Connecticut western news., 1917-02-22

The thirty-third annual international 'r"uVentiOn of the Master House Painters and To> orators Association of rlc Tultc,i Sta; and Canada was hl ii in New Haven.
 The manufacturers of PlainviIle are to assist the Selectmen ill taking the military census by obtaining q record of all the men in their employ over eighteen years of age.
 Additional guards have been placed over the Hartford water supply. The guards usually number five or six, and this number has been tripled and the men equipped with pistols.
 Another strike of prisoners occurred in the chair shop at the county jail in New Haven. with the result that an immediate investigation was started by the county commissioners.
 In the month of January there were 226 resident deaths in Hartford, the highest for many years. making death rate of 24.26 for the month. Pneumonia was the chief cause.
 In accordance with the request of Governor Marcus II. Holcomb, Select man C. A. Norris of Windsor Locks ha, selected twenty-five men to take a census for military information,
 Mrs. Frank Jones of Willimahtic has been committed to the Norwich Hos pital For the Insane. Her husband was adjudged insane a short time ago and removed to the same hospital.
 Alfred G. Held, engineer and master mechanic of the Rockville fire depart ment, gave his resignation to the fire committee of the common council. Other activities will take up his time.
 The record of the Hartford free em- ployment office for January shows 6SS positions filled, an increase of thirty seven over December and an increase of 30S or S1 per cent, over January. 1916.
 Patrick \. Marren, Democrat, of Derby was elected representative to the Hartford legislature at the special i election, defeating w. Howard Treat. the Republican candidate, by 455 votes to 1S0
 A legacy of $1,O00 from an uncle, q dry goods peddler, whom she had not seen or heard from in twenty years i and who she thought had died years l ago, has come to Mrs. Julia Doran of ] Hartford.
 The seventh annual report of the Bridgeport Christian Union shows that 1 the need1 of 161, ,745 persons have been 1 ministered to since the doors of the in stitution were first thrown opeT seven years ago.
 Thomas Leatherland, a detective ser geant and a former chief of the Nor walk police department in the old city of Norwalk before the consolidation i with South Norwalk, died at his home 1 in Norwalk.
 Governor Marcus H. Holcomb signed an engrossed bill which raises a com mission to investigate the penal insti tutions of the state and to report back to the general assembly by March T. of this year.
 At the annual meeting of the Ma tional Fire Insurance company of Hart ford Secretary George H. Tryon of the 1 company was elected a director to fiji the vacancy caused by the death oi Judge James Nichols.
 Harold w. Braun, twenty-five, unde arrest in Danbury in connection witt the investigation into the death of hi wife, alleged to have been the resul of malpractice. was held without bal on a charge of murder.
 Rev. Henry Callahan, who for tn, past year has been the assistant to tho Rev. Stephen Chernitsky, pastor of the St. Stephens Hungarian church Bridgeport, has been transferred tc St. Johns church, Stamford.
 Miss Ethel Lynch of Stamford whose hair was caught in q drill press o4 4ho N,Io C. rnu-po NTannfa