Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-27
NAUGATUcK NEWS
Skaters On the New Dam Pond May
 Be Prosecuted.

Skaters On the New Dam Pond May
 Be Prosecuted.
 The funeral of Jerald Melberg, the young man who was found dead at Cotton Hollow Sunday morning was held yesterday afternoon from Tolles' morgue. 1nterment was ill Grove cemetery.
 All the furniture and other house. hold goods belonging to the Naugatuck hotel are to be sold at public auction tomorrow morning at d. m. No pOStpOnement on account of weather. The hearing on the benefits and dam ages which was to have been held yes terday was postponed until Saturday morning.
 Rusco x Hollands big minstrel carnival arrived ill town this morning and gave q god street parade at noon. They have just finished q three nights engagement at Jacques opera house in Waterbury and everybody who saw them say that they are very good.
 There was Il large crowd at the sec ond of the assembly dances held at Pythian hali last night.
 The mysterious death of Jerald Mel berg at Cotton Hollow has not been cleared up yet although it is reported that there are several state officers working on tine case, as far as the writer can find out no satisfactory re suit has been obtained as yet Coroner Mix has been unable to give his per sonal attention to the case as he is in vestigating the Rathbun poison case iii New Haven. All the inmates of the house are kept under the watchful eye of the several officers and il is expected that some startling developments will be made before long.
 There Were eight knights of the road who requested lodging at Chief Smith $ hotel last night and were accommO d2ted
 The four children of Peter Boylan of Hillside avenue are laid up with scarlet fever.
 Mrs P. II. Behman is seriously i'll at her home on North Main street.
 Martin Dunn, who has been visiting relatives in New Britain for the past few days returned home yesterday.
 The young ladies and gentlemen who have been skating on the pond known as the New Dam for the past few days should be careful not to be caught on there as the management of the lee Co says he will prosecute any one caught skating on there before he has secured his crop of ice.
 Charles Mccarthy. who lad an operation for appendicitis performed a short time ago, is able to be around again.
 Mrs Maurice Scully of Lines Hill, niOn City. died yesterday morning. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning from St Irancis's church.
 There will be Christmas exercises ct the parish house tonight.
 Bert Downs and fellow named Gavin were arrested here yesterday morning by two New Haven police men. charged with horse theft. Ac cOrding to the reports this man Gavin went to the freight yards in New Ha- ven and represented himself as a brother of d 1ivery1nan named Purge son. who expected some horses to ar rive. and that he Gavin was to take charge of them. The horses were given to him and he signed his own name, but ii was not discovered until later when FurgeSOn went for his horses that it was found out. The police were notified and they traced Gavin and Downs. who was with him. to Naugatuck. where they arrested them and took them back to New Ha- ven for trial.
 There was DO session of the borough court this morning.