tuberculosis situation in Bridgeport are being pre- pared by Dr. Walter H. Brown, head of the health department. The tuber- cular death rate in Bridgeport is great CT than anywhere else in the state.
 August Ericson, thirty-one, of New York city, a rigger employed in con- Structing the American Brass power house in Torrington, fell from the top of the building, a distance of about forty feet, and was instantly killed.
 The Rev. Edward B. Haines of Lyme City, who has accepted a call to the Congregational church at Broad Brook, has notified the members that he will not be able to commence his duties until April 9, two weeks later than ex- pected.
 Charles M. Smith, aged sixty-two years, one of East Hartford's best known business men, senior member of the c. M. Smith Coal company, died suddenly at his home of heart failure, aggravated by an attack of acute indi- 1 gestion.