Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-18
NUTMEG CRAVINGS.

Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
 Reaeiit of Our Busy Readers.
 The Yale dining hall will commence serving meals next Wednesday, the 24th, one day before the college years opens.
 The three years old daughter of MT and Mrs Frank Terrell of New London died yesterday morning after eating some strychnine pills which were pre- scribed for her mother
 Mrs Hannah Sutherland of Maiden, Mass, recently refused to return $1O in change given her by mistake by the conductor of trolley car and has, as a consequence, been sentenced to a year in the house of correction.
 A novel scheme idea is being given a trial in this state, that of equipping rural mail carriers with weather sig nal flags for their wagon. The flags are to be placed on Q staff on each kagon and if the farmers take kindly to the idea it will be extended.
 The officials of the Meriden Gas Light company announced this morn ing that after this noon they would have to refuse all requests for coke The supply that the company had stored away is nearly exhausted and 1t will be necessary to make a new supply before any more can be sold.
 While MT and Mrs Frank Wooster were returning from saybrook on the old road Sunday evening they were ment by Q party of five Italians. Two of them made a grab at the horses head, but were beaten off by MT Woes ter's whip. They could not stop the team, so amused themselves by throw ing beer bottles at the occupants.
 Because Alonzo White, a young col ored man, was drinking soda with Clara Blake, q colored girl, last night in BeckWith's drug store in New Ha- yen, Maud Phillips, who claims to be Whites steady asked the two to come out on the sidewalk and then the Phillips girl punched Clara in the face.
 Toney Kertmerzer, a German car. |penter, who came from New York a week ago to work on the Taylor estate at Cobalt, stepped on a rusty nail fif- teen minutes after commencing work. Iockjaw developed and last night he was taken on the evening train to New York to enter q hospital. His chances of recovery are slight.
 Miss Anna Green of West Haven. who was injured on Monday evening by stepping off moving trolley car. died in the New Haven hospital at 10 o'clock last evening. The accident which caused Miss Greens death is said to have been the; result of her stepping off backward while the car was in motion. She struck on her head which was badly cut
 Katie Mack of Springfield. Mass. went to, New Haven yesterday for the purpose of looking up her sister. q Mrs Bailey, whose maiden name was Bridget Mack, whom she thinks lives in that city She states that Mrs Bailey, the last time she heard from her, lived in New Haven, and tllat for the past thirty years they had not seen each other Katie Mack desires to have the address of her sister left with the city clerk.
 Frederick DoWnham of New Brit ain, as administrator of the estate of his two children, claims $1O,OOO dam ages on account of their deaths. The first cases of smallpox in New Britain were in his family. His daughter Clara died December %, 1901, and his son Frederick on January II, 1902 MT DoWnham claims that his house was quarantined by the health author ities and that they refused to furnish medical attendance for his daughter In the case of his son he declares that the health officer had the sick boy in a cold room, stripped him naked so that he could examine him, took away all the bedding and burned it, then re- fused to furnish sufficient new bed clothing to keep the boy warm and the child died as a result of this ne- glect.