Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — CONNECTICUT SWEPT. [ARTICLE]

CONNECTICUT SWEPT.

Republican Landslide in the Nutmeg State. . A New Haven. Conn., special. Oct. 2, says: Returns of local elections from different parte of tho State are slowly coming in, and appears as if a Republican landslide had swept the Stato. Out of forty towns heard from the Republicans gain ten Among the first cities and towns reported, nineteen were Republican and eight Democratic. Norwich gave 550 Republican majority; Watertown, Middlebury, Thomaston, Bethany and Orange are all Republican. Stamford gave tho biggest Republican majority aince the war, and Milford was Republican for the first time in thirty years. At New Britain the citizens’ ticket was victorious. At New London, Johnson (Dem.) defeated Bently (Rep.), but the Republicans regained control of the council. Danbury elected the entire Republican ticket.