Republican farmer., 1919-12-26
BEDDING
Especial to The TTmes1

: became q ravtng maniac on the day of anticipated ioom. Before sunrise that morning and while the teupera- ture was several degrees below zero 1 he went to the house of a neighbor 1 clad only in his night attire and shouted warnings to them to prepare for the approaching smash. Being re- | fused admittance there he returned to i his own home and continued lis out ' pouring of lamentations, Becoming ] increasingly violent he lunged with a knife at one of the friends who was trying to quiet him and inflicted a ! slight cut. He next made an effort to stab himself, but was overpowered and bound before he could do further i harm. During the day he was placed 1 in the Westport santtarIUrn, but on ac- count of his violent behavior the man agement refused to keep him and on | Saturday he was transferred to the l hospital for the insane at Middletown i where he still remains with slight pros poets of recovery. Johnson is about 85 years of age and has a wife and 1 three children. The prophecy regard 1 Ing the earth's destruction had been
 preying on his mind for two or three weeks before the final breakdown and he talked of little else either at home l or among his associates in the Gilbert i & Bennett factory.
 ! There are fears that the yearly l income of $500, which the Mark ] Twain Library has been receiving i during the past five years from the 1 late Andrew Carnegie is lost to it as the regular semi-annual instalment
 was not received in July and wheth- CT payments will be renewed depends ! upon the decision of the directors of i the Carnegie Foundation. A final 1 discontinuance of the Carnegie dona- 1 ton would be a serious matter for 1 the Library as it has no endowment l fund, all of the S6,0O0 given for the 1 institution by Mark Twain during
 his last illness having been expanded
 in erecting the library building. Soon
 after it's completion Albert Bigelow l Paine, one of the trustees, wrote MT. 1 Carnegie asking his aid towards the l library's maintenance. The former 1 Steel King replied that he consider 1 ed 1t a privilege to help so worthy an ] object and that his assistance would
 take the form of a $500 yearly allow 1 ance. It was the general supposi- i ton at the time that there had been | created a trust fund of S10,000 in 5 l per cent. bonds, thus insuring the i income as a permanency- From MT. 1 Burton, who was MT Carnegie's sec retary and who came to Bedding ] about a month ago to inform him 1 self as to the library's condition, it 1 was learned that this supposition was l erroneous It seems that the library
 was one of a long list of institutions | which were the subject of regular | donations from the many millione ] ! philanthropist, a list often revised in 1 the way of additions and eliminations. i Some of these mere objects were the hi Of I,, Io will, but the Mark Twain Library was not so remembered. Mir. Bur l ton said the library had not been 1 erased from the memorandum list 1 however, and that the failure to pro- vide for the July payment was ap- ! parently due to MT. Carnegie's illness | at the time. The former secretary
 said he should recommend to the Foundation directors a continuance
 of the grant and the library trustees
 are hopeful that his good offices will
 prove effective.
 The severe weather conditions have 1 caused a suspension of construction work on the trunk highway, although | the stone crushers are kept in opera ton. The work so far done in- l cludes the blasting away of the ledge
 near the lower end of Putnam Park The local firm of Osborn & Barnes | have also stopped work on their big 1 road building job at Salisbury
 Ittchfield county, and also upon their job in Orange. The former is near
 ly finished. There has already been
 expended upon 1t a sum considerably ] above the contract price, but the
 contractors are saved from loss by a percentage allowance on the actual ! outlay, contingent arrangement provided owing n fta
 to final conditions in the price of la
 bor and materials
 1 The annual report Of the trustees on the Mark Twain estate has been filed
 in the Bedding Probate court. Ii shows a total income for the year of iabout $75,O00, an increase of several thousands from former years. The
 largest single item is $2T, ,7S0 represent
 ing publication royalties paid by Har-
 per Bros. on the Mark Twain books
 In former years the revenue from this source was s24, GOO. The beneficiary ot
 the entire income is Mrs Clara Ga
 brtlowitsch, only surviving child of the
 late author.
 A good sized congregation attended
 the Christmas carol service held last Friday evening at the Episcooa- church which had been beautifully decorated for the season with small cedars and pines placed about the
 chancel- Their dark background was !, relieved with red berries and the
 chancel space lighted by 100 candles the rest of the interior being left ir shadow. The various musical selec- , i tions were finely rendered.
 George Banks, who recently died ir
 Bridgeport, aged about 75, formerly
 conducted, in Pleasant Valley, the
 business of manufacturing buttons
 and other articles Of use and orna-
 ment, the raw material being cattle horns. His partner in the business
 was his brother-In-law, the late Ste. phen Sanford, and the valley was ther i a thriving industrial community whose glories in that respect have long since departed. MT. Banks left Bedding about 45 years ago to seek health res. : toration in the West and subsequently
 engaged in farming in Wyoming and Colorado. He located in Bridgeport about ten years ago. A wife and . granddaughter survive him, the deatt , of his three children having p7eced ed , his own.
 . H. D. Bodte, who holds a bushes. , position in Canada and who was or
 a visit this week to his family at Bedding Center, has recently beer selling great quantities Of nails tc
 building interests in New York and
 other Eastern cities. The steel strike caused a serious shortage of nails ir