The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-05
INCIDENTS OF THE FOURTH
Continued from First Page)

NPPoHNu W pe DIT nome, learning Wnal
was the matter rushed out and begar
aeaflhg the burning clothing from the
boys body. He tore and cut the boy!
clothes until he had taken away all the
burning portions. AS he was pulling of
the stockings, which We're on fire, the
SKIN was pulled from the child's leg
which had been badly burned. The Skin
also was torn off the arms with the
Clothing, the arms also having been Sc
Verely burned. 1t is pprohable that but
Tor Lautenbach's prompt action the
boy would have been burned to death.
DIR. Slattery was called and dressed
the burns. He stated last night that
while the burns We're severe and danger
Gus he thought that the boy would re-
cover.
EARLY yesterday forenoon complaint
was made to the police that some one
was shooting out of windows in the
rear Of the buildings on the east side
OF Church street, between Fair and
Wooster streets. Detective Sergeant
Dennehy went to the locality. He went
down to Union street and inquired at
a saloon kept by an italian who was
shooting there. The saloon keeper re-
piled that he was and asked if he didn't
nave right to shoot on the Fourth.
The detective told him that he had, but
not with loaded cartridges. Dennehy
found that the saloon keeper had been
firing shotgun and upon examining
the boxes of shells from which he had
been using ammunition found that they
Were loaded with shot. The italian
was much surprised and said that he
did not know they were loaded. He
had broken large number of windows
In the rear of the State street buildings
button his promising to pay for having
new window lights put in he was not
arrested.
Timothy O'Keefe of Waterbury was
on his way to Savin Rock yesterday af-
ternoon on a trolley car, when his hat
blew off on Kimberly avenue near the
bridge. O'Keefe jumped off to get his
hat while the car was going rapidly
and was thrown from his feet He
struck the ground heavily and was roll
ed over in the street. His face and head
were badly bruised and he was carried
into a nearby house. DR.. Slattery was
called and attended his injuries. He
returned to Waterbury on late after
noon train.
A small blaze occurred shortly after
o'clock yesterday morning in the rear
of Halstead & Harmount's office on
Water street. The fire was discovered
in pile of shavings and rubbish by the
Waterman, who rang an alarm from box
80, at the corner of Water and Brewery
streets. The blaze was extinguished be-
fore any damage was done. 1t is
thought that the fire originated by
in, nil pP
rubbish
At HAS yesterday forenoon still
alarm was sent to No. 3's house for a
fire at a small house at No. 1853 Goffe
street. The fire was on the roof and it
is thought was caused by a firecracker.
A hole was burned through the roof,
but only slight damage was done.
About o'clock las, evening the resi-
dents near the corner of st. John and
Franklin streets were startled by hear
ing an explosion many times louder
than that of the cannon crackers which
had been booming all the evening. In
vestigation showed that some explosive,
thought to be a dynamite bomb, had
been exploded on the brick sidewalk
near the corner and that it had torn a
deep hole in the sidewalk. A woman
with a baby in her arms was standing
within few feet of the bomb, or what
ever it was, when it was exploded and
she was badly scared and shocked by
the conclusion. The explosive is be-
Iieved to have been one of the bombs
manufactured by Sortilo, the italian
who was arrested for manufacturing
high explosives on Fair street.
TTJE FIREWORKS ON THE GREEN.
Fully 20, 900 people crowded the lower
mart of the central green and the ada
cent streets last night to see the fire
works display. The stand erected at
the Chapel street side of the green was
filled with members Of the general COM
mittee. city officials and their friends.
During the display young boys and old
bows gave vent to their enthusiasm by
firing blank cartridges and cannon
crackers, and at times the noise from
these sounded like the rattle of mus
kerry from an army in action.
The fireworks began about SIS and
were very good, although there were |
MANY complaints from the crowd that
there were too many long waits and
that the programme was gone through |
100. slowly. One of the best pieces was
the last one, which was the fire portrait |
of Admiral Dewey When the picture |
was fully displayed every revolver in |
the crowd was kept cracking and the |
roar from the thousands of shots was
deafening. The crowd cheered and |
every one was enthusiastic.
Although the crowd was so great, not
a single serious accident occurred, and |
not even were any minor accidents re-
ported. Usually after such a large con-
course on the green d number of lost |
children are taken to the central police |
station, but last night only two stray I
tots were picked up. They were two
little girls named Grinnell, who live on
Division street, aged about five and
seven. They We're taken to the police
station and their mother found them
there soon after.
During the display of fireworks the
Second regiment band gave a concert
from the band-stand.
THE FOURTH AT WESTVILLE.
Private Residents Of New Ravens Pref
ty Country Suburb Show Their Pat
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