The weekly examiner., 1901-07-06
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 The South School district, Hart ford, has voted to build an annex to the present school building on Wethersfeld avenue, to cost $65, ,00O.
 Samuel Russell, jr., of Middle town failed to get permission from the Humane Society to dock two of his horses, and has had to pay fine of $1O0 and costs.
 = Thomas Curtis, who was appoint a letter carrier at the Hartford post office by President Lincoln, and who has been connected with the office for thirty years, has retired.
 The Colt Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford has received an order from the government call ing for 25 Calling guns and 50 Colt automatic guns, which are to be used m the armament of new navy cruis- CTS.
 Litchfeld county butter ranks high as among the best in the coun- try. At the Pan-American exposi- tion K. K. Kimberly of West Tor ,rington, butter maker at the Manor farm, scored the highest, 95.55 points.
 The number of persons of school age, 5 to 90 years sinclusive is 257,1O and the males of school age in Con- necticut IS 127 ,562. The males of military age in Connecticut are 207,696. The males of Connecticut of voting age are 28O,34O, native born 173,248.
 Samuel F. Wright, 60 years old, a gallant old soldier of the Civil War, died at his home in Glastonbury Thursday, June 27. He enlisted in a New York regiment and was in the thickest of the fight at Gettys burg, where he helped to carry Gen eral Daniel E.. Sickles from the field and to place of safety, after he was seriously wounded.
 Friday afternoon of last week MT. and Mrs. Fred Lee of Southington started to attend the ball game at Meriden. They just missed the car when they reached the trolley line. They sought shelter under large tree. They had stood there but a few minutes when a bolt of light ming struck the tree, instantly killing MT. Lee and severely shocking and burning his wife.
 Captain Thomas A. Scott, the wrecking master of New London, was thrown from his carriage and re- ceived severe shaking up. The captain has had numberless narrow eScapes from death in his@lsGag. He Is the original Uncle Joe in F. Hopkinson Smiths dramatized novel, Caleb West" and assisted the au- thor in building Race Rock light house several years ago.
 Clarence F. Bennett of New Brit ain has completed the details of an important discovery which may rev olutionize the steel producing indus try. Pieces of steel of many tons weight can be as successfully treated by the new process as are the small bars by the old method. It Is be- lieyed that Mr. Bennett's new steel hardening process will prove of great value especially to the government in tempering huge projectiles. An offer of many thousand dollars is said to have already been made him by the government.
 The Hartford board of water com missioners has engaged Allen Hazen, an expert engineer of New York, to dmpart to the city for the considera- tion of $50 day, information about filtration and water supply. MT. Hazen installed the plant at Albany, and successfully carried out work of the same kind at New Orleans. He Is confident of his success in sup plying Hartford with all the water that 1t will need to pump through a great section of the city, from the Connecticut river. If the plans of the new engineer are accepted the water board will put in a filtration plant to cost in the neighborhood of $10O,00O. Pending his decision the work on the Granby water sheet is to be abandoned for the present, al- though the water board will still re- main in ownership of the tract.
 IOI YEARS OLD.