The Press., 1894-01-04

week, at 7 o'clock, that so many are sick. They are jealous workers.
 Sickness prevails here as it has not before for long time. In nearly every home some are i'll.
 Lyman Martin, an old time resident of Crystal Lake, now living elsewhere, spent one night here last week.
 The sad news reaches us of the de- cease of Mrs. F. c. Smith. She was be- fore marriage Miss Etta M Swift, a young CT sister of John L. Swift, formerly of this place.
 ROCKVILLE.
 l The Rockville Building and Loan Association has been successful the past year, and the money invested in the asso- citation by it's members has paid them even better than was anticipated. The society has been organized four years and has earned for the whole time at the rate of 62 per cent. per annum. Four series of stock have been issued, and the books are now open for subscriptions to Series E. The association has loaned $72, ,975, and has $7 ,470 as profits. The money of the association is invested in first mort gages on local property, and there is no safer investment for any one. There is practically no expense and the profits are divided among the stockholders.
 Coroner Charles Phelps last Tuesday received 8 telegram from the medical ex- aminer at Bolton, Dr. Charles F. Sum- ner, asking him to investigate the myste- rious death of Mary J. Daily. MT. Phelps and Medical Examiner Rockwell at once started for Bolton. The two men, togeth- CT with Dr. Sumner, held an investigation all day, and the facts as learned from those at the house are as follows: Mrs. Daily was taken sick Monday noon with severe fits of vomiting and was very ill during the afternoon. The coroner said he was inclined to think, from the testi- mony of those in the house, that the wo- man was in the habit of taking laudanum, morphine and opium. At the house du- ring the afternoon and night were the woman's husband and Thomas Daily, a neighbor, who came in to take care of the sick woman, and a paper hanger who was at work there and who stayed all night. They said that Mrs. Daily remark ed that seeing that she could not get laudanum that she had taken something else. From this remark and the finding of an empty bottle which had evidently contained laud- anum, it is supposed that she had taken all the laudanum there was in the house and had resorted to some other drug. During the evening she seemed to be a little better, but at H. 25 p. m: she drop ped off to sleep They noticed that she breathed heavily for time, but when they looked at her fifteen minutes later she was dead.
 Daily was released from state prison the 5th of last July, after serving 8 five years sentence for killing his farm labor CT with a monkey wrench. On account of the mystery of the death and Daily's previous reputation, rumor was not slow in crediting him with the cause of the woman's death. The coroner said, how ever, that. he did not think that there was any foul play, although he had arrived at no conclusion as yet. Neither of the medical men could settle the cause of death, although from appearances they are inclined to think that Mrs. Daily chewed crude opium. MT. Phelps said he did not think an autopsy would be held. though he had not decided that matter as yet. It is probable however. that the case will be investigated much further. The Daily home is about half a mile below Bolton Center. Mrs. Daily 1 was 43 years old.-H Hartford Gourant