Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-05
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suicide yesterday afternoon by taking carbolic acid on Trowbridge square. Dependency was the cause.
 Patrick Farley of Hartford, well known in police circles, was found dead about 5;30 o'clock yesterday after noon in the rear of engine house No 3 on Front street. Death was due to alcoholism.
 Bridgeport had just IA reported Fourth of July accidents yesterday, all of which required medical attendance. While none of them are serious, they are all painful wounds, received from powder and bullets.
 John Centrella, an Italian of 19 or 20 years, with both legs off below the knee, is in a critical condition at the New Britain hospital and his death is expected. The young man was run over by freight train at Cooks stone crushing plant at o'clock Thursday morning.
 Nellie Riley and Jennie Price, two young girls employed as waitresses at a Greenwich hotel, were struck and instantly killed yesterday afternoon by the Boston express, which leaves New York at 4 o'clock. The girls at tempted to cross the tracks near the station instead of taking the under ground passage.
 The Hartford police had a busy time of i yesterday and sixty arrests were made. Forty-one out of the six ty were arrested for drunkenness, while fifteen were arrested for breach of the peace and four for assault and battery. Eighteen were discharged during the, day as, they had slept off their intoxication.
 New Britain had nine Fourth of July casualties yesterday, but none of them were fatal or very serious. James Grace, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Stephen Najwoski, Joe Silk, August Grandquist, boy named Parsley, William Mulville, and Pole, were all painfully burned by powder and ex- ploding fire crackers.
 Tony Maztrianni of Meriden, an Italian boy 5 years old, was shot in the head yesterday morning by his leompanion who fired revolver twice at close range. The bullet plowed through the lads scalp, tearing the flesh away just over the right ear Powder filled one of his eyes and the boys condition is serious.
 A large number of the male resi- dents of NIillvale visited the home of Israel Andrews, a farmer in that dis trict Tuesday night, and from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock Wednesday morn ing gave him an enthusiastic, serenaGle, as they had been informed that MT An drews had succeeded after several in- efectual attempts in getting married
 The body of Frank Hewitt, farmer living in Preston, was found floating in the Thames river at Thamesville yesterday morning about 9 o'clock NIr Hewitt had been missing from his home since Monday and is believed to have fallen into the river at the steam boat wharf in Norwich. He was 5T years old. veteran of the civil war, and leaves widow.
 It is probable that never again will two crowds of men come so near fight ling as occurred last evening in the lefty hall at New Rochelle. One-half of the crowd backed up Mayor Clarke and the other Alderman O'Connor Coats were thrown off, sleeves rolled up, hands spat upon, and it all ended in the mayor shaking the alderman and knocking down three or four men i'll so doing.
 Lena Bromberg, daughter of Samuel Bromberg, tailor of 80 Hallock street, New Haven, was burned to death yesterday afternoon. The girl was 8 years old, and was permitted to celebrate the Fourth for the first time. With a stick of lighted punk she touched off a firecracker which Ieaped into the air. She became frightened and dropped the lighted punk so that l her skirt caught fire. She died with i'll two hours at the hospital. l A serious, and what may prove q fatal accident, occurred about 8:3O
 o'clock yesterday morning on South
 avenue, Bridgeport. Felice Faboor.
 who lives at 65 High street, fell from
 a train and struck with full force upon his head and side. He was taken LID
 unconscious and the emergency am
 bulance took him to the general hos pital, where 1t was found that he had
 suered severe scalp wounds and had
 a depressed fracture of the skull and
 a fracture of the left leg.
 t t
 Edmund Crane of Willimantic. who
 attempted suicide last Monday by cut ting his throat and arm, died last even ing at the home of Philo Thompson in
 Mansfield Center. He had been sick for some time, and the attempt at sui. eide is believed to have hastened his death. He was 7S years old and leaves a son, Edmund, of New Haven and two granddaughters, children of Postmaster Dimmick. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at MI IThompson's and will be private.
 Mrs Samuel Brewster of No 36s
 Main street, Hartford, was seriously Ehurt last evening, the ring finger of hel left hand having been blown off by g l giant firecracker. Mrs Brewster was holding the firecracker in her. left
 hand when it exploded unexpectedly
 The palm of the hand was cut oper
 as well as the fingers being injured pr Lawton was called and he had te
 finish amputating the finger A mum.
 Der of stitches were necessary. to sew
 up the cut in the palm of the hand.
 A horrifying accident occurred il
 front of the city hall, New Haven
 during last nights celebration of tht ~ Fourth. While sky rockets were be
 ing sent up, one of the sticks fel among the crowd on the stems of fht