Connecticut western news., 1917-01-25

Assistant Building Inspector Samuel R. Starllie of Hartford has received a letter from his nephew, Sergeant An drew Campbell. of St John, N. B., now recuperating from wounds receiv- ed on the French battle front.
 President Keith of the Manchester chamber of commerce reported that the Rev. Dr. K. Harmon Potter of Hartford will address the chamber at the February meeting relative to the proposed reformatory for women.
 Sister Mary Rose. one of the oldest Sisters of Mercy in the state. died at short illness. She joined the sister hood fifty-seven years ago. In the world her name was Mary Maher.
 The New Haven county meeting elected Judge Arthur NJ. Marsden of Madison and Martin Caine of Nauga- tuck Republican and Democratic coun- ty auditors respectively at the county organization meeting held at the capi- tol.
 In accordance with the dissolution of similar rulings in other cities through out the state, the embargo of late in, vogue on all incoming freight to Bridge port has been removed by ;he New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road.
 j Dropping their tools when a gang of nonunion electrical workers of the United Illuminating company appear ed at the courthouse. thirty or more union carpenters. marble workers. ma sons and plumbers staged half day strike.
 The public utilities commission has ordered the, New Haven road to install double gates at the grade crossing at Broad street. Bristol, before May and to maintain q tiagman at the cross ing from Feb. l until the gates are in. stalled.
 Judge Paul l.. Miller of the Bridge port probate court appointed Antonio AbriOlla and Joseph Tari appraisers for the estate of Arthur LerZ, who died Christmas day. leaving widow, Mary: a son, Antonio. of New York and daughter. Mary.
 William Fl. Church of Chicago com mander in chief of the Sons of Vet erans of the United States. will pay his first visit to Bridgeport when he will be the principal speaker at the Lincoln banquet to be held Feb. 14 in the Stratfeld hotel.
 The death of Lionel Lemon at the age of eighty-five. which occurred at the Archer home. Windsor. was the first to occur there since the arrest of Mrs. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan on May s. 1916, following a series of suspicious deaths in the home.
 Detectives are still searching for Gaetano >Napolitana. twenty-four years old, of Paterson. N. J.. who is alleged to have shot and killed Lorenzo Cris- tino. forty-twO years old, of 47 Hal lett street, Bridgeport, during a street fight on Hallett street.
 James A. Ten Eyck, rowing coach at Syracuse, regards the Springfield course on the Connecticut as one of the best in the country. He declares it has the best features of the Hudson. where the big regattas are rowed each year, and none of its drawbacks. Mayor Clifford B. Wilson read spe- cial message to the common council of Bridgeport recommending that the city attorney be empowered to draft a change in the city charter to be pre- Sented to the legislature, empowering the city to publish a newspaper or bull letin.
 In a letter to Congressman John Q. Tilson in reference to twelve mem- bers of the hospital corps of the Con- necticut national guard who are unable to attend drills because of their em- | plOyment at night Adjutant General | Mccain. U. s. A, suggests that the 1 men make application to be transfer red to the reserve corps. I Twenty-four nationalities are repre- sented ill the enrolment in the even l ing schools of New Britain, and they 1 ale ToiisiI,. Italian. Lithuanian, Swed- ! isA, 7 American, German, Jewish. Rus sian, Armenian. Austrian, Irish He 5-2;, T..>::-h, ;!..-..:, +,1!:c:--..... Syri- m. Hungarian, Danish, Norwegian, : huthenian. Greek, Assyrian and Eng