Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-26
GENERAL STATE NEWS.
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 Four Tracks-sand Baths for Health

Lodges to Erect . Building-Cancer of
 the Tongue-Kicked to Dcath-The
 Four Tracks-sand Baths for Health
 -Other Notes.
 movement is on foot among the members of Speedwell lodge, K. of F., and Excelsior council, o. U. A. M, of Waterbury, to erect a building for their OWE use. Both organizations now meet in Mechanics hall, but the quarters are cramped.
 DIED IN WATERBURY.
 John B. Cuddy, aged seventy. sir, died at his home at 136 Grove street Sunday morning. His death was tho result of a cancerous growth in his tongue that finally involved the organs of the throat. Mir. Cuddy was for over twenty five years a faithful employe of the Apothecaries' Hall company in that city, chiefly in the capacity of a teamster.
 KICKED TO DEATH.
 NoRwALK, April s5.-Theodore Petrense, aged ninety.fve, member of the firm of Giashof & Petrense, bakers and confectioners, was kicked to death by horse this morning. He was giving the horse water from pail when he slipped and frightened and plunged. Petrense was unable to escape and his head was crushed frightfully.
 ON THE CONSOLIDATED.
 The tracks from the Burr road crossing at the West End west through Fairfield to Norwalk, are completed and Sunday were opened for travel The switches at the point where the tracks intersect are operated from a signal tower. By. using the four tracks the freight traffic of the Consolidated will be greatly ex- pedited, and fewer delays will occur to passenger trains.
 THINKS SAND BATHS CURATIVE. BRIDGEPORT, April 25.-Captain c. W. Hoyt, whose barsfooted walk through the snow a few weeks ago was mentioned in this paper at the time has another peculiar remedy. It is to bury himself up to his neck in the sand of the beach during warm weather and remain thus environed for several hours Like the snow foot bath he regards this treatment tonic and aQti-rleu- matic, or as he expresses 1t, 1t takes the kinks out of the system.
 OLD PUTS FLOW. A DanielsonviIe hardware firm exhibits in front of its store what it claims to be the ident cal blow that General Putnam left in the furrow l to join the American army The blow is said to have been in existence 124 years It is made with the old time wooden frame and mouldboard point and cutter
 A DENIAL BY MISS WILCOX. The following appeared in yesterdays Hart | ford Courant addressed to the editor and signed | as below:
 Sir-Please publish in a prominent part oi your earliest issue the following notice above my l name:
 l The statement published in your paper this l morning regarding me is false in all it's leading | First-I have not left the Catholic church, bu
 shall always remain an earnest and enthusiastic | Catholic believer.
 | SeCOnQ-l nave not renOunCeu my vows o l religion, but await the dispensation from tn, ! same from the proper ecclesiastical authorities I enjoy the privilege like any sister Of any com | munity of America of retiring from religious | life when my reasons and motives are sufficien I and sincere.
 l Third-I have not, and cannot have, any in clination to join operatic organizations, to ap pear in a public professional career.
 Free to choose my state of life, I shall use my | own best judgment in choosing an honorabl | avenue of occupation. am, Yours respectfully,